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Fall 2006 Warrior Spirit 39<br />
Shoudt, Snyder Receive Barniak<br />
Award at Homecoming 2006<br />
At Homecoming the Alumni Association honored<br />
Robert B. Shoudt ’64 <strong>and</strong> Roy G. Snyder ’58 aswin- ners of the Jim Barniak Award, presented to alumni for<br />
exceptional achievement in athletics after graduation.<br />
Bob Shoudt became well-known throughout<br />
Pennsylvania in Track <strong>and</strong> Field. He was an NCAA<br />
Division I Track <strong>and</strong> Field Coach of the Year for Indoor<br />
Track <strong>and</strong> Field, <strong>and</strong> he coached the world record in the<br />
distance medley relay, American Collegiate record 4 x<br />
800 relay, three national individual champions, 41 All<br />
Americans, four Olympic trials qualifiers, <strong>and</strong> was a<br />
six time Big East Conference coach of the year. He also<br />
coached five Middle Atlantic Conference (MAC) team<br />
championships, was a four time MAC coach of the year,<br />
coached three high school national champions, <strong>and</strong><br />
six High School All Americans. He was also a founding<br />
father of the Pennsylvania State Indoor Track <strong>and</strong><br />
Field Championships, the Montgomery County Cross<br />
Country Championships, <strong>and</strong> the Chichester Relays.<br />
Roy Snyder began his swimming coaching career in<br />
1958 at the Reading YMCA where he coached numerous<br />
state <strong>and</strong> national age group champions during his six<br />
year YMCA career. In 1964, Roy opened the first school<br />
pool in Berks County at Wilson High School. At Wilson,<br />
his swim teams won the Central Penn League title,<br />
10 Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association<br />
(PIAA) District three AAA championships, <strong>and</strong> two PIAA<br />
State AAA Team titles. His teams recently compiled a 97<br />
straight dual meet win streak that lasted for seven years.<br />
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of 41-21-3 <strong>and</strong> conference titles in<br />
1973 <strong>and</strong> 1976.<br />
Thatcher played soccer <strong>and</strong> competed<br />
in track <strong>and</strong> field as a student.<br />
He served as ESU’s head athletic<br />
trainer for 25 years from 1974 to<br />
1999. He was named the nation’s<br />
outst<strong>and</strong>ing athletic training educator<br />
by the National Athletic Trainers’<br />
Association in 2001.<br />
Dr. Wolbers guided ESU men’s<br />
tennis teams to ten conference<br />
championships <strong>and</strong> the women’s<br />
squad to one from 1963 to 1985. His<br />
1969 men’s squad finished third in<br />
the NCAA Division II Tennis Tournament.<br />
The Wolbers Tennis Courts on<br />
campus are named in his honor.<br />
Simard is the leading scorer in<br />
ESU basketball history with 1,733<br />
career points. She holds the school<br />
<strong>and</strong> PSAC career record with 535 free<br />
throws. She made the All-Conference<br />
<strong>and</strong> All-ECAC Region team as<br />
a senior after averaging 20.0 points<br />
<strong>and</strong> 7.6 rebounds per game.<br />
Pio grabbed a school-record<br />
1,013 rebounds <strong>and</strong> scored 1,527<br />
points during her career. She holds<br />
school marks for career <strong>and</strong> season<br />
field goal shooting. She was a twotime<br />
All-PSAC first team player <strong>and</strong><br />
was a key member of the Warriors’<br />
1995 PSAC championship team.<br />
Owens set school gymnastics<br />
record in every event with marks of<br />
9.00 in the floor exercise, 8.80 on<br />
the uneven bars, 9.15 in the vaulting,<br />
8.50 on the balance beam <strong>and</strong> 35.15<br />
overall. She became the school’s<br />
first AIAA national championship<br />
(L-R) Bob Shoudt ’64 <strong>and</strong> Roy Snyder ’58 were congratulated at mid-field by<br />
President Dillman <strong>and</strong> the Homecoming crowd.<br />
Photo by David Hooper ’05<br />
Roy has coached two national interscholastic<br />
record holders, over 120 High School All-American<br />
swimmers <strong>and</strong> water polo players, more than 110 PIAA<br />
District champs, <strong>and</strong> 20 PIAA state winners. For his<br />
efforts he was awarded the Pennsylvania Swimming<br />
Administrator of the Year Award <strong>and</strong> the Reading YMCA<br />
Dr. Councilman Service to Youth Award. He also was<br />
inducted into the Berks County Swimming Hall of<br />
Fame, the Pennsylvania Swimming Hall of Fame at Penn<br />
State, the Berks County Chapter of the Pennsylvania<br />
Sports Hall of Fame, <strong>and</strong> was the 2002 Pennsylvania<br />
Coach of the Year. <br />
Triplets <strong>and</strong> Entire Basketball Team Are Among Inductees<br />
qualifier in 1977.<br />
Ellison was chosen on the<br />
National Field Hockey Coaches’ Association<br />
All-America second team<br />
in 1989. She was chosen on the All-<br />
PSAC first team twice. She scored 35<br />
goals over a four-year period from<br />
1986-89, fourth best in the school’s<br />
history.<br />
The 1970-71 women’s basketball<br />
team gained the school’s first berth<br />
in the AIAW national championships<br />
which included colleges from all<br />
divisions. The Betty Lou Murphycoached<br />
team beat Marshall in the<br />
first round before losing to Mississippi<br />
College in the quarter finals.<br />
The team finished with a 13-3 record,<br />
which tied the school victory record.