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Wildcat Athletics Matt Schneider and Misty Rystrom earned All-American track and field honors. All-American Season for Track and Field The Wayne State College track and field teams qualified five athletes in seven events for the NCAA Division II Outdoor Track & Field Championships held May 21-23 in San Angelo, Texas. The men’s squad had two national qualifiers while the women’s squad had three qualifiers in five events. Matt Schneider earned All- American honors for the Wayne State men and Misty Rystrom earned All-American honors for the Wayne State women. Seniors Matt Schneider and Nate Preston each qualified in the 3,000 meter steeplechase. Schneider, a senior from Nebraska City, placed fourth in the event and earned All-American honors with a school record time of 9:05.82. Preston just missed the finals with a 13th place finish. Rystrom captured All-American honors with a sixth place finish in the high jump. The junior from Pierce cleared 5’ 7 ¼” to earn the sixth-place finish, which marked the fourth straight season that the WSC women’s track and field team has had an All-American. Katie Wilson qualified for nationals in three events for Wayne State. Wilson finished 10th in the discus, 10th in the shot put and 17th in the hammer throw. Sophomore Paige Pollard also qualified for nationals and finished 13th in the 400 meter hurdles. The Wayne State women took home third place at the NSIC Track and Field Championships on May 8-9. The Wildcats scored 94 points and had four conference champions. Katie Wilson was the multi-event champion for WSC as she won the shot put and discus. Wilson’s effort of 159’ 5” in the discus was an NSIC record as well as a Wayne State record. Paige Pollard took home first place and set a new school record in the 400 meter hurdles and Rystrom won the high jump. The Wildcat men finished seventh at the NSIC Championships with 63 points and had two conference champions. Schneider and John Sloup finished as conference champions to lead WSC. Schneider won the 3,000 meter steeplechase while Sloup took home first place in the hammer throw. Fields, Katsampes Stand Out in Wildcat’s Golf Wayne State sophomore Adam Fields was one of four individuals selected to play in the 2009 NCAA Division II Men’s Central/West Regional Golf Championships. Fields finished with a threeday total of 229 and finished in a tie for 49th out of 90 players in the field at the Wilderness Ridge Golf Club in Lincoln. Fields was just the second-ever Wayne State male golfer to qualify for the NCAA Tournament. During the season, Fields led Wayne State with a 75.5 scoring average in 10 rounds. He finished in fifth place at the Northern Sun Conference Tournament, earning First Team All-Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference honors. Fields was the first All-Conference golfer for Wayne State since Kyle Lindstrom earned All-NSIC honors in 2003. Wayne State junior Kelsee Katsampes became the first women’s golfer in WSC history to qualify for the NCAA Division II Women’s Golf Championships. Katsampes qualified for the NCAA Division II Super Regional 3 Tournament held at the Westward Ho Country Club in Sioux Falls, S.D. The junior from Gretna, Neb., finished the NCAA Super Regional with a three-day score of 275 to finish in 45th place overall. She led Wayne State with an 88.0 scoring average in eight rounds during the 2009 season. Katsampes shot a career-best round of 80 on March 23 at the Wayne State Spring Invitational. Coach Troy Harder and Adam Fields The ‘Cats are just a click away at www.wsc.edu/athletics/ Kelsee Katsampes amd Coach Troy Harder 16
Alumni Notes CELEBRATING 100 YEARS (Towns and cities listed on these pages are in Nebraska unless noted or generally understood. All events occurred in 2009 unless indicated otherwise. Efforts are made to keep our news current.) 1941 Archie L. McPherran has published his fifth book, “Operation Desert Wind.” Proceeds from this publication will supplement the McPherran Scholarship fund at WSC; the 15th annual recipient has been announced. Archie and his wife, Margaret, reside in Sacramento, Calif. He has retired as Vice Chancellor at California State Community College. 1946 Marion (Kriege) Doss lives in Yuba City, Calif. She retired from a teaching career in 1987 and at the age of 83 still serves as a substitute teacher. When Marion retired from full-time teaching, she became an impersonator of Mother Goose entertaining for birthdays, at day cares, elementary schools, fairs, festivals and nursing homes. 1970 Randy Bates serves as the athletic director at Norris High School, Firth. He was chosen by the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance as Central States Athletic Director of the Year. Randy was named the Nebraska Athletic Administrator of the Year in 2008 by the Nebraska Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association. He lives in Lincoln. 1976 Jean (Lienemann) Hillyer has been named the assistant director of the Mabel Peters Caruth Learning Resource Center at the Baylor University Louise Herrington School of Nursing in Dallas, Texas. She joins the faculty as an academic professional with the rank of assistant librarian; serving as the primary contact for reference assistance and computer searches. Jean received her MLS with honors from the University of North Texas. Jean and her husband, David, live in Coppell, Texas. Coleen (Paulson) Riedmann has joined NP Dodge Real Estate Sales, Inc., Omaha as a real estate sales associate. She is a member of the national and state Board of Realtors. Coleen and her husband, Mike, are actively involved in the metropolitan area of Omaha. They are the parents of four grown children, Nicole, Natalie, Jacy and Lucas ‘05. 1977 Brad Weber received the Donald A. Lentz Outstanding Bandmaster Award at the 2009 Nebraska State Bandmasters Association annual convention. This award is intended “to recognize an individual who has made an outstanding contribution throughout his or her career, not to honor an individual for only a given year’s work.” During the convention Brad was elected to the NSBA’s Executive Board as President. He has been employed as an adjunct faculty member at WSC since 1984 and serves as the instrumental music instructor at Wayne High School, a position he has held for the past 23 years. Brad is a summer director for the Nebraska Masonic All-Star Marching Band at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He and his wife Deb live in Wayne and are the parents of three daughters, Melissa (WSC ‘01), Megan (WSC ‘05) and Micaela (WSC ‘09). 1978 Dennis Wininger, San Francisco, Calif., has published his first book, “Proper Walk - My Journey to Help the Children of Makindu.” It is the story of the life-long friendship of WSC graduates and the Proper Walk. The Walk was created by Wildcats Online! We just published our third edition of the electronic alumni newsletter. Are you getting the latest Wildcat news? You can view all of the eNewsletters as well as sign up for future editions at http://www.wsc.edu/alumni/news_ publications/newsletter/ Share your e-mail address so we can share our news! Wayne State Magazine 17
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