2013 RMAC Hall of Fame Headquarters
When: Friday, July 12, 5 PM
Where: Colorado Springs Marriott
5580 Tech Center Drive
Colorado Springs, CO 80919
Cost: $55 Individual (before June 28)
$60 Individual (June 28-July 12)
$500 Table (Seats 10)
Inductees: Casey Beran (Chadron State), Chad Friehauf (Colorado Mines), Brenda Jarvis-Eriksson (Adams State), Crystal Krebs (UC-Colorado Springs), Frank Powell (Adams State), Richard Ulrich (Adams State), Mark Worthington (Metro State), 1990 and 1992 Adams State Men's Indoor Track and Field teams, 1990 Adams State Wrestling team
Master of Ceremonies: Sam Farnsworth
Directions: From the North - Take the Rockrimmon Road exit, number 148. Go straight at the light, then make a right on Rockrimmon Blvd. Turn left on Tech Center drive, immediately after passing a gas station. The hotel driveway will be on the right at 5580 Tech Center Drive.
From the South - Take the Rockrimmon Exit, number 148. Make a left at the stop light at the bottom of the exit, onto Rockrimmon Blvd. Make a left on Tech Center Drive, immediately after passing a gas station. The hotel driveway will be on the right.
For the RMAC Hall of Fame news feed via Storify, which includes articles, photos, and video surrounding the event, click HERE.
Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) commissioner Joel R. Smith has announced that seven individuals and three teams will be inducted into the 2013 RMAC Hall of Fame. Casey Beran (Chadron State), Chad Friehauf (Colorado Mines), Brenda Jarvis-Eriksson (Adams State), Crystal Krebs (UCCS), Frank Powell (Adams State), Richard Ulrich (Adams State) and Mark Worthington (Metro State) are the individual honorees. In addition, the 1990 and 1992 Adams State men’s indoor track & field teams and the 1990 Adams State wrestling team will be inducted.
The eleventh annual Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference Hall of Fame ceremony will be on Friday, July 12, at the Colorado Springs Marriott hotel. Social hour begins at 5 p.m. (MDT), followed by dinner at 6 p.m. and the banquet at 7 p.m. A table of ten can be purchased for $500. Individual reservations are $55 prior to July 5. Each reservation includes a wonderful dinner as well as the presentation. In addition to the Hall of Fame, the 2012-13 Coaches of the Year will be recognized along with Honor Student-Athletes.
The 2013 RMAC Hall of Fame class was chosen by a committee comprised of Patti Arnold (Grand Junction Daily Sentinel), Eric Danner (RMAC), Marv Kay (Colorado Mines), Todd Kelly (CSU-Pueblo), Con Marshall (Chadron State), Joan McDermott (Metro State), Sarah Meier (RMAC), Larry Mortensen (Adams State) and Smith (RMAC). Below is biographical information on each of the inductees.
Casey Beran, Chadron State
Football
1995-99
Beran was the first Chadron State football player to earn both All-American and Academic All-American honors. He was placed on the first-team RMAC All-Conference teams in 1996, 1998 and 1999. As a senior in 1999, he was selected as the conference’s outstanding defensive player. In 2009, Beran was selected as one of the top 12 defensive players in RMAC history at the Centennial Celebration. As a senior, he was a Football Gazette and USA Football first-team All-American and was placed on the Daktronics NCAA II and Associated Press Little All-American Team second-team. When hegraduated, Beran owned the Chadron State record for most career sacks with 36.5 for 275 yards in losses. He also had 32.5 more tackles for 107 yards of losses. In addition, he caused seven fumbles and had 38 quarterback hurries. Beran also played fullback on the Eagles’ power I formation when they were near the goal line. He scored seven touchdowns as a junior and four as a senior. The Eagles went 7-1 in the RMAC all three years Beran was named to the all-conference team. They won the championship outright in 1996 and tied for the title in 1998 and 1999. Beran majored in human biology andgraduated Magna Cum Laude in the spring of 1999 with a 3.80 grade point average. He graduated from the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha in 2004 and is now an orthopedic surgeon for Creighton Medical Associates.
