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UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame Increases By Eight

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OSHKOSH, Wis.--The UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame increases its membership to 263 when eight men and women are inducted Sunday, October 5 at the Culver Family Welcome Center (625 Pearl Avenue) on the UW-Oshkosh campus.
 
The 50th induction class features former UW-Oshkosh student-athletes Jack Borski, Christy Cazzola, Jack Friess, Nazar Kulchytskyy, Tricia (Haralson) Rotering, Kristin (Steckmesser) Stanley, and Jacque (Ray) Strook; and former UW-Oshkosh coach Terry Barth.
 
The event, which is open to the public, features a social at 9:15 p.m., brunch at 9:30 a.m. and program at 10 a.m. Michael Patton, the public address voice of the Titans, will emcee both events.
 
Tickets for each event are $30 each (aged five and older) and can only be purchased from the ticket portal located on the UW-Oshkosh athletics website. Tickets will be on sale through September 22. Tickets are required to attend and will not be available for purchase at the events.
 
Terry Barth
The most successful head coach in UW-Oshkosh men's wrestling history, Terry Barth coached student-athletes to 10 All-America performances, 17 then-called Wisconsin State University Conference (WSUC) individual titles and both the first and only conference championship in program history.
 
In his first season at the helm of the men's wrestling program at UW-Oshkosh, Barth coached two wrestlers to NAIA All-America honors. Stan Kellenberger placed fourth at 134-pounds while Joel Stolzman earned his second national honor with a runner-up finish in the 142-pound bracket. Both previously won individual conference titles at the 1979 WSUC Championship.
 
In 1981, Barth mentored Rick Gruber, 1994 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, to the first of his four WSUC titles at 118-pounds and took fourth at the NCAA Division III Championship.
 
The 1982 season was one to remember. After going 7-1 in the regular season, Barth led UW-Oshkosh to a first place 74.25-point performance at the WSUC Championship. Gruber, Sean McCarthy, and Rich Tomaszewski each earned conference championship titles at 118-, 167-, and 142-pounds respectively. The three wrestlers competed at the Division III Championship in Cortland, N.Y. and all placed in the top seven to collect All-America medals. Gruber and McCarthy took second in their brackets while Tomaszewski took seventh. The Titans scored 46 team points at the championship to finish sixth, the highest a UW-Oshkosh team has ever finished at the national meet.
 
Barth coached Gruber and Tomaszewski to additional WSUC titles and All-America honors in 1983.
 
Between 1984 and 1986, Barth guided Duane Fischer, a 2017 inductee to the UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame, to three WSUC titles and a third-place finish at the 1986 Division III Championship while Gruber rounded out his dominant career in 1984 by winning his fourth league title and placing sixth at the national championship.
 
In his final season leading the Titans, Barth successfully promoted Jeff Matczak to the 1991 WSUC Scholar-Athlete of the Year award.
 
Barth joined the UW-Oshkosh faculty in 1978 as an instructor in the health, physical education & recreation department, a position he held until 1990.
 
Barth served as the UW-Oshkosh football program's offensive line coach from 1978-88 and served under two head coaches in his 11 seasons heading the Titans' linemen. Between 1978 and 1983, 2024 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee David Hochtritt led the Titans, while 1983 inductee Ron Cardo held the reins starting in 1984. Barth coached three Titans to five All-WSUC first or second team honors and one to NAIA All-America Honorable Mention.
 
Between 1979 and 1981, Barth was also the assistant coach of UW-Oshkosh baseball head coach and 1978 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, Russ Tiedemann. In his three seasons patrolling the foul lines, the Titans accrued a 74-21 overall and 31-5 WSUC record while winning three straight league and NCAA Division III Midwest Regional titles. In 1980, UW-Oshkosh placed fourth in the Division III World Series, followed the next season by a third-place finish.
 
Barth remained involved with Titan baseball after leaving the dugout, serving as the NCAA Division III Midwest Regional Baseball Tournament local host director for every regional between 1982 and 1990.
 
The director of UW-Oshkosh's Intramural Sports Department for 27 years, Barth made a commitment to supporting Titan Athletics, regularly hiring student-athletes for intramural positions.
 
Barth also served on the UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame Selection and the Student Recreation & Wellness Center Building committees.
 
Barth received his bachelor's degree from UW-Platteville in 1969 after being a four-year starter for the Pioneer's football team. In 1967, he earned All-WSUC Honorable Mention honors. His senior year, 1968, Platteville shared the WSUC championship with UW-Oshkosh while Barth was named to the All-WSUC First Team, the conference's scholastic honor roll, and tabbed for the NAIA All-District 14 team.
 
Barth's father, John, and brother, Thomas, were inducted into UW-Platteville's Athletic Hall of Fame in 1979 and 1988 respectively. John was also a member of the 2015 WIAC Hall of Fame class.
 
After retiring from the University in 2007, Barth spent over a decade as a substitute teacher in the Wild Rose School District.
 
Barth currently enjoys his retirement in Wild Rose with his wife, Pam. They are parents to sons Brian and Jason and the proud grandparents of four.
 
Jack Borski
With Jack Borski patrolling the backfield from 2007-10, the UW-Oshkosh men's soccer team tallied a 61-13-8 record, won a WIAC Championship and advanced to a pair of NCAA Division III Championships including the 2010 Final Four.
 
Borski, who started 72 of the 73 games he played in, totaled 13 career points on 11 assists and one match-winning goal as a four-year defender
 
Borski earned All-America mentions from D3soccer.com and the United Soccer Coaches in 2010 and all-region mentions from the United Soccer Coaches three times: second team in 2008, third team in 2009, and first team in 2010.
 
