National Athletes of the Year

Justin Beaver	Justin Beaver had to wait his turn. He averaged 6.8 yards per carry for the Warhawk football team, but watched as the number one tailback piled up carries and yards in 2004. When the opportunity rolled around in 2005, Beaver made the most of it. He rushed for a school, Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, and National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III record 2,420 yards. His 24 rushing touchdowns set school and conference record. He earned the first of three consecutive first team all-conference honors, and was a consensus first team All-American. He was also a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy, emblematic of the top player in Division III football. On the way to more big things in 2006, Beaver was temporarily stopped. While rushing for a school record 286 yards in a win over UW-La Crosse, he suffered an injury that caused him to miss five games, but he still wound up with 1,369 yards, first team all-conference and first team All-American honors. Beaver, and his teammates, saved the best for last. He broke his school, conference and NCAA III records with 2,455 yards rushing, was again a consensus All-American, was the WIAC Player of the Year, and capped his personal accomplishments with the Gagliardi Trophy in 2007. Beaver concluded his Warhawk career with the UW-W game, season and career rushing records. He also owned the top two seasons and the career mark in the WIAC record book, and the top two seasons in NCAA Division III history. Beaver ended 2007 tenth in NCAA career rushing, including Divisions I, II and III. His performance in the classroom was also recognized, with selection as the WIAC Sparger Scholar Athlete for football and a College Sports Information Directors of America Second Team Academic All-American. Possibly the greatest measure of his performance came in Beaver’s contributions to his team, leading the team to a 42-3 record in his three years as a starter, twenty-one consecutive wins and three undefeated WIAC titles, twenty-five straight wins in Perkins Stadium, and three consecutive NCAA III championship game appearances. The run was capped by UW-W’s 2007 NCAA III championship.

Theron Baumann	Theron Baumann was a picture of consistency during his three-year career as a thrower for the UW-Whitewater men’s track and field team, and his final collegiate meet was a direct reflection of that. He was named NCAA Division III Men’s Outstanding Field Performer of the meet at the 2017 national outdoor meet after accounting for 16 of the Warhawks’ 45 points and helping the team finish as national runner-up. Baumann captured his second career national title in the shot put and placed third in the discus throw at the national meet to achieve his seventh and eighth All-America honors of his career. The performance capped a season where Baumann established school records in both the indoor and outdoor shot put and took home conference championships in both the discus and outdoor shot put. He also helped the team finish third at the 2017 NCAA Indoor Championships with a runner-up finish in the shot put.

Daytona Bryden	By any measurement, Daytona Bryden put together one of the finest statistical seasons in Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference history in 2018 to earn D3baseball.com Position Player of the Year honors. The outfielder established single-season program records in batting average (.488) and triples (9), and finished among the program’s and conference’s all-time leaders for runs scored (75), stolen bases (28), hits (80), doubles (17) and slugging percentage (.866) in one season. Bryden led NCAA Division III in runs per game and triples, led the WIAC in batting average, on-base percentage (.554), runs scored, hits, triples, total bases (142) and stolen bases, and became the eighth player in WIAC history to hit for the cycle, doing so twice during the 2018 campaign. He was selected first team All-America by both D3baseball.com and the American Baseball Coaches Association, second team Google Cloud Academic All-America® by the College Sports Information Directors of America, WIAC Position Player of the Year, consensus first team All-Midwest Region and first team All-WIAC. Bryden finished his career as the program’s all-time leader in career batting average (.413) and stolen bases (81).

Levell Coppage	The accomplishments of Levell Coppage and success of Warhawk football are inextricably linked. He is the only back in UW-W history to rush for at least 1,000 yards in four seasons, and the first to top 2,000 yards three times. His career total of 7,795 yards is the UW-W and WIAC record --- and the second highest total ever in the NCAA in any Division. He holds WIAC records for career yards, touchdowns (109) and points (654), and season touchdowns (35) and points (210). Coppage added UW-W records for touchdowns in a game (4, four times) and yards in a game (386). A four-time All-WIAC First Team pick, he was the league’s Player of the Year in 2010 and 2011, and was named to the WIAC Centennial All-Time Team. A third team All-American as a freshman, Coppage was named first team All-American each of his final three years, and the D3football.com Offensive Player of the Year in 2010 and 2011. All the statistics, records and honors are secondary to his contributions to the team. Warhawk football went 53-2 in the four years Coppage played, 45-0 for the fifth longest win streak in NCAA football history --- all Divisions --- his last three years. His career covered four WIAC championships, four Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl D3 championship games, where he was twice the game’s Most Outstanding Player, and three NCAA III championships.

