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a t h l e t i c s Title holder Freshman is world powerlifting champ UW-L freshman Kevin Mc Cusker earned the 2007 International Powerlifting Federation Sub-Junior 125+kg World title in France last summer. UW-L has had its share of champions over the years. Collegiate teams have brought home more than 50 national titles. Track star Andrew Rock won an Olympic gold medal in 2004. And now, the campus has an international powerlier. Kevin Mc Cusker, a freshman from Osceola, Wis., won the 2007 International Powerliing Federation Sub-Junior 125+kg World title in France last summer. Mc Cusker became involved in the sport before high school, somewhat by accident. “My offensive line powerliing coach in high school got me involved in powerliing in 8th grade,” he explains. “He gured it would help a lot for football and it did. But, I wound up being much beer than either of us thought.” He aributes that early powerliing success to his high school coach, Jeff Hahn. Mc Cusker not only earned the world title, he took the 2007 Wisconsin 275-pound State Title and the 2007 High School National 125 kg title to earn the overseas trip. Mc Cusker says the university’s microbiology major drew him to UW-L; his powerliing helped him decide his concentration: strength and conditioning. He continues to li weights four days a week and is a UW-L Weightliing Power Bodybuilding Club member. UW-L Powerliing Coach Phil Paulson helps him prepare for competition. Professor Mike Winfrey says Mc Cusker’s world powerliing title is the rst for the department. e freshman’s adviser notes that Mc Cusker’s step brother, Joe Anderson, was a microbiology major who earned a doctorate in microbiology. “Kevin said that while growing up, Joe was able to beat him up, but he can’t do that anymore,” notes Winfrey. Find out more about IPF at www.powerliing-ipf.com. 2 6 • u w - l a c r o s s e a l u m n u s • s u m m e r 2 0 0 8 Individual national championships Seniors Dan Thour (men’s cross country), Josh Chelf (wrestling) and Kasey Clausen (gymnastics) were selected Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference Scholar-Athletes for 2007-08. The male scholar-athlete award is named after Max Sparger, the female award, Judy Kruckman. To be nominated, student-athletes must have a 3.25 GPA minimum, be in their last year of competition or on schedule to graduate in the academic year, and have competed for at least two years. Dan Thour Josh Chelf Kasey Clausen Schumacher is top coach Illinois Wesleyan University track and field coach Chris Schumacher, ’91, was named 2008 national women’s indoor track Division III “Coach of the Year” by the U.S. Track and Field and Cross Country Coaches Association. He was also named Midwest Region “Coach of the Year” for the 2008 Division III indoor season. In his 10th season at Illinois Wesleyan, Schumacher coached the Titans’ women to their first-ever College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin track championship. At UW-L, Schumacher was an All-American for three Chris Schumacher years in track, competing on teams that won three national championships. In 2006 he was inducted into the UW-L Wall of Fame and in 2002 earned the UW-L Multicultural Alumni Award.
Classmates lead teams to boys state tourney ree Class of 1978 graduates led their boys basketball teams to the WIAA Boys Basketball Tournament in March. And two took home state titles. e three: • Rich Roginskiled his Eleva-Strum Cardinals over Randolph, 61-45, in the state seminals, avenging a loss to the Rockets in the 2007 state title contest. e Cardinals beat Suring, 62-58, in the 2008 WIAA Division 4 championship game to nish 27-0 on the season. Roginski completed 23 years as head coach for Eleva-Strum, compiling a 383-146 career record, and retired at the end of the 2007-08 academic year. He was chosen the 2008 Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) and Associated Press (AP) Coach of the Year. Roginski was also named the 1990 UW-L Alumni Coach of the Year. • Dave Scheidegger led New Berlin Eisenhower to the WIAA Division 2 title with a 54-41 victory over Adams- Friendship. e Lions defeated Monroe in the state seminals, 53-49, and nished the year 23-4. Scheidegger completed his 18th season as head coach. • Rick Giller nished his ninth year as head coach for the Luck Cardinals in 2008. Luck advanced to the WIAA Division 4 seminals, falling 57-45 to Suring. e Cardinals nished 23-3 overall. 2007-08 winter sports final standings 2007-08 Winter Sports Final Standings W-L Season Finish WIAC/NCAA Men’s Basketball 11-15 Tied 5th/Did not qualify Women’s Basketball 14-12 5th/Did not qualify Gymnastics 26-1 1st/1st (NCGA) Wrestling 21-2 1st/2nd Women’s Swimming & Diving 4-0 1st/13th Men’s Swimming & Diving 3-1 2nd/Did not qualify Women’s Indoor Track & Field* 0-0* 1st/4th Men’s Indoor Track & Field* 0-0* 1st/1st Totals *No win-loss record 79-31 a t h l e t i c s Back on the hardwood Former NCAA Division III All-American student-athlete Joe Werner, ’06, who had a short stint with the Green Bay Packers last fall, is continuing his basketball career down under. Werner is playing for the Club Kilsyth Cobras in the South East Australian Basketball League, Australia’s Premier Winter Basketball League. The league plays its regular season March through July with the playoffs through August. In the first 10 games, Werner averaged 20 points and 15.4 rebounds per game while shooting 54.8 percent from the field. He ranked second in team scoring and first in rebounding. He scored in double figures in all 10 contests and recorded at least 10 rebounds in nine. The 2006-07 WIAC Player of the Year, Werner was a three-time all-conference first team choice and one of 10 Joe Werner finalists for The Jostens Trophy for the NCAA III Player of the Year. Photo courtesy of Scott Paulus, Milwaukee Brewers Brewers watch Former UW-L baseball standout Vinny Rottino, ’02 is in his sixth professional baseball season, all with the Milwaukee Brewers. He was named the 2004 Brewers Minor League Player-of-the-Year. Rottino is currently the starting catcher for the Nashville Sounds, the Brewers' Triple A affiliate. Other winter stats … All-America Honors 56 All-Conference Honors 104 WIAC Athletes of the Week 30 Conference Team Titles 5 WIAC Scholar-Athletes 2 WIAC Coaches of the Year 3 u w - l a c r o s s e a l u m n u s • s u m m e r 2 0 0 8 • 2 7
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