Football

August 15, 2000

ST. PAUL, Minn - UW-Stout football player Aaron Johnson was upgraded to serious condition at a St. Paul, Minn., hospital two days after being struck by a pickup truck early Sunday morning near New Richmond.

According to the St. Croix County sheriff department, Johnson was walking north on County Highway T about five miles east of New Richmond when he was struck by a northbound pickup truck.

Johnson was thrown into the ditch after being struck. The driver left the scene of the accident, the sheriff's department said, but returned about 20 minutes later.

Johnson suffered broken bones and head injuries and was airlifted to Regions Hospital in St. Paul, Minn. Johnson is a junior tailback from Clear Lake and is a returning starter.

August 11, 2000

MENOMONIE - UW-Stout's 1999 most valuable player, their most valuable defensive player and their top special teams player were all named to the 2000 USA Football Preseason All-America teams.

Linebackers Eric Lund (Sr, Ashland) and Jamie Spielman (So, Menomonie) and punter Kevin McCulley (Sr, Fond du Lac) were all named to the honorable mention squad.

Lund, who made the switch from linebacker to free safety for the season and will return to linebacker this season, finished the 1999 season as the Blue Devils' third leading tackler, despite missing the final two games due to a leg injury.

Spielman transferred to Stout after a red-shirted season at the University of Wisconsin, and finished as the team's top tackler, recording 53 solo tackles and 48 assisted tackles. Spielman had nine tackles for losses of 45 yards, and six sackes for 44 yards. Spielman was Stout most valuable defensive player and top linebacker

McCulley, both a kicker and punter, was the conference's top punter with a 40.1 yard per kick average and was Stout's top scorer, finishing the season with 49 points. McCulley was 9-for-13 in field goals and 22-for-23 in points after touchdowns. McCulley, who has already been named to two other preseason All-America teams, was chosen to USA Football as a punter.

July 30, 2000

McCulley, a 1999 first team Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) kicker and punter, was named to the second team as a punter on the D3football.com Preseason 2000 Team of the Year and an honorable mention pick as both punter and kicker on the DIII Football Preseason All-America Football team.

McCulley led the WIAC in punting and points scored by a kicker in both conference games and in all games.

McCulley, who place kicks barefoot, led the Blue Devils in scoring with 49 points, kicking 9-of-13 field goals. After missing the first point after of the season, McCulley rolled off 22 straight extra points made, going 22-of-23 on the season.

The Blue Devils open their season Saturday, Sept. 2 at Lakeland College in Sheboygan.

June 28, 2000

MENOMONIE - Two former collegiate centers will join the UW-Stout football coaching staff, UW-Stout head football coach Ed Meierkort announced today.

Rod Carey will join the Blue Devils as the co-offensive coordinator and will also work with the offensive line, while Dick Weinberger will work with the receivers. Carey played center at Indiana, while Weinberger was a center for St. Johns University in Collegeville, Minn.

A high school All-American center at Wayzata, Minn., High School, Carey finished his career at Indiana in 1994, playing in three major bowl games. Carey was named the team's outstanding offensive football player after his senior year.

Carey returned to Wayzata, where he coached the offensive line at the high school. The past two seasons he has worked as a graduate assistant at the University of Minnesota, where he worked with the offense of the Gophers. Carey expects to complete his masters work in kinesiology by 2001.

Weinberger brings a wealth of experience to the Blue Devils. After a stellar career at St. Johns where his senior team won the Johnnies' last national title in 1976, Weinberger took his football coaching skills to a number of Twin Cities' area high schools.

After serving as an assistant coach at Totino Grace and Woodbury high schools and a graduate assistantship at the University of Minnesota, Weinberger became the defensive coordinator at Tartan High School in Oakdale, Minn., for three years, then took over as the head coach.

In his 10 years at the helm at Tartan, Weinberger engineered a turnaround of the program, winning two conference titles and posting the best record of all conference schools over his final six years. Weinberger twice was named the conference coach of the year and coached the Minnesota all-star game.

