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Minooka Community High School Announces Hall of Fame Class of 2026 · Kendall County News - Shaw Local

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  Speaker 1: Minuka Community High School announces Hall of Fame class of
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty six. Written by Marcus Jackson, This article is
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  Speaker 1: Minuka Community High School Committee for the Athletic Hall of
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  Speaker 1: Fame is pleased to announce the class of twenty twenty
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  Speaker 1: six inductees. The twenty fifteen girls cross country team will
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  Speaker 1: be inducted as a team. Under the direction of head
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  Speaker 1: coach Kevin Gofferson, they won the Class three ISA state
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  Speaker 1: title after winning four invitationals during the regular season. They
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  Speaker 1: took home conference, regional and sectional titles at the state finals.
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  Speaker 1: Ashley Tutt fourth, Emily Shelton nineteenth, and Mackenzie Callahan twentieth
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  Speaker 1: all earned all State honors with their finishes. At the time,
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  Speaker 1: the combined race times for the runners was the fourth
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  Speaker 1: fastest in state history. Dave bet Shwizer class of nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty two will be inducted as an individual athlete. Bettsweiser
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  Speaker 1: was the Class AISA wrestling state champion at won twenty
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  Speaker 1: six pounds in nineteen eighty two. He led in the
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  Speaker 1: final match from the beginning and held on for a
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  Speaker 1: three two two to victory. Bettsweiser finished the year with
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  Speaker 1: a thirty eight three record and was named team MVP.
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  Speaker 1: Larry Grote class of nineteen eighty three will be inducted
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  Speaker 1: as an individual athlete. Groat was the Class AISA wrestling
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  Speaker 1: state champion at one hundred and five pounds in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty three. The final match went into overtime, where Groat
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  Speaker 1: shut out his opponent to zero. He finished the season
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  Speaker 1: with a record of January first, thirty eight. A two
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  Speaker 1: time all state wrestler, Groat was the MVP on the
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  Speaker 1: Minuka team that finished fifth in the state in nineteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty three. He also finished fourth in the state at
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  Speaker 1: ninety eight pounds as a junior. Tracy moss Burier class
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  Speaker 1: of nineteen ninety nine will be inducted as an individual athlete.
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  Speaker 1: A standout in three sports, her greatest successes came in
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  Speaker 1: track and field. Her senior year, she was second in
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  Speaker 1: the discus at the Class two ISSA state finals. She
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  Speaker 1: was also all State during her junior and sophomore years
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  Speaker 1: in the discus, finishing third and eighth respectively. She qualified
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  Speaker 1: for state in the shot put all three of those
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  Speaker 1: years as well. She also was an All Conference basketball
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  Speaker 1: player and started on the volleyball team. After high school,
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  Speaker 1: she continued to compete in track and field at the
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  Speaker 1: University of Illinois, where she was All Big Ten three times.
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  Speaker 1: Scott Moss class of two thousand and two will be
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  Speaker 1: inducted as an individual athlete. He won several accolades in
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  Speaker 1: both football and track and field. His senior year of football,
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  Speaker 1: he was named All State Special mention from the Champagne
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  Speaker 1: Urbana News Gazette. He had both two thy three hundred
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  Speaker 1: career rushing yards on offense and one hundred and fifty
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  Speaker 1: career tackles on defense. In track and field, Moss won
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  Speaker 1: the Class two ISS state championship in the discus his
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  Speaker 1: junior year, setting a school record that still stands as
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty six. He also finished sixth in the
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  Speaker 1: state and shot put as a junior. After high school,
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  Speaker 1: he played four years of football at the University of Illinois,
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  Speaker 1: finishing his career there with more than seventy tackles. Bernie
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  Speaker 1: Ruediger will be inducted as a coach. Under Ruediger's Leadershiship
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  Speaker 1: Minuka would win the twenty ten Class three AIA wrestling
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  Speaker 1: state championship. Two state runners up trophies and finish in
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  Speaker 1: the Elite eight eight different times. In his seventeen years
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  Speaker 1: as head coach, he had a winning season every year
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  Speaker 1: at Minukah except one. He coached three individual state champions
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  Speaker 1: and numerous other all state wrestlers. He was inducted into
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  Speaker 1: the iw SOA Hall of Fame in two thousand and nine.
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  Speaker 1: Ruediger also served as an assistant football coach and assistant
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  Speaker 1: softball coach during his time at Manukah. He also coached
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  Speaker 1: wrestling at Minukah Junior High where he won state championships
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  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty two and two twenty twenty three. Bert
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  Speaker 1: Koi will be inducted for special merit. Kui came to
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  Speaker 1: MCCHHS in two thousand and four and had an immediate
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  Speaker 1: impact in everything he did. He served as the Department
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  Speaker 1: chair of the Physical Education, Health Drivers Education Department, where
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  Speaker 1: he hired mentored numerous individuals who went on to become
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  Speaker 1: head coaches at MCCHS. Kuei was the head football coach
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  Speaker 1: at Manuka for eight years, beginning in two thousand and four.
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  Speaker 1: Under his direction, they won the conference in two thousand
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  Speaker 1: and nine and made the playoffs each of his final
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  Speaker 1: three years as head coach, even reaching the Class seven
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  Speaker 1: A quarterfinals in twenty ten. He retired from teaching in
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  Speaker 1: twenty nineteen and currently sits on the MCCHS District Number
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  Speaker 1: one eleven Board of Education. This is the fourth class
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  Speaker 1: to be inducted into the MCCHS Athletic Hall of Fame.
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  Speaker 1: The first class was inducted in twenty nineteen. The Athletic
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  Speaker 1: Hall of Fame Committee reached out to the community through
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  Speaker 1: social media and via a variety of other marketing outlets
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  Speaker 1: and ask for community members to submit nominees. From those nominees,
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  Speaker 1: the class of twenty twenty six was selected. Nominees not
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  Speaker 1: chosen for this year's class will automatically be considered for
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  Speaker 1: next year's class. The fourth annual Hall of Fame class
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  Speaker 1: of twenty twenty six will be introduced at the homecoming
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  Speaker 1: game on Friday, September eighteenth, twenty twenty six, at the
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  Speaker 1: conclusion of the sophomore football game versus Joliet West High School.
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  Speaker 1: Sophomore game starts at five pm and will end approximately
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  Speaker 1: at seven pm. The varsity game begins at seven thirty pm.
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  Speaker 1: The Manuka Athletic Hall of Fame Committee will honor the
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  Speaker 1: class of twenty twenty six and their families at a
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  Speaker 1: dinner on Saturday, September nineteenth, twenty twenty six, at Ace's Garage,
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  Speaker 1: Bar and Grill in Manuka at six pm. More information
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  Speaker 1: can be found on the Athletics web page at www
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  Speaker 1: dot mh's dot net slash page slash Athletic six. Questions
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  Speaker 1: contact Athletic Hall of Fame at mhe's dot net