Tickets to the 50th Anniversary Celebration of the UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame on Saturday, August 3 are still available for purchase.

All 255 Hall of Fame members will be honored during this milestone event and those in attendance will be individually recognized and presented with a variety of commemorative items, including a watch and a lifetime admission pass to any home UW-Oshkosh regular-season sporting event.

The keynote speaker for this once-in-a-lifetime experience is Iowa State University Director of Athletics Jamie Pollard, a 1999 UW-Oshkosh Hall of Fame inductee.

The banquet, which is open to the public, will be held at the Oshkosh Convention Center (2 North Main Street). The event includes a social at 3:30 p.m., dinner at 5 p.m. and program at 5:45 p.m. Michael Patton, the public address voice of the Titans, will emcee the event.

Tickets for the banquet are $45 each (aged five and older) and can only be purchased from the ticket portal located on the UW-Oshkosh athletics website. Tickets, which will be on sale through July 5, are required to attend and will not be available for purchase at the semi-formal attire event.

Hall of Fame festivities begin Friday, August 2, when 14 men and women are inducted during an event held at the Culver Family Welcome Center (625 Pearl Avenue) on the UW-Oshkosh campus.

Open to the public, the induction event begins with a reception at 3:30 p.m. It is then followed by the dinner and program at 5 p.m.

The 50th Hall of Fame Induction class features former UW-Oshkosh student-athletes Tammy (Milz) Baugnet-Heesacker, Nick Boehlke, Leah (Rosenbaum) Cisler, Phil Devine, Chad Kopitzke, John LeRoy, Danielle (Rankin) Salm, Nadine (Pieske) Schuette, Robin (Schmidt) Schunke, Whitney (Tyriver) Stenbroten and Jordan Timm; former UW-Oshkosh coaches Patrick Cerroni and David Hochtritt; and James J. Keller from the Distinguished Service/Contributor category.

Tickets for the induction banquet on August 2 are $45 each (aged five and older) and can only be purchased from the ticket portal located on the UW-Oshkosh athletics website. Tickets, which will be on sale through July 5, are required to attend and will not be available for purchase at the event.

This year's inductees join the 241 individuals who were selected in the previous 49 induction classes.

The UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame was established in 1974 to enhance school tradition and give lasting recognition to those student-athletes, coaches, administrators, and friends of the university who distinguished themselves at an exemplary level.

Each hall of fame member represents greatness, with their accomplishments built on campus, after graduation or through meritorious efforts that benefit the UW-Oshkosh athletics program.

The first UW-Oshkosh Athletics Hall of Fame induction banquet was held April 28, 1974, at The Pioneer Inn & Marina. The five inductees were Edward Boguski, Edward Hall, Burton Karges, Robert Kolf and Robert Williams.

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