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Posted: Friday, October 9, 2009 at 9:00 AM



EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (UWECBlugolds.com) - Three national champions and two
All-Americans are among nine individuals that have been tabbed for induction
into the UW-Eau Claire Blugold Hall of Fame on October 24.

The 2009 class, which will be inducted October 24, includes football players
Roger Hedrington and Cary Osborn, basketball player Eric Davis, basketball
player and coach Todd Oehrlein, volleyball and track athlete Maria (Jensen)
Miller, track athlete Lisa (Marshall) Irsfeld, diver Sara (Mulatz) Toth, swimmer
Pat Anderson and sports information director and athletics administrator Tim
Petermann.

This group represents the 33rd class of men's inductees and the 20th class of
women's inductees and brings the number of athletes, coaches and administrators
who have been honored to 174.

The Blugold Hall of Fame was established in 1973 to pay tribute, give deserved
recognition and enhance school tradition by honoring former athletic
letterwinners, coaches or administrators who showed distinctive, unique or
exceptional ability while on the campus at Eau Claire and have distinguished
themselves in their profession or personally since leaving the institution.

For women athletes, there must be a lapse of 10 years from their final season of
eligibility before they can be considered for induction and for men 15 years.

The class will be recognized at halftime of the football game vs. UW-Stout
October 24 and inducted during a banquet at the Eau Claire Country Club that
evening. A social hour will begin at 5:30 p.m. with the dinner at 6:30 and the
program at 7:30. Tickets for the banquet, which will also include presentation
of the Blugold Super Six Salute award winners from 2008-09 and recognition of
the Joe Merten Coaching Award and scholarship recipients, are $20 and can be
obtained by contacting the UW-Eau Claire Alumni Association at (715) 836-3266 or
larsojan@uwec.edu. Local television sports director Bob Gallaher will present
the 2009 Hall of Fame inductees.

Irsfeld, Toth and Anderson all won national championships. Miller and Davis
earned All-American recognition. Hedrington, Osborn and Oehrlein were
All-Conference in their sports with Osborn setting school records and Oehrlein
also earning NAIA Scholar-Athlete recognition. After a brief absence, Oehrlein
returned to the institution as an assistant basketball coach and later assumed
the head men's golf coaching position, directing the team to a national
championship. Petermann has been associated with Blugold athletics for the past
42 years, 36 as the school's first fulltime sports information director. He has
been an athletics administrator since 1975.

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PAT ANDERSON

One of the most successful eras in Blugold swimming history was the period from
1985-89 when Coach Tom Prior's juggernaut won four consecutive WSUC
championships and placed among the top four teams at four consecutive NAIA
nationals including a runner-up finish in 1988. Leading the way was three-time
team MVP Pat Anderson.

Anderson won the gold medal in the 200 individual medley at the 1989 NAIA
finals. He had also been a member of the 800 freestyle relay team which claimed
a gold in 1987. In addition to those national championships, Anderson had 13
other finishes (individual and relay) among the top three at nationals. He
personally contributed 238 team points in conference meets and 262.5 in the four
national meets including 90 as a senior. He was the team MVP in 1987, 1988 and
1989.

Anderson was a six-time conference individual champion, twice winning the 100
freestyle, 100 butterfly and the 200 individual medley. In addition, he swam on
nine first-place relay teams. In national competition, he was an All-American
more than 20 times. He set school records in the 200 individual medley and as a
member of the 400 freestyle relay and 800 freestyle relay teams.

Since leaving Eau Claire, Anderson has coached swim clubs, high school teams and
college teams. These have included the Rochester Swim Club, Bloomington Aquatics
Club, Barracuda Aquatics Club and the Marlins Swim Club. He has coached the
Rochester Mayo girls, the Shakopee girls, the Moorhead girls and boys and the
Fargo (ND) South boys.

He currently is the head coach of the Fargo South boys team as well as the
Moorhead girls team. Since 2002, he has been the diving coach for Concordia
College and in 2006 coached Division III national champion Anne Cullen. Luke
Pechmann, who trained with Anderson while swimming for the Moorhead Marlins'
swim club, qualified for the 2008 Olympic trials in the 50-yard freestyle.
Anderson has had a number of state champions at the high school level as well as
conference champions and national qualifiers at the college level.

He also is Team Minnesota Head Coach, directing an All Star Team in the Central
Zone Championships.

