Competing 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
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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 |
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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.
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When 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
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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 |
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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.
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A 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
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| Men's Golf |
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Varsity Letters
1965, 1966, 1967, 1968 |
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All-WSUC 1967, 1968 |
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NAIA All-District 14
1967, 1968 |
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WSUC Championship
Team 1965, 1967, 1968 |
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NAIA National
Tournament Team 1965, 1966, 1967,
1968 |
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7th-Place
Team 1967 |
| High School
Golf Coach 1968-Present |
| Ambassador
Of The Sport Of Golf |
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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.
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Edward Boguski, 1974 |
Born 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
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UW-Oshkosh |
After 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
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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 |
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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.
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Brian 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
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| UW-Oshkosh
Football |
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Varsity Letters
1966, 1967, 1968, 1969 |
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All-WSUC
1968, 1969 |
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WSUC
Championship Team 1968 |
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WSUC Leading Rusher
1969 |
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Team Most
Valuable Player 1969 |
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Co-holder
of school's single-game scoring
record - 26 points |
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School's
fourth all-time leading rusher -
2, 250 career yards |
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School's eighth
all-time leading scorer - 116
career points |
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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.
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Gathering 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 |
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NCAA Division III
All-America |
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High Jump 1990, 1991 |
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55-Meter Hurdles
1991 |
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WIAC Event Champion |
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Pentathlon 1988,
1990, 1991 |
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55-Meter Hurdles
1991 |
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Outstanding WIAC
Championship Field Athlete 1990,
1991 |
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WIAC Championship
Team 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 |
| Women's
Outdoor Track & Field 1988,
1989, 1990, 1991 |
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NCAA Division III
All-America |
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High Jump 1989,
1990, 1991 |
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Heptathlon 1989,
1990, 1991 |
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WIAC Event Champion |
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High Jump 1990, 1991 |
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Heptathlon 1988,
1989, 1990, 1991 |
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Outstanding WIAC
Championship Field Athlete 1989,
1990, 1991 |
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NCAA Division III
Championship Team 1990, 1991 |
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WIAC Championship
Team 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991 |
| UW-Oshkosh's
NCAA Woman Of The Year 1991 |
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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.
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| Briwa's Resume |
| UW-Oshkosh
Women’s Director Of Athletics 1971-88 |
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Teams Won Two
NCAA Division III Titles |
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Teams Won One
NAIA Title |
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Teams Won One
AIAW Division III Title |
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Teams Won 18
WWIAC Titles |
| UW-Oshkosh
Head Women’s Badminton Coach |
| UW-Oshkosh
Head Women’s Field Hockey Coach |
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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 |
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