Taking a program from "worst to first," Wienberger's program attracted the national eye of the ESPN network, but not only for the success on the field. During his tenure, Weinberger established a successful drug and alcohol awareness program.

After leaving Tartan football, Weinberger became an offensive assistant coach at Minnesota powerhouse Stillwater High School for the past three seasons.

Weinberger, who lives in Woodbury, Minn., with his wife and two sons, did his undergraduate work in biology and and his masters work in science education. Weinberger teaches science in the Skyview Middle School of the Tartan district.

Soccer

August 11, 2000

MENOMONIE - UW-Stout soccer coach Dave Morris announced the addition of two assistant coaches to work with the program. Sam Vang, Menomonie High School's first ever varsity coach, and Nti Behene Bonsu, a native of Ghana, will join Morris for the 2000 season.

Bonsu, a native of Ghana, comes to Stout as a graduate assistant with an impressive resume. Bonsu began his professional career leading Asanti Kotoko, one of Ghana's largest and most popular professional clubs to multiple national championships and berths in the African Champions Cup Tournament from 1984 to 1988.

Over the next eleven years, he coached top clubs all over sub-saharan Africa, winning a national title with Caps United (Zimbabwe) and leading KCC-Eldoret (Kenya) to the Moi Gold Cup Championship (equivalent of the US Open Cup) and the African Cup-Winners Cup. Internationally, he coached Ghana's U-20 national team and was an assistant for the full national side at the African Nations Cup in 1990.

Bonsu holds an "Advanced National" diploma from the National Soccer Coaches Association of America. Bonsu role at Stout includes working with varsity and junior varsity goalkeepers, as well as assisting with the varsity team as a whole.

Vang, Stout's first ever junior varsity and varsity assistant coach, has been Menomonie High School's only varsity coach (boys and girls). His teams have been highly successful at the high school level, and he has also been instrumental in the development of soccer throughout western Wisconsin. Vang brings decades of soccer teaching experience to Stout's developmental soccer program, and also provides an important connection between Stout and the western Wisconsin soccer community.

"We're excited to be bringing two experienced coaches on board," Morris said. "With our team more than doubling in size (18 players in 1999 to 52 trying out in 2000), we felt it was important to start a junior varsity program - one that could help local players develop even after they got to our campus."

Morris believes both coaches will be important to the development of his incoming players and the team as a whole through the development of a junior varsity program.

"Coach Vang has the patience and expertise to help our less experienced players close the soccer gap," Morris said. "Given the uneven level of competition in some areas of western Wisconsin, I feel we need to provide a more structured developmental environment for these athletes. These players are good athletes, but need to get match experience at a higher level to develop. I believe playing a junior varsity schedule, and getting all that playing time, will be a more positive experience than ad hoc efforts trying to help players develop at the end of the bench."

"In Coach Bonsu, we had an opportunity to bring over maybe the most experienced international soccer coach ever to come to the upper Midwest," continued Morris. "Getting a coach with his kind of experience is a great learning opportunity for us, and at the same time he is excited to be learning about the women's game - where we in the US are really at the cutting edge."

During the interview process, Morris and Bonsu discovered a common professional vision right away.

"When he interviewed, we ended up passing different tactical diagrams back and forth - we spent a couple of hours at it," Morris said. "We found we share a vision for how soccer should be played and I think our very different backgrounds complement each other well.

I just had to promise that our chancellor would not interfere with our line-up selections, and that we would not let fans throw rocks at our bench. Once we got those issues out of the way, we had a deal."

The Blue Devils begin training camp Wednesday, Aug. 16 and open their season, Friday, Sept. 1 at Illinois Wesleyan in Bloomington, Ill.

Women's Cross Country

August 17, 2000

MENOMONIE - Joe Harlan received a nice birthday present this year.

