THE OFFICIAL ATHLETICS SITE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-WHITEWATER

Mike Stanek played a key role in UW-Whitewater’s rise to national wrestling prominence in the 1970's.  Stanek lettered four years for the Warhawks, compiling a 96-16 record.  He won the Wisconsin State University Conference title as a freshman, sophomore and senior, missing the tournament his junior year because of an injury.  He was given the John Peterson Award, as the outstanding wrestler in the conference, his senior year.  As a freshman he qualified for the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics tournament.  He returned to the NAIA meet in 1974, earning all-American honors with an eighth place finish, and 1976, finishing second for more all-American recognition.  Stanek helped UW-W finish seventh in the ‘74 NAIA championship, and fifth in the 1976 team standings.  His 31-3 record as a senior is the ninth best winning percentage in school history, and a streak of seven consecutive wins by pin is tied for the second longest string in the record book.  Stanek’s total of 96 victories is tied for eleventh in the UW-W books, his career winning percentage is seventh best, he is sixth in career points earned, and tied for eighth in career pins in the school record book. A Whitewater High School graduate, Stanek graduate with a physical education major from the University in 1977.  He started his own business, Sui Company and Stanek Ultrasonic Imaging, in Whitewater in 1996.