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21 centralight fall '14 21 centralight fall '14 The Marcy Weston CMU Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony is set for 7 p.m. Oct. 17. It's free to the public and will be in McGuirk Arena. The inductees also will be honored Oct. 18 at CMU's football game against Ball State. Gordon Cashen, Wrestling, 1990-94 Cashen earned All-America honors, finishing in eighth place at 142 pounds in the 1994 NCAA championships. He was the team MVP for the Chippewas in his 1993-94 season and finished his career with 13 falls. Clark Huntey, Baseball, 1986-89 Huntey was a four-year letter winner and a standout during a golden era of CMU baseball. As a senior, he was the first Chippewa to earn the All-Mid-American Conference Player of the Year award. He finished his career with 38 home runs, which still ranks third on CMU's all-time list. Huntey's slugging percentage of .879 in 1989 remains a school record. He was drafted by the San Francisco Giants. Selina (Nickason) Mirjavadi, Gymnastics, 1995-98 Mirjavadi was named Mid-American Conference Gymnast of the Year and Senior of the Year in 1998, becoming the first student-athlete in league history to capture both awards in the same season. She captured the MAC title on bars in 1997 and floor exercise in 1998, scoring 9.9 in both events. She helped the Chippewas earn league titles in 1995 and 1998 and was an NCAA regional qualifier in 1997. Scott Rehberg, Football, 1993-96 Rehberg was a four-year letter winner and three-year starter at left tackle, and he helped CMU win the MAC Championship in 1994. He was selected by the New England Patriots in the seventh round of the 1997 NFL draft. He played in 79 NFL games, starting 27 in his seven-year career with the Patriots, Cincinnati Bengals and Cleveland Browns. Jim Knapp, Men's Track and Field Coach, 1985-2009 Knapp led the CMU men's track and field program from 1985 through 2009, winning three Mid-American Conference outdoor championships and one MAC indoor title. He was named MAC Coach of the Year eight times, and he coached 16 NCAA All-Americans. In 2005, he led the Chippewas to both the indoor and outdoor MAC championships, the only time in history the team won both crowns in the same season. Knapp coached a program that captured six MAC championships. Brenda Schrader, Softball, 1993-94 Schrader was named MAC Player of the Year in 1994, the same year she led the team to the MAC title and a berth in the NCAA regional tournament. Her .362 career batting average remains tied for second-best in school history. She was 16-for-18 in stolen bases in her career, and she struck out just 20 times in 339 appearances at the plate. • induction ceremony CMU baseball alumni step up to the plate to coach high school championship teams It was a sun-splashed June afternoon, and Tim McDonald had just coached his Bay City Western High School baseball team to its second consecutive state championship in Michigan. One of the first postgame handshakes he received was from Dean Kreiner, who had coached McDonald when he was an All-America pitcher at Central Michigan University in the 1980s. "I told him, 'What you saw was CMU baseball: bunting, heads-up base running and good pitching,' " McDonald says. "Coach Kreiner appreciates good baseball, and when I made that statement it probably gave him some pride." Kreiner and plenty of others. CMU baseball was on full display on state- championship weekend 2014 at Michigan State University. Four of the eight teams competing in the state high school semifinals and finals in four divisions were coached by former CMU players. The others: Dan Griesbaum, a Chippewa in 1974-75, coaches Grosse Pointe South, which lost to McDonald's Western Warriors, 6-2, in the Division I title game. Luke Epple, who played for CMU from 1980-83, led his Mount Pleasant Oilers to the Division II state crown. Brad Antcliff, a two-time CMU letterman in the late '90s, led Beal City to a runner-up finish in Division 4. "With the background CMU baseball provides, I think a lot of us felt we were pretty well prepared to try our hand at coaching," says McDonald. And what was on display that June day are the traits that have distinguished CMU baseball going back more than a half century, when Bill Theunissen was in charge. "If you learn to play the game the right way, then you teach it the right way," Kreiner says. "Bill Theunissen taught us the right way, and we went on and teach it the right way. "It's a tremendous thing to see. We can all be awfully proud of that." • CMU Athletics Hall of Fame

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