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The Athletic Hall of Fame honors those who have attained distinction at Kalamazoo College as athletes, coaches, or individuals closely associated with athletics. Inductees must have been students in good standing while at the College. Candidates who were students are first eligible 5 years after graduation or departure from the College for other reasons. Candidates who were coaches or associates in other capacities are first eligible 5 years after retirement or departure from the athletic program. Past inductees<\/a> can be viewed alphabetically, by sport, induction year, or by team. Nominate someone today!<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brandon Metzler ’17, Ryan Orr ’18,
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The University of Aberdeen (Scotland) has one turf tennis court. During her study abroad there Kelsey Hassevoort and (then-boyfriend, now-husband) Alex Dombos \u201912 found it and practiced as often as they could until the days grew so short the sun had set by the time classes dismissed.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cWe both wanted to stay in shape for our upcoming tennis seasons,\u201d Kelsey says. Darkness didn\u2019t defeat her dedication. Practice moved to the local tennis center even though getting there required a 45-minute commute by foot and multiple buses. That determination explains, in part, Kelsey\u2019s hall-of-fame tennis career.<\/p>\n\n\n

She was twice named to the All-MIAA first team, and three times recognized as an Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete. She played number one singles her junior and senior seasons as well as number one doubles her senior season. She earned the MIAA Most Valuable Player award her final season, the same year she won the MIAA Karen Caine Scholar-Athlete Award and was named to the CoSIDA\/Capital One Academic All-District 6 At-Large Team and the CoSIDA\/Capital One Academic All-American At-Large First Team.<\/p>\n\n\n

Note the frequency of \u201cacademic\u201d and \u201cscholar\u201d in the titles of all those athletic honors. Let\u2019s talk about that. Kelsey made the MIAA Academic Honor Roll all four years. She majored in biology and took a full slate of pre-med courses at K. For her Senior Individualized Project she studied the functional connectivity of the human cerebellum, working in the Neuromotor Behavior Laboratory at the University of Michigan. She earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), focusing her research on the relationships between physical activity, nutrition, and memory performance in children.<\/p>\n\n\n

So, one might think that tennis and academics were the sole driving factors behind her decision to come to K. In fact, though, the most influential factor may have been the College\u2019s commitment to the liberal arts and the accompanying opportunities for students to explore their interests in a variety of disciplines. One example that stands out to Kelsey: \u201cI loved the ecology courses I took with Professor Binney Girdler, and while I didn\u2019t end up pursuing ecology research as a career, the summer I spent doing field research with her and a team of fellow K students on Beaver Island was a formative experience that set the stage for my future research pursuits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThe liberal arts tradition,\u201d she adds, \u201ccontinues to inform my mindset and approach to my personal and professional endeavors. K taught me to be curious and flexible in applying my talents, and my experience as a student-athlete taught me the importance of balance and making time for physical activity. Connecting with others around fitness has become a real passion of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

After four years working at the University of Illinois\u2019s Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Kelsey now serves as a managing director at the Washington, D.C.-based federal grants and government relations consulting firm, McAllister & Quinn. She provides capacity-building, strategic guidance, and grant consulting support services to research universities and other higher education institutions.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hornet Super Fan
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Great fans are caretakers of caring who inspire others to share their caring about K athletes and contests. When one sees Marigene Arnold in the football bleachers, wearing her \u201cArnold, 1\u201d Hornet jersey, one feels a family tie with everyone there. Acquaintance or stranger, we\u2019re fans, and thus a family, of sorts, caring together for a few hours.<\/p>\n\n\n

Courtside, poolside, on the pitch, or in the stands, Arnold\u2019s ubiquitous presence represents the essence and importance of being a fan\u2014what the late New Yorker editor and baseball writer, Roger Angell, described as \u201cthe business of caring\u2014caring deeply and passionately, really caring\u2014which is a capacity or an emotion that has almost gone out of our lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

Nearly every year Arnold worked at K, and for many years after her retirement, she attended at least one contest (and often more) in every Hornet sport, women\u2019s teams, and men\u2019s teams. She became so synonymous with K\u2019s gridiron grindings that a Hornet football award carries her name. That\u2019s especially fitting because fall-sport athletes arrive pre-term on a much lonelier campus, where a superfan \u201cfamily\u201d presence can make the place feel more like home and, well, family. Arnold was the first woman to serve on the College\u2019s Faculty Advisory Committee for Athletics, and she was a member of the MIAA Women\u2019s Sports Committee for many years.<\/p>\n\n\n