Playing in all of UW-Oshkosh's 21 games with 20 starts his freshman year, Borski helped the Titans to a 17-3-1 record and the third round of the national tournament. He recorded five assists while spearheading a Titan defense that allowed just 13 goals in 21 matches and shutout 13 opponents.
 
Borski started all 18 of UW-Oshkosh's games in 2008. Once again leading the defense to double-digit shutouts (10) on an 11-5-2 record, he tacked two more assists onto his career record. The Titans again held opponents to fewer goals than matches played at 16.
 
His first All-WIAC First Team campaign was in 2009 as UW-Oshkosh posted a 13-4-2 overall and 2-1-1 WIAC record in the first year of conference-sponsored men's soccer. In the Titans' season opener at Clarke College (Iowa) on September 1, Borski scored his sole career goal unassisted just 11 minutes into the 4-0 win. Across his 17 games both played and started, he recorded three assists. UW-Oshkosh shutout eight opponents that season and allowed just nine goals.
 
During his senior season, Borski was voted captain by his teammates. The Titans posted a WIAC-record 20-1-3 mark that season, sharing the league title with UW-Whitewater by tallying a 3-0-1 league record before reaching the quarterfinal round of the Division III championship.
 
Borski started all 17 games he played in and contributed to 14 of the conference-record 18 shutouts that season before being selected to his second consecutive All-WIAC First Team. Three of Oshkosh's shutout wins came in the national tournament, and all were played at home. UW-Oshkosh defeated North Park University (Ill.) 2-0 in the second round, Loras College (Iowa) 2-0 in the third round, and Calvin University (Mich.) 1-0 in the quarterfinal. The national semifinal appearance was the fourth and final in program history.
 
Academically speaking, Borski was named to the College Sports Communicators Academic All-America Third Team in 2009 and the Second Team in 2010, the United Soccer Coaches NCAA Division III Scholar All-America First Team in 2010, was tabbed as the WIAC Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2010, earned a place on the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll three times (2007, 2008, 2010), and was voted to the UW-Oshkosh John Taylor Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year award in 2011.
 
Since graduating from UW-Oshkosh in 2012, Borski has earned a pair of master's degrees from universities in the Rocky Mountains. He earned a degree in sedimentology/geology from Montana State University-Bozeman in 2014 and another in geographic information science and cartography from the University of Denver in 2021.
 
Borski was one of the 14 Titan-dominated WIAC All-Time Men's Soccer Team selections (20 overall) during the conference's office's centennial celebration in 2012. Legendary head coach and 2011 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Toby Bares was the WIAC's all-time men's soccer coach.
 
Borski, who has worked for various petroleum and gas companies, has been employed by Oxy Oil & Gas in Denver since 2019.
 
Christy Cazzola
When one looks up the definition of prolific in the dictionary, Christy Cazzola's photo is on the page. She helped continue the UW-Oshkosh women's cross country and track & field teams' historic supremacy by individually accumulating 17 national titles, 22 All-America performances, and 27 WIAC titles between 2008 and 2012.
 
Cazzola began her career with UW-Oshkosh on the 2008 women's cross country team and helped the Titans to a NCAA Division III Championship appearance with a fourth-place finish at the WIAC Championship and ninth place at the Division III Midwest Regional. At the national meet, she placed 37th.
 
Already a mother of one before enrolling at UW-Oshkosh, the Kaukauna High School graduate took a break after the national championship when her second child arrived to focus on her family and education before returning to the course and track in 2010.
 
In her first season back in white and gold, Cazzola won her first WIAC cross country title, was selected as the WIAC's athlete of the year, and finished fourth at both the Midwest Regional and Division III championship meets. During the regular season, she earned the first two of her seven WIAC Cross Country Athlete of the Week selections.
 
In 2011, Cazzola paired two additional league athlete of the week nods with the second of her three conference championships and her first Midwest Regional title before taking second at the national meet. She was named the WIAC Athlete of the Year at the conference meet and the Midwest Region Athlete of the Year following the Midwest Regional.
 
Cazzola swept the conference, region, and national athlete of the year awards in her final season on the course and was voted the WIAC Athlete of the Week a trio of times during the season. She became the first student-athlete to win three straight WIAC titles and just the second to win three overall. Tiffany (Speckman) Ebensperger, a 2012 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, was the first to win three titles, taking the league championship in 1994, 1996, and 1997. After winning the Midwest Region title again, she won UW-Oshkosh its third individual national title with a 20:53 time in Terre Haute, Ind.
 
An annually consistent force on the track from 2011-14, Cazzola was a national champion 16 times for the UW-Oshkosh women's track & field team with 18 All-America performances and 24 WIAC titles. The 14-time WIAC Track Athlete of the Week selection helped UW-Oshkosh to the WIAC and Division III indoor and outdoor championship titles in 2011. UW-Oshkosh won additional national indoor titles in 2013 and 2014 and the 2012 WIAC Indoor Championship.
 
Indoors, Cazzola was a nine-time All-American and an eight-time Division III champion. She is the only competitor to win three mile run titles, taking home the 2012, 2013, and 2014 championships after finishing fourth in 2011. She won the 2012 800-meter run crown, took home gold in the 5,000-meter run and distance medley relay in 2013 and raced to first in the 3,000-meter run and distance medley relay in 2014.
 
