INDIANAPOLIS – Olympic gold medalists Mark Johnson and Joan Benoit Samuelson joined former Southern Cal quarterback Paul McDonald as recipients of the NCAA Silver Anniversary Awards.

The awards are presented to former athletes who have distinguished themselves in the 25 years since their graduation. They will receive the awards at an NCAA dinner Jan. 9 in Dallas, site of this year’s NCAA convention.

Gary Lawrence, Greg Meredith and Dave Stoldt also received awards, which were announced Thursday.

Johnson, a two-time All-American hockey player at Wisconsin, led the Badgers to the 1977 national title and was the leading scorer for the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team. The team defeated the Soviet Union in Lake Placid, N.Y., and the “Miracle on Ice” inspired the recent movie “Miracle.” He played 11 seasons in the NHL and is in his third season as the Badgers’ hockey coach.

Benoit Samuelson, a track and field hockey star at Bowdoin College, is a two-time Boston Marathon winner (1978, 1983). She won the gold medal in the first Olympic women’s marathon in 1984. Benoit Samuelson, who still holds the American women’s record set in 1985, is the Nordic coach at Freeport Middle School in Maine.

McDonald led the Trojans to the 1978 national championship and two Rose Bowl wins, then spent eight seasons in the NFL before pursuing a business career.

Lawrence played hockey at Yale from 1977-1980 and spent one season on the golf team. A former Rhodes Scholar, he is the coach of the Typhoons Ice Hockey Club, the top club team in Hong Kong.

Meredith was a two-time captain for Notre Dame’s hockey team and set the career record for goals (104). He played in the NHL from 1980-84 and served as an assistant coach at Harvard.

Stoldt, a walk-on to the Illinois gymnastics team, twice earned the Big Ten overall championship (1979, 1980) and won a national title in pommel horse in 1980. He helped create a permanent endowment fund for Illinois men’s gymnastics.