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Good morning and welcome to the 13th 

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Athletic Hall of Fame for Western Oregon University.  

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I'm Randi Lydum, director of athletics and

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also class of 2007 Hall of Fame inductee. 

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applause

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Today, we are here to recognize and honor

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three individuals and their contributions, dedication and

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accomplishments that have earned them the distinct honor

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of being inducted into our Athletic Hall of Fame. 

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After an extended break from hosting this special ceremony, 

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we are pleased to get back on schedule with our yearly program

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that recognizes our former athletes and coaches and 

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their tremendous contributions to OCE, WOSC and WOU.

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Our first inductee is Kurt Davis, 

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a 2-sport athlete competing in both football and wrestling

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during his career at Oregon College of Education. 

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A 4-time letter winner in both sports, he led his team

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to a sixth place finish at the NAIA wrestling championships in 1972. 

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As a 3-year starter on the football team, Davis earned 

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All-American status his senior season, 

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in addition to NAIA district 1A scholar accolades. 

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Following his playing career, Davis later became a wrestling coach and official,

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having officiated for over 30 years. 

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He became part of the first father-son duo to be elected to the 

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Oregon Wresting Hall of Fame after he was inducted in 2007.

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His father, Gale Davis, was a 2004 Hall of Fame inductee. 

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During his nearly 50-year high school coaching career,

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Davis taught and coached at Astoria, North Marion, Grant,

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Redmond and Culver where he led the football team

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to a 2A state championship and earned Coach of the Year in 2007. 

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In 2019, Davis was named to the Oregon Rural Health Hero of the Year for his work

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connecting students to job shadowing opportunities in rural health care settings. 

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The Davis family football legacy lives on as his grandson, Blake,

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is a member of the current Wolves team. 

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It is truly an honor to forever enshrine Kurt Davis into the Western

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Oregon University Athletics Hall of Fame. (applause)

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Thank you very much.  I'm you know a wide range of emotions on something like this. 

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I feel honored. I feel grateful and 

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somewhat humbled for this whole experience.  

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This means a lot to me. 

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I think the main reason is does is because this place means a lot .

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This college is a unique place. 

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It kinda has a family feel to it. 

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And my family is incredibly connected to this school. 

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First of all, I met the love of my live here. 

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And my wife and I, Maureen, met here in college and then

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were married shortly after I got out.  I guess, wait a minute, wow,

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while I was still in. She was year ahead of me.

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And we just celebrated our 50th wedding anniversary 

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this last summer. (applause). So that's huge. 

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The football program and the Davis family is

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intertwined.

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I'm the 2nd in line of 4 generations in a row that have played here. 

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My dad and my uncle, some of you guys know, have heard the name anyway,

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Mouse Davis, longtime coach in high school, college and NFL. 

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My dad, Mouse and their brother, Don, all played here

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back in the late 40s early 50s.

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Then I came here in fall of 1968 and played  

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for 68-72. 

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My brother in law, Bob Dalter played, came right after I  

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finished so we're kinda in the same era during the

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kind of a growth period for the program. 

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And then my son, Erik, played here as a quarterback in, 

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Erik was here during the late 90s.

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Kind of an interesting story on that, my dad 

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had developed a terminal cancer.

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He was playing, he got, he was one of those scholarships kids 

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and was playing at Boise State University. 

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And then when my Dad got sick he went into

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Pokey Allen who was his coach at Boise State and told him 

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you know, I need to go play for my grandfather.

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And he gave up the scholarship there and came here to play. 

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And so my Dad could watch him. You know, he was in a position where he couldn't

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go travel. Kind of a neat story. 

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And then his son, Blake, is now playing here.

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So we have 4 generations that have been

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football players at this university in a row. 

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I don't know if it's ever been done before but it's unusual. 

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So it's a neat deal. 

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I'm not going to lie, I'm glad I played when I did. 

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You know, I was a 210lb offensive guard.

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And so now, I came back when my son was playing and I wander around

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through the, along the bench and their 310 and so...

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everything's relative to when you were here 

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and when you played and all that kind of stuff. 

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But it has changed a lot and so... 

