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Augsburg College: Sports
Sports
Swenson
earns top coach honors,
named to new athletic position
by Don Stoner
Augsburg College wrestling
head coach Jeff Swenson has received both honors and a new job this summer.
In July, Swenson, who has coached the Auggie wrestling team to seven NCAA Division
III national championships in the last 11 seasons, was named Lutheran College
Coach of the Year by the Lutheran Brotherhood financial services firm.
"While there
are a lot of successful coaches at Lutheran colleges, few have been able to
match Jeff's team tradition of winning championships while maintaining academic
success," said David Angstadt, Lutheran Brotherhood's chief marketing officer,
in presenting the honor to Swenson.
In August, the College named
Swenson to a newly-created position of interim assistant dean for athletics
and recreation. In this position, Swenson will supervise the men's and women's
athletic departments, along with the athletic facilities department. He will
retain his wrestling head-coaching responsibilities, but will give up responsibilities
as assistant athletic director and College strength and conditioning coach.
A 1979 Augsburg graduate,
Swenson was named wrestling head coach in 1980, and has coached at Augsburg
for 19 seasons (1980-84, 1986-present). He received his masterís degree in health
from the University of Minnesota in 1982. Swenson was inducted into the Augsburg
College Athletic Hall of Fame in 1999.
During his coaching tenure,
Augsburg has earned an NCAA-record seven Division III national championships,
and has finished in the top four in the nation 16 times, including the last
13 seasons in a row. Augsburg has won the Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic
Conference wrestling title 18 times under Swenson, has finished in the top four
in the NCAA Division III national tournament in each of the last 13 seasons,
and finished in the top 20 nationally every year since 1971. He has earned National
Wrestling Coaches Association (NWCA) Division III National Coach of the Year
honors five times (1983, 1991, 1995, 1998, and 2000).
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Ten
to earn Athletic Hall of Fame honors
by
Don Stoner
Augsburg College will
honor some of its top athletes during Homecoming at the annual Athletic
Hall of Fame banquet. Ten former Auggie student-athletes will be inducted
into the Athletic Hall of Fame:
ï Dick Bain ’80
(men's hockey)
ï Jeff Blixt
’77 (wrestling)
ï Greg Boone
’81 (men's basketball)
ï John Fahlberg
’68 (football, baseball)
ï Julie (Goldstein)
Yeazle ’83 (women's basketball, softball)
ï Ronnie Henderson
’81 (men's basketball)
ï William Lundgren ’73 (men's hockey, football)
ï Phil Olson ’76 (men’s soccer)
ï Carolyn Ross ’89 (women's track and field)
ï Karen (Sterner) Engel ’87 (women's track and field)
The Augsburg Athletic
Hall of Fame was established in 1973 to recognize male athletes who made
special contributions to the College's athletic history. In 1989, female
athletes were first inducted into the hall. Recipients are chosen each
year on the basis of performance in Augsburg athletics, service to the
school, civic and professional achievements, and leadership.
Cybercasts
of Auggie sporting events now available
Now Online news release!
Sport fans can now
hear live coverage of Augsburg College athletics from anywhere in the
world through the Internet!
Through an arrangement
with SportsJuice.com, Augsburg
will cybercast many sporting events, including every remaining game on
the 2001 football schedule. Future cybercasts will include numerous winter
and spring sporting events.
Fans can go to Augsburg's
athletic Web site and click on the "live audio" link on
gamedays to find the link to the live sporting event broadcast that day.
There will also be an archive of past cybercast events from Augsburg.
Fans will need the
free Windows Media Player to listen to all the action live. The Windows
Media Player is installed as a plug-in on most Windows browsers. Otherwise,
go to windowsmedia.com
to download.
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—Don
Stoner is sports information coordinator.
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