Cazzola was the Division III Midwest Region Indoor Track Athlete of the Year in 2012 and 2013 and the Division III Indoor Track Athlete of the Year in 2013 and 2014.
 
At the WIAC Indoor Championship, Cazzola won the mile run four times, the distance medley relay three times, the 800-meter run twice and the 3,000-meter run, 5,000-meter run, and 1,600-meter relay once each. The 2013 WIAC Indoor Championship Outstanding Track Performer of the Meet still holds the meet record in the 3,000-meter and 5,000-meter runs.
 
During the Iowa State Classic on Feb. 13, 2013, Cazzola defeated all Division I opponents in both the 800-meter run and mile run, setting Division III records in both events.
 
Cazzola holds the UW-Oshkosh 800-meter run, mile run, 3,000-meter run, 5,000-meter run, and distance medley relay records and the best Kolf Sports Center 800-meter run and mile run marks.
 
Outdoors, Cazzola earned nine more All-America awards and won an additional eight individual national titles. She was a four-time winner of the 1,500-meter run, a two-time winner of the 800-meter run and 5,000-meter run, and was a member of the sixth place 1,600-meter relay team in 2011.
 
Cazzola took home the Division III Track Athlete of the Year award in 2013 and 2014, and the Midwest Region Track Athlete of the Year award in all four of her outdoor seasons. After winning the 800-meter run, 1,500-meter run, and 5,000-meter run crowns at the 2013 Division III Outdoor Championship, she was named the meet's outstanding track performer of the meet.
 
In both the 800-meter and 1,500-meter runs, Cazzola won four WIAC championships to become the second student-athlete to take the title in each of her four meets. In 2013 and 2014, she also claimed first place in the 5,000-meter run and the 3,200-meter relay. The 2011, 2013, and 2014 WIAC Outdoor Championship Outstanding Track Performer of the Meet currently holds the conference championship's 800-meter run record.
 
Cazzola holds the program 800-meter run, 1,500-meter run, and 5,000-meter run outdoor records as well as the 800-meter run and 3,200-meter relay records at the Oshkosh Sports Complex.
 
Cazzola twice ran at the U.S. Track & Field Outdoor Championships, finishing 22nd in 2013 and 12th in 2014.
 
Cazzola was named the 2012 USTFCCCA Division III Cross Country Scholar-Athlete of the Year and both the 2013 and 2014 USTFCCCA Division III Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year. A four-time WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll member, she earned Academic All-America status from the College Sports Communicators in 2012 (Third), 2013 (First), and 2014 (First). Cazzola was the 2013 UW-Oshkosh John Taylor Female Senior Scholar-Athlete and was tabbed as the prestigious Collegiate Women's Sports Award winner in 2014.
 
Cazzola was a "Sports Illustrated" Faces In The Crowd honoree in the Dec. 31, 2012, edition of the nationally distributed magazine.
 
By the time Cazzola graduated in 2014, she held five NCAA Division III records. She still ranks in the top-five all five events: second in the distance medley relay, second in the outdoor 1,500-meter run, third in the indoor mile run, fourth in the outdoor 800-meter run, and fifth in the indoor 5,000-meter run. Her indoor distance medley relay squad's time stood until the 2025 indoor season.
 
Cazzola was named to the WIAC Women's Track & Field All-Time team in the spring of 2012 during the conference's centennial celebration. She was one of 30 Titans on the team and was joined by head coach Deb Vercauteren, a 2013 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame.
 
After graduation with her bachelor's degree in 2014, Cazzola represented sporting apparel company Oiselle in 2014 and 2015 and was a professional athlete with the Atlanta Track Club in 2015 and 2016. She later earned her master's degree from UW-Oshkosh in 2016.
 
Cazzola began her teaching career in the Appleton Area School District, where she was also an assistant track & field coach at Appleton West High School for the 2014 and 2015 seasons. While coaching the Terrors, she mentored the school record holder and WIAA Championship runners-up in the 800-meter run and 4x400-meter relay while 10 athletes recorded top-10 all-time performances.
 
In the fall semester of 2015, Cazzola held an internship within the Emory University (Ga.) athletics department, assisting in the collaboration between Emory Athletics and the university's student services department to engage in community development programs with Atlanta public schools.
 
Cazzola is currently a teacher at Lassiter High School in Marietta, Ga., a position she has held since 2018. She also serves as the varsity speech coach at Lassiter and in February, guided the team to the Georgia Forensics Coaches Association speech championship and runner-up in the overall competition. After the 2022 competition, she was named the GFCA's coach of the year.
 
Cazzola lives in Woodstock, Ga. with her husband, Shuma, and their children, Noah and Kaya. She has been involved with the Interact Club since 2018, a Rotary-sponsored club for children aged 12 to 18.
 
Jack Friess
Roving center field at Menominee Park on the shores of Lake Winnebago from 1968-71, Jack Friess started all 126 games for the UW-Oshkosh baseball program as it began its rise to the dominance it enjoyed for the following three decades.
 
Noted by local newspapers for his defensive prowess throughout his career, Friess helped the Titans to an 87-39 overall and 47-7 conference record as UW-Oshkosh won four straight then-called Wisconsin State University Conference championships and four NAIA District 14 titles. Three of his seasons were played under the tutelage of 1978 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, Russ Tiedemann.
 
Friess accumulated a .286 batting average with 70 RBIs and 76 runs scored, collecting 120 hits including 22 doubles, five triples, eight home runs, and 29 stolen bases across his career. In 420 career at-bats, Friess struck out just 35 times or less than nine percent. His best season came in 1971 with a .345 average, counting 31 RBIs and 18 stolen bases during the Titans' first NAIA World Series appearance.
 