Born in Georgia and reared in Florida, Arnold graduated from Miami Norland High School and earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Florida. She loved the study abroad program at K\u2014its incredible potential to expand and deepen students\u2019 perspectives\u2014and she visited study abroad sites in France, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Senegal, Chile, and Costa Rica.<\/p>\n\n\n

Her favorite course to teach: \u201cWomen in Cross-Cultural Perspective,\u201d and Arnold is as deeply committed to women\u2019s studies as she is to athletics. In 1973, she taught the first women-centered course at K, and she was the College\u2019s first Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) Women\u2019s Studies representative. She lived in women\u2019s residence halls on two occasions\u2014Trowbridge (1974-75) and DeWaters (1975-76)\u2014part of a K program called Faculty Member in Residence.<\/p>\n\n\n

Among her favorite K memories: the exam-week, faculty-served, midnight breakfasts for students; and, perhaps above all, the year her beloved football Hornets ended a long drought of losses to the Hope Flying Dutchmen. Sweeeeeet!<\/p>\n\n\n

Roger Angell\u2019s essay is titled \u201cWalk Off\u201d and celebrates a World Series Game Six walk-off homer in Fenway Park by Boston Red Sox catcher Carlton Fisk. The Cincinnati Reds would go on to win Game Seven and thereby the 1975 World Series. But all that\u2019s secondary. The essay is more so about the primary importance of fans, making it less Carlton Fisk and more Marigene Arnold\u2014what she, and other tenders and savers of caring, mean to sports, and to one another. Perhaps, concludes Angell, \u201cwe have come to a time when it no longer matters so much what the caring is about, how frail and foolish is the object of that concern, as long as the feeling itself can be saved.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The University of Aberdeen (Scotland) has one turf tennis court. During her study abroad there Kelsey Hassevoort and (then-boyfriend, now-husband) Alex Dombos \u201912 found it and practiced as often as they could until the days grew so short the sun had set by the time classes dismissed.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cWe both wanted to stay in shape for our upcoming tennis seasons,\u201d Kelsey says. Darkness didn\u2019t defeat her dedication. Practice moved to the local tennis center even though getting there required a 45-minute commute by foot and multiple buses. That determination explains, in part, Kelsey\u2019s hall-of-fame tennis career.<\/p>\n\n\n

She was twice named to the All-MIAA first team, and three times recognized as an Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete. She played number one singles her junior and senior seasons as well as number one doubles her senior season. She earned the MIAA Most Valuable Player award her final season, the same year she won the MIAA Karen Caine Scholar-Athlete Award and was named to the CoSIDA\/Capital One Academic All-District 6 At-Large Team and the CoSIDA\/Capital One Academic All-American At-Large First Team.<\/p>\n\n\n

Note the frequency of \u201cacademic\u201d and \u201cscholar\u201d in the titles of all those athletic honors. Let\u2019s talk about that. Kelsey made the MIAA Academic Honor Roll all four years. She majored in biology and took a full slate of pre-med courses at K. For her Senior Individualized Project she studied the functional connectivity of the human cerebellum, working in the Neuromotor Behavior Laboratory at the University of Michigan. She earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), focusing her research on the relationships between physical activity, nutrition, and memory performance in children.<\/p>\n\n\n

So, one might think that tennis and academics were the sole driving factors behind her decision to come to K. In fact, though, the most influential factor may have been the College\u2019s commitment to the liberal arts and the accompanying opportunities for students to explore their interests in a variety of disciplines. One example that stands out to Kelsey: \u201cI loved the ecology courses I took with Professor Binney Girdler, and while I didn\u2019t end up pursuing ecology research as a career, the summer I spent doing field research with her and a team of fellow K students on Beaver Island was a formative experience that set the stage for my future research pursuits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThe liberal arts tradition,\u201d she adds, \u201ccontinues to inform my mindset and approach to my personal and professional endeavors. K taught me to be curious and flexible in applying my talents, and my experience as a student-athlete taught me the importance of balance and making time for physical activity. Connecting with others around fitness has become a real passion of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