Chris Davis	Chris Davis keyed UW-Whitewater’s run to the NCAA III national championship in 2012. He averaged 22.2 points and 7.9 rebounds per game, both figures leading the WIAC. He also led the league with a .890 free throw percentage, and was among the top ten in field goal accuracy, .549, three point shooting, .411 and blocked shots, 0.74. UW-Whitewater won the 2012 WIAC championship with a 13-3 mark, earned a berth in the NCAA III championship tournament, advanced to the final four where they defeated MIT in the semifinal and Cabrini College 63-60 for the national title, ending the year 29-4. Davis was named Most Outstanding Player in the NCAA III final four. Davis was named 2012 WIAC Player of the Year, as well as national Division III player of the year by the National Association of Basketball Coaches and D3hoops.com, the first UW-Whitewater basketball to earn the national recognition. His 2011-12 season of 689 points is the third highest total in school history, the 22.2 average is sixth, and the free throw percentage the second best ever. He is also among the top twenty in the UW-W record book for season blocks, rebounds, and double doubles (points/rebounds). He wound up second in the school’s career records for scoring average (21.8) and eighth in rebound average (8.4), and in the top twenty for blocks per game, steals per game, field goal percentage and free throw percentage. Despite playing just two years for the Warhawks, he also ended his career with top twenty marks in total points, rebounds, blocked shots, and double doubles (points/rebounds). In his junior year, Davis averaged 21.3 points and 9.0 rebounds, both second in the WIAC. UW-W finished third in the WIAC with a 10-6 mark and went 17-9 overall.

Brady Endl	Brady Endl led the UW-Whitewater baseball team with an 8-1 record his freshman year, also batting .429 in limited action in the field, and serving notice of things to come. He batted .353 with 13 home runs, while going 5-2 on the mound, as a sophomore; hit .327 with a 4-2 mark his junior year; and closed his career batting .411 with 18 home runs and 63 runs batted in, while going 10-2 with a 2.35 earned run average and a 4/1 strikeout to walk ratio his senior season. His outstanding versatility was recognized with first team all-conference honors all four years, twice as a pitcher, once at first base, and once in a combined first base/designated hitter capacity. He was the WIAC’s Pitcher of the Year and the league’s Sparger Scholar Athlete for baseball in 2004. Endl wound up his career with his name etched throughout the WIAC record books, among the top twenty in pitching for season wins, strikeouts and innings pitched; and among the top twenty in batting for runs, hits, home runs, runs batted in, slugging percentage and walks. He also wrote his name in many of the same categories for career accomplishments in the league. Endl helped the Warhawks win three WIAC titles, also earning National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III berths in 2001, 2003 and 2004, where the ’04 team finished fourth in the national tournament. He was a third team American Baseball Coaches Association Division III All-American as a utility player in 2002. He closed his Warhawk career in 2004 with ABCA First Team and National Player of the Year honors. He was also named a College Sports Information Directors of America First Team Academic All-American, and the CoSIDA College Division Academic All-American of the Year in Baseball.

Allison Erickson	Four times all-conference and four times all-region were just the start for Allison Erickson. A second team American Volleyball Coaches Association All-American as a junior, she elevated that to first team status in 2001. She shared the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Player of the Year honors in 2001, then left no doubt by earning the AVCA’s Division III Player of the Year honor, the first UW-Whitewater female athlete to earn the top accolade in her sport. In addition to the league MVP honors, she was also the recipient of the league’s Judy Kruckman Scholar Athlete Award for volleyball as a senior. Among UW-W’s top ten in career kills, blocks and digs when she graduated, her legacy is more about wins and losses than numbers. Erickson helped UW-W win three WIAC titles and earn four National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III championship tournament berths. UW-W finished second in the national tournament in both 2000 and 2001.

