 Bios for the Lincoln honorees are available below.The awards
banquet will be on Oct. 21, starting at 3 p.m., at the Holiday Inn
by the Airport in Bloomington. The award winners will receive a
plaque and a jacket from the National Wrestling Hall of Fame of
Stillwater, Okla., and each winner's name will be engraved on a bar
to be displayed at the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Description of awards:
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Lifetime Service
to Wrestling -- Given in recognition of years of dedication to
the development of leadership and citizenship in youth through
the sport of wrestling.
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Outstanding
American -- Given to former wrestlers who are highly successful
and use the disciplines learned in wrestling in their
professions.
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Medal of Courage -- Presented to a
wrestler or former wrestler who has overcome what appear to be
insurmountable challenges.
On the electing committee were Dave Gannaway, Mackinaw,
co-chairman; Mike Manahan, Bloomington, co-chairman; Jim Bowers,
Bloomington; Don Devine, Crystal Lake; Ed Ewoldt, Wheaton; Larry
Gassen, Downers Grove; Thomas Heniff, Olympia Fields; Randall
Konstans, North Aurora; Ken Kraft, Evanston, chairman emeritus; Jack
Leese, Chicago; Jeff Pape, Schaumburg; Joseph Pedersen, Naperville;
and Sandy Stevens, Glen Ellyn.
To attend the awards banquet or for more information, contact
Dave Gannaway at
dgannaway13@yahoo.com or visit
http://nwhof.org/illinois/.
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Hall of Fame - Illinois Chapter
Lincoln nominees
Dan Fulscher
Dan Fulscher, a four-year wrestler for Lincoln Community High
School under Floyd Bee, was a Big 12 Conference champion who set
several team records. He is an Illinois Wrestling Coaches &
Officials Association Hall of Famer and a National Wrestling Hall of
Fame - Illinois Chapter Lifetime Service Award honoree.
Fulscher has completed 37 years of IHSA officiating, including 34
regional and 30 sectional assignments and 30 state individual and
dual team finals, to date the second-most of Illinois officials. He
has also worked 16 IESA state finals, twice as head referee;
officiated two Illinois All-Star Duals and seven Illinois/Indiana
Classic Duals; refereed at four Prairie State Games; and worked five
years as an NCAA Division I official.
The Illinois Wrestling Coaches & Officials Association twice
honored Fulscher with its "Friends of Illinois Wrestling" award and
named him Official of the Year in 1994. He served as IWCOA president
for two years, helping to implement the separation of the IWCOA
All-State and Hall of Fame award banquets. An IWCOA board member for
21 years, he also helped establish the organization's Lifetime
Achievement Award.
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Fulscher was named the National Federation of High Schools
Official of the Year in 1997 and 2003. He is the first official in
any sport to serve two terms on the IHSA's Officials Advisory Board.
He has also served as the IHSA's clinician since 1998 and is a past
officials' representative to the IESA Advisory Board.
Named the 2003 IWOCA Man of the Year, Fulscher was inducted into
the group's Hall of Fame in 2000 and received the Lifetime
Achievement Award this spring. He has served as a grand marshal for
the IESA state tournament, the IHSA Individual State Finals and the
Illinois Kids Wrestling Federation.
Fulscher also served 25 years on the Lincoln Rural Fire
Protection District, including five as chief. Currently, he serves
as Logan County 911/EMA director. He was named the county's Citizen
of the Year and the Rotary Club's Vocation Award winner.
Dave Klemm
Dave Klemm began his career at Lincoln Community High School,
competing for Hall of Famer Floyd Bee. Klemm earned all-state
third-team honors for football and was a two-time state qualifier in
wrestling, placing third his senior year. In 1976, he won the AAU
Junior Nationals and the U.S. Wrestling Federation championship.
Klemm continued his wrestling career at Eastern Illinois
University for Hall of Famer Ron Clinton and was named Frosh of the
Year by Amateur Wrestling News. At Eastern he tallied a record of
129-23, earning NCAA Division II all-American honors three times:
placing third and second and winning the championship. He was also a
runner-up in the Division I tournament. Klemm finished fourth in the
Midlands and was one of the few to ever defeat Bruce Baumgarter,
America's only four-time Olympic medalist, at any level. Klemm also
competed in the World Championships for the USA.
Klemm's coaching career began in 1980 as an assistant for two
years at Eastern Illinois University. He was an assistant at
Oklahoma for two years, an assistant at the University of Illinois
for three years and then returned to Eastern for two years while he
also earned his master's degree. He became the head coach at
MacMurray College, serving from 1989-91, and in 1991 became the head
coach at Lincoln College. At Lincoln, he has produced 41 national
qualifiers and 18 all-Americans, including three champions. He was
voted Regional Coach of the Year in 1994, 1995 and 1996 and was
voted National Junior College Coach of the Year in 1996.
Klemm has been inducted into the Eastern Illinois Hall of Fame,
Lincoln Community High School Hall of Fame and the IWCOA Hall of
Fame.
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