After four years working at the University of Illinois\u2019s Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Kelsey now serves as a managing director at the Washington, D.C.-based federal grants and government relations consulting firm, McAllister & Quinn. She provides capacity-building, strategic guidance, and grant consulting support services to research universities and other higher education institutions.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Men’s Tennis
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At K it\u2019s uncommon that an athletic performance cancels some classes. There\u2019s no stat for that. But if there was, then Branden Metzler just might be the only Hornet to have it.<\/p>\n\n\n

His spring 2016 run to the Division III men\u2019s tennis National Championship singles final electrified Kalamazoo College (yes, that year the championships took place at Stowe Stadium). As Branden advanced match by match, professors cancelled classes, students skipped them, crowds grew, the stadium brimmed, then seemed to overflow. Branden lost in the final match while never disappointing. Not so much your classical long-and-lean tennis body with phlegmatic disposition, Brandon\u2019s more \u201cbody-by-linebacker\u201d with a heavy measure of indomitable-will thrown in. For those few days, his fierceness lit up the campus.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThat run and the support I received from the K community is my fondest memory of college,\u201d says Branden, \u201cand is still one of my top memories in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

He chose K \u201cfor its rich academic program and historic tennis team.\u201d And then he promptly started to add to the College\u2019s tennis legacy. Four times he made all-conference first team, and four times he was named the MIAA most valuable player. He claimed the national championship runner-up in 2016 and then the following year made it to the national championship semifinals. Thus, in his junior and senior seasons he finished in the top four of the country\u2019s Division III singles players. He was an Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete (as well as a MIAA Academic Honor Roll honoree), the ITA Central Region Player to Watch (2016), and the ITA Central Region Senior Player of the Year (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n

Branden earned two majors at K, in chemistry and in economics. \u201cMy favorite teacher was Professor Stull,\u201d he says. \u201cHis class inspired my Senior Individualized Project, which was about the tennis industry.\u201d He also was a fixture in the athletic training room, \u201cto the point I think that most of the trainers were sick of seeing my face.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThe lessons I learned at K on and off the court\u2014particularly in the areas of time management skills and self-discipline\u2014have helped me in my professional career,\u201d he adds. \u201cThe professors were always willing to help. And the friends I met made my K experience invaluable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

Branden works as a quality engineer for the aerospace company, Woodward INC. He continues to play tennis and gives private lessons to children and adults. For three years he coached tennis at Rockford (Ill.) Boylan High School, leading the Lady Titans to the sectional title in 2021, their first in 10 years.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Baseball
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How\u2019s this for a curve: study abroad as three seasons of summer baseball in Kenosha (two) and Cape Cod (one). It\u2019s a hell of a liberal arts pitch from the greatest Hornet pitcher of all time.<\/p>\n\n\n

(One outcome: a somewhat baseball-related trivia question in the category of Kalamazoo College history\u2014Question: What do the careers of Ryan Orr and K President Jorge Gonzalez have in common? Answer: Study abroad in Wisconsin.)<\/p>\n\n\n

Ryan Orr liked the size of K\u2019s campus, he liked the College\u2019s high academic standards, and he chose<\/em> K because of its \u201cup-and-coming baseball program.\u201d After which he did a great deal to increase the angle of that program\u2019s rise. Ryan majored in business with a focus on marketing. His favorite teachers in the department were Professor Hultberg and Professor Wielopolski. The summer seasons composed \u201cmy version of study abroad,\u201d Ryan says. And his Senior Individualized Project on Major League Baseball (why the best teams seldom win the World Series) is great \u201cFall Classic\u201d reading.<\/p>\n\n\n

His accomplishments on the ball field are unmatched. Ryan was the team\u2019s pitcher of the year (four times) and Most Valuable Player (two times). In the conference he was MIAA Pitcher of the Week (five times), All-MIAA (four years), Conference MVP (once). He holds the conference record for most innings pitched in a career, and he was named All-Region and All-American. His Hornet baseball records include: most wins, innings pitched, complete games, shut-outs, no-hitters, and saves, as well as the lowest earned run average.<\/p>\n\n\n