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It's was a great experience, one of the best experience of my life. 

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You know, I love the sport of football and

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I was a 2-sport athlete. 

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It was, my Dad told me when I was in high school

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if you want to be a good football player, you wrestle.  

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So I did. You know, I picked it up and wasn't too bad at it.

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So I kinda stuck with it and then when I came here

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my Dad was actually the offensive coordinator and line coach on the football program

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but he was also the wresting coach. So I wrestled for him. 

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I did two sports for 4-years.

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And being an offensive lineman and a wrestler, you gotta question one's 

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intellegince a little bit.  But you gotta embrace the grind. 

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And that's what I think I did because it's a grind. 

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Being a lineman is kind of a grind. You just got to keep getting better

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and work at it. Play hard. Wresting is definitely a grind. 

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It's the hardest thing I've ever done athletically, without question.  

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Just in terms, it's just difficult. 

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It's hard on you emotionally. It's hard on you physically. 

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And it's one of those things that like I get done with football season

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and come out fairly injury free, whatever it is.

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Go into wresting, I thought I was in pretty good shape.  No, not quite. 

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And then within a week, every joint in your body hurt. 

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It is a difficult sport. 

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I have incredible respect for wrestlers. 

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And my Dad did, too. They're kind of a unique animal. 

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We're wired a little different. I will admit that. 

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But it's a sport that's really,

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I just, I loved playing football. I respected myself

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for being a wrestler. If that makes any sense to you. 

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Because it's tough thing to do. 

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Kinda unique for me is I have two sons. 

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My oldest son, Chris, is the head wrestling coach at Redmond High School

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and they're, he's got a very good program,

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has done a tremendous job there. They were 4th in the state this year.  

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And then my youngest son, Erik, who some of you guys know or

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the one that played here is the head football coach at Pendleton High School. 

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They're 6-1 right now and playing well. 

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I get my fix through them. 

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You know, and it's kind of a neat experience for me. 

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And then in closing, I'm kinda talking to the young kids here, the young people. 

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There are a lot of young people in this room. 

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I'm 72 years of age.

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And I still work in a high school. 

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You know, I've worked, I'm a part-time guy but I'm a career & college counselor

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for high school kids. What I do is I take every senior 

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and I try to elevate them.  I to get them so they

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do something where they're moving forward and moving up in life. 

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And, you know, it's...kids need help. 

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So what I'm challenging you guys is, make a difference. 

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When you go out and graduate out of this building or out of this university, 

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go make a difference somewhere. Try to help

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elevate the human experience. There's a lot of people that 

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whether their young people or older people, a lot of people need help.

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Try to get yourself involved in something that's going to be, make you feel good 

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about what you're doing and make other people feel good about where they're at. 

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Again, thanks for everything. 

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I really appreciate this opportunity or this honor. 

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I guess, that's the best way of putting it. 

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I will cherish this the rest of my life. Thank you very much.

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Our next inductee is Coach Duke Iverson. 

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Duke was the head football coach at Western Oregon on two different occasions

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from 1985-87 and 2001-2004. 

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Throughout his first run with the Wolves, Iverson

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posted a pair of strong seasons, going 8-2 in 1985

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And 7-2 in 1986. The 1985 squad was only the third  

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team in college history to make the NAIA playoffs. 

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Air Wolf lead the nation in scoring offense and rushing defense 

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and finished the year ranked 8th in NAIA Division I. 

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Coach Iverson then went on to coach at Western Colorado

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for 12 seasons picking up 79 wins before returning

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for his final 3 seasons at WOU and adding 10 more wins during that time.  

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Iverson helped Western Colorado reach the post season

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on 4 occasions, including 3 trips to the NCAA playoffs. 

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Throughout his 21-year head coaching career he went 126-84-3.

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Iverson tallied 10 seasons winning at least 7 games in a season. 

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And reached a high of 10 wins in 1991. 

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He collected 8 conference championships and was named the NAIA Division I

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Coach of the Year in 1991 and RMAC Coach of the Year twice in 1996 & '97.  

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Upon retirement from collegiate coaching, Coach Iverson

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assisted at Central High School while also traveling the world with his wife, Rita.  