In his 1968 freshman season, the Cedarburg High School graduate tallied a trio of doubles and hit a home run while driving in 12 runs and scoring 10 of his own. UW-Oshkosh racked up 19 wins against eight losses that season and went 8-2 in the WSUC to claim the first of four consecutive league championships. The Titans defeated St. Norbert College in the District 14 Playoff and earned win over Mayville State University (N.D.) in their first Area IV Tournament appearance.
 
The following year, Friess helped UW-Oshkosh to an 18-7. The Titans swept Milton College in the 1969 District 14 Playoff after taking the WSUC championship with a 13-1 record. For his part, Friess had a .203 batting average with five doubles, a triple and two home runs. He recorded seven RBIs and 12 runs while stealing three bases.
 
Friess broke out for All-WSUC, NAIA All-District 14, and NAIA All-Area IV First Team nods in 1970 as UW-Oshkosh repeated as the conference and district champion. He led the Titans with seven doubles while hitting .342, notching two triples, three home runs, 20 RBIs, 23 runs, and eight stolen bases.
 
Friess helped Oshkosh defeat Division I Wisconsin, 8-4, during a doubleheader split with a first inning grand slam after the first three batters of the game singled to load the bases for their cleanup hitter.
 
In the 4-2 nightcap win of a doubleheader sweep over UW-Whitewater, Friess went 2-for-3 with a double and a run to secure UW-Oshkosh's third straight league title.
 
UW-Oshkosh advanced farther in the NAIA Championship than any previous team by making it to the final game of the NAIA Area IV tournament in Storm Lake, Iowa before falling to William Jewell College (Mo.).
 
With a 26-8 overall and 13-1 WSUC record, new team program records were set in wins and games played.
 
UW-Oshkosh swept through the District 14 Playoffs and went 3-1 in the Area 14 Playoffs to finally reach the NAIA World Series in 1971 after being eliminated at the Area IV stage in each of the previous three seasons. The Titans posted an overall record of 24-16 paired with a 13-3 WSUC mark and won the WSUC, District 14, and Area IV championships. Friess registered a .345 batting average with seven doubles and two home runs while recording team highs in hits (50), triples (two), and stolen bases (18). He earned All-WSUC Honorable Mention laurels, an All-District 14 First Team nod, and Area IV honors.
 
In game one of the World Series, Friess went 3-for-4 with an inside the park solo home run, another run scored, and a pair of stolen bases, however Southwestern Oklahoma State University broke a 4-4 tie in the 10th inning and won, 9-5. Playing through the flu in the Titans' second game of the World Series, Friess kept UW-Oshkosh's title hopes alive after the first game loss by hitting a two-run triple in the seventh inning of a 7-3 win over Grand Canyon University (Ariz.). Lewis University (Ill.) eliminated the Titans, the first Wisconsin school to reach the NAIA's final stage, and Oshkosh took fifth place in the national tournament. He was named to the All-World Series Team for his performance across the three games.
 
The 1971 UW-Oshkosh graduate also played on the UW-Oshkosh men's basketball team in 1968 and 1969 for Robert White, a 1997 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee. He appeared in three varsity contests.
 
After his final season with the Titans, Friess was drafted in the 23rd round of the MLB Draft by the Chicago White Sox. He played in the south side club's minor league system for a year, hitting .284, ranking 10th in the Gulf Coast League that season. In 39 games, he recorded three doubles, two triples, 13 RBIs, 17 runs scored, and a pair of stolen bases with the White Sox's Rookie League affiliate in 1971.
 
Once his baseball career ended during the 1972 MLB strike, the first of its kind in the history of the league, Friess embarked on a career that lasted until his retirement. He taught at Franklin Middle School in Green Bay for two years before heading to Webster Middle School in Cedarburg in 1973.
 
In 1979, Friess returned to Cedarburg High School as the varsity baseball coach and led the Bulldogs for the following 41 seasons. Between 1979 and 2019, the Bulldogs posted a 600-526 record, appeared in six WIAA Tournaments and place second in the state twice (1997, 1998). Cedarburg named its baseball field Jack Friess Field after its longtime coach in 2014.
 
No stranger to halls of fame, Friess was inducted into the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 1999, the Cedarburg High School Hall of Fame in 2012 as an athlete and in 2024 as a coach, and joined 1984 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Jim Gantner in the 2012 Wisconsin Old Timers Baseball Hall of Fame class.
 
Twice an award recipient from the WBCA, Friess was presented one of the two inaugural Ethics in Coaching awards in 2014 and the Distinguished Service Award in 2021. He is currently a member of the organization's hall of fame nominating committee.
 
Friess, who remains involved with Bulldog Athletics by working on the chain gang at football games and the scoreboard at basketball games, lives in Cedarburg with his wife, Karen. They are the parents of three sons, Andy, Billy, and Danny.

Nazar Kulchytskyy 
A three-time national champion, Nazar Kulchytskyy is a member of a very exclusive club. He is one of just 16 wrestlers in the history of NCAA Division III to win at least three individual titles at the national meet.
 
Across his four-year career, Kulchytskyy compiled a 142-5 record with 67 pins, losing to a Division III opponent just once. Both his wins and victories by fall are UW-Oshkosh records. He currently ranks fifth in the WIAC record book in wins and fourth in pins.
 