He also could hit (leading the team in batting average his senior season) and run (finishing second and third on the team in stolen bases his junior and senior seasons, respectively). His best baseball memory? \u201cOur MIAA tournament win at Adrian<\/em> in 2016,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n

After graduating from K Ryan played two seasons of professional baseball for the Frontier League River City Rascals. Today he works as a Territory Sales Manager for the fundraising company, Vertical Raise. He recently completed his first season as head baseball coach at Williamston High School. His team finished as conference co-champion and won a district title.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cAt K I met my wife, Danielle Simon \u201918\u201d says Ryan, \u201cand we were married last October. In addition to that, the most significant impact of K on my life has been its people\u2014the great coaches, professors, mentors, and the lifelong friends I encountered there.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

One example: \u201cI\u2019ll always remember Professor Wielopolski writing each of her students a personalized thank-you card at the end of the term. She made clear how much she cared about us as people. Just like that quote, \u2018Players don\u2019t care how much you know until they know how much you care,\u2019 which is something I hope to pass on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

Now there\u2019s a baseball bender with a liberal arts arc\u2014great teachers are great coaches, and vice versa. And pitchers are among the most liberal-arts-ish of athletes because success requires the ability to move the ball in multiple ways.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Women’s Swimming and Diving
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The odds mounted against a successful K campus visit for Colleen Orwin in October 2012. First, the day was a downpour. Second, K\u2019s campus was just 10 minutes away from Colleen\u2019s home, and the Portage Northern (and Kalamazoo Area Mathematics and Science Center) graduate did not see herself going to college in the state<\/em> of Michigan, let alone the city <\/em>of Kalamazoo. Third, the visit\u2019s dinner occurred at a restaurant frequented by the Orwin family. No new fun there. Fourth, the television in the host\u2019s dorm room was tuned to a series Colleen did not like. Zero-for-four. And yet, against those odds, Colleen chose Kalamazoo College.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cI could feel the swim team\u2019s sense of family throughout my 24 hours on campus,\u201d says Colleen. The computer science major (she also holds minors in mathematics and studio art) went on to become one of the Hornet swim team family\u2019s most distinguished members ever. Perhaps such a future was foretold when she was named MIAA Swimming\/Diving Athlete of the Week after her very first collegiate competition!<\/em> And a first-year season shortened by a broken wrist could not do much to slow her amazing career in the pool.<\/p>\n\n\n

Colleen set numerous school, conference, and MIAA pool records during her four seasons. She was all-conference all four seasons and earned All-American and Honorable Mention All-American honors in each of her final three seasons. She was invited to swim in the Division III national championships her sophomore, junior, and senior years, and three times she was named a Scholar All-American by the College Swimming and Diving Coaches Association of America. Her junior season she was the team\u2019s MVP, and she was named the MIAA Most Valuable Swimmer (one of only two Hornets so honored in K women\u2019s swimming history). She co-captained the team her senior year, a year that saw her honored with the Senior Leadership Award, the Knoechel Family Award recognizing athletic and academic performance, and the Tish Loveless Award for the outstanding senior female athlete of Kalamazoo College.<\/p>\n\n\n

Colleen is tied for second in Hornet women\u2019s swimming history for most All-American and Honorable Mention All-American finishes. Her K resum\u00e9 includes study abroad (Strasbourg, France), an internship focused on software testing, and a Swim for Success app she developed for her Senior Individualized Project. In true liberal arts family fashion, one of her favorite professors is in the art department\u2014Professor of Studio Art Tom Rice, from whom Colleen took six classes. She works as a Senior Project Manager at Exelon, the nation\u2019s largest utility company. And she\u2019s in her third season as a volunteer assistant coach with the Hornet swim team.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThe K experience encouraged me to try new things; it gave me the confidence to step out of my comfort zone,\u201d says Colleen, \u201cFrom the day of that long-ago recruiting trip, the K community has been a positive impact on my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The University of Aberdeen (Scotland) has one turf tennis court. During her study abroad there Kelsey Hassevoort and (then-boyfriend, now-husband) Alex Dombos \u201912 found it and practiced as often as they could until the days grew so short the sun had set by the time classes dismissed.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cWe both wanted to stay in shape for our upcoming tennis seasons,\u201d Kelsey says. Darkness didn\u2019t defeat her dedication. Practice moved to the local tennis center even though getting there required a 45-minute commute by foot and multiple buses. That determination explains, in part, Kelsey\u2019s hall-of-fame tennis career.<\/p>\n\n\n

