GSAA Hall grows to 62 tonight at Sertoma dinner
Iowa State's Pollard is featured speaker
By Terry Hersom Journal sports editor | Posted: Tuesday, April 17, 2007
It's definitely not a bad night for Siouxland's diehard Cyclone fans to show up for the annual Sertoma Club Sports Dinner.
Sponsored for the 39th year by the Sioux City Noon Sertoma Club, the banquet's featured speaker will be Jamie Pollard, a mover and shaker who has made significant changes in 19 months since coming aboard as the Iowa State University athletic director.
And, as an added bonus, the crowd on hand may very well include Iowa State's next starting quarterback, redshirt freshman Austen Arnaud, who came out of spring drills as the No. 2 signal-caller behind highly regarded senior-to-be Bret Meyer.
Arnaud, a former Ames High School all-stater, is expected to attend a 7 p.m. dinner at the Sioux City Convention Center, where his father, John, will be one of three new addition's to the Greater Siouxland Athletic Association Hall of Fame. A social "hour'' is scheduled from 5:30 p.m. until 7.
John Arnaud, a standout at safety for the Cyclones, will be honored along with Amy (Wilhelm) Lefler and Steve Wilkinson, bringing to 62 the number of inductees in a hall of fame first introduced in 1963.
The former Amy Wilhelm, still the career scoring leader at Morningside College a full 20 years after completing her college career, becomes just the eighth female member of the hall, which made former LPGA Tour golfer Judy Kimball its first female inductee in 1983.
The GSAA has since honored swimming coach Allie Montagne, golf coach Lila Frommelt, track and field stars Rachel Lewis, Robin Small and Yvette Greer-Albrecht, and all-time metro girls basketball scoring leader Sue (Jones) Berens.
Like Jones, who starred at Heelan, North High's Wilhelm played her prep hoops during the six-player era, establishing city records that are unlikely to be broken with 66 points in a game and a 1982-83 single-season scoring average of 40.3 points.
Wilkinson, a two-time state high school singles runner-up even though his high school (Central) did not field a team, is only the second individual cited in the sport of tennis, joining Lauren "Lefty'' Barnes.
The 1959 Central grad went on to play No. 1 for three seasons at Iowa and has since amassed 50 national titles in various age-group competition. Meanwhile, he has been the men's tennis coach for 37 years at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., guiding six teams to NCAA Division III national championships.
John Arnaud, was an all-stater in football and a state champion in the high jump before graduating from North in 1979. His prep best of 6-10 in the high jump has stood as the metro record for 28 years and has rarely been challenged.
While at Iowa State, where he was a three-year starter, he continued to high jump on a part-time basis, achieving a personal best of 7 feet, 2.75 inches before an injury forced him to limit his athletic attentions to football. After college, he played for three different teams during the three years the United States Football League operated a spring and summer professional schedule, starting in the secondary for the inaugural USFL champs, the Michigan Panthers.
The local athletic shrine, presently on public display at the Long Lines Family Rec Center, includes the likes of F. Morgan Taylor, a gold medalist in the 400 hurdles at the 1924 Paris Olympics, the Games that inspired the motion picture "Chariots of Fire,'' and Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Bancroft, who played for four different National League teams from 1915 through 1930.
The Sertoma event, a traditional staple on the local sports calendar, has included the GSAA Hall of Fame presentations since 2004.
A limited number of tickets can still be purchased at the door.
Sponsored for the 39th year by the Sioux City Noon Sertoma Club, the banquet's featured speaker will be Jamie Pollard, a mover and shaker who has made significant changes in 19 months since coming aboard as the Iowa State University athletic director.
And, as an added bonus, the crowd on hand may very well include Iowa State's next starting quarterback, redshirt freshman Austen Arnaud, who came out of spring drills as the No. 2 signal-caller behind highly regarded senior-to-be Bret Meyer.
Arnaud, a former Ames High School all-stater, is expected to attend a 7 p.m. dinner at the Sioux City Convention Center, where his father, John, will be one of three new addition's to the Greater Siouxland Athletic Association Hall of Fame. A social "hour'' is scheduled from 5:30 p.m. until 7.
John Arnaud, a standout at safety for the Cyclones, will be honored along with Amy (Wilhelm) Lefler and Steve Wilkinson, bringing to 62 the number of inductees in a hall of fame first introduced in 1963.
The former Amy Wilhelm, still the career scoring leader at Morningside College a full 20 years after completing her college career, becomes just the eighth female member of the hall, which made former LPGA Tour golfer Judy Kimball its first female inductee in 1983.
The GSAA has since honored swimming coach Allie Montagne, golf coach Lila Frommelt, track and field stars Rachel Lewis, Robin Small and Yvette Greer-Albrecht, and all-time metro girls basketball scoring leader Sue (Jones) Berens.
Like Jones, who starred at Heelan, North High's Wilhelm played her prep hoops during the six-player era, establishing city records that are unlikely to be broken with 66 points in a game and a 1982-83 single-season scoring average of 40.3 points.
Wilkinson, a two-time state high school singles runner-up even though his high school (Central) did not field a team, is only the second individual cited in the sport of tennis, joining Lauren "Lefty'' Barnes.
The 1959 Central grad went on to play No. 1 for three seasons at Iowa and has since amassed 50 national titles in various age-group competition. Meanwhile, he has been the men's tennis coach for 37 years at Gustavus Adolphus College in St. Peter, Minn., guiding six teams to NCAA Division III national championships.
John Arnaud, was an all-stater in football and a state champion in the high jump before graduating from North in 1979. His prep best of 6-10 in the high jump has stood as the metro record for 28 years and has rarely been challenged.
While at Iowa State, where he was a three-year starter, he continued to high jump on a part-time basis, achieving a personal best of 7 feet, 2.75 inches before an injury forced him to limit his athletic attentions to football. After college, he played for three different teams during the three years the United States Football League operated a spring and summer professional schedule, starting in the secondary for the inaugural USFL champs, the Michigan Panthers.
The local athletic shrine, presently on public display at the Long Lines Family Rec Center, includes the likes of F. Morgan Taylor, a gold medalist in the 400 hurdles at the 1924 Paris Olympics, the Games that inspired the motion picture "Chariots of Fire,'' and Baseball Hall of Famer Dave Bancroft, who played for four different National League teams from 1915 through 1930.
The Sertoma event, a traditional staple on the local sports calendar, has included the GSAA Hall of Fame presentations since 2004.
A limited number of tickets can still be purchased at the door.
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