April • 5:00PM CT 6:00PM ET 29, 2006 INDUCTION BANQUET IRON MOUNTAIN, MICHIGAN 35 PREMIERE CENTER TH ANNUAL TOM CAUDILL RUSS BRUCE JEFF BENDER JAY DISHNOW ALBERT DAPOZ HALL OFHALL FAME UP UP SPORTS MARK KONOPACKE EDWARD GIBBS DON EDENS BRUCE RIUTTA CARL LACKEY 2006-2007 U.P. SPORTS HALL OF FAME CALENDAR April 29, 2006 Hall of Fame Induction Banquet June 1, 2006 Deadline for nominations for Inductee Class of 2007 June 10, 2006 Cedarville High School, U.P. All Star Basketball Classic July 28-29, 2006 Newberry, Hall of Fame Annual Meeting April 28, 2007 Hall of Fame Induction Banquet July 27-28, 2007 Iron Mountain, Hall of Fame Annual Meeting U.P. SPORTS HALL OF FAME ACADEMIC/ATHLETIC SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS Each year all Upper Peninsula High Schools can nominate 1 female and 1 male student athlete for the U.P. Sports Hall of Fame scholarship. Each year 2 female and 2 male student athletes are selected as winners. The scholarship is $500 per year, for 4 years or $2,000 total for each winner. 1997 Kerry Kusz - Iron Mountain 2002 Jamie Fornetti - Kingsford Kristen Nichols - Lake Linden Maria Han - West Iron County William McDonald - Pickford Bryan Jacobs - Escanaba Michael Moore - St. Ignace Tony Mendina - Norway 1998 Darcy Millon - Cedarville 2003 Korry Schwanz - Menominee Elizabeth Pietila - Hancock Jill Recla - Kingsford Jared Bowerman - Munising Christopher Kupitz - Bessemer Steve Grunlund - North Dickinson Benjamin Seppala - Chassell 1999 *Sara Boyer - Rapid River 2004 Sarah Stream - Westwood Tara Reddinger - Kingsford *Krista Clement - St. Ignace Beth Koski - Baraga Katherine Lindahl - Gladstone Matt Barron - Mid Peninsula Matt Franti - Ewen/Trout Creek John Pietila - Kingsford Jordan Ostwald - Kingsford 2000 Adriane Ostwald - Kingsford 2005 Tara Lahtinen - Gladstone Jennifer Swanson - Westwood Kelly McClure - Iron Mountain Nathan Fraiser - West Iron County Timothy Barrette - Negaunee Lance Veeser - Bark River Harris Steven Short - Kingsford 2001 Megan Canadeo - Marquette 2006 Angela Guisfredi - Lake Linden Karolyn Getzen - St. Ignace Helen Lillie - Ewen/Trout Creek Kelsey Fors - Ewen/Trout Creek Eric Boye - Menominee Steve McDonald - St. Ignace Kyle Robinson - Watersmeet * Due to a full basketball scholarship, NCAA rules do not allow players to accept UPSHF scholarships. The U.P. Sports Hall of Fame is located at the Pine Mountain Resort in Iron Mountain If you have any questions or comments visit the U.P. Sports Hall of Fame website at upshf.com. PROGRAM MASTER OF CEREMONIES . Dennis Chartier U.P. Sports Hall of Fame, Council Member INVOCATION . Gene Maki U.P. Sports Hall of Fame, Council Member WELCOME . Nancy Osier President, U.P. Sports Hall of Fame REMARKS . Duane Tirschel Executive Director, U.P. Sports Hall of Fame INTRODUCTION OF HALL OF FAME SCHOLARSHIP WINNERS . Dave Lahtinen U.P. Sports Hall of Fame, Council Member INTRODUCTION OF PAST INDUCTEES DINNER PLAQUE PRESENTATION INDUCTEES JEFF BENDER RUSS BRUCE TOM CAUDILL ALBERT DAPOZ JAY DISHNOW DON EDENS EDWARD GIBBS MARK KONOPACKE CARL LACKEY BRUCE RIUTTA BENEDICTION . Gene Maki U.P. SPORTS HALL OF FAME COUNCIL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE COUNCIL MEMBERS DUANE TIRSCHEL Art Allen, Manistique EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dennis Chartier, Iron Mountain IRON MOUNTAIN Bill Crawford, Sault Ste. Marie Karl Dickson, Escanaba NANCY OSIER Robert Erkkila, Calumet PRESIDENT Dave Hallgren, Negaunee WAKEFIELD Ted Kearly, Houghton Bob Krysiak, Menominee ROD GUIZZETTI Dave Lahtinen, Gladstone VICE PRESIDENT Jim Lamoreaux, St. Ignace NEGAUNEE Gene Maki, Wakeield Craig Remsburg, Marquette DENNIS GRALL Frank Rodman, Hermansville EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Larry Rubick, Newberry ESCANABA Cathy Shamion, Ontonagon Rex Terwilliger, Iron Mountain STEVE SWANSON Joe Vestich, Watersmeet TREASURER ISHPEMING 2006 U.P. SPORTS HALL OF FAME INDUCTEES TOM CAUDILL (Watersmeet)- In 28 seasons as head coach of the Ewen- JEFF BENDER (Newberry)- A Trout Creek High School boys basket- three-sport standout at Newberry ball team, Tom Caudill became one of High School, Jeff Bender set 27 18 coaches in the state to record 500 school records for the Indians. victories. Caudill (513-145 through He then set 13 more records as the 2005-06 season) is a two-time quarterback of the Central Michi- Upper Peninsula Class D Coach of gan University football team. The the Year and the Panthers twice have Chippewas were 26-13-5 in his been U.P. Class D Team of the Year. four seasons as a starter (1988- E-TC captured 19 Porcupine Mountain Conference titles, 91) and played in the California seven Great Western Conference titles, 11 district crowns Raisin Bowl in 1990. He was the Mid-American Con- and two regional championships and a Class D state run- ference’s freshman of the year in 1988, was conference