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North Dakota Athletics announces 2022 Hall of Fame Class
GRAND FORKS, N.D. – College of North Dakota Director of Athletics Invoice Chaves and UND Letterwinners Affiliation President Natalie Martinson introduced Tuesday the UND Letterwinners Athletics Corridor of Fame Class of 2022. The group can be honored on Friday, Sept. 30 on the Alerus Heart.
Sheri (Langendoerfer) Bottelberghe (swimming & diving, 1986-90), Curtis Murphy (hockey, 1994-98), Kim (Olund) Scheel (monitor & area/cross nation, 1994-98), J.J. Scheving (baseball, 2000-04), Tim Tibesar (soccer, 1993-96) and Travis Tuttle (basketball, 1992-97) can be inducted as people, whereas the 1989-90 girls’s swimming and diving staff and 1994 girls’s cross nation staff can be enshrined within the staff class. Moreover, present Vanderbilt swimming and diving head coach Jeremy Organ will obtain the Tom Clifford Award, whereas Grand Forks Central Corridor of Fame Soccer Coach Mike Berg and longtime supporter Mark Kauk can be acknowledged with Honorary Letterwinner Awards.
The forty seventh annual Athletics Corridor of Fame occasion will happen with a dinner and induction ceremony on Friday, Sept. 30. The Class of 2022 may also be acknowledged the next day throughout UND’s soccer contest towards Missouri State on the Alerus Heart.
“It’s an honor to function the UND Letterwinners Affiliation President and being a part of this particular course of for thus many worthy people and groups,” mentioned Martinson. “We’re wanting ahead to welcoming the Class of 2022 and celebrating their many accomplishments at UND.”
This yr’s six inductees convey the entire variety of people in UND’s Letterwinners Athletics Corridor of Fame to 272, with a staff whole at 45.
“We stay up for celebrating this deserving class of quickly to be UND Corridor of Famers,” mentioned Chaves. “Each time we’re capable of rejoice a brand new class, we achieve this understanding that it’s due to superb people and groups like this class that right now’s student-athletes and coaches are afforded the chance to symbolize UND and the State of North Dakota.”
UND Corridor of Fame Class of 2022
Sheri (Langendoerfer) Bottelberghe, Swimming and Diving
1986-90
Bottelberghe sits atop many data in North Dakota’s illustrious historical past within the sport, incomes each particular person and staff championships. She holds a number of convention data in three occasions, together with a three-time file holder within the 800-meter freestyle relay.
She gained back-to-back North Central Convention (NCC) crowns within the 200-meter breaststroke in 1988 and 1989, setting convention data in each meets. Bottelberghe shattered the league mark within the 400-meter IM on the convention championships in 1989 to assert one other crown earlier than capturing her fourth particular person title within the 500-meter freestyle.
Bottelberghe was a part of one of many extra dominant NCC relay groups in that period, rolling to 4 straight convention titles and setting three data within the 800-meter freestyle relay.
She was additionally a part of the honored 1989-90 staff, is a four-time All-America choice and gained 4 staff NCC crowns.
Curtis Murphy, Hockey
1994-98
Murphy was a two-time All-America choice that anchored a blue line at North Dakota from 1994-98, serving to usher in a brand new period of successful for the hockey program. He helped the Combating Sioux win their first NCAA championship in over a decade in 1997, incomes NCAA All-Event Group honors within the course of.
After capturing the nationwide title, he was named a Hobey Baker Finalist and the Western Collegiate Hockey Affiliation’s (WCHA) Participant of the Yr in 1998, with the latter being the primary for this system since 1987. He ranks second all-time at UND in targets by a defenseman with 32, seventh for factors by a defenseman with 118 and his 86 assists are ninth at UND amongst blue liners.
As a staff, Murphy helped the Sioux snap a seven-year postseason drought in 1997, culminating in this system’s sixth nationwide title. The staff went on to achieve the NCAA Event once more in 1998 as a senior and has since missed the postseason solely 3 times. He gained two of what-proved-to-be three straight McNaughton Cups in his remaining two seasons, with these groups becoming a member of the 2020-2022 squads as the one to win three consecutive convention crowns.
