BURNSVILLE, Minn. —  The Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC) has announced its 2014 Hall of Fame Inductees.  The induction ceremony will be held Wednesday, July 9 at the Best Western Kelly Inn/St. Cloud at the NSIC’s 15th annual Summer Kickoff event.  A social will begin at 6:30 p.m. followed by the ceremony at 7 p.m.  Reserve your tickets for the banquet by visiting www.NorthernSun.org/SummerKickoff and filling out the online Hall of Fame Banquet Registration Form.  Registration is due by June 27 as space is limited for this event.

The class of 2014 includes: David Lee, Bemidji State University; Lisa (Harfield) Borowitz, Concordia University, St. Paul; Scott “Honey Bear” Hanna, University of Minnesota Duluth; Dale Robley, Minnesota State University Moorhead;  Jason Landmark, Northern State University; Lillie Brown, Southwest Minnesota State University; Mike Rybak, St. Cloud State University and John Martin, Winona State University.

Founded in 1986, the Northern Intercollegiate Conference (NIC - the former men’s conference) Hall of Fame was established to recognize and honor those who made significant contributions to the conference, to create favorable publicity and public relations for the league and to help preserve the history of the NIC, its member institutions, student-athletes, and other significant individuals affiliated with the league.  For the first two inductions (1986 and 1990) each selection hailed from the NIC.  In 1992-93, the Northern Sun Conference (NSC - the former women’s conference) and the NIC merged creating the current Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).  After annual inductions since 2000, the NSIC Hall of Fame now boasts 173 members and one team.

The 23-member Class of 2000 was the first to include standout female student-athletes in the former NSC.  The 2000 inductees entered the Hall at the inaugural NSIC Summer Kickoff Event in Becker, Minn. The distinguished class of 2001 was enshrined in Willmar, Minn., as the conference moved the annual Summer Kickoff Event.  This year’s NSIC Hall of Fame includes eight prominent inductees that are being recognized at the 15th annual NSIC Summer Kickoff Event, at its home for the past ten years, in St. Cloud, Minn.

Each NSIC school (who has been a league member for at least ten years or more) is asked to submit one candidate  per institution for induction into the Hall.  Each of the selectees are derived from individuals who have been affiliated with the NSIC, NIC, NSC and their member institutions.

In order to be eligible for the NSIC Hall of Fame, candidates must have made their contributions in the following areas: 1) former student-athletes, 2) administrator/coach, 3) official/supervisor/coordinator, 4) contributor/supporter, and 5) team. The conference provides two plaques, one of which will go to the inductee and one to the institution represented.  A history of each inductee will be kept in the league office and each institution will prominently display the plaques of their respective NSIC Hall of Fame inductees.


David Lee, Bemidji State University
Men's Basketball

David Lee left Bemidji State University as one of its top players of all time.  He was a four-time All-NIC selection for the Bemidji State basketball program from 1984 to 1988. He was named to the NIC All-Tournament team in 1986 and was also named most valuable player of that tournament.  He left the BSU basketball program in 1988 as its all-time leading scorer with 2,034 points, a mark that still stands today.  He recorded two of the top 10 single-season scoring totals at BSU with 596 points in 1987-88 (4th) and 535 in 1985-86 (8th). Lee still holds several career records.  His 807 field goals made still ranks atop the BSU all-time annals and no other BSU player has made more free throws than Lee’s 364. Lee also ranks second on BSU’s career assists list with 314. In addition, his career free throw shooting percentage of 77.3 percent is tops among BSU players with at least 250 made. Lee also holds the single-season record for three-point percentage, hitting 54 percent (42-of-78) in 1987-88.  Registering 854 points in 48 NIC games, Lee remains among the top 30 players in the history of the league in points scored, while his 18.6 points per game in league play rank him 10th all time.  Lee was a member of two NAIA Division I District 13 tournament participant teams, which included a 1984-85 squad that earned the program’s first postseason victory.
After his days at BSU, Lee served as the girls’ basketball coach at Hayward High School, where he led the Hurricanes to a 358-129 record, a 74 percent winning ratio. His teams won seven Heart O’ North Conference championships and 10 regional championships. He also coached twice in the Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association all-star tournament. Lee continues to teach physical education at Hayward High School.
Lee and his wife Ronda have three daughters, Morgan (22), Tatum (21) and Ricki (19).  Morgan and Tatum both played basketball for Bemidji State and Ricki runs track at Minnesota State. Morgan finished her career as a two-time All-NSIC Second Team member (2011-12 and 2013-14), second all-time at BSU in 3-pointers made (214) and seventh all-time in scoring (1,380).
 
