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Miech Selected to
Wisconsin Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame
UW-Stevens Point football coach John Miech has
been named among the 2005 inductees for the Wisconsin Football Coaches
Association Hall of Fame.
The all-time winningest coach in school history,
Miech is the only collegiate coach among this year�s class of 17 current and
former coaches. He is the first UW-Stevens Point coach to be selected for
the Hall of Fame, which began in 1980.
Miech will be inducted at a ceremony on April 2 at
the Marriott West in Middleton. The dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. and tickets
are available for $30 per person through the UW-Stevens Point athletics
office at 715-346-3888.
Miech ranks fifth on the all-time Wisconsin
Intercollegiate Athletic Conference victories list with a 113-56-2 record in
17 seasons as the Pointers� head coach. Miech has coached at UW-Stevens
Point for the past 23 years and has led the Pointers to three WIAC
championships in the last seven seasons. He was the WIAC Coach of the Year
after leading UW-Stevens Point to conference titles in 1998 and 2001.
A 1975 graduate of UW-Stevens Point, Miech spent
three years as an assistant coach with the Pointers before working as a
graduate assistant at Stephen F. Austin University for one season. Miech
returned to Wisconsin for six seasons as a head high school coach, serving
three years each at Whitnall and Jefferson High Schools before returning to
UW-Stevens Point in 1985 as an assistant coach. He became the Pointers� head
coach in 1988 and has more than twice as many victories as any other coach
in school history.
Among the other inductees is UW-Stevens Point
graduate Ken Golomski, who was a college teammate of Miech. Also being
inducted are Jim Bylsma, Tom Crowe, Eugene Golden, Peter Guzzetta, Andy
Lind, Stephen Mayheu, Robert Murphy, Donald Nelson, Robert Newhouse, Duane
Rogatzki, Richard Sheahan, Gene Staffen, Steven Stellmacher, Gene Strusz and
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