Following his collegiate enjoying days, Murphy went on to get pleasure from a 17-year skilled profession the place he gained two Calder Cups, a Spengler Cup with Group Canada and an EBEL title in Austria.
Kim (Olund) Scheel, Observe & Discipline/Cross Nation
1994-98
Scheel earned six All-America honors throughout her four-year profession at North Dakota, incomes honors in each monitor and cross nation.
She was a three-time All-NCC choice for cross nation, capturing the one NCC titles in program historical past in 1994 and 1995. Scheel represented UND 3 times on the NCAA Cross Nation Championships, ending tenth as a junior and senior.
In the course of the monitor season, Scheel continued her dominance in distance occasions, successful the 1996 NCC title within the 5000-meter run in the course of the indoor season, a time that also sits second at North Dakota, and following it with the convention file and title within the 10000-meter run within the out of doors season. She positioned fifth on the NCAA Championships in each occasions.
Within the classroom, Scheel earned five-different All-Educational Group alternatives from nationwide publications and gained UND’s Scholar-Athlete of the Yr in 1997.
J.J. Scheving, Baseball
2000-04
Scheving is without doubt one of the most dominant pitchers to ever placed on a baseball uniform at North Dakota. The Crookston, Minn., native spent 5 seasons on the mound for the Combating Sioux, etching his identify within the file books.
He’s this system’s single-season file holder for wins, full video games, shutouts, strikeouts and saves whereas additionally sitting atop the file ebook for profession wins and strikeouts.
Scheving was a two-time All-NCC choice in 2000 and 2004, with the latter happening as among the finest seasons by a pitcher within the league’s historical past.
In 2004, Scheving completed with a college file 9 wins, three shutouts, eight full video games, seven saves and 104 strikeouts. The 104 Okay’s are the second-most in NCC historical past and earned him the league’s most beneficial pitcher award that season. He turned this system’s second All-America choice as a senior, incomes third-team honors whereas additionally turning into solely the second participant in program historical past to be named the NCAA DII All-Central Area Pitcher of the Yr in 2004.
Scheving performed two seasons {of professional} baseball with the Fargo-Moorhead RedHawks and Joliet Jackhammers.
Tim Tibesar, Soccer
1993-96
Tibesar was a two-time captain for the Combating Sioux in 1995 and 1996, serving to this system to 3 consecutive NCC titles and a trio of NCAA postseason appearances.
A standout linebacker, Tibesar earned All-NCC honors in 1995 and 1996 whereas additionally being named the league’s high linebacker as a senior. Throughout that remaining marketing campaign, he earned 4 All-America First Group alternatives for his play on the sector and a CoSIDA Educational All-America honor within the classroom.
He ranks second in program historical past with 428 whole tackles over his profession and sits on three-different lists for single-season tackles.
Following his enjoying profession, Tibesar has loved an extended teaching profession with stops together with: San Diego State, Cal, North Dakota, Kansas State, Montreal, Chicago, Northwestern, Wisconsin, Oregon State and Akron. He was important in serving to UND attain the NCAA DII Nationwide Championship in 2001 and 2003 because the linebackers coach.
Travis Tuttle, Basketball
1992-97
Tuttle is without doubt one of the most embellished scorers in program historical past, incomes three straight All-NCC honors in 1995, 1996 and 1997.
He ranks fourth in program historical past with 1,935 factors and is this system’s all-time file holder in three pointers with 350. Over his remaining three seasons, Tuttle averaged over 20 factors per recreation and his 581 factors are probably the most by a sophomore in program historical past.
Recognized for scoring in bunches, Tuttle tallied three 40-point video games in his profession, tied for probably the most at school historical past, whereas additionally including 13 video games of at the very least 30 factors over his tenure.
Tuttle’s groups reached the NCAA DII Event 3 times over his profession and gained the NCC convention match crown twice.
