RMAC Hall of Fame honors ASU athletes The Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference (RMAC) Hall of Fame inducted three individuals and three teams from Adams State, July 12.
• NAIA Wrestling Hall of Fame, Adams State Athletics Hall of Fame (2001)
Track star Brenda Jarvis-Eriksson ‘86 was inducted along with former wrestling coaches Frank Powell ‘62 and Dr. Richard Ulrich. They were joined by the 1990 and 1992 men's indoor track & field teams and the 1990 wrestling team.
Coach Ulrich also coached Adams State wrestling for nine years, winning the RMAC championship each year. He also served as Adams State’s head football coach in 1981. Ulrich then served 19 years as Athletic Director at NCAA Division III University of Puget Sound in Tacoma, Wash., in addition to coaching men's and women's golf. He led the Loggers to a couple of NCAA DIII tournament appearances before retiring in 2010. • Dual-meet record 83-23-3 (.778) • Coached 11 national champions, 38 All-Americans • 1980 National Coach of the Year • Adams State Athletics Hall of Fame, 2001; University of Puget Sound Athletic Hall of Fame, 2011
coach richard ulrich
men’s indoor track & field teams
Members of the 1990 wrestling team joyfully accept their awards.
brenda jarvis-eriksson In her career, Jarvis-Eriksson was a three-time NAIA National Champion and 16-time All-American as a middle distance runner and hurdler. She contributed to Adams State’s 1983, 1984, and 1985 RMAC Outdoor Track & Field championship titles. She also served as team captain of the 1985 Adams State NAIA national championship team that was inducted into last year's RMAC Hall of Fame. Jarvis-Ericksson earned national titles in the 55-meter hurdles and the 100meter hurdles at the 1985 and 1986 outdoor national championships. • 6 RMAC hurdling titles: 400m, 4 years; 100m, 2 years • Former NAIA national record in the 100-meter hurdles • 8-time NAIA All-America honors • 2003: inducted into the Adams State Athletic Hall of Fame
coach frank powell Coach Powell coached wrestling for nine years after initiating the Adams State program in the early 1960s. Powell went on to become head wrestling coach and Athletic Director at Metro State from 1972-1977. • National Coach of the Year • Dual-meet record 72-36-1 (.665) • Four consecutive regional championships: 1965-68 • RMAC titles: 1967, 1968 • Coached six national champions and 35 All-Americans
These are the only two men's indoor track & field teams in RMAC history to win national team championships. Adams State’s 1990 squad was the first RMAC men's track & field team to win a team national championship at the NAIA meet in Kansas City, Mo. Overseen by the legendary Joe Vigil and National Coach of the Year Tom Lionvale, the thenIndians boasted a number of individual champions, including: Martin Johns ‘92, Dan Maas ‘92, Rick Robirds ‘90; and the distance medley relay team of Johns, Maas, Stephan Flenoy, and Pete Kilbarda. Adams State repeated the feat in 1992, this time led by Vigil and John Kernan, who was named National Coach of the Year. Individual national championships went to: Maas; Shane Healy ‘93; Kevin Cunningham ‘92; the two-mile relay team: Johns, Brian Blazek ‘93, David Bell ‘92, and Scott Smoot; and the distance medley relay team of Healy, Brian Blazek ‘93, Dan Caufield ‘95, ‘99, andJason Mohr ‘93.
1990 wrestling team In 1990, the Adams State wrestling team captured the eighth national team championship in that sport in school history – a record that still stands, tied with Central State of Oklahoma. Adams State went 10-2 in dual meets. Led by National Coach of the Year Rodger Jehlicka and 167-pound national champion Timm McDaniel, it was Adams State’s first national championship in 10 years and the most recent national wrestling title in school history. All-Americans on the team included: • Dennis Friedland ‘96 (5th at 118) • Dale Hall ‘92 (5th at 126) • Larry Evens ‘91 (2nd at 150) • Chad Smidt ‘90, ‘91 (2nd at 158) • Matt Zene ‘91, ‘94 (4th at 177) • Jim Gontis ‘90 By Elario Rickey
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