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UND ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
FORMER SIOUX GREAT AND NHL VETERAN DIXON WARD
INDUCTED INTO UND ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
Former forward Dixon Ward, the only
player in the storied history of Fighting
Sioux hockey with 100 goals and 100
assists, was one of four inductees into UND’s
Letterwinners Athletics Hall of Fame in 2009.
Hall of Famer
Dixon Ward
Ward and the entire Class
of 2009 was inducted into
the UND Hall of Fame on
Oct. 31 at the 35th annual
induction ceremonies.
A native of Leduc, Alberta,
Ward graduated
as the program’s all-time
leader in career games
played (since broken)
and amassed 110 goals
and 109 assists for 219 points in 163 career
games.
When he graduated following the 1991-92
season, only one other player in school history
had scored more career goals and only
one other had scored more career points.
Dixon Ward
Dixon Ward
Despite having graduated nearly two decades
ago, Ward remains ranked second all-time at
UND in goals and power-play goals (40) and is
ranked fourth in points.
Ward was named to the All-Western Collegiate
Hockey Association second team as a junior
and senior and was a three-time member
of the All-WCHA Academic team.
A seventh-round draft pick (128th overall) of
the Vancouver Canucks in 1989, Ward went
on to enjoy a 10-year National Hockey League
career with Vancouver, Los Angeles, Toronto,
Bu� alo, Boston and the New York Rangers,
reaching the Stanley Cup Finals in 1999 with
Bu� alo.
Ward retired from the NHL having scored
224 points (95 goals, 129 assists) in 537 career
games. His best individual season came
during his rookie year of 1992-93, when he
scored 22 goals and 30 assists in 70 games for
Vancouver.
Other members of the UND Letterwinners
Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2009 include
Shannon Burnell (Football, 1990-93), Mikki
Cochrane (Softball, 1993-95), Janine Etchepare
(Swimming, 1988-91) and the 1993 Sioux
football team.
Longtime boosters Pete and Eunice Kuhn received
the Honorary Letterwinners Award.
196 2009-10 UNIVERSITY OF NORTH DAKOTA MEN’S HOCKEY MEDIA GUIDE
TONY COUTURE RECEIVES
TOM CLIFFORD AWARD
Little Falls (Minn.) High School boys hockey
coach Tony Couture received the prestigious
Tom Cli� ord Award and the 35th annual UND
Letterwinners Athletics Hall of Fame cermony
in Grand Forks on Oct. 31, 2009.
The Tom Cli� ord Award was established to
honor former UND President Thomas J. Clifford
and his long-time support of UND athletics.
The award recognizes UND alumni who
serve as athletic coaches at the high school
or college level and have been notably successful
in their sport the year preceding the
award.
Couture recently completed his 16th year as
head coach at Little Falls and in 2008-09 he
led the Flyers to a 30-1 record and a thirdplace
� nish at the state tournament.
Couture has guided the program to the state
tournament in each of the last � ve seasons
and a 102-15-2 record over the last four.
Couture, a goalie at UND from 1988-91, lettered
in each of his three seasons and appeared
in 59 career games.
Originally from International Falls, Minn.,
Couture went 34-16-3 at UND and his lifetime
winning percentage of .670 ranks seventh alltime
in Sioux hockey history.
Tony Couture