Lisa (Harfield) Borwitz, Concordia University, St. Paul
Women's Basketball / Soccer / Softball

Lisa (Harfield) Borowitz has the distinction of being the first student-athlete from Concordia University, St. Paul to be inducted into the NSIC Hall of Fame.   She was a three-sport All-NSIC performer, competing in soccer in the fall, basketball in the winter and softball in the spring. She was the scoring & rebounding leader during her women’s basketball team’s first NCAA Tournament appearance, the first for any sport at CU. She also was a top performer on the NSIC Tournament Champion softball team that brought home the first NSIC title to CU in 2001, in just the second year in the league.  
In the spring of 2000 Harfield led the NSIC in home runs and followed that up the following winter by leading NSIC women’s basketball in scoring as she averaged 18.8 points over 18 NSIC contests.   
Over her four year basketball career Harfield scored 1,469 points and grabbed 742 rebounds to graduate as CU’s all-time scoring a rebounding leader.  She was a four-time All-NSIC performer, including three stints on the first team.  
Harfield was the Golden Bears’ starting shortstop for the 2000, 2001 and 2003 seasons.  She was a three time All-NSIC performer as she ended her career second at CU in career home runs and RBI, was third in batting average and left with the career steal record.  
In the fall of 2000 and 2001 Harfield played goalkeeper and forward for the CU soccer team.  She was an All-NSIC First Team performer in 2000 and holds the CU record for saves per game with 10.76.  She set the single season record in saves (176), saves per game (12.57) and is second in a single season in wins (8) and save percentage (.867).  She also scored four goals on six shots in 2001 and helped the team go from a 2-10-2 overall season in 2000 to an 8-win improvement at 10-9-1 in 2001.
Harfield is still involved in college athletics as she has served as an assistant softball coach at Hamline University in St. Paul for five seasons. She has also been an assistant softball coach at St. Paul Johnson High School, winning the St. Paul City Conference championship in her two years there in 2004-05, taking fourth at the MSHSL Class AAA tournament in 2005.  She currently works as a disability representative at Sedgwick Claims Management Services in Eden Prairie, Minn. Lisa is married to Brent Borowitz and together they have two children, Austin and Carson.

Scott “Honey Bear” Hanna, University of Minnesota Duluth
Baseball Coach / Football

Scott “Honey Bear” Hanna is a name many would recognize on the University of Minnesota Duluth campus and in the city of Duluth.  Hanna had the longest tenure in UMD athletic history when he retired after 44 years of service as a player, coach and/or staff member.  Hanna launched a 27-year head baseball coaching career with the Bulldogs in 1979 and skippered UMD to a 550-357-3 overall record (a .606 winning percentage), four NSIC regular season titles (1992, 1993, 1999, and 2003), one NCAA II Regional berth (2003) and two NAIA Area 4 playoff appearances (1990 and 1991). Hanna helped produce four Major League Baseball draft picks, eight professional players, seven NCAA II All-Central Region selections and one American Baseball Coaches Association Division II All-American. Twice he earned NSIC Coach of the Year recognition (1999 and 2003) after was promoted to the  head coach after a five-year assistant coaching stint (1973-78) under Al Holland.  Hanna took over as UMD’s chief equipment manager in 1978 and also spent 23 seasons as an assistant coach with the football Bulldogs.
On the gridiron, Hanna lettered four years, two as a starter, and was the recipient of UMD’s Outstanding Lineman Award and earned all-conference honors in 1972.  Hanna was a regular in the Bulldog lineup during the school’s first two seasons of varsity baseball and has his namesake on the Scott “H.B.” Hanna Baseball Scholarship at UMD. He was also inducted into the UMD Athletic Hall of Fame in 2011.
Hanna is a long-time member of the Normanna Volunteer Fire Department and has spent the past 32 years umpiring and officiating local high school baseball, softball and football. He has also volunteered heavily in the Operation One Voice program (which benefits U.S. Special Forces members and their families).  Hanna, a Duluth Central High School graduate, and his wife Donna, a UMD softball alum, have raised four sons, Kelly, Ryan, Thomas and John and have five grandchildren.   