1989-90 Girls’s Swimming and Diving Group
Mike Stromberg’s 1989-90 girls’s swimming and diving staff was the ninth of 20 straight NCC title groups that took to the pool on the ladies’s facet. The Combating Sioux completed third on the NCAA DII Nationwide Championships with 405.0 factors, the most-ever scored by this system till 1997 on the occasion.
The staff featured 17 All-Individuals and captured 5 particular person nationwide championships. Marion Warner gained the 100-meter fly and breast titles, Janine Etchepare claimed the 50-meter free championship, whereas the 200-meter and 400-meter medley relay groups introduced house the crowns.
Led by the NCC’s Swimmer of the Yr Michelle Puetz and Diver of the Yr Katie Stephens, the Sioux earned 12 top-eight finishes on the NCAA Championships that yr and had 5 future UND Letterwinners Corridor of Fame alternatives on the roster.
1994 Girls’s Cross Nation Group
Dick Clay’s 1994 girls’s cross nation staff is without doubt one of the most embellished in this system’s historical past, turning into the primary to see a person win a convention crown.
Highlighted by 2022 particular person inductee Kim (Olund) Scheel, the 1994 Sioux captured this system’s second NCC crown in historical past and noticed Scheel end as the primary particular person NCC champion in cross nation.
After claiming the convention title, the Sioux gained the staff’s first regional crown, nonetheless sitting as the one UND staff to perform the feat. The inexperienced and white superior to the NCAA DII Nationwide Championships and positioned fourth, tied for the third-best end in program historical past.
Two people, Heather Parr and Scheel represented North Dakota on the particular person portion of the nationwide championships whereas 4 student-athletes earned all-region honors and all-NCC alternatives.
Honorary Letterwinner Award
The Letterwinners Affiliation Honorary Award is given upon official motion by the membership’s Government Committee to individuals who, within the opinion of the committee, have contributed considerably to the furtherance of UND Athletics.
Mike Berg
Berg has been synonymous with soccer within the Grand Forks group since his arrival within the Seventies. He served as the pinnacle coach at Grand Forks Central from 1979-2006, main his staff to 3 state championship video games and the 2005 title, the primary for the Knights since 1966. He’s a member of the Black Hills State Faculty, North Dakota Excessive Faculty Coaches Affiliation, Grand Forks Central and Nationwide Excessive Faculty Coaches Affiliation Corridor of Fames. For over a decade, Berg’s voice will be heard offering commentary for UND soccer video games and you’ll at all times discover him in his typical spot each morning at UND soccer apply.
Mark Kauk
Not many individuals can rival the dedication that Kauk has for UND Athletics over his years, serving as a longtime supporter of all issues inexperienced and white. Kauk can at all times be discovered on the sidelines of the Alerus Heart firing up the gang and the staff when an important play is required or at Ralph Engelstad Area anxiously awaiting the following aim. He’s an athlete himself, competing in Particular Olympics and serving to forge a particular relationship between UND and the group that goes past the enjoying floor.
Thomas J. Clifford Award
The Clifford Award, established to honor former UND President Thomas J. Clifford, acknowledges the UND alumni who function athletics coaches at the highschool or collegiate stage and have been notably profitable of their sport.
Jeremy Organ
Organ is the present head girls’s swimming coach at Vanderbilt College, getting into his seventeenth season in 2022-23. In 2006, he directed the primary swim staff at Vanderbilt because the 1992 season.
Earlier than coming to Vanderbilt, Organ served because the senior assistant coach of the Nashville Aquatic Membership, one among swimming’s best membership groups. Whereas teaching the NAC, Organ mentored six nationwide championship qualifiers along with aiding 20 swimmers earn Division I scholarships.
Organ additionally served because the senior coach on the Better Pensacola Aquatic Membership. Whereas in Pensacola, the membership produced a number of nationwide qualifiers and nationwide age group top-16 swimmers.
He earned six All-America honors throughout his time at North Dakota and was named the 1995 NCC Swimmer of the Yr. Organ was UND’s first male swimmer to complete contained in the top-8 on the NCAA DII Nationwide Championships within the 200-meter IM and earned 5 top-8 finishes in relay occasions on the nationwide championships over his profession.
