DENVER – The University of Denver Division of Athletics and Recreation has announced its inductees for the 2020 DU Athletic Hall of Fame class. The 12 inductees will be honored on the DU campus May 16, 2020, during the University's Alumni Weekend.
 
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2020 Hall of Fame Class
Bill Dorn – Faculty Athletic Representative – 1968-98
Paul Stanford – Men's Swimming and Diving - 1983
Dick Peth – Men's Basketball Coach – 1984-97
George Gwozdecky – Hockey Coach – 1994-13
Lisbeth Johnsen – Skiing - 1996
Kristie Leggio – Women's Lacrosse - 2007
Stephanie Sherlock – Women's Golf - 2010
Geoff Snider – Men's Lacrosse - 2006
Jamie Norwood – Women's Soccer - 2004
Nat Borchers – Men's Soccer - 2004
2008-09 Women's Golf Team
1955-57 Ski Teams
 
Dorn, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, who was appointed to the faculty at the University of Denver in 1968 and retired 30 years later, served in a role similar to the modern day Faculty Athletic Representative and was a valuable supporter of the athletic department and its student-athletes during his tenure. Starting during Ron Oyer's time as Athletic Director (1976-82), Dorn provided invaluable advocacy, counsel and support to the staff, coaches and student-athletes while enhancing communication and support between the athletic department and the rest of campus. At the age of 93, he both attends and follows the successes of the current teams as a long-time season ticket holder, just as he did as an active faculty member.

Stanford won the 200 and 400 Individual Medley titles at the 1982 NAIA Championships. For Stanford's performance at the 1982 finals, he was named the NAIA Most Outstanding Swimmer of the Championship. In the team's championship appearances during the four-time NAIA All-American's career, the Denver captain's squad took fifth at NAIAs in 1979, third in 1980, second in 1982 and third in 1983.
 
Peth is the winningest coach in Denver men's basketball history with 221 wins in his 12 seasons in charge of the program. An assistant coach to begin his tenure with the Pioneers, Peth was chosen to take over the program after the tragic death of Floyd Theard, who suffered a heart attack at the age of 40. Peth's best season in charge of the Pioneers came in 1991-92 when he guided Denver to a 26-6 season, falling one game short of the NCAA DII Quarterfinals. In his 12 seasons with the program, the Pioneers produced winning seasons in all 12, 18+ wins in seven campaigns and 20+ wins three times.
 
Gwozdecky guided the Pioneers to back-to-back National Championships in 2004 and 2005, two of his 16 20-win seasons in his Denver career en-route to an overall record of 443-267-64 (.614). His time as the Denver bench boss began in 1994 with a 25-15-2 mark, his first of a program record 19 seasons as the head coach. Gwozdecky eclipsed 30 wins in a season twice, including 32 in his 2005 championship winning season. Under Gwozdecky, the Pioneers solidified themselves as a perennial top-10 program, capturing three conference regular season and four conference playoff titles to go with the two national titles during his tenure. The two-time National Coach of the Year became the first person in NCAA history to win the national title as a player, assistant coach and a head coach.
 
Johnsen became the first Denver women's skier to win two national championships in the same season when she claimed both the classical and freestyle races at the 1996 NCAA Championships. Johnsen earned a pair of All-America honors for her performance in the two races. The former Pioneer is one of 17 skiers (men and women combined) in program history to win two individual national titles in the same season. Johnsen's national titles were two of four individual titles the Pioneers won that season, the third time the program had accomplished that total in a single championship. As a team, Johnsen led Denver to a second place finish at the 1996 championships.
 
Leggio became the women's lacrosse program's first, first or second team, All-America selection, when she received the honor in 2007 after tying her own DU single-season record in goals with 67. The 2006 Colorado Sportswoman of the Year is still ranked seventh in program history in career goals (134), fourth in career assists (81) and seventh in career points (215). A two-time University of Denver Female Athlete of the Year recipient, Leggio also ranks second in single-season points with 111 and holds the single-game record for points with 13 against Harvard in March of 2007. 
 