After interviewing on his birthday, Aug. 10, Harlan was offered the UW-Stout women's cross country and track positions and enthusiastically accepted the position.

After four years as the head men's and women's cross country and track and field coach at Clark College, a community college in Vancouver, Wash., Harlan will begin almost immediately for the 2000 season.

Harlan brings a resume packed with success. During his stint at Clark, he coached 72 athletes to All-America status and 210 athletes to All-Region status in both men's and women's track and cross country. In 1998 and again in 1999, Harlan was named the women's regional cross country and track coach of the year. In 1999, Harlan was named the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges cross country coach of the year.

"We are excited to have Joe Harlan take over our women's cross country and track programs," athletic director Steve Terry said. "Joe brings an intense level of enthusiasm that we believe will be contagious to our programs."

Harlan said he was ready to take the step up to a four year university program.

"I have had some really good athletes coming in and have been able to develop some good athletes," Harlan said, "but I would only have them for two years. I would spend a lot of time developing athletes for four year schools."

Harlan said now he would be able to spend the time developing student athletes and see them run for his program. And Harlan will be able to concentrate on two programs instead of four.

"I get to double my attention span," Harlan said about coaching just the women's programs at Stout. "I will be able to be more focused and spend more individual time."

The move to NCAA Division III Stout also gives Harlan an opportunity to pursue some personal goals.

"I want to compete at the national level, but (at Clark) we don't have a national meet, per se," Harlan said. "That national level competition is important."

The potential at Stout intrigued Harlan about the position, but he admittedly comes in with high expectations.

"My expectations are very high," Harlan said. "I hope to instill that into my athletes. I would like them it excel individually at the conference, regional and national levels.

"I expect to get in there and challenge. Once we have a recruiting class or two, I expect us to challenge the conference leaders. I would like us to get the team into the top half of the conference quickly."

A two-time conference champion in the 10,000-meter run at NCAA Division II Central Missouri State University, Harlan, a Phoenix, Ariz., native, has coached at the high school and college levels. He was an assistant coach at his alma mater and was also at NCAA Division I University of Montana.

Harlan likes what he sees at Stout.

"There is a lot of potential here at Stout," Harlan said. "There is a lot to offer at Stout. We have excellent facilities, and with the new rec complex, it demonstrates a commitment to improving facilities. It shows we are moving ahead."

In addition to his coaching duties, Harlan will teach in the Department of Physical Education and Athletics. Harlan has taken a particular interest in strength training, having worked at the US Olympic Training Center in Lake Placid, New York, and has worked as a personal trainer. He is currently working on a textbook that is slated to be published in 2001 concentrating on the physiology of women's strength training.

Men's Basketball

August 9, 2000

MENOMONIE - The University of Wisconsin-Stout has gone thousands of miles to claim one of their own as the next Blue Devil head men's basketball coach.

Ed Andrist, head coach at Mt. Senario and a former assistant coach at Stout, was announced today as the 15th men's basketball coach by the University.

"I am excited about the selection of Ed Andrist as head men's basketball coach and am looking forward to a dynamic season ahead," UW-Stout Chancellor Charles W. Sorensen said. "Ed brings the right combination of experience, enthusiasm and style to the job."

Andrist has spent much of the summer overseas coaching the Qatar national men's team. He is currently preparing the Qatar team for the Asian Games by playing a series of games in basketball-crazy Croatia. Andrist returned to Menomonie to participate in the interview process.

After 11 very successful seasons at Mt. Senario College in Ladysmith where the Saints won three national titles, Andrist (250-191 at Mt. Senario) is very excited to return to Stout where he got his coaching start.

"I bleed blue and white," Andrist said. "I am a true blue Stout person. When I left Stout, I always stayed up with the program."

Andrist came to Stout in 1972 to play for the basketball team, but was cut as a player. Former coach Dwain Mintz asked Andrist to join the team as a coach for the 1974-75 and 1975-76 seasons. It was during the 1974-75 season that Andrist got his first taste of championship basketball, when the Blue Devils won the conference title, the last time that has been achieved at Stout. Andrist again coached under Mintz for three seasons from 1984-87.