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It is truly an honor to forever enshrine Duke Iverson into 

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the Western Oregon University Athletics Hall of Fame. 

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Shane Hedrick will accept this honor and speak on Duke's behalf.  

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Well, it's quite a privilege for me to be here and speak on Duke's behalf.

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And to share a little history with you, I've been a Wolf a long time.  

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Grew up in this community. I watched the New PE building

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go up in 1971.  I was a ball boy for Gale Davis in 1971. 

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So, goes back a long ways and we'll talk about that a little bit later. 

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Duke arrived here in the spring of 1985. 

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The football program was, you know, it was kind of on the

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downhill of what Bill McArthur had built over all those years 

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and what Gale Davis had done. And it needed an up kick and it got it.  

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But it got some got support for the previous coaches and I know Gale was always around

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And I played under Gale and I have a unique story for his family. 

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He was an amazing coach and I was a running back. 

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And Coach Davis one day after a game he said, 

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hey I want to meet you by the old PE building which is up here. 

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I don't know I got lucky, I picked up a blocker I wasn't supposed to get. 

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You remember coach after a victory, he had these old cigars with him, Coach Davis.

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And he lit that old cigar up and he took a big puff and he said, here. 

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God, do I gotta put that on my mouth now? He said you do it, so...

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So the Davis family I think I might be related to you somehow now cuz

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the DNA is there, so anyway...

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I had the privilege of playing for both of them but let me get back to Duke. 

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They mentioned in his bio there that

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in 1985 Western Oregon averaged 39 points a game.

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And one of his, you know, cohorts in that group there, and I want to mention him, too,

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is Jon Carey is in the back and he was coaching on the team that year. 

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And they had one hellacious defense, too. 

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So it was a very good football team. 

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Duke, when he got here, he won the team over. 

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And the announcer mentioned earlier that

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Duke had been here on two different occasions. 

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And I've been a coach a long time,

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I don't know of any other collegiate coach in the country

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that was so popular with his athletes that on two different occasions

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the university asked him to come back and be head coach, again. 

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That just doesn't happen very often. 

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And that happened with Duke at Western State College and it 

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happened here at our beloved university, Western Oregon University. 

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Duke was a Renaissance man. And if you knew Duke you know what that means. 

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Duke was an author. He wrote two books. 

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One on tree rot which is like, you gotta understand, tree rot. 

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And honestly folks, it was like that thick. 

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If you know Duke, it made sense. 

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He wrote another on snow survival. 

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And, you know, there were times we wished 

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he didn't survive in the snow. It was like, Duke, go in the snow  

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and, you know, we'll come get you. 

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But he was a coach. He was a doctor. He was a professor. 

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He was a teacher. He was a leader. He was a husband. 

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He was a father and he's a grandfather. 

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Today, in the audience is Rita Iverson, I'd like her to stand please, 

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his daughter Carla, his son-in-law Mike and his grandson Connor. 

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Duke was a man that held no grudges. 

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Now, as a coach, you run across a lot of different people. 

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I mean, you know, they love you when you win. They hate you when you lose. 

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And, you know, if your son or daughter gets to be up there then you're the best coach. 

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And if they're not up there, you're to blame. 

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Duke never held grudges on anybody. 

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I mean, literally, he could work with anybody. 

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He could talk to anybody. 

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I mean Wayne Hamersly, the library named after Wayne and Lynn,

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he could talk to him.  Peter Courtney.  If you,

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if you know Peter Courtney, president of the Oregon State Senate,  

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he could talk to him. He could talk to the professors and he could do it. 

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He was an intellect. And he was just an amazing person 

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that could communicate with so many different people. 

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The best day of Duke's life would be when he could talk to his former players. 

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That made his day. February 11th of this year, when Duke passed,

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he was sitting at his computer. This is what he did every morning. 

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He would read FootballScoop. And he would find out what's going on in the football world. 

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And he went just like he was supposed to go. 

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And I don't want this to be hard feelings for his family or his wife.  

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But there's a way God wants us to go and Duke went that way. 

