THE OFFICIAL ATHLETICS SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER

Joel Plewa, a graduate of South Milwaukee High School, was a member of the Warhawk swim team from 1980 to 1984.  He was a two time Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion, 1980 and 1981, in the 100 meter backstroke.  Plewa was also a four-time WIAC runner-up, in the 200 meter backstroke in 1980 and 1981, and in the 200 meter individual medley in 1982 and 1984.  Plewa earned All-America honors twice, finishing eleventh with the 400 freestyle relay in the 1980 National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics championship and ninth with that relay in the 1982 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III meet.  In the 1980 NAIA championship he placed also finished twenty-first in the 400 medley relay and sixteenth in the 200 backstroke.  In the1981 NCAA III championship he placed fourteenth in the 100 meter backstroke, setting the UW-Whitewater school record in the process.  In that same national championship he also swam the 200 meter backstroke finishing twenty-eighth, and he swam the 400 meter freestyle relay, placing twentieth. He was the Warhawk team captain for the 1982-83 and 1983-84 seasons.  A 1984 graduate, Plewa currently resides in South Milwaukee and is a middle school counselor in the Oak Creek-Franklin Joint School District.