KENOSHA, WI - Carthage College will induct six outstanding athletes, along with two former coaches or administrators, into its athletic hall of fame on Friday, Oct. 16, 2015.  The six athletic inductees are men's track and field jumper/sprinter Buzzy Brown (Naperville, Ill./Neuqua Valley), women's golfer Missy Hazelwood (Racine, Wis./Washington Park), women's volleyball libero Katie Lundgren (Long Grove, Ill./Lincolnshire-Stevenson), men's volleyball setter Matt Ulmer (Buffalo Grove, Ill./Lincolnshire-Stevenson), baseball outfielder/pitcher Gavin Winfield (Ripon, Wis.) and men's golfer Tyler Wollberg (Mundelein, Ill.).
 
In addition, former football coach Tim Rucks (Waukegan, Ill.) and retiring sports information director Steve Marovich (Kalamazoo, Mich.) will also be inducted.  Details follow below on each of the inductees' Carthage athletic highlights.
 
Buzzy Brown, '10
Buzzy Brown earned U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association Indoor All-America honors in both 2009 and 2010 and won outdoor honors in 2010 with a third-place national finish.  He earned indoor All-CCIW honors four-straight years from 2007 to 2010 and won three-straight long jump titles between 2008 and 2010 after finishing second in 2007.  During the outdoor seasons, Brown won three-consecutive long jump titles between 2008 and 2010, while finishing second in the 2009 and 2010 200-meter dashes and second in the 100-meter dash in 2009.
 
Missy Hazelwood, '01
Missy Hazelwood qualified for the 2001 NCAA Division III Women's Golf Championship as an individual entrant, Carthage's first ever, and finished in a tie for 35th place with an 86-82-80-81-329.  Hazelwood finished her career with an 87.95 career mark.  She earned All-CCIW honors three times, finishing fifth in the 1997 CCIW Women's Golf Championship, seventh in 1998 and fourth in 1999. 
 
Katie Lundgren, '10
Katie Lundgren was named American Volleyball Coaches Association second-team All-America in both 2008 and 2009, as well as CCIW "Player of the Year" both seasons.  She holds the Carthage career record for digs (2,705).
 
Matt Ulmer, '07
Matt Ulmer was named first-team American Volleyball Coaches Association NCAA Division III All-America in 2007.  He is ranked second on the Carthage career list for assists (2,403).
 
Gavin Winfield, '98
Outfielder/pitcher Gavin Winfield was named American Baseball Coaches Association first-team All-America in 1996, second-team All-CCIW in 1995 and first-team all-conference in both 1996 and 1997.  Winfield is ranked fifth in Carthage career home runs (37), 11th in RBI (156) and 12th in base hits (206).  He threw a no-hitter against Muskingum College on March 21, 1996 and set a Carthage record with 17 strikeouts against North Park University on April 14, 1997.
 
Tyler Wollberg, '09
Tyler Wollberg was the medalist at the 2006 CCIW Men's Golf Championship his freshman year. As a sophomore, he finished second at the 2007 conference championship and earned National Golf Coaches Association of America second-team All-America honors with a 13th-place finish at the NCAA Division III Men's Golf Championship. Wollberg tied for first place at the conference championship in 2008 and was a repeat NGCA second-team All-America pick with a 15th-place tie at the national championship.  As a senior in 2009, he finished second at the conference tournament and was named NGCA third-team All-America.
 
Wollberg set a Carthage record for lowest one-day score with a 65 at the Sept. 30, 2007 Wisconsin Lutheran Fall Invitational, as well as a record for a two-day score at 135.  His season average of 73.1 in 2008 ranks second on the all-time Carthage list, and his career average of 74.38 ranks first.

Tim Rucks
Former Carthage football coach Tim Rucks died on March 10, 2015.  All who had the pleasure of knowing and working with Coach Rucks felt the depth of his commitment to Carthage. Coach Rucks led the Carthage football program during a wonderful 18-year career as Carthage's head coach. His mentoring and leadership impacted thousands of our students over the years, and his presence on our campus will be greatly missed.
 
Carthage College director of athletics Bob Bonn remembered his colleague and friend by saying, "I spoke with Tim Rucks almost every day since January 16, 1995, the day that I hired him as the Carthage's head football coach. Tim gave every ounce of his energy, talent and enthusiasm to the football program, the athletics department and most importantly to the students, over his 20-year Carthage career. He taught us all how to be compassionate, how to treat people and how to care about others. He was one of the kindest people I have or will ever know."

Coach Rucks was named American Football Coaches Association North Region "Coach of the Year," as well as College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin "Bob Reade Football Coach of the Year" in 2004 with an 11-2 conference-championship team that reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division III Football Championship. He was also named Wisconsin Private College "Football Coach of the Year" in 2009. From 1990 to 1994, he was the head coach at North Park University, also in the College Conference of Illinois Wisconsin. In five years at North Park, he increased the size of the football squad from 21 to 91 players, and his 1993 team's 4-4-1 record was North Park's best finish in 25 years.

Coach Rucks was a native of Waukegan, Ill., attended Waukegan West High School, and played four years of football at Carthage under head coach Art Keller. As a senior in 1982, he was named first-team All-CCIW offensive tackle. He graduated in 1983 with a double major in English and political science. Coach Rucks was selected in the third round by the Denver Gold in the inaugural United States Football League draft before signing as a free agent with the National Football League's New York Jets.

Steve Marovich
Steve Marovich has been the glue that has held the sports information department at Carthage College together for more than two decades, while helping the profession evolve and grow.  Marovich retired as sports information director at the end of the 2014-15 academic year, although he continues to work at Carthage in a part-time capacity.

A native of Kalamazoo, Mich., Marovich received his bachelor's in political science from the University of Michigan in 1975 and a master's in athletic administration from Western Michigan University in 1990. He was a graduate assistant at Western Michigan from 1987-89.  After serving as the first-ever sports information director at Nazareth College in Kalamazoo, Mich., from 1989 to 1991, he began his Carthage career in October of 1994.
 
"Steve has been one of the top NCAA Division III sports information directors in the country for more than 20 years," said Robert Bonn, director of athletics at Carthage. "He has been an integral part of the Carthage athletic success over the years and is solely responsible for telling our story. 
 
Marovich and the Carthage communications team received 128 publication awards from the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA) since 1997, and he is a former member of the CoSIDA Publications Committee.  Marovich also served as assistant athletic director at Carthage from 2002 until 2015.  This past June, Marovich received a CoSIDA Lifetime Achievement Award at the annual CoSIDA convention in Orlando, Fla.