RELEASED:  Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Six To Enter UW-Stout Athletic Hall of Fame

Menomonie, Wis.--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.

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.

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.