She was twice named to the All-MIAA first team, and three times recognized as an Intercollegiate Tennis Association Scholar-Athlete. She played number one singles her junior and senior seasons as well as number one doubles her senior season. She earned the MIAA Most Valuable Player award her final season, the same year she won the MIAA Karen Caine Scholar-Athlete Award and was named to the CoSIDA\/Capital One Academic All-District 6 At-Large Team and the CoSIDA\/Capital One Academic All-American At-Large First Team.<\/p>\n\n\n

Note the frequency of \u201cacademic\u201d and \u201cscholar\u201d in the titles of all those athletic honors. Let\u2019s talk about that. Kelsey made the MIAA Academic Honor Roll all four years. She majored in biology and took a full slate of pre-med courses at K. For her Senior Individualized Project she studied the functional connectivity of the human cerebellum, working in the Neuromotor Behavior Laboratory at the University of Michigan. She earned a Ph.D. in neuroscience (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), focusing her research on the relationships between physical activity, nutrition, and memory performance in children.<\/p>\n\n\n

So, one might think that tennis and academics were the sole driving factors behind her decision to come to K. In fact, though, the most influential factor may have been the College\u2019s commitment to the liberal arts and the accompanying opportunities for students to explore their interests in a variety of disciplines. One example that stands out to Kelsey: \u201cI loved the ecology courses I took with Professor Binney Girdler, and while I didn\u2019t end up pursuing ecology research as a career, the summer I spent doing field research with her and a team of fellow K students on Beaver Island was a formative experience that set the stage for my future research pursuits.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThe liberal arts tradition,\u201d she adds, \u201ccontinues to inform my mindset and approach to my personal and professional endeavors. K taught me to be curious and flexible in applying my talents, and my experience as a student-athlete taught me the importance of balance and making time for physical activity. Connecting with others around fitness has become a real passion of mine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

After four years working at the University of Illinois\u2019s Interdisciplinary Health Sciences Institute, Kelsey now serves as a managing director at the Washington, D.C.-based federal grants and government relations consulting firm, McAllister & Quinn. She provides capacity-building, strategic guidance, and grant consulting support services to research universities and other higher education institutions.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The 1994 Men\u2019s Tennis Team had one of the deepest and most talented rosters in school history, according to first-year Head Coach Timon Corwin. Loaded with talent from top to bottom, the team was poised to make a serious run at a four-peat after winning the national championship the previous three seasons.<\/p>\n\n\n

After opening the season 3-2 against Division I opponents, the Hornets proceeded to win 21 straight matches and finished with an overall record of 25-3. The third-highest win total in school history included victories over Division I opponents such as Toledo, Bowling Green, Georgia State, Presbyterian, Eastern Michigan and Western Michigan. Of the three losses, only one was against a Division III opponent.<\/p>\n\n\n

The Hornets won the GLCA Tournament before continuing their dominance in the MIAA with the 56th<\/sup> consecutive MIAA championship. Kalamazoo won the MIAA Tournament before making its 19th<\/sup> straight trip to the NCAA III Tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cThe leadership and strength of the upperclassmen was sensational,\u201d said Corwin. \u201cWe were led at the top of the lineup by #1 Seth Denawetz (NCAA singles champion) and #2 Andy Alaimo. Juniors Ryan Kaltenbach, Paul Bozyk and Jason McKinney, along with All-American freshman Pat Noud, completed the top six. Junior Ted Gaty was inserted into the singles lineup at #6 heading into the MIAA Tournament and remained there through the NCAA\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cWe had outstanding doubles as well. Ryan and Adam Afridi were ranked #1 in the country heading into the final month of the season. Seth and Pat were unbeatable at #2, and Paul and Jason were rock solid at #3.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cA season-ending injury to one of our players right before NCAA\u2019s was a devastating blow to a team favored to win the team title. Without the #1 doubles player in the nation and lockdown #3 singles player, this team still took third place at the NCAA\u2019s. Seth won the national singles title, and Pat made the quarterfinals to earn All-American honors. It was an amazing finish to the year!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