Katie Fiorilli (2017)	Katie Fiorilli capped her outstanding, four-year career as a member of the Warhawk gymnastics team by earning the National Collegiate Gymnastics Association’s Senior Athlete of the Year award after helping UW-Whitewater claim its fourth NCGA national championship, including its second in the last four years. Fiorilli tied former Warhawk Katie Thompson, the 2013 NCGA Senior Athlete of the Year, with her 12th career All-America honor by garnering first team accolades in the vault (T-3rd) and the all-around (5th) at the 2017 NCGA Championships. She was also named the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference’s Judy Kruckman Scholar-Athlete in Gymnastics, an NCGA All-American in Academics and a UW-Whitewater Chancellor’s Scholar-Athlete in 2017 and finished her career as the school record holder in the vault (9.875). A five-time national champion during her career, Fiorilli was selected third team Capital One Academic All-America® in the at-large division in 2015 and garnered Marc Marcotta Small College Athlete of the Year accolades at the 2016 Wisconsin Sports Awards. As a freshman in 2014, she was tabbed National Association of College Gymnastics Coaches/Women West Region Gymnast of the Year. Fiorilli competed at NCAA Regional events during her forst two seasons, placing 14th in the all-around at the Minneapolis Regional in 2014 and 11th at the Ames, Iowa Regional in 2015.

Dan Hytinen	Dan Hytinen was a key contributor to UW-Whitewater’s tradition in the throwing events in track and field. He demonstrated his promise with a third place finish in the discus in the 2005 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference outdoor championship, and then placing seventh to earn All-America honors in the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Outdoor Track and Field Championship later that season. He moved up to third place in the NCAA III meet, and more All-America honors, his sophomore season. In 2007 he won the event, besting the second place finisher by almost ten feet. But even that feat wasn’t the culmination, with more ahead his senior year. In 2008 Hytinen won the NCAA III discus title, with the winning margin more than twenty-three feet. His mark, an NCAA III record, also qualified Hytinen for the U.S. Olympic qualifying trials. He was named the Outstanding Field Performer at the 2008 NCAA III outdoor championship. When he left his purple and white uniform behind he held the school, WIAC, and NCAA III discus records. And Hytinen wasn’t one dimensional. He placed among the top three in WIAC shot put competition three times, and earned All-America honors twice in NCAA III championships.

Ryan Kleppe	Ryan Kleppe helped build the foundation of the Warhawk championship football teams. He anchored the defense from his tackle position, setting school and WIAC quarterback sack records in 2006 (14.5). He wound up his career with three top ten mentions in the UW-W career record book, including sacks (third, 30), solo tackles (seventh, 128), and total tackles (ninth, 249). In the WIAC annals he ranked fifth in season tackles for a loss (24, 2006), as well as tenth with 3.5 sacks in a December 2, 2006 game versus Saint John’s, and third in both career tackles for a loss (64) and quarterback sacks (30). Kleppe was a First Team All-WIAC choice in 2005 and 2006 as well as the WIAC Scholar Athlete for football in ’06. He was named to the WIAC All-Time Team when the squad was announced in 2011. He was a third team All-America pick by The Football Gazette and D3football.com in 2005, and in 2006 he was a D3football.com First Team All-American and Associated Press College Division Third Team. He was also in the final four for the 2006 Gagliardi Trophy, the same year he earned D3football.com Defensive Player of the Year honors. Kleppe contributed to WIAC championships in 2005 and 2006, helping the Warhawks advance to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the NCAA III championship game, both seasons.

Cole Klotz	Linebacker Cole Klotz showed his ability as a winning student-athlete for a winning football program in 2013. Klotz was named the nation’s Defensive Player of the Year and first team All-America by D3football.com after leading the Warhawks to the program’s fifth NCAA Division III championship in seven seasons. He led UW-Whitewater and tied for first in the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference with 103 tackles, including 54 solo stops, the 10th most in program history in one season. After earning two WIAC Defensive Player of the Week honors and helping lead the Warhawks to their eighth conference championship in the last nine years, Klotz saved some of his finest performances for the postseason. He averaged 6.6 tackles per game, posted an interception and recovered a fumble in UW-Whitewater’s five NCAA Playoffs contests. Klotz led the Warhawks with seven tackles in the team’s 52-14 Stagg Bowl national championship game victory over No. 1 Mount Union (Ohio), the team’s third straight win over an opponent ranked among the top three in the country. In addition to being named the nation’s top defensive player, Klotz garnered third team Associated Press Little All-America accolades, and was the WIAC Player of the Year and first team all-conference. He was one of four finalists for the prestigious Gagliardi Trophy, awarded to the most outstanding student-athlete in Division III football. Klotz’s performance off the field was just as impressive as his play on it. He finished his career with a 3.22 cumulative grade point average and earned membership into the National Football Foundation’s Hampshire Honor Society. One of three captains in 2013, Klotz finished his career as a three-year contributor and two-time All-WIAC selection. He was coached by Lance Leipold, who was tabbed National Coach of the Year by D3football.com and the American Football Coaches Association.