Dale Robley, Minnesota State University Moorhead
Track & Field

Dale Robley was a captain of the Moorhead State College Track and Field teams from 1970-1973.  During this time, Dale was an integral part of the start of the successful championship history of Moorhead State Dragon Track and Field.  As a student- athlete, Robley has the distinction as the only athlete ever to win both the Northern Intercollegiate Conference Indoor and Outdoor Championships in the Shot Put all four years that he competed.  In 1973 he earned All-American accolades in both of the Indoor and Outdoor NAIA National Championships. Robley was inducted into the Minnesota State University Moorhead Hall of Fame in 1995.
After his impressive collegiate career, Robley continued as an assistnat coach for the Moorhead State Dragons. He eventually went on to coach at the University of North Dakota, the North Dakota School of the Blind, and finally to his current position in Faribault, Minn. at the Minnesota Academy for the Blind, where he has gained a remarkable reputation in teaching and coaching blind, autistic, and multiple challenged students.  His student-athletes have gained National and World success in the Para-Olympics games.  In recognition of his professional work, Robley currently holds the position of Vice President of Minnesota State Residential Schools Association (SRSEA).
Dale and his wife, Sheila, live in Faribault, Minn. Together they have five children and four grandchildren.

Jason Landmark, Northern State University
Football

Jason Landmark took advantage of his opportunities at Northern State University, taking the reigns as the starting quarterback as a red-shirt freshman in the fall of 1986.  The Sisseton S.D. native started 43 consecutive games for the Wolves and in that time he set seven NSU career records, most of which still stand today.  In four seasons Landmark threw 831 pass completions on 1,555 attempts for 11,152 yards and 67 touchdowns. His teams won 31 games while losing only 12. He was named NAIA All-American honorable mention in 1988 and second team in 1989.  The NSIC and the Don Hansen National Weekly Football Gazette named Landmark their Most Valuable Player following his senior season for the Wolves. Landmark was a two-time All-NSIC First Team performer and led the league in total yards and passing yards in his junior and senior seasons.
Landmark married his high school sweetheart, Kari, in 1988 and together they have three children: Brittney, Eric and Megan. Landmark is currently CEO at JL Darling, a private equity-owned leading provider of outdoor products based in Tacoma, Wash.  

Lillie Brown, Southwest Minnesota State University
Women's Basketball

Lillie Brown still ranks as one of the top women’s basketball players at Southwest Minnesota State University.  She was a four-year letterwinner for the Mustangs and finished her career among the top five in nearly every offensive statistical category in program history. As of 2014, she still ranks first in school history in steals (300), second in points scored (1,759), second in field goals made (706), second in rebounds (895), sixth in assists (341) and seventh in free throws made (302).  She was inducted in to the SMSU Hall of Honor in 2007 and Harding High School Hall of Fame in 1997.  
A three-time first team All-NSIC honoree (1994, 1995, 1996), Brown became SMSU’s first ever women’s basketball All-America in 1995 earning third team honors. During her junior season in 1994-95, Brown became the first woman in SMSU history to average more than 20 points and 10 rebounds per game, finishing at 22.2 points and 10.8 rebounds per contest. Brown, who led SMSU in scoring and rebounding 19 times during the season and also led the NSIC in rebounding, set two school single-season records during that season as she poured in 577 points and connected on 228 field goals. She nearly set a third record, as her 282 rebounds were just two shy of the single-season mark.
As a senior in 1995-96, she earned honorable mention NCAA All-America honors as she averaged 20 points and 9.4 rebounds per game, leading the NSIC in both categories, while shooting 53.6 percent from the field. Brown led SMSU in steals all four seasons and in scoring and rebounding her final three seasons. She also was the team leader in both field goal percentage and assists twice during her four seasons.
During her last two seasons she helped SMSU to a combined record of 36-17, which included back-to-back third place finishes in the NSIC in 1995 and 1996. In 1994, Brown helped lead SMSU to the championship game of the NAIA District playoffs before losing to Minnesota Duluth, 61-59. SMSU recorded 16 or more victories in three of her four seasons, including 19 in 1995-96, which – at the time – tied a school record for victories in one season.
Brown recorded SMSU’s only triple-double on Nov. 25, 1995, versus Minnesota State.
A native of St. Paul, Minn., Brown earned a bachelor’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies and BA in Business Administration from Southwest Minnesota State University in 1996. After working three years for the Sioux Falls Skyforce as a Marketing Consultant, she moved on to Rockford, Ill. to serve as the General Manager of the Rockford Lightning of the CBA.  
Brown and her son Hayden (10) reside in Sioux Falls, S.D.  where she is currently a Marketing Consultant for Results Radio/Townsquaremedia and the General Manager of the Dakota Blue Devils AAU Basketball Club.  