A Minneapolis native, Anderson has three children-Blake Otto, age 17; Beau
Andrew John, age 13; and Breah Le, age 11.

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ERIC DAVIS

Davis, a 6-7 center, played on four consecutive Blugold teams that won NAIA
District 14 championships and advanced to the NAIA Nationals in Kansas City. His
senior season of 1988-89, the Blugolds produced a 29-4 overall record and placed
third in the 32-team national tournament. After being named All-Conference for a
second consecutive year and the player of the year in NAIA District 14, he was
also named an NAIA third team All-American.

Davis, a native of Hamtramck, Michigan, did not begin playing basketball until
his junior year of Eau Claire. At Eau Claire, he started 90 of 94 games during
his final three seasons and played in 114 for his career, scoring 1,172 points
(ranks 23rd all-time) with 748 rebounds and 186 blocked shots. He ranks among
the top field goal shooters in school history, having hit 62.6 percent from the
field during his career. His best statistical season came in 1987-88 when he
averaged 15 points and nine rebounds per game while hitting 65.5 percent from
the field. He once hit all 10 of his shots from the field which will always give
him a share of the school single game FG percentage record. The Blugolds were
48-16 in conference play and 102-23 overall during his four-year career. He was
named to six All-Tournament teams, twice was the MVP of the Eau Claire Holiday
Classic and was selected team MVP in 1988.

Davis earned his bachelor's degree in biology with a chemistry minor in 1990 and
then received his master's degree in environmental & public health from UWEC in
1993.

He has had a distinguished career in environmental health and corporate safety.
He began his career as Health & Safety Consultant at Wisconsin Electric Power
Company in Milwaukee (1993-2001). He then moved to the Twin Cities where he
spent four years as Environmental, Health & Safety Specialist at Medtronic
(2001-2005), three years as Environmental, Health & Safety Manager at Seagate
Technology (2005-2008) and currently is Corporate Safety Director at AmeriPride
Services in Minnetonka.

He has been recognized for his work at least five times--twice for reducing
work-related injuries, once for developing a method of on-site hazardous waste
treatment, once for recovering over $100,000 annually in precious metals that
were previously land-filled and once for implementing a manufacturing equipment
thermal imaging process to identify hot spots which could be potential fire
causes. He is currently certified as both a Safety Professional and a Hazardous
Materials Manager.

When not working, he is passionate about teaching kids the fundamentals of
sports and competition and his satisfaction comes from teaching a youngster how
to play a sport and build their confidence. In the Twin Cities, he's had the
opportunity to teach kids the game of golf through the Fairway Foundation of St.
Paul.

Davis and his wife Marquita are parents of two daughters: Maya, age 6, and
Malayna, age 4.

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ROGER HEDRINGTON

Hedrington played for Hall of Fame coach Ade Olson and also Jim Rice in an era
when many players stayed on the field an entire game, playing both offense and
defense. He started his Blugold career in 1951 but that was interrupted with two
years of service to his country as a member of the United States Army from
1953-55. He came back to become a member of the 1956 conference championship
team and also played in 1957 and 1958, earning All-Conference honors as a tackle
his senior season when he served as co-captain. A 1951 roster indicates that
Hedrington, an 18-year-old freshman at the time, was the fourth heaviest player
on a 39-man roster at 197 pounds. A 1958 Eau Claire Leader-Telegram feature
story indicated that Hedrington started every game in four years save one game
in 1956 when he was injured. It also indicated he was known as "iron man" and
played nearly every minute of every game during the 1958 season.

Hedrington also doubled as the Blugold kicker and won a game versus Superior
with a last-second field goal in 1958. A popular player, Hedrington was also
selected by his teammates as the Homecoming King in 1958.

Following his graduation with a social studies and physical education degree in
1960, he started a long career as a teacher and coach, making stops at Thorp
High School, Wisconsin Rapids Assumption HS, Cornell HS and Chippewa Falls
Senior High. During more than three decades of high school coaching, Hedrington
was either an assistant or head coach in football, basketball, wrestling and
track. He also assisted head coach Jim Lind with the Blugolds in 1991. He
coached two championship teams at Thorp and his 1963 team was ranked No. 1 in
the state.

A native of Chippewa Falls, Hedrington and his wife Betty have two grown
daughters--Heidi Culbertson and Helen Dohm--and four grandchildren.