Jake Kumerow (2014)	Wide receiver Jake Kumerow exhibited a new level of dominance for one of Division III’s most successful programs over the last decade. A 2014 captain, Kumerow was named D3football.com National Offensive Player of the Year and first team All-America after helping lead the Warhawks to their sixth national championship in the last eight years and ninth Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference title in the last decade. He finished with 66 catches for 1,116 yards and 14 touchdowns, capping his final season with an eight-reception, 130-yard, one-touchdown performance against Mount Union (Ohio) in a 43-34 victory in the Stagg Bowl. Following the season, Kumerow was the lone Division III student-athlete selected to compete in the NFL Players Association Collegiate Bowl in January. Three months later, he signed as a free agent with the Cincinnati Bengals. Kumerow concluded his standout, three-year career as the program’s all time leader in receiving touchdowns (36), scoring at least one in each of his last 10 games. He also ranked second all time in receiving yards (2,648) and third in receptions (158).

Rob Llorca	Rob Llorca was the dominant Division III wrestler in the country for two-plus seasons. He is the only two-time national champion in UW-Whitewater wrestling history (1990 and 1991), and the only UW-W athlete to receive an athlete of the year award twice. Llorca earned the Outstanding Wrestler Award at the 1990 and 1991 National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III championships. He earned All-America honors with a third place finish in the national meet as a sophomore, with five straight wins at the 1989 national meet beginning a string of eighty matches without a loss through the next two seasons. The only “blemish” during that streak was a regular season tie with the defending Division II champion. Llorca added three Wisconsin State University Conference championships during his run, helping the Warhawks win the team title each year as well. Among the records in his name when he finished his career were career wins (133), career team points, season wins, season takedowns, and season winning percentage.

Jordan Newman	One of the most dominant forces in UW-Whitewater wrestling history, Jordan Newman always saved his best for last. Newman capped his standout Warhawk career in 2018 with his second straight national championship at 184 pounds to earn D3wrestle.com National Wrestler of the Year accolades. After claiming the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship at 197 pounds, where he had competed for a majority of the season, Newman slipped back to 184 pounds and didn’t miss a beat, claiming the NCAA Upper Midwest Regional title to punch his ticket to Cleveland, Ohio. The WIAC Wrestler of the Year remained dominant at the national tournament, earning two pins and two major decisions on his way to the title. A three-time All-American during his career, Newman finished with an 11-0 record in NCAA Championship matches, claiming three victories in 2015 before withdrawing from the tournament due to injury and placing eighth. After finishing with a 7-7 record during his freshman season, Newman lost only 13 matches over his remaining three years, including only five in the last two seasons.

Greg Reinhard	Greg Reinhard’s 2005 baseball season is unequaled in UW-W pitching history. Reinhard went 12-0 with a 1.82 earned run average, opponents batted just .155, and he struck out 146 in 103 innings – while walking just 20. Nineteen of those strikeouts came in a record-setting win over UW-Stout. Those figures contributed to impressive team numbers as well, with UW-W winning the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship and capturing the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III championship with a 45-7 record. He was the WIAC Pitcher of the Year, and an American Baseball Coaches Association Division III First Team All-American, as well as the ABCA Division III Pitcher of the Year in ’05. Reinhard wasn’t a one year wonder, also going 4-1 and 8-1 in his first two seasons while helping the team to WIAC championships and NCAA III tournament berths both years. The 2004 team finished fourth in the national championship. He closed his career with school records for season and career winning percentage, career shutouts, and fewest career walks allowed per nine innings. In the WIAC season annals he ended with the league record for strikeouts, and was second in wins, innings pitched and shutouts. Despite pitching just three years, he was also in the top ten all-time on the WIAC’s career list for strikeouts, wins and shutouts.

