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Eric Becker, 1975

Michael Bellos, 1997

Martin Below, 1976

Kim Bemowski, 2001

Kim BemowskiCompeting in the sports of women's cross country and track and field, 10-time All-American Kim Bemowski personified success during her athletic career at UW-Oshkosh.

As a member of the cross country team from 1987-90, Bemowski helped UW-Oshkosh to two NCAA Division III titles and four WIAC championships. The Titans won their first NCAA Division III crown in women's cross country in 1987 and repeated the accomplishment one year later.

In 1990, Bemowski's final season of cross country, she helped the Titans to a second-place finish at the NCAA Division III Championship by finishing 11th individually to gain All-America recognition. The Titans won their fifth straight WIAC title that season, with Bemowski recording a personal-best fourth-place finish. UW-Oshkosh swept the top-five places at the league championship in 1990 to count a perfect score of 15 points.

Bemowski's success and that of the Titans also continued in track and field. From 1988 to 1991, the Stevens Point native spirited UW-Oshkosh to NCAA Division III outdoor championships in 1990 and 1991 and a total of eight WIAC indoor and outdoor titles.

Bemowski's Resume

Women's Cross Country 1987, 1988, 1989 & 1990
NCAA Division III All-America 1990 (11th Place)
NCAA Division III Team Champion 1987 & 1988
WIAC Top-10 Finish 1990 (4th Place)
WIAC Team Champion 1987, 1988, 1989 & 1990
Women's Track and Field 1988, 1989, 1990 & 1991
NCAA Division III Indoor Champion
1,600 Meter Relay In 1990
NCAA Division III Indoor All-America
800 Meter Run In 1990 & 1991
1,600 Meter Relay In 1989, 1990 & 1991
NCAA Division III Outdoor All-America
800 Meter Run 1990 & 1991
1,600 Meter Relay 1988 & 1990
NCAA Division III Outdoor Team Champion 1990 & 1991
WIAC Indoor Champion
800 Meter Run In 1990 & 1991
1,600 Meter Relay In 1990 & 1991
WIAC Indoor Team Champion 1988, 1989, 1990 & 1991
WIAC Outdoor Champion
800 Meter Run In 1990 & 1991
WIAC Outdoor Team Champion 1988, 1989, 1990 & 1991

Bemowski received NCAA Division III All-America status five times indoors and four times outdoors. In 1990, she ran on the Titans' 1,600 meter relay team that posted a first-place time of 3:56.50 at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championship. Bemowski also received All-America accolades in the indoor 800 meter run in 1990 and 1991, the indoor 1,600 meter relay in 1989 and 1991, the outdoor 800 meter run in 1990 and 1991 and the outdoor 1,600 meter relay in 1988 and 1990. Her highest national ranking in the 800 meter run came in 1991 when she finished second indoors with a time of 2:13.23.

Running against her WIAC counterparts, Bemowski won the indoor and outdoor 800 meter run events in 1990 and 1991. She also ran on the Titans' first-place indoor 1,600 meter relay teams in 1990 and 1991.

Bemowski's name also appears in connection with several UW-Oshkosh track and field records. She owns the school's indoor 600 meter run record with a time of 1:36.74 and the indoor 600 yard run mark with a clocking of 1:28.08. Her name is also mentioned in school records for the indoor 1,600 meter relay and outdoor two mile relay events.

Following graduation from UW-Oshkosh in 1993, Bemowski taught high school physical education and health at Mosinee High School for four years while coaching middle school gymnastics and freshman volleyball for nearly two seasons. Bemowski resides in Stevens Point with her husband, Tim, and two children. Bemowski is a graduate of Stevens Point Pacelli High School.

Kathi Bennett, 2003

Coming SoonWhen Kathi Bennett replaced Carol Anhalt as head coach at UW-Oshkosh in August of 1989, she inherited a women's basketball program that was a consistent upper-division finisher in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC), but foreign to 20-win seasons, league championships and National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III post-season experiences.

However, by the time Bennett departed from UW-Oshkosh in April of 1996 to become the head women's basketball coach at the University of Evansville (Ind.), she left a program on the shore of the Fox River that was charted on the radar screen as an annual 20-game winner, WIAC champion and NCAA Division III national power.