Mike Rybak, St. Cloud State University
Wrestling

Dr. Mike Rybak left St. Cloud State University after excelling both in athletics and academics.  A phenomenal student athlete and scholar, Rybak lettered four times in wrestling and three times in football at SCSU.  He won four Northern Intercollegiate Conference (NIC) wrestling titles from 1965 to 1968 at 191 pounds, and is the only Husky to win four conference wrestling titles. He was an NAIA National Champion and All-American in 1967 and earned All-American honors in 1968 with his national runner-up finish. He was also the 1968 Dean Weisman SCSU Wrestler of the Year Award winner. From 1965 to 1967 the Huskies placed third in the team standings at the NAIA Championships and fifth in both 1966 and 1967. An offensive center in football, Rybak was a 1967 All-NIC team member as the Huskies went 8-1 that season.
After his accomplished athletic career, Rybak began his impressive coaching career. At Foley High School his wrestling teams won ten conference titles, seven district titles and two region titles.  From there he moved to Itasca Community College where he coached five teams to top five finishes at the NJCAA Nationals, with his 1995 team winning the DIII National Championship.  He coaches 36 All-Americans and was named NJCAA Region XIII Coach of the Year five time.  In 1992 he was named the NJCAA Wrestling Man of the Year.   Coach Rybak continues to coach track at Greenway/Nashwauk/Keewatin High School where recently finished his 47th year of coaching.
Rybak received his B.S. and M.S. degree at SCSU and a Doctorate of Education from the University of Northern Colorado in 1994.  All his degrees earned were with Highest Honors.  Rybak has been honored for his athletic efforts with inductions to Anoka High School, St. Cloud State, NAIA, NJCAA, the Bartelma Minnesota Wrestling and the National Wrestling Hall of Fame.
Mike has been married for 49 years to his wife, Chris, and is very proud of his two children, Mike and Mary Jo.  Mike and Chris also have 3 grandchildren, Joey and Beatrice Rybak and Kyle Yumul.

John Martin, Winona State University
Swimming Coach

Dr. John Martin coached the Winona State swim team to three Northern Intercollegiate Conference (NIC) championships and six top-ten finishes at the NAIA National Championship during as head coach from 1963-70 and again during 1973-74. Martin’s teams never suffered a losing season in dual-meet competition and three of his swimmers earned first team All-American honors.
Coach Martin was inducted into the NAIA Swimming Hall of Fame in 1977 for his work as president of the NAIA Swimming Coaches’ Association, as chairman of the NAIA swimming rules and sites committee, and for his long tenure as a referee of NAIA national competition in swimming and diving. He was inducted in the Winona State Hall of Fame in 1996 and the Minnesota Swimming and Diving Coaching Associations Hall of Fame in 2014.
Martin also made an impact in international swimming and diving coaching and governing leadership as he was selected as the small college representative on the United States Olympic Committee for two full terms, covering two Olympiads.  During his more then 10 years on the committee Martin served as team selection committee and general oversight and was also appointed U.S.A. assistant team coach during the 1973 World Student Games held in Moscow.  
 Martin also served as a member of the AAU Swimming Committee and was a member of the International Swimming Hall of Fame Board of Directors.
In addition to coaching swimming, Martin served as an assistant football coach for the Warriors for 28 years and was head coach during the 1986 season.  During his distinguished tenure at the University, he served as Chairman of the Health, Physical and Recreation Department.
Martin earned both his undergraduate and master’s degrees from the University of Wisconsin-LaCrosse and his Ph.D. from the University of Utah.  He began his career at Winona State in 1963, retiring in 1994.
Coach Martin has been married to Mia Martin for 55 years and credits his wife and three daughter’s Siri, Kristi and Jeni for his coaching and teaching success.  All three daughters were high school letterman swimmers and his wife Mia was the operational key support behind hundreds of swim meets, travel schedules and team dinners.   Since retirement, John and Mia remain active and enjoy time with their five grandchildren, golfing and relaxing at their Wisconsin cabin.    Martin, a native of Racine, Wis., formulated much of his coaching mentorship from Vince Lombardi and his quest to find and foster excellence in athletes.