Class of 2019 Inducted into HOF
Five individuals were inducted into the Colorado College Athletics Hall of Fame Saturday night at the Colorado Springs Marriott.
Melanie Auguste '09 (women's basketball),
Patrick McGinnis '05 (men’s soccer),
Horst Richardson (men’s soccer coach),
Dick Schulte '75 (men’s soccer) and
Marty Sertich ’06 (hockey) were enshrined as the Class of 2019.
In addition to the five inductees,
Edward J. Robson ’54 (hockey) was honored as the inaugural recipient of the Tiger Medal, presented to an individual or organization who has made extraordinary contributions in support of Colorado College Athletics. The award exemplifies the values of a liberal arts education while recognizing outstanding service, commitment and accomplishment at the community, national or global level. Robson will receive his award at the induction ceremony.
Auguste won the 2009 Jostens Trophy, which honors one male and one female Division III basketball player each season that excels in the classroom, on the court and in the community. In addition, she was named an All-American, a CoSIDA Academic All-American and the Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC) Player of the Year in 2009. Auguste still holds the SCAC records for single-season assists (192) and career average of 7.22 assists per game. She also ranks in the top five on CC’s career lists for assists (1
st), steals (1
st), points (3
rd), 3-pointers made (4
th) and rebounds (5
th).
McGinnis was named the National Soccer Coaches Association (NSCA) Division III Player of the Year in 2004, when he led the nation with 39 goals, which ranks No. 6 in the history of the NCAA (all divisions) and No. 3 in Division III for most goals in one season. His 39 goals and 86 points that year still stand as school records for a single season. McGinnis earned All-America and CoSIDA Academic All-America honors in 2004.
Richardson was associated with the men’s soccer program at CC for 50 years, one season as an assistant coach and 49 as head coach. He posted a 567-304-71 record, which ranked third nationally in career victories among active Division III men’s soccer coaches and sixth among coaches from all three NCAA Divisions at the time of his retirement following the 2014 season. Richardson, who also taught in the college's German department from 1965-2006, led the Tigers to 19 NCAA tournament bids and the national semifinals in 1992 with an overall record of 18-2-2. The Tigers also won seven conference championships in the RMISL (Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Soccer League) under his direction.
Schulte, who was selected by the veteran’s committee, was a four-year letterwinner and three-time first-team all-RMISL selection on the men’s soccer team. He also earned all-region honors twice and led the Tigers to the 1974 RMISL title. Schulte is tied for 18
th on the school’s career list with 29 goals and was invited to try out for the U.S. Men’s Olympic Soccer Team prior to the 1976 summer games. He is the namesake of the Dick Schulte Midfielder of the Year award for the men’s soccer team.
Sertich is one of only two Colorado College hockey players to win the Hobey Baker Memorial Award as National Player of the Year, earning it in 2005. That season, he led the nation in scoring with 64 points (27g,37a) and was named a first-team All-American, as well as the WCHA Player of the Year and USA Hockey’s College Player of the Year. Sertich, who led the Tigers to the national semifinals in 2005, is 12
th on CC’s career scoring list with 182 points (61g,121a) and seventh in career assists.
Robson, who graduated from CC in 1954 and received an honorary degree from the college in 2014, has donated more than $10 million toward the construction of the Edward J. Robson Arena, a new multi-purpose facility that will permanently house the Tiger hockey program. He scored 77 points in three years with the hockey team at Colorado College.
Class of 2017 Inducted into HOF
Four individuals and one team were inducted into the Colorado College Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday night at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs.
Cassie Abel ‘05 (women’s lacrosse),
Douglas Mitchell ’59 (hockey and football),
Peter Sejna ’03 (hockey),
Greg Smith ’76 (hockey) and the
1989 women’s soccer team were enshrined as the Class of 2017.
A two-time first-team NCAA Division III All-America selection, Abel is tied for No. 1 on CC’s career goals list with 180. She was named the Division III Attacker of the Year in 2005 after recording 38 goals and 12 assists for 50 points. Abel, a third-team All-American pick as a sophomore in 2003, led the Tigers to the NCAA Division III semifinals as a senior in ’05 and is third on CC’s career scoring list with 236 points.
Mitchell arrived at CC on a hockey scholarship and was a member of the freshman team his first year, but did not play due to an injury. He ended up playing center and linebacker on the football team as a senior, which propelled him to a successful career in athletics. Mitchell spent four years (1980-84) on the National Hockey League’s board of directors, five more (1984-89) as commissioner of the Canadian Football League, and nine years as the radio color analyst for the CFL’s Calgary Stampede. Mitchell is a member of the Alberta Sports Hall of Fame and in 2004 received the Order of Canada, that country's highest honor, for his lifelong contributions to athletics and economic development.
Sejna is Colorado College’s first Hobey Baker Award winner, capturing college hockey’s top honor following his junior campaign in 2003. He led the nation in scoring with 36 goals and 82 points that season and was named the WCHA Player of the Year. Sejna, who is No. 8 on the school’s career scoring list with 190 points (91g, 99a) in three seasons at CC, played 49 games in the NHL with the St. Louis Blues and had seven goals and four assists.