Bennett's formula for bringing UW-Oshkosh to national prominence worked quickly. In fact, it didn't even take one season as the Titans posted a 17-7 record during her first year at the school, finished second in the WIAC and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division III Championship.
Led by NCAA Division III All-American and UW-Oshkosh Hall of Fame member Lisa Kirchenwitz, the Titans posted their first 20-win season in school history in 1991 and claimed their first WIAC title since 1985. The Titans went 21-5 on the hardwood that year and advanced to the second round of the NCAA Division III Championship.

Bennett, a Stevens Point High School graduate, guided UW-Oshkosh to an 18-6 record in 1992, with another WIAC title and appearance in the NCAA Division III Championship. In 1993, the Titans posted a 16-8 mark and finished third in the WIAC.

The best was yet to come for Bennett and the Titans over the next three seasons as they fashioned an 83-6 record, registered three WIAC championships and made three quarterfinal round appearances in the NCAA Division III Championship. But, none of those accomplishments matched the 31-0 season of 1996 when the Titans won the school's first NCAA Division III women's basketball title.

Bennett's Resume

UW-Oshkosh Head Women's Basketball Coach 1990-96
Coaching Record 155-32 (94-17 WIAC)
NCAA Division III Championship Appearances
1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996
NCAA Division III Final Four
Champion 1996 (31-0 Season Record)
Second-Place 1995 (28-3 Season Record)
WIAC Champion
1991, 1992, 1994, 1995, 1996
NCAA Division III Coach Of The Year
1996
WIAC Coach Of The Year
1991, 1994, 1996
Coached One NCAA Division III Player Of The Year
Coached Two NCAA Division III All-America First Team Selections
Coached 17 All-WIAC First Team Selections
Followed Tenure At UW-Oshkosh By Being Named Head Women’s Basketball Coach
At The University of Evansville & Indiana University

UW-Oshkosh proceeded its 1996 season by compiling a 24-3 record in 1994 and a 28-3 mark in 1995. The Titans advanced to the quarterfinal round of the NCAA Division III Championship in 1994 and to the title game in 1995, where it lost 59-55 to Capital University (Ohio) on the Crusaders' home court.

Paced by NCAA Division III Player of the Year Wendy Wangerin, Bennett's Titans finished the 1996 season perfect. In the title game of the NCAA Division III Championship, UW-Oshkosh defeated Mount Union College (Ohio), 66-50, before a NCAA Division III Championship record crowd of 4,001 fans in Kolf Sports Center. Bennett was recognized that season as the Coach of the Year in the NCAA Division III by the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA).

Bennett's seven-year ledger at UW-Oshkosh is impressive - a 155-32 overall coaching record, a 94-17 WIAC coaching record, six NCAA Division III Championship appearances, five WIAC titles, 17 All-WIAC first team selections, two NCAA Division III All-America selections, and of course, one NCAA Division III title.

Bennett, the daughter of former University of Wisconsin and current Washington State University head men's basketball coach Dick Bennett, resides in Bloomington, Ind., where she recently completed her third season as head women's basketball coach at Indiana University. Bennett is a 1986 graduate of UW-Green Bay.
 

Pete Benson, 1999

Pete BensonA true ambassador for the sport, Pete Benson becomes only the second UW-Oshkosh golfer to be inducted into the school's Hall of Fame.

Benson enrolled at UW-Oshkosh in 1965 after a stellar high school career in Oconto. At UW-Oshkosh, Benson immediately became an impact performer as he helped the Titans to their first then-called WSUC golf championship since 1955. The Titans repeated as league champion in 1967 and 1968, with Benson receiving all-conference status for finishing second in the individual standings both years.

Qualifying through its performance at the NAIA District 14 Meet, Benson and his UW-Oshkosh teammates made four appearances at the NAIA National Championship. The Titans finished 12th in the country in 1965, 15th in 1966, 7th in 1967 and 11th in 1968. Benson's individual success matched that of the Titans as he averaged 79 strokes on 18 holes of golf in 1965, 78 in 1966, 76 in 1967 and an impressive 74.3 in 1968.