Jace Rindahl	Jace Rindahl helped UW-Whitewater football build a national reputation. He finished his playing days fifth in the UW-W record book with 133 career solo tackles and tenth with 248 total tackles. He was also fourth in career interception return yards (218) and eighth with eleven career interceptions. His 58 solo tackles in 2007 was fifth, and his senior year total of 54 was ninth in school history. Rindahl was a First Team All-WIAC pick in 2008, when he also earned first team All-America recognition from D3football.com, the American Football Coaches Association, and the Associated Press. D3football.com named Rindahl 2008 Defensive Player of the Year. He was named to the WIAC All-Time Team when it was announced in 2011. Whitewater went 55-5 overall, and 27-1 in the WIAC, in Rindahl’s four years. He contributed to four WIAC championship teams and four NCAA III playoff teams. UW-W advanced to the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl, the NCAA III championship game, all four years, including the 2007 national title.

Robert Starnes (2016)	After capturing three All-America honors, including the outdoor high jump national title, during a breakthrough freshman campaign in 2015, Robert Starnes entered the 2016 season with high expectations. At the 2016 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships in Grinnell, Iowa, he exceeded them. Starnes won national championships in the long jump and high jump to help the Warhawks place second, matching the program’s best-ever finish at an NCAA meet. He posted a facility record and tied a school record in the high jump with a mark of 7-00.25 (2.14 meters), and tallied another facility record with a personal-best 24-02.25 (7.37 meters) in the long jump. Following his performance, Starnes was selected NCAA Division III Indoor Field Athlete of the Year by the United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. He entered the 2017 season tied with former thrower and 2004 national athlete of the year honoree Jeremy Wendt for the most individual NCAA titles in program history, including both indoor and outdoor championships.

Cici Talcott (2015)	As part of a program that won three consecutive national championships from 2012-14, Cici Talcott stood out for her consistency during a fantastic four-year run. She was selected National Collegiate Gymnastics Association Outstanding Senior Co-Athlete of the Year in 2015 after helping lead the Warhawks to a national runner-up finish at the NCGA Championships. Talcott garnered second team All-America accolades on the vault and uneven bars, tying for seventh and placing 10th in the events, respectively. She wrapped up her four years at UW-Whitewater with six All-America medals, including the national title on the uneven bars in 2013, and five All-Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference honors. Talcott’s top scores rank among the top 10 in program history on vault, uneven bars and in floor exercise. She was also named to the WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll three times during her career and was selected Academic All-America by the NCGA in 2015. Talcott graduated with a bachelor’s in graphic design in the spring of 2015.

Katie Thompson	It is no coincidence that UW-Whitewater's ascendance to the top of Division III gymnastics and Katie Thompson's career overlap. The numbers are certainly there. She is the school record holder in the all-around competition, with three of the top four scores in school history. She has scores in the top ten in the school record book in all four specialties; vault, uneven bars, balance beam and floor exercise. She is part of the school record team uneven bars score and the best ever team uneven bars score ---where her name is one of five on twenty-one of the top thirty team bars marks in school history. Thompson was a leading contributor to UW-W's school record team total of 190.175 March 2, 2013, and part of the top six team point totals in school history. She collected more National Collegiate Gymnastics Association All-American awards, twelve, than any other gymnast in UW-Whitewater history. She wound up her career as the 2013 National Collegiate Gymnastics Association North Central Gymnast of the Year, the 2013 NCGA Outstanding Senior Award, and the 2013 UW-Whitewater Female Athlete of the Year. But for a true measure of her achievements you can look at where the UW-W gymnastics team stands. Thompson has contributed to three Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championships in her four years. In 2012 UW-Whitewater shared the NCGA championship, the school's first. And in 2013 UW-W went one better, winning the national title outright before a home crowd in Williams Center.

Fred Townsend	Fred Townsend was the first UW-Whitewater wrestling to earn a national championship, winning the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics 126 pound title on his home mats in Williams Center in 1978. At the national meet, against top wrestlers from across the country in six matches over two days, Townsend recorded four pins, won a 23-6 match, and beat Jerry Lorton of Eastern Washington University 9-0 in the title bout to earn the NAIA Championship Tournament Most Outstanding Wrestler Award. He led Uw-Whitewater to a fifth place finish in the 1978 NAIA team standings. He also collected All-American honors with a third place finish in the 1977 NAIA tourney, helping UW-W finish eighth nationally, and WIAC championships at 118 in ’77 and 126 his senior year. Townsend contributed to UW-Whitewater’s WIAC team championships in each of his four years. When he graduated he owned the UW-Whitewater career records for wins (96), winning percentage (.894), consecutive wins (39) and pins (43), and school season records for wins (37), winning percentage (1.000), pins (21) and team points (171). He was also second all-time in consecutive pins and season team points.