A Sosnivka, Ukraine native, Kulchytskyy began wrestling at a young age, winning five national titles and collecting a bronze medal at the 2008 European Cadets Wrestling Championships in Daugavpils, Latvia before emigrating to the United States with his family. They settled down in Prairie Du Chien where he earned his high school diploma in 2010.
 
Kulchytskyy went 12-0 in 2010-11, pinning seven opponents before his season ended prematurely due to injury.
 
In his sophomore campaign, Kulchytskyy won 34 consecutive matches from November 12, 2011, to February 3, 2012, before falling to Augsburg University's (Minn.) Orlando Ponce during the UW-Eau Claire Open. He won through the WIAC Championship, claiming the 157-pound conference title on his way to his first of three straight WIAC Wrestler of the Year honors.
 
During his first appearance at the Division III Championship in La Crosse, Kulchytskyy advanced to a rematch with Ponce in the 157-pound bracket of the 2012 national meet with a pair of decisions and a major decision. In the first-place matchup, he found himself again facing Ponce. In the pair's second faceoff, Kulchytskyy emerged victorious, defeated the Auggie by a 10-9 decision and winning the first NCAA Division III national title in program history. Rick DeMaris won the 158-pound title at the 1975 NAIA Championship. Kulchytskyy compiled a WIAC record 45 wins against two losses with 17 pins in his first complete season with the Titans.
 
Kulchytskyy went 44-1 with a UW-Oshkosh record 22 pins in 2012-13 and shared the league's wrestler of the year award with UW-La Crosse's Adam Sheley. Since the WIAC transitioned to a team championship-only format for the 2013 and 2014 meets, no individual champions were crowned for those two seasons.
 
Kulchytskyy moved up to the 165-pound class for the 2013 Division III Championship. He went a perfect 4-for-4 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, becoming the first and only two-time national champion in UW-Oshkosh men's wrestling history by defeating John Darling from The College of New Jersey in a 5-3 decision. His semifinal win over Stevens Institute of Technology's (N.Y.) Joey Favia was the 100th of his career.
 
Kulchytskyy earned his first national honor at the close of the 2013-14 season, being named the Division III Wrestler of the Year by D3wrestle.com.
 
Back at 157-pounds for his senior season, Kulchytskyy tallied 41 wins against two losses and pinned his opponents 21 times. Along with his third WIAC Wrestler of the Year award, he was named the 2014 WIAC Championship John Peterson Wrestler of the Meet in La Crosse.
 
At the NCAA Division III West Regional Championship, Kulchytskyy won his first three matches by fall. None of the matches lasted longer than 1:14 and the first was a lightning-fast 13 seconds. He then won the regional title and was named the regional's most valuable wrestler with a 12-3 major decision victory.
 
Kulchytskyy's annual quest for gold at the national championship began with an 18-4 technical fall victory over Kristopher Krawchuk from Wilkes University (Pa.) and concluded with a pin of Coe College's (Iowa) Dimitri Boyer. He and All-American teammate Dan Schiferl helped the Titans to a 10th-place finish of 34.5 points, the highest finish at the national meet since the 1982 squad took seventh with 46.
 
D3wrestle.com once again named Kulchytskyy its Wrestler of the Year in 2014. He earned additional honors from the NCAA and the National Wrestling Coaches Association in the form of the Most Dominant Wrestler and Most Outstanding Wrestler awards respectively.
 
Kulchytskyy, who was named the WIAC's Wrestler of the Week seven times, pinned opponents in under 20 seconds three times: 19 seconds against Joe Kammerer of The College of Mount St. Joseph (Ohio) on January 31, 2014, 18 seconds against Wesley Colton of Lakeland University on January 5, 2013, and the aforementioned 13 seconds against Carson French of Pacific University (Ore.) at the Division III West Regional Championship on March 1, 2014. He set the UW-Oshkosh consecutive wins record at 45, going undefeated for nearly a calendar year from November 26, 2012, to November 16, 2013.
 
A three-time member of the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll, Kulchytskyy was named a scholar All-American by the NWCA in 2014.
 
After graduating from UW-Oshkosh in 2014, Kulchytskyy trained and competed at the Wisconsin Regional Training Center from 2014-19, winning numerous senior level titles. He won a World Clubs Cup crown with the Titan Mercury Wrestling Club in 2016 and a World Cup title with Team USA in 2018. A member of the USA National Freestyle Team and a finalist at both the US Open and Pan America tournaments, he was ranked as high as 11th internationally in the United World Wrestling rankings. He finished his competitive career with the Minnesota Regional Training Center in 2019-20.
 
Kulchytskyy and his wife, Katie, live in Sun Prairie. He founded the Team Nazar Training Center in 2020 and operates schools in Madison and Neenah. To date, his club has produced 36 individual WIAA state champions, four national champions at the renowned Junior & 16U National Championship in Fargo, N.D., and four medalists at the World Championships.
 
In July of 2024, Kulchytskyy was inducted into the NWCA NCAA Division III Hall of Fame, the first Titan to be awarded the honor.

Tricia (Haralson) Rotering 
Tricia (Haralson) Rotering was an integral part of the UW-Oshkosh women's track & field program's two NCAA Division III and five then-called WWIAC championships between 1991 and 1994.
 
Rotering was a four-time All-American in both the indoor and outdoor shot put, and a one-time outdoor hammer throw All-American. She also won two outdoor and one indoor shot put titles at the WWIAC Championship and earned a pair of Outstanding Field Performer of the Meet awards from the conference.
 