Benson's Resume

Men's Golf
  Varsity Letters 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968
  All-WSUC 1967, 1968
  NAIA All-District 14 1967, 1968
  WSUC Championship Team 1965, 1967, 1968
  NAIA National Tournament Team 1965, 1966, 1967, 1968
    7th-Place Team 1967
High School Golf Coach 1968-Present
Ambassador Of The Sport Of Golf

Since graduating from UW-Oshkosh in 1968, Benson has taught and coached at public schools in Kaukauna. As head boys' golf coach at Kaukauna High School, Benson has led the Ghosts to two second-place finishes at the WIAA State Tournament and two Fox Valley Association championships. In addition, he has guided teams to eight WIAA State Tournament appearances and 18 invitational titles. Besides golf, Benson has coached third and fourth grade boys' basketball, seventh and eighth grade boys' basketball and ninth grade girls' basketball.

Residing in Kaukauna, Benson remains active as an amateur golfer. His past accomplishments include a Wisconsin Publinx Championship, a Northeastern Wisconsin Golf Association Championship and five Fox Cities Tournament titles. Young children have also benefited from Benson's expertise in the sport as nearly 200 participants have taken part in his PeeWee and Junior Golf Program each summer since 1984.

Milt Blake, 1987

Edward Boguski, 1974

Coming SoonBorn in the small town of Princeton, WI in 1905. After having graduated from Princeton High School he attended University of Wisconsin at Oshkosh. While there he participated in track.

In 1928 he qualified for the 1918 Olympics.. Only an unlikely quirk of fate kept the young athlete from representing his country at the Olympiad in the Netherlands. Possibly due to a heavy work load he came down with the flu and was unable to make the trip to Amsterdam. An extreme disappointment for the wiry 23 year old .

There were other competitive consolations, one of which remains to this day. He still shares the Wisconsin State University Conference 220-yard dash record of 21.6 seconds, which he established back in 1927 and was not equaled until 1963.

After graduating he became a track, football, wrestling, boxing and cross county coach at West High School in Green Bay, WI for 27 years before moving to Franklin Jr. High School in Green Bay. Ed was also an Industrial Arts teacher

Boguski's Resume

1977 Arnie Herber Award from the Green Bay Elks Club
1980 Special Citation from Wisconsin Senate and Assembly
1985 Became a member of Wisconsin High School Football Coaches
Association Hall of Fame
Was a member of the Wisconsin Coalition on Aging
Long time amateur cartoonist.
He passed away in March of 1987

UW-Oshkosh

Stephanie Bostwick, 2002

Coming SoonAfter beginning her collegiate career at NCAA Division I University of Minnesota, where she earned varsity letters in both women's indoor and outdoor track and field as a freshman, Stephanie Bostwick returned to her home state for her next three competitive seasons to compose a distinguished career while attending UW-Oshkosh.

Bostwick, a Brown Deer High School graduate, was a member of UW-Oshkosh women's track and field teams from 1990 to 1992. She earned a total of six varsity letters for the Titans, competing both indoors and outdoors.

Her career at UW-Oshkosh is one that is decked with individual and team accolades, including four individual national titles, six All-America performances, five individual conference titles and two national team and five conference team championships.

During her first season at UW-Oshkosh, Bostwick helped the Titans to WIAC indoor and outdoor championships and the NCAA Division III national outdoor crown. After receiving All-America status with her fifth-place finish in the shot put at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championship, Bostwick helped the Titans to their first national team title in the sport later that year by finishing first in the shot put at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship. She won the first of her four national individual titles with a toss of 47-1.

Bostwick's Resume

Women’s Track & Field 1990, 1991 & 1992
NCAA Division III Indoor Shot Put Champion 1992
NCAA Division III Outdoor Shot Put Champion 1990, 1991 & 1992
NCAA Division III Indoor Shot Put All-America 1990, 1991 & 1992
NCAA Division III Outdoor Shot Put All-America 1990, 1991 & 1992
WIAC Indoor Shot Put Champion 1991 & 1992
WIAC Outdoor Discus Champion 1992
WIAC Outdoor Shot Put Champion 1991 & 1992
WIAC Outstanding Outdoor Field Athlete 1992
NCAA Division III Outdoor Team Champion 1990 & 1991
WIAC Indoor Team Champion 1990, 1991 & 1992
WIAC Outdoor Team Champion 1990 & 1991

In 1991, her junior campaign, Bostwick won WIAC indoor and outdoor titles in the shot put to help the Titans sweep both league championship crowns. At the national level, Bostwick finished second in the shot put indoors, while winning the event outdoors to help the Titans repeat as NCAA Division III champion. Her first-place effort in the shot put at the 1991 NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship was 47-1 3/4.