"I will never forget that (championship) feeling," Andrist said.

Andrist hopes to return that feeling to Stout, and his background speaks well. While at Mt. Senario, the Saints won six conference titles, participated in nine national tournaments, advanced to six national final fours and won national championships in the National Small College Athletic Associaion (NSCAA) in 1996, 1994 and 1991.

"There is no other feeling like winning the final game of the year in your division and walking away with the national men's basketball championship," Andrist said. "It doesn't matter what level you are at.

"Having that experience three separate times, I will be able to share with our team what that feels like."

"Ed brings a wealth of national tournament experience with him as well as the ability to get his teams to play at the highest possible level they are capable of," Sorensen said.
Stout athletic director Steve Terry agreed with Sorensen's assessment.

"I believe Ed has the tools and past experience to make UW-Stout competitive within the conference," Terry said. "Having coached in the conference and against it, Eddie knows the WIAC (Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference). In addition to knowing the conference, with his connection as a student and coach, Ed also knows the Stout community as well as the Menomonie community."

"Knowledge of the WIAC is invaluable," Andrist said. "I know all of the (conference) coaches extremely well (except the newly hired coach at UW-La Crosse)." Over his 11 years at Mt. Senario, Andrist's teams have played all of the conference schools.

In the arena, Andrist calls himself a "huge defensive guy who plays a simple offense. I love to full court press and I love to run hard. This league is a very strong halfcourt league and in order to compete, we will have to be strong in the halfcourt. The coaches are real smart in this league and you had better do what you do well, or they will chew you up."

Andrist's teams never shied away from strong competition. In addition to playing WIAC schools, Mt. Senario has taken on other NCAA Division III programs, as well as NCAA Division II, NAIA Division I and some NCAA Division I teams.

"I have always felt the better the teams you play, the better we can become as a team," Andrist said. "Playing a quality team will be more valuable than blowing out a weak team."

"Stout is fortunate to get someone of his passion and enthusiasm," Ryan said. "I think that I love the game, but I don't know anyone that loves the game as much as Eddie. I have so much respect for him. He is not afraid to go anywhere, at any time, to compete and play."

"I look forward to welcoming Ed into the university system," said Jack Bennett, the head men's coach at UW-Stevens Point. "Ed will add some things he has done in the past and will make an already tremendously strong conference ever stronger. He has paid his dues, at the high school and small school college level and has an assistant coach. I'm happy to see someone who has done it the blue collar way."

"I am delighted Ed is getting this chance," said Dick Bennett, head coach for the Wisconsin Badgers. "He has paid his dues. I believe Stout made an excellent choice."

"I will always be grateful to Dwain Mintz for my start in coaching," Andrist said. "He is the reason I am in coaching today and he deserves the credit."

Andrist is excited to get working with his coaching staff and players.

"I would like to give credit to (assistant coach) Joe Carollo for holding the UW-Stout program together during this transition time," Andrist said. "I am extremely happy that he is on my staff. I couldn't ask for a better assistant coach."

Andrist will wrap up his experience with the Qatar national team and return to Menomonie the end of the month, just in time for school to begin.

In the meantime, he will count on Carollo to begin to make the changes.

"There is a whole team I want to communicate with," Andrist said. "We will work very close on the day-to-day things."

Andrist, who received his bachelors degree in technology education from Stout in 1976 and his masters degree in physical education from Winona State in 1982, coached and taught at LaFarge, Stanley-Boyd and Stockbridge high schools. Andrist will also serve as an instructor in the Department of Physical Education and Athletics.

Andrist enjoys family life with his wife, Connie, and six children, Les, Ryan, Kasey, April, Sean and Kelsey.