ner-up trophy during his tenure. Caudill also coached track MVP in 1990, was a four-time MAC academic selection for 35 years, winning 11 conference titles, ive regional and was an academic All-American in 1990. Bender crowns and three U.P. Class D runner-up titles. received the NCAA outstanding scholar-athlete award in 1992 and the MAC Humanitarian Award in 1992. He ALBERT “BUBBA” DAPOZ (Nor- was inducted into CMU’s Hall of Fame in 2002. way)- Regarded as one of the all-time best football players at Norway High RUSS BRUCE (Sault Ste. Ma- School, Albert Dapoz was virtually a rie)- A three-year letterman in one-man team in leading the Knights football and track at Cornell, Ia. to the U.P. championship in 1938. College, Russ Bruce earned Mid- Dapoz played fullback and line- west Conference all-star honors as backer and scored all the points a linebacker and was co-captain of when Norway beat Marinette, Wis. the 1952 football team. In track he 32-7. A third-team all-state pick in set the Cornell high jump record of 1938, Dapoz briely played football 5-feet-11 3/4 inches. He was head at Tulane University before joining football coach at Iron Mountain the Merchant Marines. He died in 1999. High School (1958-61) and was U.P. Class B football coach of the JAY DISHNOW (Iron Mountain)- A year in 1959. Iron Mountain won three-year starter at quarterback for conference championships in 1959-61. Bruce earned a doc- the Michigan Tech University foot- torate at the University of Wisconsin and taught physical ball team, Jay Dishnow helped the education at Eastern Michigan University (1964-67) and at Huskies win two Northern Intercol- Northern Michigan University (1967-76). He was head of legiate Conference championships. the physical education department at Lake Superior State He was co-MVP as a junior and co- University (1976-87). Bruce founded the Northwoods captain as a senior. He set a school Orienteering Club at LSSU in 1976, and the LSSU team record by throwing ive touchdown won the United States Federation (USOF) Intercollegiate passes in one game in 1966. A mem- Championship in 1977. An active participant and organizer ber of Tech’s Sports Hall of Fame, of orienteering, Bruce was a USOF board member for nine Dishnow is a member of the Football Advisory Council years and received the coveted USOF Silva Award in 1987. that has assisted the University since March 2003 in raising He was a member of the organizing committee for the 1993 $1.3 million to sustain and improve the football program, World Orienteering Championships in New York state. which includes a Verdie Cox honorarium endowment. Dishnow starred in football, basketball and track at Iron Mountain High School and was basketball MVP as a senior. DON EDENS (Kingsford)- An CARL LACKEY (Sault Ste. Ma- all-state running back at Kingsford rie)- An All-American hockey player High School in 1962, Don Edens at Michigan State University, Carl returned to serve his alma mater as Lackey spent more than 20 years as a coach in three sports (football, a player before becoming a youth track and basketball) before spend- coach. He was captain of the 1957 ing 17 years as athletic director. Sault team which won the state and He led the campaign to approve a national junior championship, then $1.7 million project for new ath- joined MSU and earned three let- letic facilities in 1987, and directed ters. He was an All-American and the U.P. Track Finals for seven years. Edens received the team captain as a senior. Lackey then Allen W. Bush Award from the Michigan High School played for the Toledo Blades in the Athletic Association in 2001. His football playing career International League and Marquette Iron Rangers and at Northern Michigan University was ended by a shoul- Green Bay Bobcats in the U.S. Hockey League. In 1974 der injury. he played for the USA team which won the world cham- pionship in Yugoslavia. He retired in 1975 and became a EDDIE (BUD) GIBBS (Perkins)- youth hockey coach in Green Bay. The career batting record-holder BRUCE RIUTTA (Hancock)- A at Michigan State University with three-year hockey letterman at Mich- a .398 average, Eddie (Bud) Gibbs igan Tech University, Bruce Riutta also stole 16 bases in 1931, which skated for the USA team in the 1968 is eighth on MSU’s single-season Olympics in Grenoble, France. He list. He batted .454 in 1931, which was on the USA team which won the is fourth all-time for a single season. Class B world championship in 1970 He was captain of the MSU team in in Bucharest and also played for the 1930 and 1931, then signed with the national team in 1969 and 1971. Ri- Detroit Tigers in 1931 and played utta was a irst-team All-American in with four minor league teams before 1966 and 1967 and helped Michigan leaving baseball in 1932. He lettered in football, basketball Tech win the NCAA hockey title in and track at Menominee High School.