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LISA MARSHALL IRSFELD

Lisa Marshall Irsfeld competed just two years at UWEC after transferring in from
Colorado State but made the most of her limited competition. She was a two-time
conference champion and two-time NCAA Division III national champion in the
discus. Only two conference champions have ever thrown farther than Lisa in
winning their conference title. She broke the school record in the 1994
nationals and then bettered that mark the following year at the conference meet.
She broke the record a final time at the 1995 nationals with a throw of 161
feet, 11 inches, a standard that still stands.

A corporate fitness major at Eau Claire, Irsfeld went on to get her K-12
Teaching License in Healthy and Phy Ed from Augsburg College and her Masters of
Arts Education from St. Mary's University. Since 2001, she has been a seventh
grade health and physical education teacher in the Mahtomedi School District.
From 1996-2002, she coached shot and discus at North St. Paul High School. She
was the head track coach at Mahtomedi High School, her alma mater, from 2003-05
and assistant coach for throws at Mahtomedi in 2006-07. She has been the
assistant cross country coach at Mahtomedi since 2004.

Among her honors, Irsfeld was the St. Paul Suburban Conference Track & Field
Assistant Coach of the Year in 2001. She has been a volunteer at the Twin Cities
Marathon the past six years.

She and her husband Jeff, who owns his own landscaping and maintenance business,
have two children: Peyton, age 7, and Harrison, age 4.

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MARIA JENSEN MILLER

Maria Jensen Miller is one of only four Blugolds who has earned American
Volleyball Coaches Association first team All-America honors. She did that in
1997 when she led the Blugolds to a 32-6 overall record and a 7-1 conference
mark. The Blugolds advanced to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division III playoffs
that year.

Miller set school single season records for kills (581) and total attacks
(1,329) while setting a match record for service aces (9). She still ranks among
the top five in career kills (4th-1,408), career total attacks (3rd-3,469) and
career digs (3rd-1,561). She is also in the top 10 in career service aces
(8th-167).

Besides her All-American recognition, she was a three-time All-Conference first
team pick and a GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-District selection in 1996.

Miller was a sprinter and jumper on the Blugold track team, earning three
letters. She still holds the school 600-meter indoor record. She competed in the
Drake Relays twice and was an NCAA Division III indoor and outdoor national
qualifier in both 1996 and 1997.

A math major at UWEC, Miller is a math teacher for Twin Cities Academy High
School in St. Paul. She also tutors for Sylvan Learning Center in Hudson. She
obtained her math teaching certification from UW-River Falls last December.
Since her UWEC graduation, she has coached track at Notre Dame Middle School and
volleyball at McDonell High School in Chippewa Falls and at Lone Rock Middle
School in Stevensville, Montana. She also coached the JV2 volleyball team at
Hudson for four years and a club team for two years.

Miller was inducted into the Eau Claire Regis High School Hall of Fame in 2008.

She and her husband Pete, an environmental health specialist for Ramsey County
in Minnesota, are the parents of two children: Cy, age 11; and Karina, age 8.
They reside in Hudson.

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TODD OEHRLEIN

Todd Oehrlein had three successful careers at UW-Eau Claire as a basketball
player, assistant basketball coach and golf coach. He is currently in his
seventh year as the head coach of the Wisconsin Badgers' women's golf team and
serves on the NGCA national ranking committee and as chair of the Big Ten
Conference women's golf coaches.

Oehrlein actually spent five seasons in a Blugold basketball uniform but
remained on the bench his entire freshman season as Coach Ken Anderson
redshirted him to retain his four seasons of eligibility. Each of those five
seasons, the Blugolds advanced to the 32-team NAIA Nationals in Kansas City.

During his playing career, the Blugolds were 111-19 overall, 53-11 in league
play and 10-4 at the national tournament, finishing as national runner-up in
1990. The 6-7 Oehrlein was a role player and defensive specialist, playing
alongside Hall of Famers Mike Johnson, Mike Prasher and Tim Blair as well as two
years with Eric Davis. He was both All-Conference and NAIA All-District as a
senior and captured at least one team award every year, including Inspirational
Award as a freshman, Most Improved as a sophomore, Big D and Team Hustle awards
as a junior and Big D, Most Improved and Inspirational awards as a senior when
he was a co-captain. In addition, he was an NAIA Scholar-Athlete in 1990 and as
a senior was named a Super Six recipient.