Softball

July 17, 2000

MENOMONIE - The UW-Stout softball team ranked sixth nationally in stolen bases in the final 2000 NCAA Division III softball statistics.

The Blue Devils easily led the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) when they shattered the school record by stealing 153 bases in 184 attempts. Stout averaged 3.40 stolen bases per game. The NCAA ranks many of their statistics on a per game average.

Angie Pinnow (Jr, Bruce) led the team with 33 thefts in 38 attempts. Pinnow was followed by Janel Krenz (Jr, McFarland) with 21 in 25 attempts, Erin Slaikeu (Fr, North St. Paul, Minn) with 18 in 20 attempts, Cara Fenhouse (Sr, Superior) with 18 in 22 attempts and Dyan DePas (Fr, Waunakee) with 17 in 22 attempts.

Lehman College in New York led the country with 173 steals in 183 attempts (6.92 steals per game).

Pinnow, a first team all-conference pick, ranked 22nd in home runs hit, slugging a school record nine to average 0.21 over 43 games. Pinnow led the league in home runs and stolen bases.

July 17, 2000

MENOMONIE - UW-Stout centerfielder Brad O'Connell (Jr, Elk Mound) finished fifth in home runs hit per game in the final 2000 NCAA Division III statistics.

O'Connell hit a school record 15 round trippers in 37 games to average 0.417 home runs per game. The NCAA ranks many of their statistics on a per game average. Jose Cortez of Pomona-Pitzer College in California hit 17 homers with a 0.459 per game average to lead the nation. Jay Coakley of Marietta, Ohio, led the nation in most home runs with 20 in 51 games.

O'Connell, who also set a school record in stolen bases in nabbing 26 in 26 attempts, ranked 23rd in stolen bases with 0.71 per game. He ranked 14th in runs scored (53 runs/ 1.43 runs per game) and 19th in slugging percentage (.821).

O'Connell was a first team all-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) pick.

As a team, the Blue Devils ranked 15th in home runs, hitting 39 in 37 games for a 1.05 home runs per game average. Stout was 16th in slugging percentage (.520). JR Dachel (Sr, Bloomer) and Dave Rueber (Jr, Afton, Minn) trailed O'Connell in home runs with seven apiece.

June 23, 2000

DENTON, Texas - UW-Stout freshman Mike Turgeon (Perham, Minn) wasted little time in discus competition at the USA Track and Field Junior National Championships in Denton, Texas, Friday, June 23.

Turgeon, who redshirted the past track season at Stout, uncorked his best throw in the discus with his first toss, landing the platter 159-feet, 4-inches. Turgeon placed eighth, which earned him All-America honors.

Turgeon placed ahead of athletes from several NCAA Division I schools. To compete in the Junior Nationals, athletes must be between the ages of 14-19 and can't turn 20 during the year 2000 and must be a citizen of the United States. More than 700 athletes from around the country competed at the two-day meet at the University of North Texas.

Athletic Training Center

July 17, 2000

MENOMONIE - Susan Lew has been named as the University of Wisconsin-Stout head athletic trainer, UW-Stout athletic director Steve Terry announced.

Lew, who was the head athletic trainer at Mt. Senario College in Ladysmith since 1997, will head up the Athletic Training Center which serves more than 400 student/athletes in 14 different sports by covering practices, games and many other events. Lew will also oversee and train a staff of student trainers. Besides Blue Devil events and practices, the Athletic Training Center staffs clinics and tournaments held on campus.

Lew, who will also teach classes in the Department of Physical Education and Athletics, earned her masters degree in Health, Physical Education and Recreation with an emphasis in sports medicine from South Dakota State University in 1996. She earned a bachelors degree from UW-Eau Claire in Corporate Exercise Management with a minor in sports medicine in 1994.

In addition to her experience at Mt. Senario, Lew served internships at the Comprehensive Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Clinic and the Chippewa Valley Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Clinic, both in Eau Claire.