The Corridor of Fame induction ceremony, proudly sponsored by the UND Letterwinners Affiliation, can be held on Sept. 30 within the Alerus Heart ballroom. For ticket info, please contact Val Sussex at 701.777.2611 or at vals@undfoundation.org.
5/31/2022 11:00:00 AM | By:
BISMARCK — North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum granted clemency Monday, Nov. 25, to a fair-feathered hen named Grace, allegedly saving the turkey from what could’ve been a fateful demise come Thursday.
Grace flocked to the state Capitol in Bismarck from Fullerton to be a part of the annual, Thanksgiving-spirited event hosted by the North Dakota Turkey Federation.
She was chosen for the gig after successfully dodging the truck that took her compatriots to “their next stop,” where they will be staged to join people for Thanksgiving in a “different way,” according to Burgum.
President George W. Bush was the first president to officially pardon a turkey, according to
White House Archives,
but Burgum said the tradition has been a part of North Dakota’s culture since the 1970s when Gov. Art Link was in office.
North Dakota produces around
1 million turkeys
every year. That’s 39 million fewer than Minnesota —
the national leader
in turkey production.
The Turkey Federation will donate 32 frozen turkeys, split evenly between the Heaven’s Helpers Soup Cafe and the Abused Adult Resource Center in Bismarck.
Michelle Erickson,
Abused Adults Resource Center
executive director, said the center is about 2,000 shelter bed nights ahead of where the center was last year — a measure that refers to a single night a person spends sleeping in a bed provided by a shelter.
“The staff is overwhelmed, to say the least,” Erickson said. “Donations like this continually help us out and help our clients.”
Heaven Helpers Soup Cafe
founder and Director Mike Meyer said he serves upwards of 350 people daily— approximately a quarter of whom he says are experiencing homelessness.
“Our numbers have really been up as costs go up,” he said.
Those interested in donating or volunteering with either of the nonprofit organizations can find more information at
soupcafe.org
or
www.abusedadultresourcecenter.com/get-involved.
A group of North Dakota tribal citizens and conservation advocates are calling on President Joe Biden to make roughly 140,000 acres of undeveloped federal land in western North Dakota a national monument.
The proposed Maah Daah Hey National Monument would preserve land recognized as sacred by members of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation and other Native cultures, advocates said during a Friday press conference at the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum.
“Maah Daah Hey” means “grandfather, long-lasting” in the Mandan language.
With its close proximity to President Theodore Roosevelt National Park, the area is popularly remembered for its ties to the former president and cowboy culture.
The country should honor Native historical and cultural ties to the land as well, said Michael Barthelemy, director of Native Studies at Nueta, Hidatsa, Sahnish College in New Town.
“What we’re proposing, as part of this national monument, is a reorientation around that narrative,” Barthelemy said. “When you look at the national parks and you look at the state parks, oftentimes there’s a singular perspective — as Indigenous people, we kind of play background characters.”
The monument would include 11 different plots of land along the Maah Daah Hey Trail between the north and south units of Theodore Roosevelt National Park.
Badlands Conservation Alliance Executive Director Shannon Straight likened the proposal to “stringing together the pearls of the Badlands.”
The tribal councils of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, the Spirit Lake Nation and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have passed resolutions supporting the creation of the monument.
“It is important that the Indigenous history of the North Dakota Badlands is formally recognized,” state Rep. Lisa Finley-DeVille, D-Mandaree, said during the presentation. “If created, the Maah Daah Hey National Monument would also allow Indigenous people to reconnect to our ancestral lands.”
The land is managed by the United States Forest Service. Turning the 11 plots into a national monument would protect them from future development, according to the group’s proposal.
The land is surrounded by oil and gas development, maps included in the proposal show.
In addition to being an area of significant cultural heritage for Native tribes, it’s also home to sensitive ecosystems, unique geological features and fossil sites, the proposal indicates.