Bostwick's final season at UW-Oshkosh was indeed her best. Competing at the WIAC Championships, Bostwick repeated her first-place performances of the previous season in the indoor and outdoor shot put events and added a first-place finish in the outdoor discus to her resume. Bostwick's titles at the WIAC Outdoor Championship gained her the meet's Outstanding Field Athlete Award, while her labor indoors helped the Titans to the league championship.

Nationally that year, Bostwick won her first indoor shot put title and claimed her third straight outdoor shot put championship. At the NCAA Division III Indoor Championship, Bostwick won the shot put with a toss of 46-1 1/4 to help the Titans finish second in the team standings for the third straight season. Competing at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship, her last performance as a member of the Titans, Bostwick won the shot put with a heave of 45-8. The Titans finished second in the team standings at the national outdoor meet that year after placing first the previous two seasons.

Bostwick, a 1994 UW-Oshkosh graduate, lives with her husband and child in Menomonee Falls, where she teaches elementary school physical education classes and serves as an assistant girls' track and field coach at a high school in that city.

Dorian Boyland, 1987

Gerald Braisher, 1979

Brian Burbey, 1998

Brian BurbeyBrian Burbey was one of UW-Oshkosh's most accomplished and decorated football players during the late 1960's.

Burbey's athleticism and talent became apparent while attending Niagara High School where he earned letters in football and basketball all four years and in track and field his senior year. In football, he was selected All-Conference three straight years and received both All-State honorable mention and Most Valuable Player honors in 1964.

Burbey continued his success in football at UW-Oshkosh, where he was a four-year letter winner from 1966-69. UW-Oshkosh tied for the WSUC championship in 1968 with a record of 8-2. He earned All-WSUC honors in 1968 and 1969.

In 1969, Burbey came into his own as he tied a UW-Oshkosh record by scoring 26 points in a game against UW-River Falls. Burbey was the WSUC's leading rusher in 1969 and topped off the season by being named the team's Most Valuable Player.

Burbey's Resume

UW-Oshkosh Football
  Varsity Letters 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969
  All-WSUC 1968, 1969
  WSUC Championship Team 1968
  WSUC Leading Rusher 1969
  Team Most Valuable Player 1969
  Co-holder of school's single-game scoring record - 26 points
  School's fourth all-time leading rusher - 2, 250 career yards
  School's eighth all-time leading scorer - 116 career points

Burbey's 2,250 career rushing yards is fourth in school history. His 116 career points ranks eighth. Burbey's 879 rushing yards and 56 points scored in 1969 ranks sixth and seventh, respectively, in school history. His most memorable moment came in 1969 when Burbey led UW-Oshkosh to a 49-13 upset of nationally-ranked UW-Whitewater.

Following graduation from UW-Oshkosh, where he earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1971, Burbey played semi-pro football for the Manitowoc Chiefs. Burbey would go on to attend the Chicago Northwestern Engineer School. Although he did not pursue a career in education, the knowledge and self-discipline he gained both on and off the field while at UW-Oshkosh would serve him well into his 27-year career as a railroad engineer for Wisconsin Central, Ltd.

Today, Burbey belongs to the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers (BLE) and is presently serving as a delegate to the Intercommerce Department. He is also a member of the Seneca Pheasant Club, where he has been the treasurer for the past six years.

Burbey and his wife, Loie, live near Berlin, and enjoy attending sporting events throughout the country. Burbey spends his time hunting and raising and training hunting dogs.

Susan Burke, 2004

Susan BurkeGathering a total of nine NCAA Division III All-America awards and 10 WIAC event championships, Susan Burke did more than just participate in women's track and field at UW-Oshkosh, she excelled at it.

Burke was a member of head coach Deb Vercauteren's track and field program from 1988 to 1991, competing both indoors and outdoors. During that time she helped the Titans to NCAA Division III outdoor championships in 1990 and 1991 and WIAC indoor and outdoor titles in 1988, 1989, 1990 and 1991.

A graduate of Little Chute High School, Burke mainly competed in the high jump, 55-meter hurdles and pentathlon indoors and the high jump, heptathlon, 100-meter hurdles and javelin outdoors. She is a two-time All-American in the high jump indoors and a three-time All-American in both the high jump and heptathlon outdoors. Burke also gained All-America honors in the 55-meter hurdles indoors once.
Burke's performance at the WIAC indoor and outdoor championships was also impressive. Indoors, she won the pentathlon three times and the 55-meter hurdles once. Outdoors, she was victorious in the heptathlon four times and the high jump twice. Burke is currently one of only six people in the history of the WIAC to win an indoor or outdoor event four consecutive seasons, including one of only two outdoors.