Chad Friehauf, Colorado Mines
Football, Basketball Player
2001-2004, 2007-2008
The first ever winner of the Harlon Hill Trophy (top player in all of NCAA Division II) from the RMAC in 2004, Friehauf led the Orediggers to a 12-1 record and the conference championship during his senior season. That same year CSM qualified for their first ever NCAA play-off appearance. He established NCAA Division II single-season records for completion percentage (74.4%), total offense (5,363) and total offensive yards per game (412.5) in 2004. That same year, Friehauf was named RMAC Offensive Player of the Year and established RMAC and NCAA Division II record for single-season passing yards (4,646) and school records for pass attempts (516), pass completions (384) and touchdown passes (39) and pass completions (384) in a season. In addition, he also had 144 carries for 717 rushing yards (5.0 yards per carry) and 15 rushing touchdowns in 2004. In 2002 and 2003 he was Honorable Mention All-RMAC. Friehauf finished his career at Mines as the school’s all-time leader in pass attempts (1,183), pass completions (773), passing yards (9,873) and touchdown passes (84), with a 22-8 win-loss record (.733) in 30 career starts. He was also a three-year member of the CSMmen’s basketball team (2001-02, 2002-03, 2007-08), earning Honorable Mention All-East Division honors in 2007-08. In 2009, Friehauf was selected as one of the top 12 offensive players in RMAC history at the Centennial Celebration.
Brenda Jarvis-Eriksson, Adams State
Track & Field Runner
1983-1986
In her career, Jarvis-Eriksson was a three-time NAIA National Champion and 16-time All-American as a middle distance runner and hurdler. She earned national titles at the 1986 indoor national championships in the 55-meter hurdles and the 100-meter hurdles at the 1985 and 1986 outdoor national championships. She was the team captain of the 1985 Adams State NAIA national championship team, that was inducted into last year’s RMAC Hall of Fame and is now the third member of that squad to be inducted as an individual (Lori Risenhoover-Coppa, Julie Jenkins-Donley). That team nowhas more inductees than any other squad in conference history. During her stay at then Adams State College, Jarvis won six RMAC hurdling titles, which included the 400m hurdles all four years and the 100m hurdles as a junior and senior. The 1986 ASC graduate earned NAIA All-America honors during all possible eight seasons (indoor & outdoor) during her career and is the former NAIA National Record holder in the 100-meter hurdles. She also helped ASC win the 1983, 1984 and 1985 RMAC Outdoor Track & Field Team Titles. Jarvis-Eriksson was inducted into the Adams State Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003.
Crystal Krebs, UC-Colorado Springs
Softball
2003-2005
Krebs is the first softball player and first student-athlete from UC-Colorado Springs to be enshrined in the RMAC Hall of Fame. She is a two-time conference Player of the Year and was named NCAA Division II Catcher of the Year in 2004 after hitting .511 with a school record 19 home runs and throwing out 15 of 27 would-be base stealers. She was also a first-team All-American in 2004 and 2005. In 2005, Krebs set a new NCAA Division II home run record with 25 in 48 games (0.52 per game). Krebs won the RMAC triple crown (batting average, home runs and runs batted in) in both 2004 and 2005. The Mountain Lions won 76.3 percent of their conference games during Krebs tenure with the team. She was named academic all-district and academic All-American in 2005. In the classroom, Krebs posted a cumulative GPA of 3.54 in Geography/Environmental Studies. In 2009, she was named to the RMAC All-Century Team. Since graduating, Krebs has become a science teacher in school district 38 and head softball coach at Lewis-Palmer High School in Monument.
Frank Powell, Adams State
Wrestling Coach
1982-1985
A 1962 graduate of Adams State, Powell initiated the Grizzlies (then Indians) wrestling program in the early 1960s. He coached nine years, highlighted by back-to-back NAIA national titles in 1968 and 1969. Both of those teams are in the RMAC Hall of Fame. Powell was named National Coach of the Year and posted a 72-36-1 (.665) dual meet record while coaching six national champion wrestlers and 35 All-Americans. His teams won four consecutive regional championships from 1965-1968 and RMAC titles in 1967 and 1968. In 1967, led by national champions Mike Stanley and Dominick Carollo the Indians finished tied for 15th as a team at the Division I tournament and tied for 17th in 1968. Adams State hostedthe 1968 NAIA national championships at Plachy Hall in Alamosa, thanks in large part to Coach Powell. He is also in the NAIA Wrestling Hall of Fame and was inducted into the Adams State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001. Powell went on to become head wrestling coach and Athletic Director at Metro State from 1972-1977.