Following his graduation from UWEC in 1991 with a biology major and chemistry
minor, Oehrlein went on to earn his Doctor of Chiropractic degree from Palmer
College of Chiropractic in Davenport, Iowa in 1995.

The year he earned his chiropractic degree, Ken Anderson stepped down as the
Blugold men's basketball coach and assistant Terry Gibbons assumed the lead
position. That opened the top assistant spot for Oehrlein to return to Eau
Claire as a coach and instructor in kinesiology.

During his eight seasons as an assistant basketball coach, the Blugolds were
139-74 overall with a conference tournament championship and NCAA tournament
appearance in 2001 and an NCAA national runner-up finish in 2000.

He also assisted Hall of Fame coach Frank Wrigglesworth for two years with the
men's golf program before taking over as head coach in 1997 and continuing until
he left the university for Madison in 2003. The Blugolds qualified for the NCAA
nationals all six years Oehrlein was head coach, never finishing lower than
12th, and became the first Division III institution north of the Mason Dixon
line to win a national championship in 2001. During the stretch from 1999
through 2002, the Blugolds had four consecutive finishes in the top five.
Oehrlein was named both Golfweek and GCAA Division III national coach of the
year in 2001.  One of his players, Ryan Quinn, received the Jack Nicklaus Award
as Division III national player of the year in 2003.

At Wisconsin, Oehrlein's golf team has finished first twice and second once in
the CHAMPS Cup competition, a national program that promotes and monitors
overall student-athlete development in the areas of academics, athletics,
personal development and community service. In the short time he has been at
Wisconsin, Oehrlein's teams have had four of the lowest single season scoring
averages in school history. In addition, his players have annexed five
individual tournament victories.

Throughout his career, Oehrlein has taken leadership roles in the governing
groups for whatever sport he has been coaching. He has been active in the
support of youth golf and youth basketball programs. He is a respected speaker
on topics from health to fitness to career choices to golf and basketball.

A Sun Prairie native, Oehrlein and his wife Dina are parents of three children:
Nate, age 12; Taylor, age 11, and Olivia, age 8.

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CARY OSBORN

Osborn was one of the key cogs in an explosive offense brought in by Jim Lind
when he replaced Link Walker in 1987. Osborn was a versatile running back who
set a school single season scoring record as a freshman with 108 points and
finished his career with a school-record 330 points. He still ranks third and
second, respectively, in those two categories.

During 40 consecutive starts, Osborn rushed 729 times for 3,262 yards, an
average of 4.5 yards per carry, and scored 48 touchdowns. He also caught 122
passes for 1,319 yards and seven touchdowns. As a punt returner, he averaged 7.5
yards for 61 returns. He still ranks among the career leaders in rushing (3rd),
receptions (7th), receiving yards (16th), total offense (13th) and points scored
(2nd).

Twice during his career, he scored four TDs in a game and three times he had a
trifecta. He once rushed for 224 yards in a single game and once caught 12
passes for 179 yards in a game, both among the best single game efforts in
school history.

Osborn was a team co-captain and the Blugold MVP in 1990. He was a two-year
All-Conference first team pick after being named to the All-WSUC second team
twice.

Osborn also was a reserve on the 1987-88 Blugold basketball team.

A finance major, Osborn currently works in real estate development and property
management as the CEO at AHMC Asset Management in Eau Claire. He was one of the
key players on the Carson Park Turf Committee which allowed UW-Eau Claire to
become the first WIAC football program to have the modern "Field Turf" synthetic
grass installed on its home field in 2004. He was also one of four individuals
who formed an investment group that ultimately attracted 34 local investors to
purchase and preserve the Wild Ridge and Mill Run golf courses in Eau Claire.

While doing all of this, Osborn has been a Blugold assistant coach since 1998,
serving Bob Nielson, Todd Hoffner and Todd Glaser, and helping the Blugolds win
two conference championships and make two NCAA playoff appearances. He has
served as running backs coach, head JV coach, special teams coordinator,
offensive coordinator and currently as quarterback coach.

A native of Augusta, Osborn has two sons, Cody, age 10, and Cade, age 8.

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TIM PETERMANN

Tim Petermann has had a direct association with the Blugold athletics program
longer than any other person in school history. He started as a student
statistician as a freshman student in 1967 and has served in a variety of
capacities ever since. After four years as a student sports information
assistant, he became the university's first fulltime SID for the men's 10-sport
program when he graduated in 1971. In 1975, he became an assistant to first-year
Director of Athletics Steve Kurth and in that position has been responsible for
the eligibility certification of student-athletes and event management ever
since. In 1977, the coordination of women's sports information was added to his
responsibilities.

