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.