Smith played hockey at Colorado College for three years, posting 91 career points (35g, 56a) in 101 games. Following his junior season, he played one game for the NHL’s California Golden Seals, who drafted him in the fourth round in 1975. Smith enjoyed a lengthy professional career, playing 829 NHL games with five different teams. He scored 56 goals and added 232 assists for 288 career points and appeared in Stanley Cup finals with the Minnesota North Stars in 1981.
The 1989 women’s soccer team advanced to the NCAA Division I championship game before falling to national powerhouse North Carolina, 2-0. The Tigers posted a final record of 16-4, which included playoff victories over Massachusetts (5-2) and Santa Clara (2-0). Colorado College opened the ’89 campaign with an eight-game winning streak and the 16 victories ties for third-most in a single season since the program moved to Division I in 1985. Head coach Dang Pibulvech led the Tigers to eight consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, including trips to the national title game in 1986 and ’89.
Six inducted as Class of 2015
Six individuals were inducted into the Colorado College Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday, May 30th at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort in Colorado Springs.
Rob Doyle '87 (hockey),
Laura Luckett '84 (diving),
Philip "Flip" Naumburg '75 (lacrosse),
Sog Panter '42 (football/track),
Scott Robertson '89 (football/baseball) and
Jason Valant '93 (basketball) were enshrined as the Class of 2015.
A three-time MVP of the hockey team, Doyle scored 51 goals and added 151 assists in his four years at CC. His 202 career points lead all defensemen and are fifth overall on the school's all-time scoring list. He led the Tigers in scoring as a sophomore in 1984-85 with 55 points (11g,44a) and tied for the team lead the next season with 59 points (18g,41a). Doyle was a three-time all-WCHA performer, earning first-team honors as a senior and selection to the second-team as a sophomore and junior. He went on to play nearly 1,000 games as a professional player in the U.S. and Europe and represented Austria in the 1994 Olympic Games.
Luckett was Colorado College's first female diver to earn All-America honors, earning that status on the 3-meter board in both 1983 and '84. She advanced to the national championships each season, placing ninth as a junior in 1983 and sixth as a senior in 1984. She qualified for nationals as a sophomore in 1982 but did not place. Following her graduation, Luckett returned to CC as the diving coach from 1986-88 and was named the Division III Coach of the Year in '87.
Naumburg racked up 35 career points (31g,4a) in his four-year career at CC, but made his name in the lacrosse world following his graduation. During his time at CC, he co-founded the Vail Lacrosse Shootout, then served as head coach at Colorado State University for 14 seasons. Naumburg led the Rams to a 208-52 overall record, five Men's Collegiate Lacrosse Association national championships and six Rocky Mountain Lacrosse Conference titles. He was inducted into the Colorado Lacrosse Foundation Hall of Fame in 2006.
Panter was a two-time all-conference selection as a center for the Tigers in 1940 and '41. Following his graduation, he was highly regarded by a number of NFL teams, but he rejected professional football and instead joined the U.S. Navy during World War II.
Robertson, widely regarded as the best linebacker in the history of Colorado College football, was a Division III All-America selection and named the Small College Defensive Player of the Year by
The Denver Post as a senior in 1988 when he led the Tigers with a school-record 183 tackles. He also holds the school record for solo tackles (372), assisted tackles (300), total tackles (672) and fumble recoveries (9) in a career. His 672 total tackles are 252 more than second place on the school's all-time list. Robertson also lettered two years in baseball at CC.
Valant, a three-time team captain at CC, is third on the school's career scoring list with 1,899 points and the school-record holder with 315 made three-pointers. He was instrumental in the Tigers winning a school-record 22 games and advancing to the round of 16 at the NCAA Division III Tournament in 1992, the program's first appearance since 1960. Valant is No. 1 in program history with 103 games played, seventh with 124 steals and 14
th with 200 assists.
HOF officially enshrines Class of 2013
Colorado College's 17th Hall of Fame class was officially inducted on Saturday, April 27, in a ceremony at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort.
It was one of the school's largest and most diverse HOF groups ever, featuring honorees who earned the prestigious distinction with credentials running the gamut from competing to coaching to officiating.
CC announced in February that the 1995-96 Tigers hockey team, which steamrolled to the NCAA championship game before suffering a 3-2 overtime loss to the University of Michigan, will join former football standout Ryan Haygood '97, men's lacrosse great Ted Nusbaum '94, basketball player/longtime women's lacrosse coach Michelle (Giarratano) Secor '80 in the Colorado College Athletics Hall of Fame this spring.
A "veterans" selection committee later added Guy Gibbs '51, who went on to become the winningest prep coach ever in the state of Colorado during a distinguished career at Regis High School, and legendary hockey coach Cheddy Thompson (1945-55) to the list of inductees who will be enshrined officially later this month.