Kalamazoo defeated tournament host Redlands before falling to Claremont-Mudd-Scripps in the semifinals. The Hornets defeated UC-Santa Cruz in the third-place match to take home the bronze.<\/p>\n\n\n

\u201cWhat I remember most about this team was the way they loved each other,\u201d Corwin said. \u201cTwenty-nine years later, they are still the best of friends.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

Team members include:  Adam Afridi \u201995, Andrew Alaimo \u201994, Andreas Boquist \u201996, Paul Bozyk \u201995, Pat Carroll \u201995, James Collins \u201995, Seth Denawetz \u201994, Chad Fix \u201996, Chris Fowler \u201994, Rich Gasiorski \u201997, Kevin Holmes \u201996, Ted Gaty \u201995, Ryan Kaltenbach \u201995, Chris Kennelly, Guillermo Leon \u201997, Jason McKinney \u201995, Pat Noud \u201997, Bret Orr \u201997, Blake Peters \u201996, Cheo Ramsey \u201996, Marc Reeves \u201995 and Head Coach Timon Corwin \u201986.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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The 1976-77 women\u2019s swimming and diving team came into the season with high hopes, hoping to surpass the success of the previous year\u2019s team. The outlook was bright with an outstanding group of first year student\/athletes to bolster the returning group. The team was young as there were eight first-year athletes, four sophomores, one junior, and one senior. Coach Maurer had every expectation that the 1976-77 team would be contenders in the WMIAA relays scheduled to take place at K.<\/p>\n\n\n

The team was undefeated in conference dual meets making them champions of the WMIAA. The team was successful in winning the relays in 11 of 12 events at the league meet. The results of the league meet were as follows: Kalamazoo-140, Calvin-76, Albion-74, Alma-28, Adrian-10, and Hope-8.<\/p>\n\n\n

Kalamazoo participated at the Eastern Michigan Invitational. The Hornets ended up in sixth place competing against Ball State, Bowling Green, Central Michigan University, Eastern Michigan University, Indiana State, Michigan State University, Oakland University, Virginia and Western Michigan University. In comparison to their larger-school competition, the Hornets held their own and competed well.<\/p>\n\n\n

Highlights of the season from various team members include \u201cdriving across Michigan during a snowstorm in those vans- at night \u2013 a little scary and coming out of practice in the winter and having one\u2019s hair freeze\u201d. Other recollections include the need to get used to each other which made things interesting and forced a switch up of who swam what event because new faces were circling in and out of the team. Ultimately, this may have made us a better team through the years. Team members were flexible as they ended up swimming things they did not want to swim, but did it without complaint. This \u201cforced\u201d flexibility ended up being a good K value to carry with us at K and in our lives after Kalamazoo College!<\/p>\n\n\n

Team honors went to Cathie Kroeschell as Most Valuable and Jane Woodworth as Most Improved. Team captains were Kroeschell and Heather Gilchrist. Julie Chappell and Kroeschell both qualified for the AIAW national tournament.<\/p>\n\n\n

The 1976-77 women\u2019s swimming and diving team ended their season with a record of seven wins and four defeats and enjoyed being the WMIAA league champions!<\/p>\n\n\n

Team members include: Sally Baker, Chris Bodurow, Julie Candoli, Lisa Carnall, Julie Chappell, Mary DeYoung, Cindy Donovan, Carol Franke, Laura Franseen, Sue Getz, Heather Gilchrist, Sue Hegel, Kelly Kent, Cathie Kroeschell, Barb Kurth, Jill Latta, Charlotte Nelis, Ann Oswald, Cindy Ratliffe, Donna Schimmel, Stacy Semenczuk, Colleen Sherburne, Ann Stevens, Cheryl Sulisz, Leslie Touma, Kathy VerDuin, Jane Woodworth, Patty Wotila, Team Manager, Barb DeRose and Head Coach Lyn Maurer<\/p>\n\n\n

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The 1977-78 Women\u2019s Swimming and Diving Team was small in numbers yet their potential was enormous. Coach Lyn Maurer was confident about her team\u2019s performance. A quote from Coach Maurer in the December 1, 1977 The Index said, \u201cEven though the WMIAA schools will be improved from last year, more than half of the team records will be broken this season.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