Sherlock was a two-time Women's Golf Coaches' Association All-America selection, in addition to her honorable mention honors in her sophomore season of 2008. The 2010 alumnae is the program's all-time leader in tournament wins with seven, and ranks second in program history in scoring average at 73.65. During her Pioneer career, the two-time WGCA All-America Scholar fired 299 birdies, the most in program history.
 
Snider played for the Denver men's lacrosse program from 2003-06, going 447-of-731 from the faceoff dot and picking up 349 ground balls in his Pioneer career. The Canadian National Team centerpiece currently ranks third in program history in faceoff wins with 447 and second in ground balls. Snider's 194 ground balls in the 2006 season still stands as the program record today. In his international career, Snider was the tournament Most Valuable Player at the 2006 World Lacrosse Championship, where he dominated at the faceoff X en-route to the Canadian's first outdoor team championship since 1978. Snider captured gold medals with Canada in 2006 and 2014. Following his collegiate career, Snider was picked fourth overall in the 2006 NLL Entry Draft. The five-time NLL All-Star was an NLL All-Pro Second Team selection in 2008, a campaign that saw the former Pioneer set league records in loose balls, faceoffs won and penalty minutes.
 
Norwood played in 84 career matches from 2000-2003 for head coach Jeff Hooker's women's soccer program, which still stands as the fifth-most appearances in program history. The three-time Soccer America National Team of the Week selection was a 2001 Soccer Buzz All-America Third Team pick. In that 2001 campaign, Norwood distributed 14 assists, a mark that at the time held the program record, and still ranks second to this day in DU's DI history. In her career, Norwood tallied 39 assists, which remains tied for the highest mark in the category in program history. Norwood added 12 goals to her 39 assists, good for 63 points, which currently ranks 10^th in the program's Division I history.
 
Borchers started all 76 matches in his Denver career, never missing a start in his time with the Crimson and Gold. The Denver defender was a three-time All-MPSF pick and the 2002 Mountain Pacific Sports Federation Player of the Year. Following his career with the Crimson and Gold, the 2003 Colorado Rapids Defender of the Year, played in 340 Major League Soccer regular season matches, starting 339, scoring 16 goals and adding seven assists from his centerback position. The 2010 MLS Best XI selection won two MLS Cups in his career, one with Real Salt Lake in 2009 and one in Portland in 2015. Internationally, Borchers made his full U.S. National Team debut in 2005, earning three caps for his national side. Borchers retired after 14 seasons in the league after the 2016 campaign.  
 
The 2008-09 women's golf team backed up a sixth-place finish at the 2008 NCAA Championships with a fifth place finish at the national tournament in 2009, the two best finishes in the program's history. Leading up to the final weekend of the season, the Pioneers won their sixth-straight Sun Belt Conference Championship by 14 strokes. A couple of weeks later, Denver overcame an eight-shot deficit heading into the final round to win the 2009 NCAA East Regional by four strokes, the program's first regional title. Individually Dawn Shockley won the East Regional and junior Stephanie Sherlock was named a second team All-American for the Pioneers, who held the lead at the NCAA Championships after 18 holes.
 
After winning the program's first National Championship in 1954 (team inducted in 1999 class), Denver skiing reeled off another three-consecutive national titles in 1955, 1956 and 1957. The 1955 team defeated Dartmouth by 8.11 points, led by Willis Olson, who won his second-consecutive jumping national title. Denver's 1956 squad earned the highest combined score in NCAA history with 582.01 points. Olson won his third-straight jumping title and John Cress earned the skimeister crown with 269.23 points. Denver capped off its four-peat in 1957, defeating in-state foe Colorado by 32.66 points. Harald Riiber won the Nordic title, while Alfred Vincelette won the jumping title. Head coach Willy Schaeffler guided the Pioneers to all four of those national championships, en-route to the 13 national titles in his career, a record that still stands.

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