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Inducted 2003   Karl
Maass grew up in Matteson, Illinois, and attended Rich Central High School.
He was an all-conference player and the team's Most Valuable Player in
basketball. In addition, he was named Athlete of the Year and received
the Human Relationship Award and the Citizenship Award.
Maass enrolled at Lake Forest College in the fall of 1974 and immediately
excelled on the basketball court. After earning Second Team All-Midwest
Collegiate Athletic Conference honors as a freshman and sophomore, he was
a First Team selection as well as the team's captain and Most Valuable
Player as both a junior and senior. Maass led the team in scoring each
of his four seasons and scored 1,442 points in his collegiate career. At
the time of his induction, he ranked third on the school's career scoring
list. In addition, the Foresters won more games during his career than
in any other four-year span in school history (at time of induction). In
1977-78, Karl's senior year, he led Lake Forest to a share of the program's
first-ever conference championship. Maass was also a pitcher on the Forester
baseball team for two seasons. He tied for the team lead in victories in
1976 and allowed fewer than three earned runs per seven innings in his
career.
He lists his family as his greatest lifetime achievement.
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