In the previous 1976-77 season, the women were undefeated in conference action and took first place in the WMIAA relays. Coach Maurer was quoted saying, \u201cAlthough our team is smaller than we have been in the past, we should be at least as strong as in any previous years.\u201d Despite those small numbers of participants on the swim team, fifteen in total, Coach Maurer built a competitive women\u2019s program. As the season evolved, Maurer\u2019s expectations for a successful season came true with victories in the first five competitions, which included winning the WMIAA relays.<\/p>\n\n\n

The Hornets hosted the WMIAA meet favored to come out with the 1978 championship. Winning the league meet combined with finishing the dual meet competition undefeated would make the league championship a reality. The K tankers finished the regular season in style by scoring 100 points to take the league title. The league meet was the first all-conference competition in the history of the WMIAA women\u2019s swimming program. K swimmers took first place in seven of the 14 possible events. Conference standing ended with the Hornets in first, followed by Albion, Calvin, Alma, Adrian and Hope finished last.<\/p>\n\n\n

The Hornets faced tough non-league competition in meets against Eastern Michigan, Western Michigan, Northern Michigan and Valparaiso. While being defeated by WMU, Julie Redner placed first in the 100-yard breaststroke, which made her eligible for national competition. The disappointment of losses to WMU and EMU were softened by victories over Northern Michigan (74-56) and Valparaiso (71-60). During the Valparaiso meet, the 200-yard freestyle relay team of Julie Chappell, Patty Wotila, Redner and Corinne Lewis qualified for national competition.<\/p>\n\n\n

The team ended the season with a 9-2 record. Team honors for the season went to Corinne Lewis as Most Valuable and Cindy Ackerman as Most Improved. Team captains were Julie Candoli and Wotila.
Team members include: Cindy Ackerman, Anne Campbell, Julie Candoli, Julie Chappell, Laura Franseen, Martha Fulford, Pam Hamp, Barb Kurth, Corinne Lewis, Kay Lincoln, Francie Noland, Julie Redner, Cheryl Sulisz, Martha Talbott, Patty Wotila and Head Coach Lyn Maurer<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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1978-79 Women\u2019s Swimming and Diving Team, as defending MIAA champions, began its season facing its stiffest league competition ever. Coach Lyn Maurer believed that the excellent group of freshmen and a large number of returning swimmers would again be strong contenders in the MIAA league.<\/p>\n\n\n

In the January 18, 1979 The w article, Maurer said of her team of twenty, only two of whom have no previous competitive swimming experience, \u201cThey are a very nice group of young women, and fun to work with. All six sophomores on the team have previous swimming experience. Two, Corrine Lewis and Julie Redner, competed in the national meet last year as freshmen. Seniors Heather Gilchrist and Jane Woodworth, and junior Julie Chappell are returning for their third season. Chappell also went to nationals last year. Freshman Sue Herriman is adding her diving experience to the team.\u201d In light of her team\u2019s depth, Maurer says, \u201cThey look strong in most every stroke. The team should break more than half of the existing records.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n

An excerpt from the 1978-79 Hornets Winter Sports Prospectus: \u201cThe women\u2019s swim team, defending MIAA league and relay champions, has the makings of a top-rated squad \u2026 Coach Maurer expects this year\u2019s squad to break twelve out of the eighteen existing team records.\u201d
The Hornet\u2019s league contest again Albion College was quite memorable as the meet ended with five school records broken and K victorious by a score of 78-52. The two teams were tied at 35-35 with half of the events completed; however, the K tankers consistently out-muscled the Albion Brits for the remainder of the meet. School records set included:<\/p>\n\n\n

  • 200-yard medley relay (Renee Rutz, Julie Redner, Sandy Hoisington and Karen Hink)<\/li>
  • 50-yard backstroke \u2013 Rutz<\/li>
  • 100-yard backstroke \u2013 Rutz<\/li>
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    In non-league competitions, the Hornets came out on the short end of a 72-59 decision against Western Michigan. The K tankers won their closest victory of the season by defeating Northern Michigan 65-63. The Hornets lost to a powerful Oakland University team by a score of 79-52.<\/p>\n\n\n

    At the end of the season, the Kalamazoo College Women\u2019s Swim Team became the MIAA Conference Champions for the second consecutive year. The following MIAA records were set this season:<\/p>\n\n\n