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He just put his chin on his chest, God took him, 

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right there in front of his computer, doing what he wanted to do. 

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Okay.  And when I think that it lifts all that pain off my heart cuz I was very close to Duke.

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I played for him. I went to Colorado and coached for him under his team there  

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that he won his coach of the year. 

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And then when I came back to Oregon, he came to Central High School

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and coached with me there. And I had the privilege of also

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having a son go to Boise State and play quarterback

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and Duke was his coach in high school.

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Now if you've ever coached your son, which I don't recommend you do,

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Duke was that coach. And I am forever grateful for what Duke has done. 

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But again, I want to talk about his special relationship with his players. 

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Duke would come back here and be on the sideline here and 

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you knew where Duke was because there would be a crowd around him.

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And he wanted to know about his players. He wanted to know about the families.

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He wanted know what they're doing, how they were doing, what they were doing. 

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That was important to Duke. In closing, I want to say this...

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There are two people in my life at Western Oregon  

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that made an impact and still do today. Gale Davis was one.

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And Duke Iverson is the other. And they both are going, both in.  

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Gale went into 2004 with his brother Mouse,

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his son's going into today and I'm thinking holy smokes, gang.

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I'm going to put this out there Randi so you can forgive me

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and I wish the president were here and the uppers to be.

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We have a building over here I mentioned earlier. In the last quarter century

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they've built and named over a dozen buildings here.

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Since then, 2011 they built the Peter Courtney physical fitness center over here. 

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And we still have a building over here with a sign that says New PE on it.  

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Probably three names I would see on that building,

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One, first one I though of was Jon Carey but

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I don't want Jon going anywhere soon so Jon you keep sitting there, okay. 

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But if that building said Davis Iverson Physical Education, I'd be okay with that. 

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And I think that Davis name would be a great name to have on there, too.

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So on behalf of the Iverson family and on behalf of Duke,

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thank you very much. And to everybody that knew Duke, 

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what a special person he was so...thank you.

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Our next inductee is Katie Torland Hein.

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Katie put together an impressive career over her

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during the early NCAA Division era from 2007-10. 

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She tallied 1257 points in 82 games, 

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holding a 15.3 points per game average. 

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In addition, Torland connected on 400 field goals, 113 3-points, 344 free throws, 

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grabbed 561 rebounds, dished out 124 assists and had 120 steals. 

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She averaged in double figures in scoring in all 3 seasons

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and finished her career shooting over 41% from the field,

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Torland was named to the All Great Northwest Conference 1st team, twice. 

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Named women's basketball player of the year her junior and senior seasons 

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and was selected to seven straight all tournament teams. 

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She later joined the WOU coaching staff, following her playing career. 

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Since 2000, Torland ranks in the Top 10 in program history in multiple categories, 

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including points: 2nd, scoring average: 1st, field goals made: 3rd,

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free throws made: 1st, rebounds: 3rd, rebounding average : 5th

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defensive rebounds: 3rd and offensive rebounds: 6th. 

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Katie Hein teaches physical education and weight training at Cascade High School. 

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It is truly an honor to forever enshrine Katie Torland Hein

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into the Western Oregon University Athletics Hall of Fame. 

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Good morning everyone, thank you for being here today. 

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I want to start off by saying how honored I am to be selected for this induction. 

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So many talented athletes, coaches and teams have represented this school

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and to be selected as part of that is very humbling. 

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Growing up I always sorta thought, and hoped

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that I would come to Western and play basketball because my Mom did. 

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I thought it would be so cool to follow in her footsteps. 

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She was and always has been my biggest supporter. 

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She rebounded more shots for me than I could probably even count. 

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She drove me all over the Pacific Northwest for practices and games

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in multiple sports, as well as coached many of those teams.  

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The extra time I got to spend with my Mom in the car talking about life

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and listening to Nora Jones on repeat is something I'll treasure forever. 

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I loved everything about my high school years and sports were the focal point. 

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I played volleyball, basketball, softball and track. 

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In basketball, I was coached by one of the very best, Alice Harroff, 

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who also played basketball here at Western with my Mom. 

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Coach Haroff's type A personality, combined with

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her competitive spirit made for a very memorable time in my life. 