Haygood, a freshman defensive end on the football team that went 8-1 in 1993, earned All-America and Academic All-America accolades as a senior in 1996. He led the Tigers that season with 102 tackles, including 48 unassisted and 12 for losses, as well as nine sacks and three recovered fumbles. Now an attorney, he also returned an interception for 55 yards. He lettered all four years, helping Colorado College post a 19-16-1 record during his career.
With 276 career points, including 153 assists, Nusbaum still reigns as the lacrosse team's most prolific playmaker of all time. Both figures represent school records almost two decades later, while his 123 goals places him among an elite group of 11 CC players ever to reach the century mark. As a senior in 1994, he led the Tigers to their fourth of six titles in the old Rocky Mountain Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association with 87 points (29g,58a).
Secor lettered three seasons (1976-79) as a guard during the infant stages of the women's basketball program, helping Colorado College win the AIAW Region 7 Championship and reach nationals her freshman year. After graduating in 1980, she coached the women's lacrosse club team on a volunteer basis for 14 years before the Lady Tigers achieved varsity status in 1995, then continued to assist head coach
Susan Stuart Elliott for many seasons after that. She also has served multiple terms as a alumni representative on the Hall of Fame selection committee.
Gibbs, who played baseball and basketball at CC, retired in 1997 after 40 years at Regis. In addition to coaching four sports over a span of 28 seasons (1956-84) there, he also spent 26 officiating in the Western Collegiate Athletic Conference. His Regis basketball teams posted a 473-156 record and .752 winning percentage with him at the helm.
Thompson guided the Colorado College hockey team to the program's first NCAA championhip in 1950, when the Tigers demolished Boston College (10-3) and Boston University (13-4), respectively, in the national semifinals and finals at the old Broadmoor Ice Palace. The team went 149-72-6 (.670) with six NCAA bids during his decade behind the bench.
The 1995-96 icers, coached by Don Lucia and captained by current CC assistant
Eric Rud '97, went undefeated (15-0-3) in their first 18 games overall before running away with an unprecedented third consecutive regular-season championship in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Their 33 victories - including two against UMass-Lowell (5-3) and the University of Vermont (4-3 in overtime) in the NCAA playoffs - still stands as a school record. Two senior All-Americans - goalie Ryan Bach '96 and forward Pete Geronazzo '96 - were among eight Tigers to earn All-WCHA recognition that season, when Rud was honored as the league's Defensive Player of the Year and freshman forward Brian Swanson '99 was voted Rookie of the Year.
HOF inducts four into Class of 2011
Four former Colorado College greats - Verdel Baskin '99 (basketball), Glenn Blagg '50 (wrestling/football), Sara Fry '96 (cross country/track and field) and Ted Swan '77 (football) now are enshrined in the Colorado College Athletics Hall of Fame.
The four entered the HOF as members of its 16th class during a ceremonial dinner at the Cheyenne Mountain Resort on Saturday, May 14, 2011.
Baskin, who sank 2,100 points in 98 games during his four-year career, reigns as the basketball program's all-time leading scorer. He is one of only two Tigers in history to reach the 2,000-points plateau, hitting for 38 in a game on two occcasions, and continues to hold the school single-season record with 651 as a junior in 1997-98. He also ranks No. 1 on CC's all-time charts with 511 assists and 208 steals, including a school single-season standard of 70 thefts in '97-98.
The late Blagg, a 5-11, 211-pound sophomore at the time, upset favored John Hancock, Jr., of Colorado State College to win the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference heavyweight title in 1948. Blagg went on to the national championships for the second consecutive season that year, reaching the fourth round at Lehigh University before suffering his first defeat of the campaign. He took fifth in the nation despite beating the fourth-place finisher - Arthur Archer of Illinois University - in a earlier round.
Blagg's son, Jim, accepted the Hall of Fame plaque on his father's behalf.
Fry was Colorado College's first-ever All-American in women's cross country, earning the honor for the first time as a sophomore in 1993 then repeating the feat as a senior in 1995, when she finished 26 at the NCAA Division III national meet. As a junior on the track-and-field team in 1995, she set a school record that still stands in the 10,000 meters, posting a time of 39 minutes and 8 seconds. In October 2005, she finished 20th in a field of 989 runners at Dankin's Women's Triathlon in New York City.
Swan, arguably the football team's greatest place-kicker of all time, helped the Tigers earn their last NCAA Division III playoff berth in 1975, his junior season, when they finished with a 7-2-1 record. Swan set a national college-division record of 249 points scored by kicking during his career and tied an NCAA standard with five field goals in one game. A 1973 graduate of Mullen High School, he stills owns the CC record for the longest field goal, a 55-yarder against Nebraska Wesleyan. He booted 17 that went for 40 yards or more.
HOF inducts three into Class of 2009
Three outstanding student-athletes of the past, representing the sports of football, hockey, soccer and track and field, joined the Colorado College Athletics Hall of Fame in spring of 2009.