Richard Ulrich, Adams State
Wrestling Coach
1973-1982
Dr. Ulrich led Adams State to three NAIA national wrestling team titles (1975, 1976, 1980). All of those teams have been enshrined in the RMAC Hall of Fame. During his nine seasons as head coach, Adams State won the RMAC championship all nine years. He coached 11 national champions, 38 All-Americans and was named national Coach of the Year in 1980. Ulrich was inducted into the Adams State Athletics Hall of Fame in 2001. He had an 83-23-3 (.778) dual meet record in his nine years and also served as then-ASC’s head football coach in 1981. Ulrich went on to NCAA Division III University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash. where he was the school’s Athletic Director for 19 years and men’s and women’s golf coach. He led the Loggers to a couple of NCAA DIII tournament appearances before retiring in 2010. He was inducted into the UPS Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.
Mark Worthington, Metro State
Basketball
2001-05
During Worthington’s career at Metro State, he won a national team championship and earned National Player of the Year honors. As a freshman, he was a key part of the 2002 MSU national championship team, starting nine games. As a senior, “Wortho” averaged 19.8 points, 6.2 rebounds, 2.2 assists and 1.9 steals, while shooting 50 percent from the floor and 37 percent from the outside, and he led the Roadrunners to the Elite Eight tournament. That year, Worthington was named National Association of Basketball Coaches National Player of the Year and RMAC Player of the Year. In his career, he played in three Elite Eight’s, while helping Metro to a record of 118-18 (.868). In addition to ranking in the top-10 in school history in points and rebounds, he sits fourth in free throws made (362) and free throws attempted (503), ninth in steals (161), field goals made (490) and field goal attempts (980). The Australia native earned his bachelor’s degreein 2005 from Metro State in speech communications with a minor in journalism. Following graduation, Worthington has competed for his home country in the past two Olympic Games (2008 in Beijing and 2012 in London) and has also played in Australia’s National Basketball League, where he was named all-league first team and Rookie of the Year. In 2009,Worthington was selected to the RMAC Men’s Basketball All-Time Team. He is currently playing professionally in Serbia.
1990 and 1992 Adams State College
Men's Indoor Track & Field Teams
1990: The Adams State Men’s Indoor Track & Field team was the first RMAC men’s track & field team to win a team national championship at the NAIA meet in Kansas City, Mo. Overseen by the legendary Joe Vigil and national Coach of the Year Tom Lionvale, the then-Indians boasted a number of indvidual champions while scoring 58 team points. Martin Johns took home the title in the 880 yards, winning in a time of 1:56:35. In the mile, Dan Maas was atop the podium with a time of 4:07:99. Three-time cross country national champion Rick Robirds won the three-mile run in 13:48:11. Adams State also won the Distance Medley Relay with a team of Johns, Maas, Stephan Flenoy and Pete Kilbarda (10:08:00). 1992: ASC repeated the feat, this time led by Vigil and John Kernan, who was named national Coach of the Year, scoring 82 team points. Maas won another national title in the two-mile run (9:00:10). Shane Healy was victorious in the mile (4:05:64), setting a new national record, while Kevin Cunningham won the high jump championship with an impressive leap of 6-11. The Indians also won the two-mile relay with Johns, Brian Blazek, David Bell and Scott Smoot (7:44.49). ASC also captured another national title in the DMR with Healy, Blazek, Dan Caufield, and Jason Mohr (10:02.05). This was the third year in a row the Adams State DMR team won the national title. These are the only two men’s indoor track & field teams in RMAC history to win national team championships.
1990 Adams State College
Wrestling Team
In 1990, the Adams State Wrestling team captured the eighth national team championship in that sport in school history. The eight NAIA championships are a record that still stands today (tied with Central State of Oklahoma). The meet was held in Hays, Kan. and the then-Indians piled up 94 team points, winning the title by 10.5 points over second place Northern Montana. Led by national Coach of the Year Rodger Jehlicka and 167-pound national champion Timm McDaniel, ASC brought home their first national championship in 10 years and the most recent national wrestling title in school history. Other All-Americans on the team included Dennis Friedland (5th at 118), Dale Hall (5th at 126), Larry Evens (2nd at 150), Chad Smidt (2nd at 158), Matt Zene (4th at 177) and Jim Gontis. That year Adams State went 10-2 in dual meets, and won the RMAC title with 78 3/4 points.
--- ROCKY MOUNTAIN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE ---