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October 1, 2009 Contact: Mike Wajerski, SID Five New Members to be Inducted into Forester Athletics Hall of Fame
The oldest of the 2009 inductees is Dean Hayes, a four-year member of the track team and 1959 graduate of the College. Hayes has been the track & field coach at Middle Tennessee State University since 1965. His Blue Raider track and cross country teams have claimed a combined 44 conference championships and his athletes have earned 84 All-American honors. He has also coached internationally as a head coach at the Goodwill Games and World Championships and as an assistant at the 1988 Olympics. While Hayes comes back to campus for his 50th reunion, Tony Wall returns for his 30th. Wall lettered four times in football and three times in baseball at the College. He set single-season team records for sacks and tackles for loss and graduated as the program's all-time leaders in both categories. Wall was a three-time All-Midwest Collegiate Athletic Conference selection and a team captain as a senior when the Foresters advanced to the conference championship game. Lake Forest's men's basketball team made its first appearance in the conference championship tournament in 1998, thanks in large part to the play of Mike Ansani, a senior and the Midwest Conference South Division Player of the Year that season. Ansani was the Foresters' Most Valuable Player, an All-MWC selection, and an Academic All-MWC honoree his sophomore, junior, and senior seasons. He led the team in scoring his final two seasons and finished his career ranked eighth in program history with 1,292 career points. The women's soccer team made four appearances in the conference championship game with Jessica Wiehrdt on the roster and, like Wall, she was a three-time all-conference selection. "Wierdo," as she was called by her teammates, finished her career ranked second in program history with 91 points. She scored a school record five goals in one game during her senior year and matched the team record with 19 goals that season. She also lettered four times in basketball and was the 1998 recipient of the Nicholas J. Wasylik Senior Athletic Award. Another Wasylik Award winner, T.R. Bell, coached Wiehrdt during her senior season. Bell is the men's soccer program's all-time leader in assists and helped the team capture conference championships as a freshman and senior. He earned all-conference and team MVP honors as a junior and senior and the team posted an overall record of 53-12-2 and their 17-1 mark his senior season is the best in team history. Bell also lettered in hockey all four years. In addition, he is the winningest women's soccer coach in school history and a two-time MWC Coach of the Year. The sport Bell coaches - women's soccer - was selected for this year's Affinity Reunion. The program's first season as a varsity sport was in 1986 and the Foresters have posted a winning percentage of .619 (216-140-16) and a conference mark of .760 (152-46-6) in their first 23 years of existence. The team captured league titles in 1989, 2001, and 2004 and qualified for the NCAA Tournament in 2003. Women's soccer players at the College have been named all-conference 92 times and earned Academic All-MWC distinction 64 times since the award began in 1990. For a complete 2009 Homecoming schedule, click here.
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