Amanda Van Duyn (2016)	Amanda Van Duyn has been a part of the most successful stretch in UW-Whitewater bowling history, and she was rewarded for her excellence following the 2015-16 season. A native of Kenosha, Van Duyn was selected National Tenpin Coaches Association Division II/III Player of the Year and third team NTCA All-America after leading the Warhawks to a spot in the United States Bowling Congress Championships. She led UW-Whitewater in several statistical categories, including strikes in both Baker (316) and traditional (271) games, and average score per frame in both Baker (19.65) and traditional (20.55) games. Van Duyn competed in every frame and averaged more than 200 pins in eight of nine events, and was selected to the All-Tournament Team at the Central Missouri Invitational. She rolled a season-high score of 279, the second highest traditional score in one game in program history, in her hometown at the Warhawk Invitational. Van Duyn, the 2014 NTCA Division II/III Rookie of the Year and an honorable mention All-American in the same season, helped the Warhawks to back-to-back third-place finishes at the NCAA Championships during the first two years of her career.

Jeremy Wendt	Jeremy Wendt’s excellence rippled beyond the pool of Division III athletics. A multiple national qualifier in the throws for the UW-Whitewater men’s track and field team, Wendt’s individual prowess helped establish a program. He won three consecutive Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference hammer throw titles (2002-2004), and added the league’s weight throw crown in 2004. He set, and then repeatedly broke, school records in his events throughout his career. A five-time All-American, three of those came with national titles. He won the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III hammer throw outdoors in 2003 and 2004, setting the Division III record in ’04 and meeting the United States Olympics Committee track and field trials “B” qualifying standard. He also won the NCAA III weight throw indoors in 2004 where, again, he set the DIII record.

Parker Witt (2017)	Parker Witt of the UW-Whitewater men’s track and field team became one of the most dominant sprinters in NCAA Division III during the 2017 season, and he proved it on the largest stages. After a breakout 2016 campaign that included four All-America honors, Witt garnered even more accolades in 2017, including the 2017 United States Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Division III Men’s Outdoor National Track Athlete of the Year award. At the NCAA Outdoor Championships in Geneva, Ohio, Witt claimed the 200-meter dash national championship with a school- and facility-record time of 20.85 seconds, and finished as national runner-up in the 100-meter dash with a school-record mark of 10.37 seconds. He also anchored the 4x100-meter relay team to a third-place finish to bring his All-America medal total to five for the season and help the Warhawks place second at the meet, the program’s highest-ever finish. Witt was also tabbed Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Men’s Track Performer of the Meet at both the indoor and outdoor championships by posting four conference titles, including the 60-meter dash (indoor), 100-meter dash (outdoor) and 200-meter dash (indoor and outdoor). In total, Witt set or tied four school records and entered the Division III all time top 10 list in two different events.

Katie Zwiefelhofer	It is no coincidence that Katie Zwiefelhofer was a part of two of the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater’s most successful seasons in program history. Zwiefelhofer, a Racine native, capped a standout senior year with National Tenpin Coaches Association Division II/III Player of the Year accolades in helping lead the Warhawks to a third-place finish at the NCAA Championship. One year after being one of just eight teams in any division selected to compete in the NCAA Championship, Zwiefelhofer and UW-Whitewater recorded the program’s all-time best national finish. The Warhawks finished the season with a No. 6 ranking in the final NTCA national poll of the year. Along the way, Zwiefelhofer was named to All-Tournament teams at Arkansas State University’s Mid-Winter Classic and Sam Houston State University’s Track Kat Klash, placing fifth individually out of more than 100 bowlers at each tournament. She was also selected to the Tournament All-Star team at Farleigh Dickinson University’s New Jersey Jamboree. Zwiefelhofer’s stellar four-year career also included two appearances in the United States Bowling Congress Intercollegiate Singles Championship, an exclusive event that features the country’s top 16 college bowlers. After reaching the second round in 2011, Zwiefelhofer posted the program’s best-ever finish at the championship in 2012 with a tie for third place. A consistent, natural competitor, Zwiefelhofer thrived in pressure situations, playing in the anchor position throughout her career. She was coached by Leann Eimermann, the 2013 NTCA Division II/III Coach of the Year.