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Brad Arnett
Arnett graduated in 1994 with a degree in physical education with an emphasis in corporate, community fitness and health. He lettered four years for the UW-W football team, and was a member of the Whitewater team that went undefeated in conference play, and through the regular season, in 1990 when the Warhawks earned a berth in the NCAA Division III playoffs. As a senior in 1993 Arnett earned All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Second Team honors. In 1993 he was named an All-American by the National Strength and Conditioning Association.
Arnett graduated from Fort Atkinson High School. After working in the strength and conditioning area of collegiate athletics for seven years, Arnett started his own business, NX Level Sports Performance Center in Waukesha, and developed a working relationship with a wide ranging clientele that includes Olympians and professional athletes. He is a resident of Waukesha. |
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Stephanie (Everett) Hernesman
Stephanie Everett-Hernesman earned four letters as an outside hitter for the Warhawk volleyball team from 1995-98. A three-time all-conference pick, Everett-Hernesman was also named American Volleyball Coaches Association All-Region in 1995, 96, and 97. She added American Volleyball Coaches Association Division III All-America each of those years. Everett-Hernesman was picked as a member of the 1996 NCAA III All-Tournament Team. She is in the record book a total of 26 times in categories including: career kills, career kill attempts, career service aces, career total blocks and career digs. Her 102 matches with double figure digs is first in the record books. She helped the volleyball team to conference titles in 1996 and 1997, and a conference tournament championship in 1997. The Warhawks advanced to the NCAA III tournament all four years, with the 1995 team taking third place. Everett-Hernesman was an assistant coach at UW-Whitewater from 1998 to 2003, and helping the team to a NCAA III championship in 2002. She is currently the co-head women's volleyball coach at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, Louisiana. |
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Holly Haas
Haas earned four varsity letters for the UW-W softball team, helping the team win the 1996 WIAC title and advance to the NCAA III tournament, and repeating the NCAA run in 1997. Haas was a first team all-conference selection in 1995, 1996, and 1997. She was also an all-region selection three times. Haas etched her name in the UW-Whitewater record books in multiple offensive categories. In the single season category, Haas is listed among UW-W's all-time leaders in at bats, hits, runs, and batting average. In the career categories, Haas among the leaders in at bats, hits, runs, runs batted in, doubles, triples, homeruns, and batting average.
Haas attended Pius XI High School in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Haas is a tower structural analyst for Crown Castle in Charlotte, North Carolina. |
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Jodi (Huber) Janke
Jodi Janke led UW-Whitewater women's soccer into existence as a varsity intercollegiate sport, beginning her career in 1992 in the team's initial season. She was named First Team All-Wisconsin Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Conference three of her four years on the team. Her performances on the soccer field still resonate in the school's record book. Janke's name shows up three times in the most goals in a season category, twice for most points in a season, and again for assists in a season. From 1992-95 she scored 34 career goals, tied for third in UW-W history. Her 84 career points is third and 11 assists in four years ties for tenth best in Whitewater's record book. Janke posted seven points in a match again against Lakeland in 1993, tied for seventh most by a Warhawk in a single match.
Janke currently resides in Pewaukee, Wisconsin. |
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Sue (Schroeder) Huddock
During her four year career as part of the UW-Whitewater women's swimming and diving team, Sue Schroeder Huddock established school records in the 500, 1000 and 1650 yard freestyle races, the 100 and 200 yard butterfly, and in multiple relay events. Schroeder Huddock's name still remains in the UW-W record book along with Gail Adank and hall of famer Kathy Weitala Bley in the 300 butterfly relay with a time of 3:13.94 set in 1983. Huddock Schroeder teamed up with Weitala Bley again in 1983 alongside teammates Kris Leisten and Jackie Walsh for the best 850 crescendo relay time in school history, 9:04.25, that still stands today. Huddock Schroeder is a three-time Wisconsin Women's Intercollegiate Athletic Conference champion, topping the field in the 1,650 yard freestyle with a time of 18:51.32 in 1985 and grabbing two titles in 1986, with a repeat in the 1,650, this time stopping the clock in 18:19.60, and besting the competition in the 500 yard freestyle in 5:18.32. She is one of just three Warhawk women to win three conference championships. In 1986 she qualified for the NCAA III championship, finishing twenty-fifth in the 500 freestyle and twenty-first in the 1650. In 1987 she earned her way to the national meet in three events, placing twentieth in the 200 butterfly, twenty-ninth in the 500 freestyle, and thirty-second i the 100 butterfly.