She has worked as a trainer with the Roseville, Minn., junior hockey league, an American women's soccer team that toured Holland and Denmark, and with Special Olympics, both regional and international meets.

Lew, a native of Stillwater, Minn., and her husband, Dave, reside in Menomonie with their son, Dane. The couple is expecting their second child this fall.

August 7, 2000

MENOMONIE - Heidi Otterholt has been named as the assistant athletic trainer at UW-Stout.

Otterholt obtained her bachelor's degree in 1999 from UW-Eau Claire in kinesiology where she served as both a staff member in the Blugolds' athletic training center and as a student trainer. Otterholt is working to complete her masters work in education and professional development at Eau Claire.

A native of Eau Claire, Otterholt just completed a stint at the McDonough Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Center in Wisconsin Rapids, working as an athletic trainer with local high schools and also in the clinic.

As a member of the Blue Devil athletic training staff, Otterholt will assist head athletic trainer Susan Lew, where the Athletic Training Center serves more that 400 student/athletes competing in 14 different sports.

An avid water skier, Otterholt competes with the Wisconsin Rapids Aquaskiers. The team is competing at the national tournament Aug. 12-13 in Rockford, Ill.

WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll

August 17, 2000

MADISON - More than 130 UW-Stout athletes were named to the 1999-2000 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) Scholastic Honor Roll.

Seventy female student/athletes and 65 male student/athletes were honored. To be eligible for the award, student/athletes must have earned a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or better and have completed 24 credit hours. Approximately 350 students participate in varsity athletics at UW-Stout.

A complete listing by school and sport of the 1999-2000 WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll can be found on the WIAC website at:

Men's Scholastic Honor Roll

Women's Scholastic Honor Roll

Men's
Baseball: Justin Biever, South Milwaukee; Nick Kalina, Potosi; Scott Meyer, Austin, Minn; Jake Streich, Howard Lake, Minn; Dan Sullivan, Oregon

Basketball: Rik Bertin, Fredonia; Mike Brudos, La Crosse; Ben Kuepers, Dickeyville; Jeremy Leibfried, Dickeyville, Dave Loewe, Hiles; Chris Selz, Eau Claire

Cross Country: Alex Anderson, Fairbault, Minn; Jamie Block, West Bend; Eric Hanson, Winona, Minn; Dave Huber, Mendota Heights, Minn; Josh Johnson, Oregon; Seth Kaste, Cadott; Jason Kirch, Sauk City; Chris Stevens, New Richmond; Mike Western, Boyd

Football: Eric Aamodt, Menomonie; Tony Beckham, Ocala, Fla; Riley Eckerman, Chetek; Josh Gawlik, West Bend; Doug Goetz, Elgin Ill; Marty Goryl, Greenfield; John Hanson, Grantsburg; Mitch Holliday, Menomonie; Aaron Johnson, Clear Lake; Brian Johnson, Hudson; Ryan Looker, Owen; Jerad Marsh, Seymour; Steve Miller, Lodi; Josh Moe, Neenah; Nick Mouw, Spooner; Jason Nesbitt, Burlington; Clint Petit, Fremont; Mike Purfeerst, River Falls; Chad Reichelt, Appleton; Darik Rude, Zumbrota, Minn; Tyler Vachowiak, Wausau

Ice Hockey: Joe Berry, Apple Valley Minn; Brent Cronk, Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Aaron Decker, Mound, Minn; Andrew Fenton, Russel, Manitoba, Canada; Josh Marklevits, Spring Valley, Minn; Ben Mosier, St. Paul Minn; Luke Murray, Bloomington Minn; Drew Nichols, Victoria, Minn; Matt Olson, Buffalo, Minn; Ben Plester, Chemanius B.C.; Anthony Sikich, Apple Valley, Minn; Brad Weappa, Brooklyn Center, Minn.

