[BasketballAlum] UMD Basketball #3

[James Kuronen]

PRE-SEASON OLYMPICS
After finishing 3rd two years ago and 2nd last fall, Bryan Foss (Jr., 
Osseo, MN) won the UMD Basketball Pre-season Olympics. He defeated 
two-time defending champion Ryan Breidenbach (Jr., Oregon, WI) by just 
4 points. Neither of those players was a member, however, of the 
winning team as John Emerson (Sr., New Richmond, WI), Sean Seaman (Sr., 
Duluth, MN), Brian St. Peter (So., Menominee, MI), Jordan Nuness (So., 
Eden Prairie, MN), and Ryan Meissner (Jr., Osseo, MN)hung on to win. 
They only won 4 events out of the 15 but had a consistent effort in all 
events to finish on top. The individual crown went to Foss, even though 
Breidenbach won 8 of the 15 events. Coming into the Bulldog Shuttle run 
(a 850 yard shuttle run) only 7 points ahead Foss placed second to 
Breidenbach and lost only 3 points.
We set 5 record this fall in our Olympics, Matt Hockett (Jr.,McFarland, 
WI) broke his own sit-up record completing 98 in two minutes, and also 
broke the leg press record doing 2.5 times his body weight 30 times. 
The other 3 records belong to Ryan Breidenbach as he improved upon his 
own records in the 3 Mile run (18:35), the 1 Mile run (5:11) and the 12 
Minute run (2.25 miles).
I've attached both the Team and Individual Olympic results as well as 
the records in each event.

It was a great pre-season with our team improving it's conditioning and 
strength and not sustaining any injuries. We head into the first day of 
practice Saturday (Oct. 15) with everyone healthy. John Vaudreuil has 
fully recovered from two back surgeries during the summer and is 
regaining his conditioning.

UMD HALL OF FAME
UMD Athletics will induct former basketball player, Bill Mattson(Class 
of '62). Bill, who passed away in December of 2002, is 5th on UMD 
all-time scoring list and averaged 16.2 points per game during his 
career. He also holds the distinction of being the only UMD Bulldog 
basketball player taken in the NBA draft.

UMD BASKETBALL 75TH YEAR
Being that this is the 75th year of UMD Basketball we are going to send 
ballots to all alumni on our mailing list asking you to vote for an 
all-75th year team. We've teamed with Josten's, who has agreed to 
sponsor the award and is providing each of the honored alumni with a 
significant recognition award and a copy that will be displayed in our 
basketball locker room.
We have compiled a list of 75 nominees. The top 15 vote getters will be 
the all-75th year team. Those 15 will be invited to our Alumni Game 
week-end (Feb 4th) for a ceremony. Look for that voting sheet in the 
mail before the end of October.

OPENING OF PRACTICE
Saturday we being practice for the 75th year of UMD Basketball. We open 
the exhibition schedule in just 3 weeks vs. Athletes in Action in 
Romano Gym and then travel to Minnesota to play the Gophers in an 
exhibition game Nov. 10th. If any of you are in town and ever want to 
attend practice, please just let Coach Holquist or myself know and 
we'll be happy to give you our schedule.

It's great to hear from all of you who respond the these messages!!

Butch Kuronen
Assistant Basketball Coach
University of Minnesota Duluth
218-726-6199 (office)
218-591-7618 (cell)
jkuronen at d.umn.edu
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