Huddock Schroeder, a New Berlin Eisenhower alumnae, graduated from UW-Whitewater in 1987 with a degree in communications. She currently works as a technical project manager for Mattersight Corporation in Edina, Minnesota and resides in Burnsville, Minnesota. |
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Derrick LeVake
LeVake was a cornerstone for two UW-W teams, excelling on the football field and on the mat. He played, and started, all four years in the Warhawk offensive line, earning second team all-conference honors as a freshman, and first team recognition his final three years including conference player of the year honors his senior season. In 1996, as a junior, he was named to four All-America teams, including the American Football Coaches Association Division III First Team. His senior year he was tabbed a first team All-American by all four organizations that followed Division III football. In 1997 he became the first offensive lineman named WIAC Player of the Year. That same year he was a finalist for the Melberger Award, given to the top Division III player in the country, the first offensive lineman ever, and a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy, given to an outstanding Division III player that represents the student-athlete ideal. LeVake helped UW-W win WIAC football championships in 1994 and 1997, with the '97 team advancing to the NCAA III playoffs. Though he wrestled just two years for UW-W, LeVake also made his mark there, placing second in the WIAC championship and then seventh in the NCAA III tournament to earn All-America honors. He came back for his junior season, went 23-5, again finished second in the WIAC and repeated his All-America recognition with a fifth place finish. He did not wrestle his senior year, preparing for professional football, where signed a contract with Cincinnati in 1998 and Miami in 1999,
LeVake, a West Allis/Central product, graduated from UW-W with a business management major in 1998. He is the chief executive officer, president and owner of Investigative Risk Management in Englewood, Colorado and lives in Aurora. |
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Mike Mikkelsen
Mikkelsen, with decades of service in UW-W booster clubs, is the 2013 Distinguished Service honoree. He has been active in the UW-W Tip-Off Club for thirty-five years, including a long tenure as the group's treasurer. He was one of the founders of Warhawk booster clubs' raffle/auction, which has raised over one million dollars for football, baseball and basketball, and has served as the treasurer for that project for seventeen years. Mikkelsen has also been a member of the Quarterback Club for more than thirty years, and is a charter member of the Warhawk Dugout Club. He is also active in his support of Warhawks athletics as a fan in the stands as well as a financial backer. Mikkelsen, a Whitewater resident, is the retired president of Palmyra State Bank where he still works part time. |
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Pat Rudnick
Rudnick led the UW-W cross country team to back-to-back national top twenty finishes. Rudnick earned All-America honors with a thirteenth place finish in the 1994 NCAA III championship as UW-W took eighteenth place in the team standings. One year later Rudnick earned All-America recognition again, placing fifteenth, as the Warhawks finished eighth as a team. He is one of just five UW-W men to earn cross country All-America honors twice. He also placed sixth in the NCAA III Midwest Regional both years, and twenty-ninth as a freshman in 1992. In 1995 he placed second in the WIAC championship, an accomplishment topped by just three runners in school history and his second time among the top ten at the conference meet. When he graduated Rudnick owned the fastest time by a Whitewater runner on UW-W's home course, and he was just the second Warhawk runner to break the 26:00 mark. He also lettered four years in track, adding a twelfth place in the 10,000 meters at the 1995 NCAA III outdoor championship.
Rudnick graduated from Menomonee Falls High School in 1991. A resident of Greenfield, Wisconsin, he is a chief financial officer for Direxion ETFs and Direxion Funds in Milwaukee. |
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Pat Tobiasz
Tobiasz attacked the Warhawk record book the way he did opposing pitchers. At graduation he held thirteen school offensive records, and still at the time of his election to the hall of fame, fifteen years after he finishing playing, he held most of the significant records in the book. That list includes career records for average (.407) and home runs (47), and the season mark for average (.458 in 1998). On March 22, 1998 Tobiasz clubbed four home runs, drove in twelve, and collected 16 total bases --- all etched in the Warhawk record book. He was First Team All-WIAC all four years, adding Player of the Year recognition in 1998. He was named American Baseball Coaches Association First Team All-Midwest Region in 1996, 1997, and 1998, and topped that off with ABCA Second Team All-America honors in 1998. Tobiasz was also a standout in the classroom. He was the WIAC Max Sparger Scholar Athlete for Baseball in 1998, a UW-W Chancellor's Scholar Athlete, and a College Sports Information Directors of America Second Team Academic All-American.
Tobiasz attended Marquette High School in Milwaukee, graduating in 1993. He received his degree from UW-W in 1998, and is now a senior portfolio manager for GE Healthcare Financial Services. He resides in New Berlin, Wisconsin. |
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