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That included things like holiday parties, secret pre-game rituals, community service,

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insanely long bus trips and best of all, a state championship my senior year of going 30-0.  

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When it came time to decide where I'd go to college, Western Oregon was going through

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a head coaching change with women's basketball and not doing a ton of recruiting.

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So I signed with the University of Nebraska Kearney and although  

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I don't regret going there because I made some incredible life-long friendships,  

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I did realize about halfway through my freshman year 

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that I wanted to be somewhere closer to home. 

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That's when I got in touch with the new head coach at Western, Greg Bruce,

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and officially became a Wolf. 

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I remember having many discussions with Coach Bruce 

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about where the program was and the direction we hoped the program would go. 

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He named me co-captain of the team my sophomore year and he told me

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I was going to be the one to lead that change with my leadership on and off the court.  

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I loved that he had such confidence in me and trusted that I would always do my best

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to represent the team and the school well. 

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Our relationship had a few hiccups here and there but by the end of my playing career

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I had become pretty close with the whole Bruce family.  And I appreciate

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all of their efforts to support me academically, athletically and in my personal life. 

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My career at Western Oregon was at times challenging and exhausting. 

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But more importantly is was rewarding and unforgettable. 

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We didn't have exceptional team records,

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and always finished toward the middle of the pack in GNAC,

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but I really loved being here. Western Oregon game me the opportunity to travel to 

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places like Alaska, San Francisco, Disneyland and even to Argentina,

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to compete against international competition. 

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This place introduced me to teammates like Jess Goss, 

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who was my roommate for 3-years, Sarah Zoller, Danielle Blando and many more. 

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I also had several incredible professors like the late Dr. H. 

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He prided himself in never missing a home men or women's basketball game. 

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And was a constant source of feedback, mostly positive, 

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in my basketball game and academics.  

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One of my very favorite college basketball memories was in from my senior year.

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We were playing at home against the #1 ranked team in the country, 

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the University of Alaska Anchorage. They were huge. They were fast. 

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They were intimidating and we were the definite underdogs. 

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But we competed with them from start to finish. 

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We played the best team game that I could remember offensively and defensively. 

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They ended up beating up 62-60. But there was nothing but

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celebration and cheers in our locker room afterwards. 

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When I graduated Coach Bruce gave me a bunch of game films

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from my time here at Western. And once in awhile I'll sit down and watch one  

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and realize how much I miss lacing up those smelly sneakers and competing. 

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Seems like just yesterday. 

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I have a deep gratitude to this school for funding my education 

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in which in received my bachelor's degree in exercise science pre-education 

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and my master's in teaching. Western Oregon is also to thank for

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introducing me to my husband of 8-years, Tim, during my sophomore year of college. 

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I've been fortunate enough to have coached on and off for the last 

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where I also teach physical education.

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I still look forward to the day my two sons, Jackson & Gus, 

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can start playing this game. At least I hope they do. 

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And hey, maybe they'll want to follow in their Mom's footsteps. 

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Thank you so much to my family and friends who are in attendance here today,

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as well as the many others who are not but were a huge part of my basketball journey.

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I've been extremely blessed in my life to have such an incredible support system,

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a friend since elementary school, coaches, parents,  

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amazing parents, grandparents, and extended family 

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who have cheered me on since day one. 

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Thank you from the bottom of my heart. 

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And lastly, thank you to Western Oregon University for helping shape me into

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the person I am today and for this incredible honor.  I am truly grateful. 

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Well, that was awesome. I teared up each time. 

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Our inductees will be recognized again this afternoon

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between the 1st and 2nd quarters of our football game. 

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So please let's give them one more round of appreciation. 

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As we conclude the ceremony, I would like to extend a special thank you to our

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Hall of Fame founder Jack Frauendiener and to our selection committee, 

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Emily Lafon, Hollie Howard-Carpenter and Kellen Walker. 

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And I would also like to recognize in the back our Interim President Jay Kenton, is here. 

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I think some of you met him at breakfast. 

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Jay, thank you.  And, just thank you so much for being here today. 

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Go Wolves! (applause & music)