At the 1993 WWIAC Indoor Championship, Rotering earned the prestigious WWIAC Field Performer of the Meet award with a first-place finish in the shot put. Her shot put crown was the third consecutive for Oshkosh after 2002 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Stephanie (Bostwick) Resch won the 1991 and 1992 titles. In her four seasons, Rotering helped the Titans to the 1991, 1992, and 1993 indoor conference titles.
 
Rotering's first award came at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championship, two years before she won a conference title. She took fourth in the shot put at the 1991 national meet as the Titans took second place.
 
Rotering placed sixth and fourth in the shot put at the 1992 and 1993 Division III indoor meets as UW-Oshkosh took home the second and fourth place trophies home in the respective years.
 
In her final indoor season, Rotering and the Titans won the first indoor national championship in program history at home, scoring 41 points. She contributed 10 points as one of three Titans to win an individual event, taking gold in the shot put. The effort led UW-Oshkosh to become the first school in Division III history to host the indoor championship and win the team championship in the same year.
 
At the WWIAC Outdoor Championship, the Whitehall High School graduate claimed three individual titles: two in the shot put and one in the hammer throw while also competing in the javelin throw.
 
A member of the 1991 WWIAC Championship Team, Rotering took home her first outdoor conference title in the shot put during the 1993 league meet. The 1994 WWIAC Outstanding Field Performer of the Meet, Rotering claimed the hammer throw and shot put crowns to help UW-Oshkosh win its fifth outdoor title that season.
 
In each of Rotering's outdoor seasons, UW-Oshkosh never finished lower than third, in part thanks to four All-America performances in the shot put and another in the hammer throw.
 
The 1991 squad won its second straight national outdoor meet in Berea, Ohio with 66.5 points. Rotering finished the shot put in sixth place that year.
 
Rotering placed second in the shot put the 1992, 1993, and 1994 and fifth in the hammer throw in 1994. UW-Oshkosh placed second at the 1992 and 1994 meets and third in 1993.
 
Rotering remained involved in track & field after her final season in white and gold, serving as an assistant coach at Whitehall High School from 1996 to 2000 and as the throws coach at Independence High School from 2012 to 2015.
 
During the WIAC's Centennial Celebration in 2012, Rotering was named one of 25 Titans on the league's all-time women's track & field team. Her coach, 2013 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee, Deb Vercauteren, was named the honorary team's coach.
 
Rotering, who earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Capella University (Minn.) in 2019 and 2022 respectively, currently works for the Trempealeau County Health Care Center as the behavior/dementia program coordinator, a position she has held since 2022. She started with the TCHCC in 1997 as a part-time activity assistant and transitioned into a role as a direct care professional in 1999. In November of 2024, she also joined the Aging and Disability Resource Center of Trempealeau County as a dementia care specialist.
 
Rotering lives in Whitehall with her partner, Stacy. She is the mother of Mikayla, Mitchel and Preston and the grandmother of three.
 
Kristin (Steckmesser) Stanley
Shooting 40 percent from three-point range in a game is good, Kristin (Steckmesser) Stanley shot 40.3 percent from beyond the arc over her entire career with UW-Oshkosh women's basketball.
 
The sharpshooter from Two Rivers High School played basketball for 2016 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Pamela Ruder between 1998 and 2002. A two-time All-WIAC First Team selection and one-time honorable mention, Stanley helped the Titans to a 115-24 record, including a 68-12 mark in WIAC competition. She was a member of three WIAC regular season championship teams, the first modern conference tournament title in 1999 and three NCAA Division III postseason runs, including a pair of quarterfinal appearances in 1998 and 1999.
 
In 115 career games, Stanley started 83. She totaled 1,274 points, 391 rebounds, and 348 assists while compiling 190 three-point field goals, 173 steals, and 75 blocked shots.
 
Stanley still ranks first in UW-Oshkosh history in three-point field goals, third in assists, fifth in blocked shots, sixth in steals, and seventh in scoring.
 
In the conference record book, Stanley is sixth in three-point shooting percentage at .403 (190-of-471) and seventh in three-point field goals.
 
In 1997-98, her freshman season, Stanley scored 152 points in 28 games and shot .384 (58-of-151) from the field with a .424 (25-of-59) clip from the boundary while making 11 of her 16 foul shots. She also tallied 78 rebounds, 41 assists, 36 steals, and nine blocks that year. UW-Oshkosh went 26-2 and 16-0 in WIAC play on its way to the regular season title and a trip to the quarterfinal round of the Division III Championship.
 
Stanley's best performance of the year came on January 17, 1998, when the Titans traveled to Mitchell Hall to face UW-La Crosse. She scored 12 points on 4-of-6 from the field and 2-of-2 from three with two free throws while pulling down four boards, dishing out a pair of assists, and stealing the ball from the Eagles' grasp four times.
 
Stanley was honored as an All-WIAC Honorable Mention pick in 1999 after contributing to the Titans' 27-2 (15-1 WIAC) record that resulted in Oshkosh's second consecutive WIAC regular season crown and a championship title in the first modern-format WIAC Tournament. UW-Oshkosh also advanced to the quarterfinal for the fifth time in six years in 1999.
 
Stanley led Oshkosh with 344 points and 106 assists while shooting .421 from the field (122-of-290) from the field, .422 (65-of-154) from three, and .761 (35-of-46) from the line. She recorded 104 rebounds and 34 steals to go with 26 blocks.
 