He remained as SID until his retirement in 2007 after which he returned
part-time as a consultant, a role in which he continues today. For the period
from 2002-04, he served as interim Director of Athletics while maintaining his
role as SID. He also served 10 years as the information director for NAIA
District 14, leading to his election to the District 14 Hall of Fame in 1994.

He was recognized by the NAIA in 1985 with its Ike Pearson Award as SID of the
Year and by the College Sports Information Directors Association in 1999 with
selection to its Hall of Fame. He also served on the media staff of the 1983
National Sports Festival in Colorado Springs.

Petermann has been honored by the university with its Professional Academic
Staff Excellence Award in 1992 and with the Department of Communication and
Journalism's Distinguished Alumni Award in 1995. He was cited this year by the
Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference with a Special Recognition Award.

He has been one of the proponents of UW-Eau Claire's Blugold Super Six Salute
Award which will recognize its 23rd class of recipients this year.

He founded the Wisconsin Sports Information Directors Association in 1977,
served as chair of the WIAC SIDs for many years, served 10 years with the NAIA
sports information directors association including a term as president, worked
four years on the media staff of the Badger State Games, served as scoreboard
operator for an NAIA championship game in Kemper Arena and served as the
courtside liaison/TV timeout coordinator for the ESPN broadcast of NAIA final
four games. Petermann also has been the media host for numerous district,
regional, sectional and national championships hosted by UWEC.

Petermann's service has included more than two decades on boards and committees
at St. Mark Lutheran Church in Eau Claire including a three-year term as
congregational president. He has also been a youth coach, a youth group leader,
Sunday School teacher and Bible Class presenter.

Petermann and his wife Vicky, the Director of Research and Donor Relations for
the UW-Eau Claire Foundation, have three grown children-Matthew (Valerie) of
Crystal, MN; Lisa (Ryan) Stortecky of Weston; and Joshua (fiancé Stephanie
Tschida), of Eau Claire.

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SARA MULATZ TOTH

Sara Mulatz was a six-time conference diving champion and placed among the top
five at nationals on both the one and three-meter boards in four consecutive
NCAA Division III championships. She won the NCAA one-meter title in 1995 and
had a runner-up finish in 1994 after placing third in 1993. On the three-meter
board, she was fifth in 1993 and 1994 and third in both 1995 and 1996.

She set the conference three-meter record with a score of 500.80 in 1996 and
that ranks as the best winning score in conference history although her record
was broken in the preliminaries. She also has the best 10-dive score in
conference history on the one-meter board.

A corporate exercise management major, Toth returned to her hometown of Regina,
Saskatchewan in 1996 and began a career in coaching and fitness. She was an
assistant age group coach with the Regina Diving Club for two years, then a
condition coach with the Queen City Gymnastics Club for two years. She became
executive director of the Saskatchewan Rowing Association in 1997 and a
community consultant for the Trans Canada Trail Millenium Project. From 2000-02,
she was executive Director of the Saskatchewan Rugby Union and a coach of the
Can Am Gymnastics Club. In 2003-04, she was administrative assistant with
Habitat for Humanity Thunder Bay. Since 2004, she has been a recreation
consultant with "Saskatchewan in motion". That provincial-wide movement is a
revolutionary approach to increasing physical activity for health benefits. The
group conducts research, assists in community developments, grants funds, offers
programs, raises public awareness, develops resources and facilitates changes in
social and physical environments for more physically active lifestyles. For four
years, her focus was on workplace wellness. More recently, she has concentrated
on physical literacy and increasing sport participation.

Toth is a National 1 level gymnastics judge and a Senior National level diving
judge. She is also a course conductor for gymnastics and diving officials. She
is a committee member of the Canadian National Diving Officials Committee. She
served as a volunteer for the Canada Summer Games 2005 Organizing Committee, the
2007 Canadian Gymnastics Championships and the 2008 Canadian Senior National
Diving Championships Organizing Committee.

She and her husband Jeff, a swim coach on the coaching staff of Team Canada
Paralympic Swim Team, are the parents of three children: Harriet, age 6;
Rosanna, age 4; and Sydelle, age 20 months.









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