Six will be inducted into the UW-Stout Athletic Hall of Fame when the annual induction ceremony is held, Saturday, Sept. 29, in the Grand View Terrace of the Memorial Student Center.
Mike Kundinger, a track standout, Bob Bostwick, a football coach and teacher of the year, football standouts Mike Wilson and Jack Voigt, and women's basketball leader Lisa Schultz will be inducted in the class of 2007. Greg Osterhaus, a baseball standout, will be inducted as a member of the class of 2006. A late family emergency kept Osterhaus from attending last year's ceremony. Larry Kuester will receive the Athletic Distinguished Service Award.
Tickets for the induction ceremony and brunch are $13 and can be obtained by calling the UW-Stout athletic office at 715-232-2224. The inductees will also be recognized at halftime of the Stout/UW-Platteville football game. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m. at Don & Nona Williams Stadium.
Greg Osterhaus
A four year, first team all-conference
catcher, Greg Osterhaus capped off his career by breaking the Stout career
home run record, a mark that has only recently been matched. Working behind
the plate from 1992-95, Osterhaus slammed out 30 career home runs and hit
12 in 1994. Baseball coach Terry Petrie called Osterhaus - a two-time team
captain - a great leader, great power hitter and excellent defensive catcher.
Osterhaus appears in the top 10 of six Stout career lists - home runs (1st
tie, 30), runs batted in (2nd, 123), slugging percentage (6th, .660), hits
(7th tie, 156), runs (9th, 100) and batting average (9th, .371). Osterhaus,
a 1995 NCAA Division III Midwest All-Region selection, had a balanced career.
As a freshman, he batted .410 and as a junior, carried a slugging percentage
of .761. A native of Prairie du Chien and prior to coming to Stout, Osterhaus
played two years of international fastpitch softball. He is currently employed
in the construction field in the Twin Cities area.
Mike Kundinger
Mike Kundinger not only holds the UW-Stout high jump records, but upon his
induction date, he still holds the conference records for both the indoor
and outdoor championships. The year 1993 was Kundinger's year to shine,
and Kundinger rose to the occasion in front of a home crowd as Stout hosted
the outdoor meet where Kundinger soared to a height of 7-feet, 2.5-inches,
electrifying the entire crowd. Kundinger went on to place second at the
NCAA Division III Championships in the high jump later that month. During
the indoor season, Kundinger won the conference championships at Platteville
with a jump of 7-0.50 and placed third at the NCAA championships. In 1992,
Kundinger qualified to the indoor and outdoor national championships, earning
All-America honors at the indoors. Kundinger also was a member of the Blue
Devil basketball team, where he was the team captain, team MVP and honorable
mention all-conference during the 1991-92 season.
Bob Bostwick
When Stout alumni football players from the late 1950s to early 1960s get
together and talk about their college football coach, they don't talk about
the wins and losses - they talk about the experiences. And heading up that
experience was Bob Bostwick, who coached the Blue Devil football program
from 1958-63. Bostwick came to Stout from Ft. Dodge, Iowa, High School,
and started to turn a program that was hurting around. Although Bostwick's
Stout teams never earned a conference champion, Bostwick laid some groundwork
in the Blue Devil program. Words like "team" and "visionary"
were used to describe Bostwick, by his former players. Bostwick, who was
named the 1962 Stout Outstanding Teacher of the Year, recruited or coached
several athletes who are already in Stout's Hall of Fame, including Glenn
Harke, Duane Ramberg, Dick Baker, Dick Frederickson, Pat Kroll, Gay Herbert
and John Zuerlein. Several of Bostwick's players went on to provide a solid
base for Stout's 1965 conference championship team. Bostwick left Stout
to pursue a career in sales in Iowa, but returned to education after three
years and became a teacher, principal and superintendent before retiring
in 1992.
Jack Voigt
Jack Voigt held the football program's record for career interceptions for
more than 25 years, recording 15 picks in his career from 1972-75 before
Eric Moe broke the record in 2002. Voigt, a two-time all-conference honorable
mention defensive back, was well decorated by his team. Voigt, a native
of Kiel, Wis., was the Stout freshman athlete of the year in 1972, the same
year he was the football team's rookie of the year. He received the team's
best tackler award during his sophomore and junior years, and was the team's
most valuable player as a senior.
Mike Wilson
Mike Wilson excelled not only on the football field and the track, but in
the classroom and as an active part of the Stout community. Extremely active
in the Stout Student Association (SSA) and a two-time football team captain,
Wilson was an NAIA football All-American and an all-WSUC selection in 1990,
then followed that up in the spring by winning the conference 55-meter dash
and earning NAIA All-American honors in the indoor 55-meter dash and the
outdoor 200-meter dash. Wilson held the school's single season record for
kickoff return (26.6 y/ret), until the record was broken in 2006. Wilson
received the Chancellor's Award upon graduation and was also honored with
several awards from the Minority Student Union. Following short football
stints with the NFL's Cleveland Browns and CFL's Toronto Argonauts, Wilson
put his hospitality and tourism degree to work with a variety of companies.
Wilson has worked with the NFL's Players Association as a contract adviser
and is also active with the Fellowship of Christian Athletes in the Chicago
area.
Lisa (Schultz) Dormady
Lisa Schultz was the first player that UW-Stout women's basketball coach
Mark Thomas' recruited after he was hired to turn around a last place program.
Thomas went straight to the dorms in pursuit of Schultz following a tip
from her high school coach. Thomas' trip through the dorms paid off as Schultz
was one of the pace setters for what has turned into one of the top Division
III women's basketball programs. Throughout Schultz's career, the Blue Devils
each year upped their record until Schultz's final season in 1991 when Stout
advanced to the NAIA Tournament for the first time. Along the way, Schultz
earned all-conference honorable mention recognition. Thomas called Schultz
"a very intense competitor" who "always expected the best
from herself and her teammates." Schultz finished her career with 858
points and 671 rebounds. Married to former Blue Devil baseball standout
Mike Dormady, the couple resides in Texas with their four children.
Larry Kuester
For Larry Kuester, coming to work as a groundskeeper at UW-Stout every day
for the past 30 years was a joy. For the UW-Stout coaching staff, it was
a blessing. More than anyone in particular, Kuester was the person who groomed
and cared for the UW-Stout athletic outdoor facilities. Kuester was selected
to receive the UW-Stout Athletic Distinguished Service Award.Kuester, a
1966 Menomonie High School graduate, began working at Stout in the housing
area in 1977, but moved to grounds in 1981. Before long, Kuester was the
one looking out for the fields. "I always liked to take care of the
playing fields," Kuester said. "We would do whatever it took to
make the fields as playable as possible. We wanted the players to have as
good an experience as possible." Kuester retired from Stout June 1,
but was recently recognized by a number of the Blue Devil teams for his
accomplishments. A member of the Menomonie High School baseball team that
advanced to the 1965 state tournament, Kuester was also a volunteer Blue
Devil baseball assistant coach for about 15 years during his 30 years at
Stout.Growing up on a Menomonie area farm, Kuester saw that as a big reason
for his care of the land. "My dad always said, if you are going to
do something, do it right," Kuester said. A local 4-H leader for more
than 20 years, Kuester still raises Charlais cattle with his brother, Duane.
Kuester is married to Vicki Kuester, who works with UW-Stout international
students, and is the father of two adult children, Staci and Kyle.