Against UW-Whitewater at home on January 27, 1999, Stanley set her career high in three-pointers made with a 6-of-9 mark. She scored 22 total points that night at Albee Hall in UW-Oshkosh's 67-48 win. She reached double-digit scoring in 20 of the 29 games she played in (26 starts) in 1998-99, including a 10-game run between the January 27 contest against the Warhawks and the March 6, 1999, win over UW-Eau Claire at Albee Hall in the first round of the national championship.
 
Five games into her junior season, while averaging 12.2 points and .460 (23-of-50) from the field with a .550 (11-of-20) clip from beyond the arc in 20.8 minutes on the court, Stanley went down to the floor during the Titans' Holiday Classic contest against Viterbo University on November 27, 1999. She had just suffered a severe knee injury that would sideline her for the remainder of the season.
 
UW-Oshkosh went 22-7 that season and 13-3 in the conference, reaching the championship game of the 2000 WIAC Tournament and the second round of the national tournament.
 
When she returned to the hardwood for the 2000-01 campaign, Stanley was wearing a large brace on her knee. The reminder of the injury didn't slow her down; in fact, it seemed to motivate her. She led the Titans in scoring with 309 points, three-point field goals with a .350 mark, and steals at 41 on her way to her first All-WIAC First Team nod. She ranked in the top-10 in the same categories as well as assists, free throw percentage, and blocks.
 
By season's end, Stanley led UW-Oshkosh in scoring 11 times and reached double-digit scoring 16 times, including season high 19-point, nine-rebound performance during a 78-63 win over UW-Stout on February 3, 2001, for which she was named the WIAC Women's Basketball Athlete of the Week.
 
UW-Oshkosh went 19-6 in 2000-01, including a 12-4 mark that was good for a first-place tie with UW-Eau Claire for the regular season championship. The Titans were defeated in the quarterfinal round of the WIAC Tournament by UW-Platteville.
 
Stanley was granted a fifth-year due to missing the majority of the 1999-2000 season and played her final year in black and gold in 2001-02. She set multiple career bests that season and led both the team and the league in various statistical categories on her way to her second selection to the All-WIAC First Team. As UW-Oshkosh went 21-7 overall and 12-4 in the WIAC, it finished third in a closely-contested conference schedule and reached the conference tournament championship game before falling to UW-Stout.
 
The December 31, 2001-January 6, 2002, WIAC Women's Basketball Athlete of the Week led the WIAC in free throw percentage at .847 (72-of-85) while posting team bests in scoring (408 points), three-point field goals made (48), and steals (55).

During the Titans' January 5, 2002, 88-60 win over UW-Stout at home, Stanley set personal records of 25 points and 10 made field goals on 18 attempts in 25 minutes on the court.
 
A four-year member of the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll, Stanley graduated from UW-Oshkosh in 2002. She was a member of the NCAA's Postgraduate Internship Program during the 2002-03 academic year. While serving as the assistant director of championships with the NCAA between 2003 and 2008, she earned her master's degree from Butler University (Ind.) in 2005.
 
From 2008 to 2010, Stanley was the director of auxiliary/conference services for Ohio University before transitioning into the role of budget director at UW-La Crosse, a position she held until 2022. Since 2022, she has been the financial manager for Children's Minnesota Hospital in Minneapolis.
 
Stanley lives in Onalaska with her husband, Derek, and their children, Alex and Luke.
 
The 2017 Two Rivers Washington High School Hall of Fame and 2018 Lakeshore All-Sports Hall of Fame inductee served as the Midwest representative on the NCAA Division III Ethnic Minority & Women's Internship Grant Selection Committee from 2019 to 2021 and is currently a board member for the Onalaska Royals Basketball program.

Jacque (Ray) Strook 
A two-time All-America selection and the 2009 WIAC Player of the Year, Jacque (Ray) Strook stamped her legacy into the storied history of UW-Oshkosh women's volleyball by leading the Titans to three WIAC regular season titles, a conference tournament championship, and four trips to the NCAA Division III Championship between 2006 and 2009.
 
UW-Oshkosh accumulated a 143-18 record overall and an impressive 28-4 mark in the WIAC during Strook's tenure. The middle blocker led the Titans to season records of 32-6 in both 2006 and 2007, 40-3 in 2008, and 39-3 in 2009. The Titans claimed sole possession of the 2009 WIAC regular season championship, shared both the 2006 and 2008 titles with UW-Eau Claire and won the 2008 conference tournament. In the NCAA Division III Championship, Oshkosh reached the first round in 2006, the second round in 2007, the quarterfinal in 2008, and the semifinal in 2009.
 
Strook played in 151 of UW-Oshkosh's 161 matches from 2006 to 2009. After the Titans finished third in the 2009 national tournament, her career statistics reported 1,127 kills, a .263 hitting percentage, 481 blocks, 161 digs, and 21 service aces.
 
The 2006 Richland Center High School graduate is the owner of 46 double-digit kill matches including a 19-kill performance against UW-Platteville in the WIAC Tournament on November 7, 2009.
 
Strook played in 29 of the Titans' 38 matches in 2006, recording 117 kills with a .222 hitting percentage, 81 blocks, and 20 digs. Her only career double-double match came on October 29, 2006, as she registered 12 kills and 11 blocks in Oshkosh's 3-0 win over Mount St. Joseph University (Ohio) in Danville, Ky.
 
UW-Oshkosh shared the WIAC regular season title with the Blugolds and fell to UW-Platteville in the quarterfinal round of the league tournament before receiving an at-large bid to the Division III Championship. The Titans faced the University of St. Thomas (Minn.) in the first round of the Eau Claire Regional in a closely contested five-set loss.
 
