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Mondschein and KU – a Perfect Match Brian Mondschein paused during his Kutztown University Hall of Fame induction speech to absorb the moment. He didn’t need to script this part. “Kutztown was the best thing that ever happened to me,” he said with a trembling voice. “I love this school. I love all the kids I’ve coached. One thing I know for certain is that for everything I gave this school, I got back a hell of a lot more.” Mondschein gave the school plenty during 14 years as head coach of the track and field programs. With few resources, he transformed the Golden Bears into a Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) force that captured 18 conference titles and crowned 90 individual conference champions and 38 All-Americans. He was named the PSAC Coach of the Year 10 times. Mondschein entered the school’s Hall of Fame as the only coach from among the six 2012 inductees. “I’ve always felt that a list of one’s accomplishments is little more than a list of the situations a person happened to fall into, sort of a right place, right time thing,” Mondschein said. “Coaching is like that. You recruit the right athletes, you train them in a way that they get a little better, and the next thing you know, you’re vying for conference championships.” Mondschein thanked his own collegiate coaches from the University of Washington and his father, Irv “Moon” Mondschein, who competed in the 1948 Olympics, was the head coach at the University of Pennsylvania from 1967 to 1987 and assisted him with the program at KU. “I learned the most important thing from my dad,” he said. “The more you give of yourself, the more you get back. I’ve followed my dad’s lead, and it’s taken me really far.” Through his coaching travails, Mondschein is appreciative of the forces that conspired to bring him to Kutztown. “I’m a pretty good example that things don’t necessarily go as planned, but all the things that happened to me brought me to Kutztown,” he said. “In 1993, I walked around the campus and knew that I wanted to be a part of KU.”
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Joining former head track and field coach Brian Mondschein (above)
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as inductees into the KU Athletic Hall of Fame in November were (left to
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right): Tiffany Mattiuz Keller ’96, a multiple All-PSAC and all-region softball pitcher and record setter; Megan Seefeldt Carson ’02, KU’s first PSAC cross country champion and track and field standout; Paul Schmitt ’02, track and field All-American in the pole vault; Glenn Woolard, a record-setting All-American pitcher for the baseball team and 2002 Rawlings Division II Player of the Year; and Cyndi Wasilius ’93, an All-PSAC women’s basketball performer and one of the top scorers in team history.
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