Track & Field: Alex Anderson, Faribault, Minn; Mike Bethke, Mondovi; Jamie Block, West Bend; Bob Cahow, Clear Lake; Eric Hanson, Winona; John Hanson, Grantsburg; David Huber, Mendota Heights, Minn; Jesse Hunter, La Farge; Josh Johnson, Oregon; Seth Kaste, Cadott; Jason Kirch, Sauk City; Corey Knudsen, Elk Mound; Steve Quackenbush, McFarland; Dan Reinert, Eau Claire; Jim Staska, Menomonee Falls; Chris Stevens, New Richmond; Mike Twining, Clear Lake; Ethan Webinger, LaCrescent Minn; Sam Werner, Elk Mound

Women's
Basketball: Stacie Anderson, Clayton; Amy Baumann, Marathon; Tiffani Calmes, Colby; Jenica Fostvedt, Chetek; Tina Gillen, Faribault; Bethany Halverson, Whitehall; Tina McNamara, New Richmond; Rachel Thieke, Chatfield, Minn; Amy Zelinger, Waterford

Cross Country: Amy Arndt, Lakefield, Minn; Terra Dahlheimer, St. Michael, Minn; Ellen Everson, Blair; Tanya Miller, Green Bay; Meredith Nordberg, Bloomington, Minn; Lisa Sorvala, New Brighton

Gymnastics: Alissa Martin, Blaine, Minn; Kelli Mork, Menomonie; Tasha Pasch, Northfield, Minn; Lauren Seebert, Appleton

Soccer: Beth Bushman, Eagan, Minn; Shannon Camp, Blaine, Minn; Lisa Cocchairella, Woodbury Minn; Theresa Hamilton, Woodbury Minn; Becky Howard, Wauwatosa; Carrie Kennedy, Watertown; Mary Kochnowicz, Oak Creek; Nicole Komorowski, Oak Creek; Raina Schneider, Sheboygan; Kim Severson, Belleville; Tricia Sykes, Cloquet, Minn

Softball: Bobbie Bailey, Stillwater, Minn; Jill Coyle, Spring Lake Park, Minn; Becky Deuel, Big Lake, Minn; Kelley Espey, Byron Minn; Jen Fedie, Mondovi; Cara Fenhouse, Superior; Molly Harms, Norwood; Janel Krenz, McFarland; Kristin Liberty, Tomahawk; Julie Newhouse, Decorah, Iowa; Angie Pinnow, Bruce; Carla Ranallo, Eagan, Minn; Amanda Schmidt, Bloomer; Erin Slaikeu, North St. Paul, Minn; Jill Tetu, Maplewood Minn; Jessie Ustby, Onalaska; Becky Zimmerman, Fall Creek

Tennis: Katy Berry, Eau Claire; Lauren Mader, Neenah; Cecily Marx, Thiensville; Tina McNamara, New Richmond; Jodi Noll, Menomonie

Track & Field: Amy Arndt, Lakefield, Minn; Beth Bailey, Pine Island, Minn; Heidi Bedsted, Plainview Minn; Ann Marie Curtis, La Crosse; Ellen Everson, Blair; Tracey Gundert, Malone; Sarah Jenne, Waunakee; Jessica Krejci, Lakeville, Minn; Caroline Myrlie, Buffalo; Meredith Nordberg, Bloomington Minn; Sara Pivec, Coon Rapids, Minn; Nora Ready, St. Charles, Minn; Dana Rozmenowski, Black River Falls; Andrea Schwabenlender, Bristol; Lisa Sorvala, New Bighton; Jennifer Turner, Eden Prairie Minn; Alison West, Cadott

Volleyball: Beth Bailey, Pine Island, Minn; Becky Deuel, Big Lake Minn; Rachel Eidet, North Mankato, Minn; Tori Feit Rushmore, Minn; Laura Huntoon, Byron, Minn; Jenny Kraczek, Blaine Minn; Holly La Vallie, Owatonna, Minn; Sara Weflen, Jackson Minn; Alison West, Cadott