In 2007, Strook led UW-Oshkosh with 112 blocks in 37 matches played. She hit .228 with 250 kills and 40 digs on the year. The Titans went 32-6 and 6-2 in the WIAC. Her season high of 16 kills was recorded at UW-La Crosse on September 27, 2007, as she hit .414 in the three-set sweep of the Eagles.
 
Oshkosh once again fell to UW-Platteville in the WIAC Tournament quarterfinal round and received an at-large bid but immediately faced the Pioneers in the first round of the national tournament and won a five-set thriller in the Kenosha Regional. The Titans finished their postseason run in the second round after falling to Washington University in St. Louis (Mo.).
 
Strook led UW-Oshkosh with 112 blocks and 402 points during the 2008 campaign on her way to All-WIAC First Team honors. She was also awarded NCAA Division III All-Midwest Region First Team and All-America Third Team laurels by the American Volleyball Coaches Association. Her completed stat line featured a 250 kills with a .241 hitting percentage and 47 digs in all 43 of Oshkosh's matches.
 
After going 7-1 in conference play and securing a share of the WIAC regular season title, UW-Oshkosh swept UW-Superior in the first round of the conference tournament before earning five-set wins over UW-La Crosse and UW-Eau Claire in the semifinal and final rounds respectively. The conference tournament championship was the fourth and most recent in program history.
 
The Titans earned the chance to host a regional tournament and took advantage of playing on their home court by defeating all three of the opponents they played, advancing to the Division III quarterfinal for the first time since taking home the 1994 runners-up trophy. In UW-Oshkosh's quarterfinal match against Juniata College (Pa.) in Bloomington, Ill., Strook tallied 12 kills on a .375 hitting percentage while blocking two attacks for a team high 13 points. UW-Oshkosh finished the season with 40 wins against three losses, the most victories in program history.
 
Strook's senior year was her most successful as she was tabbed for the All-WIAC First Team and was named UW-Oshkosh's second WIAC Player of the Year. 2011 UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame inductee Christina Southward shared the 2001 honor with Allison Erickson of UW-Whitewater. Strook led the WIAC with 176 blocks and 569 points while listing team bests of 443 kills and a .315 hitting percentage. She was again named to the AVCA All-Midwest Region First Team and earned All-America First Team honors.
 
In UW-Oshkosh's 42 matches, Strook was on the court for every one, recording 25 double-digit kills marks, including three 17-plus performances. UW-Oshkosh finished the season 39-3 with an unblemished 8-0 record in the WIAC to claim sole possession of the regular season title for the first time since winning back-to-back titles in 1994 and 1995.
 
Strook was named the AVCA's Division III National Player of the Week for October 26-November 1, 2009, after the Trinity University (Texas) National Invitational, becoming just the fourth Titan to be awarded the honor. She led Oshkosh to sweeps of Wittenberg University (Ohio) and Trinity and a 3-2 victory over Juniata. She hit .409 with 12 kills and four blocks in the victory over Wittenberg and collected 13 kills on a .391 hitting percentage with five blocks against Trinity to advance to the tournament championship. Against the Eagles, Strook registered 18 kills on .421 hitting and added five blocks. Over the three-match week, she had 43 kills with a .410 hitting percentage with 14 blocks.
 
Strook recorded a career high 19 kills on a .417 hitting percentage with four blocks against UW-Platteville in the third-place match of the WIAC Tournament on November 7, 2009, helping the Titans fend off the Pioneers in five sets.
 
UW-Oshkosh once again hosted the regional tournament, and it again hoisted the regional trophy, defeating St. Norbert College, UW-Eau Claire, and St. Thomas. After Strook recorded 17 kills in Oshkosh's 3-1 Division III quarterfinal win over Christopher Newport University (Va.) in Cleveland, Ohio on November 19, 2009, the Titans faced old foe Juniata in the semifinal match. The Eagles won in three set, halting Oshkosh's championship aspirations. Strook registered eight kills and a solo block in her collegiate finale.
 
The 2010 UW-Oshkosh graduate was a three-time WIAC Women's Volleyball Athlete of the Week Selection and a member of the 2010 WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll.
 
Strook was employed by Festival Foods from 2009 to 2013, working her way up to the position of human resources coordinator. Between 2013 and 2017, she was first the human resources manager, then the sales manager with DoubleTree by Hilton Madison. Since 2017, she has been in the human resources department in the State of Wisconsin's Department of Health Services.
 
Strook lives in Arena with her husband, Justin, and their children, Jaxon and Jayde.
 
The UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame was established in 1974 to enhance school tradition and give lasting recognition to those student-athletes, coaches, administrators, and friends of the university who distinguished themselves at an exemplary level.
 
Each hall of fame member represents greatness, with their accomplishments built on campus, after graduation or through meritorious efforts that benefit the UW-Oshkosh athletics program.
 
The hall of fame will help preserve the storied history of the UW-Oshkosh athletics program while creating a unique connection between the decades of celebrated inductees who represented and continue to represent Titan Nation.
 
The first UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony was held April 28, 1974, at The Pioneer Inn & Marina. The five inductees were Edward Boguski, Edward Hall, Burton Karges, Robert Kolf and Robert Williams.
 
Four venues have hosted the UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony – The Pioneer Inn & Marina (1974-2001), Hilton Garden Inn Oshkosh (2002), UW-Oshkosh's Reeve Memorial Union (2003-13) and UW-Oshkosh's Culver Family Welcome Center (2014-19, 2021-Present).
 
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