In 1988, her first season with the Titans, Burke helped UW-Oshkosh to the WIAC indoor title by winning the pentathlon with 2,953 points. She also assisted the Titans to the league's outdoor championship that season by winning the heptathlon with 4,272 points.
Burke's Resume
Women's Indoor Track & Field 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
  NCAA Division III All-America
  High Jump 1990, 1991
  55-Meter Hurdles 1991
  WIAC Event Champion
  Pentathlon 1988, 1990, 1991
  55-Meter Hurdles 1991
  Outstanding WIAC Championship Field Athlete 1990, 1991
  WIAC Championship Team 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
Women's Outdoor Track & Field 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
  NCAA Division III All-America
  High Jump 1989, 1990, 1991
  Heptathlon 1989, 1990, 1991
  WIAC Event Champion
  High Jump 1990, 1991
  Heptathlon 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
  Outstanding WIAC Championship Field Athlete 1989, 1990, 1991
  NCAA Division III Championship Team 1990, 1991
  WIAC Championship Team 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991
UW-Oshkosh's NCAA Woman Of The Year 1991

The following year, Burke helped UW-Oshkosh to a pair of WIAC championships by finishing second in the pentathlon with 2,910 points indoors and first in the heptathlon with 4,299 points and second in the javelin with a throw of 106-11 1/2 outdoors. Burke was named Field Athlete of the Meet after her effort at the WIAC Outdoor Championship. She concluded the year by finishing third in the high jump with a leap of 5-5 and third in the heptathlon with 4,551 points to gain All-America honors at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship.

UW-Oshkosh swept both WIAC titles in 1990, with Burke winning the pentathlon with 3,223 points indoors and winning the heptathlon with 4,466 points and the high jump with a height of 5-6 outdoors. She was named Field Athlete of the Meet at both WIAC championships. Burke helped UW-Oshkosh to a first-place finish at the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championship that year by placing second in the heptathlon with 4,783 points and sixth in the high jump with a leap of 5-5 to gain All-America honors. She also received All-America honors at the national indoor meet that season by finishing fifth in the high jump with a leap of 5-5 1/4.

Burke was named Field Athlete of the Meet at both of the WIAC championships in 1991. Leading the Titans to the indoor crown, Burke won the pentathlon with 3,128 points and the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.63 seconds while placing second in the high jump with a leap of 5-3 3/4. Outdoors, she helped the Titans to the conference title by winning the heptathlon with 4,318 points and the high jump with a leap of 5-7 1/4 while placing second in the 100-meter hurdles with a time of 15 seconds. Burke helped UW-Oshkosh to the NCAA Division III outdoor title that year by finishing second in the high jump with a leap of 5-7 3/4 and third in the heptathlon with 4,691 points to gain All-America honors. She also placed second in the high jump with a leap of 5-6 1/2 and fourth in the 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.56 seconds to achieve All-America status at the NCAA Division III Indoor Championship held that year.

Burke, a 1991 UW-Oshkosh graduate, lives in Neenah with her husband, Ken, and their two children. She is currently employed by the Appleton Police Department.

Helen Briwa, 2006

Helen Briwa

 

 

Briwa's Resume
UW-Oshkosh Women’s Director Of Athletics 1971-88
  Teams Won Two NCAA Division III Titles
  Teams Won One NAIA Title
  Teams Won One AIAW Division III Title
  Teams Won 18 WWIAC Titles
UW-Oshkosh Head Women’s Badminton Coach
UW-Oshkosh Head Women’s Field Hockey Coach
  1981 WWIAC Coach Of The Year
UW-Oshkosh Head Women’s Softball Coach
UW-Oshkosh Head Women’s Track & Field Coach
UW-Oshkosh Head Women’s Volleyball Coach
One Of The Pioneers Of The UW-Oshkosh Women’s Athletics Program
Among A Group Of Women Who Helped Create The WWIAC
WWIAC President 1982
WWIAC Special Recognition Award 1989
MAIAW Commissioner 1971
UW-Oshkosh Hall Of Fame Committee 1974-Present
Inducted May 7, 2006