Dakota Resource Council Executive Director Scott Skokos said Friday the group has visited Washington, D.C., twice so far to speak with President Biden’s administration — including the U.S. Forest Service, Department of the Interior, United States Department of Agriculture — about the proposed monument.
“The reception has been pretty good,” Skokos said.
He said the group hopes to see action from Biden on the monument before he leaves office in January, but is also open to working with President-elect Donald Trump’s administration on the project.
“We believe this is a good idea, regardless of who’s president,” Skokos said.
Advocates said the designation would not impact recreational access to the land, and that cattle grazing would still be permitted.
In a statement to the North Dakota Monitor, U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer, R-N.D., called the proposal “premature at best.” He said he was not convinced the proposal had sufficient local support from North Dakota residents and worried the project would “lock away land as conservation.”
“Any proposal should have extensive review as well as strong support from local communities and the stakeholders who actually use the land,” he said.
When asked for comment, the North Dakota governor’s office provided this statement from Gov. Doug Burgum, who Trump has chosen as the next Department of Interior secretary: “North Dakota is proof that we can protect our precious parks, cultural heritage and natural resources AND responsibly and sustainably develop our vast energy resources.”
To learn more about the proposal, visit protectmdh.com. The website also includes a petition.
Presidents can designate federal land as national monuments under the Antiquities Act of 1906. The first land to receive this status was Devils Tower in Wyoming, which Roosevelt proclaimed a national monument that same year.
Should Maah Daah Hey become a national monument, it’d be the first of its kind in North Dakota.
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A coalition of conservation groups and Native American tribal citizens on Friday called on President Joe Biden to designate nearly 140,000 acres of rugged, scenic Badlands as North Dakota’s first national monument, a proposal several tribal nations say would preserve the area’s indigenous and cultural heritage.
The proposed Maah Daah Hey National Monument would encompass 11 noncontiguous, newly designated units totaling 139,729 acres (56,546 hectares) in the Little Missouri National Grassland. The proposed units would hug the popular recreation trail of the same name and neighbor Theodore Roosevelt National Park, named for the 26th president who ranched and roamed in the Badlands as a young man in the 1880s.
“When you tell the story of landscape, you have to tell the story of people,” said Michael Barthelemy, an enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation and director of Native American studies at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College. “You have to tell the story of the people that first inhabited those places and the symbiotic relationship between the people and the landscape, how the people worked to shape the land and how the land worked to shape the people.”
The U.S. Forest Service would manage the proposed monument. The National Park Service oversees many national monuments, which are similar to national parks and usually designated by the president to protect the landscape’s features.
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Supporters have traveled twice to Washington to meet with White House, Interior Department, Forest Service and Department of Agriculture officials. But the effort faces an uphill battle with less than two months remaining in Biden’s term and potential headwinds in President-elect Donald Trump’s incoming administration.
If unsuccessful, the group would turn to the Trump administration “because we believe this is a good idea regardless of who’s president,” Dakota Resource Council Executive Director Scott Skokos said.
Dozens if not hundreds of oil and natural gas wells dot the landscape where the proposed monument would span, according to the supporters’ map. But the proposed units have no oil and gas leases, private inholdings or surface occupancy, and no grazing leases would be removed, said North Dakota Wildlife Federation Executive Director John Bradley.
The proposal is supported by the MHA Nation, the Spirit Lake Tribe and the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe through council resolutions.
If created, the monument would help tribal citizens stay connected to their identity, said Democratic state Rep. Lisa Finley-DeVille, an MHA Nation enrolled member.
North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum is Trump’s pick to lead the Interior Department, which oversees the National Park Service. In a written statement, Burgum said: “North Dakota is proof that we can protect our precious parks, cultural heritage and natural resources AND responsibly develop our vast energy resources.”
North Dakota Sen. John Hoeven’s office said Friday was the first they had heard of the proposal, “but any effort that would make it harder for ranchers to operate and that could restrict multiple use, including energy development, is going to raise concerns with Senator Hoeven.”
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