    • 200 Freestyle \u2013 Sandy Hoisington<\/li>
    • 500 Freestyle \u2013 Sandy Hoisington<\/li>
    • 100 Butterfly \u2013 Sandy Hoisington<\/li>
    • 200 Individual Medley \u2013 Karen Hink<\/li>
    • 3-Meter Dive \u2013 Sue Herriman<\/li>
    • 800 Freestyle Relay \u2013 Renee Rutz, Karen Hink, Corinne Lewis, and Sandy Hoisington<\/li>
    • 400 Medley Relay \u2013 Julie Chappell, Sandy Hoisington, Corinne Lewis and Abby Frame<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n

      The K women tankers ended the season with a 10 and 2 record. Team honors went to Sandy Hoisington as Most Valuable and Abby Frame as Most Improved. Team captains were Heather Gilchrist, Corinne Lewis, and Jane Woodworth.<\/p>\n\n\n

      Team members include: Cindy Ackerman, Mary Adams, Anne Campbell, Julie Chappell, Cindy Donovan, Abby Frame, Carol Franke, Heather Gilchrist, Julie, Halstead, Sue Hegel, Sue Herriman, Karen Hink, Sandy Hoisington, Lori Kahle, Corinne Lewis, Debbie Medkeff, Jennifer Mills, Dawn Moilanen, Francie Noland, Kathy Plaisier, Julie Redner, Renee Rutz, Kay Spring, Cheryl Sulisz, Amy VanDomelen, Mary VonEhr, Jane Woodworth, Team Manager Pam Hamp and Head Coach Lyn Maurer.<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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      The 1985 Kalamazoo Men\u2019s Soccer Team is one of three of the most successful teams in the history of the sport at the College. Coach Hardy Fuchs thinks all three teams suffered from a disorder: they were \u201closs-averse\u201d. Because of this eccentric condition, Coach Fuchs suggests that they should not be inducted into the Hall of Fame but rather, \u201cindicted\u201d. All three squads put together seasons without a loss. The team of 1985 ended up with 17 wins, no losses, and two ties (MIAA record: 11-0-1). The Hornets also qualified for the NCAA national tournament but did not make it past the first round.<\/p>\n\n\n

      That season also included a game with the highest score in men\u2019s soccer history at K. Kalamazoo won, 20-0, on Parents Day, with the game being played on Angell Field because of the special occasion and made possible by the generosity of the football program. Coach Fuchs and the players did not feel comfortable with the outcome as the score looked more like an American football result. At halftime, the K coaching staff offered to play with fewer men on the field, but that offer was not considered a good solution by the opponents. One of the Hornets, sophomore Marc Tirikian, ended up scoring ten goals and received some exposure in the People in the Crowd section of Sports Illustrated, including a head\/shoulder shot. Coach Fuchs, in contrast, got some flak from colleagues.<\/p>\n\n\n

      Several individuals from this glorious season received high honors individually. Tirikian earned the Team MVP award for the Hornets as well as First-Team All-MIAA recognition; Jon Beaubien was the Team\u2019s Most Improved Player, and with Ralf Schreiber also earned All-MIAA First team honors. Michael Greening and Kevin Kitka were members of the All-MIAA Second Team.<\/p>\n\n\n

      It should also be noted that four players on this team — Dan Coats, Chris Dukes, Brian Libby and John Nanos (seniors on the 1988 Hall of Fame team) are receiving the hall of fame honor for the second time! Speaking of seniors: The 1985 Hornets, THIS team, did not include a single senior among its nineteen members!<\/p>\n\n\n

      Team members include Jon Beaubien, Tom Beaubien, David Beebe, Adam Cermak, Dan Coats, Chris Drabik, Chris Dukes, Michael Greening, Ernie Johnson, John Kennedy, Kevin Kitka, Brian Libby, Mirko Mikelic, John Nanos, Brian Paul, Paul Regelbrugge, Ralf Schreiber, Ali Shabangu, Marc Tirikian and Head Coach Hardy Fuchs.
      The 1985 men\u2019s soccer team was indeed an extraordinary squad and unreservedly deserves the exceptional honor of being introduced to the institution\u2019s Hall of Fame. Congratulations, men!<\/p>\n\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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