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Bowling Green State University Athletics
Six Elected To BGSU Athletic Hall Of Fame
July 12, 2000 | General
July 12, 2000
The Bowling Green State University Athletic Hall of Fame will welcome six new members on Sept. 8 when the 2000 class will be inducted during a formal dinner in Olscamp Hall on the BGSU campus. The 37th class brings membership in the Hall of Fame to 160. The 1983-84 national championship hockey team is also a member of the Athletic Hall of Fame.
The class of 2000 will include basketball player Angelene (Angie) Bonner '90, soccer player Leon "Bud" Lewis '75, cross country and track athlete Craig Macdonald '74, track athlete Beth (Manson) Puckett '89, hockey player John Markell '79, and administrator/coach Dick Young.
The official induction ceremony will take place Friday, September 8 in Olscamp Hall. The social hour begins at 6 p.m. with dinner served at 7 p.m. and the program starting shortly thereafter.
In addition, at halftime of the Sept. 9 Bowling Green-Pittsburgh football game, the class will be introduced. The game begins at noon and is designated as Varsity BG, Hall of Fame, and Black Swamp day.
Tickets for the Sept. 8 dinner can be purchased at the Memorial Hall Ticket Office for $25 and advance reservations are required. Tickets can also be reserved by calling the ticket office at 1-877-BGSU-Ticket or 372-0000. Football game tickets can also be purchased through the ticket office.
The public is invited to attend the induction dinner.
Bonner was a four-year letterwinner for the Falcons and earned a spot on the MAC All-Freshman team in 1987. She was a second team All-MAC selection and honorable mention academic pick as a sophomore after finishing eighth in the MAC in rebounding and first in field goal percentage (57.0%). As a junior, she was third on the team with a 13.0 scoring average while leading the squad with an 8.1 rebounding figure to earn second team All-MAC honors and first team MAC All-Academic accolades.
The Canton, Ohio native, who came to BGSU from Timken High School was 15th in the MAC in scoring, seventh in rebounding, sixth in field goal percentage (53.3%), and second in blocks as a junior. Her final season at BG she led the team averaging 15.4 points and 8.0 rebounds. She was a unanimous first team All-MAC selection and also a first team academic pick. Bonner was selected as the MAC Tournament MVP. She helped BG to a 100-22 overall record and a 58-6 MAC record in her four seasons as well as four MAC Tournament titles along with four NCAA Tournament appearances.
Bonner, a 6-2 center, ended her career fifth on the BG list in scoring (1,412), second in field goal percentage (55.7%), first in free throw attempts (555), second in free throws made (354), third in rebounds (842) and first in blocks (155). She was selected to the BGSU All-Century Women's Basketball Team this past winter.
She earned an NCAA postgraduate scholarship in 1990 and graduated with an MBA and law degree from The Ohio State University in 1994. Bonner has been employed as a corporate employment lawyer in the San Francisco Bay area the last six years.
Lewis was a four-year letterwinner and was selected an NSCAA All-American in 1974. The native of Penfield, New York (Penfield High School), was drafted by the Cincinnati Comets of the ASL (1975) and played one season with the Comets before joining the Buffalo Blazers of the Canadian Soccer League.
He has served the past 25 years as head coach of the Wilmington College Quakers recording 23 straight winning seasons. The Quakers are one of the top NCAA Division III soccer programs in country. Lewis enters the 2000 season with 328 victories and recently became one of only 24 coaches in all divisions in the history of collegiate soccer to reach the 300-win plateau. His teams have captured eight Ohio NAIA titles and have played in five NAIA regional finals, three NAIA National Tournaments and two NCAA National Tournaments.
He was selected District Coach of the Year eight times, Mideast Coach of Year six times and Ohio Coach of the Year twice. Since 1986, he has coached 21 All-Americans, 32 All-Region picks, 39 All-Ohio picks, 5 Academic All-Americans, and 54 All-District players. Ten of his former players are coaching at the high school or college level. Lewis also serves as the director of student services at Wilmington. He and his wife, Margo, are the parents of two sons and a daughter.
Macdonald earned eight varsity letters at BGSU (four each in cross country and track). He earned All-American honors in cross country with a 12th-place finish in the NCAA meet as a junior and helped BG to a sixth-place NCAA finish at the 1972 national cross country championships, BG's highest team finish ever. He finished 32nd in the NCAA meet his senior season, but was among the top 25 Americans, thus earning All-America honors. Macdonald was the MAC runner-up his junior and senior seasons while claiming first place at the All-Ohio championship his final two seasons.
He helped the Falcons to no worse than an eighth-place national finish in his first three years. In track, he was the MAC mile champion as a senior and as a junior was a member of the four-mile relay team which set an American record. The native of Setauket, New York (Ward Melville High School) was also a member of the 1972 distance medley relay team which captured the NCAA indoor title. Macdonald qualified and ran in the mile at the NCAA outdoor meet in both 1973 and 1974. He is currently a teacher and coach in the Fairborn School District. Macdonald and his wife, Ruth, have a daughter Mindy, who will be a senior at BGSU this fall.
Puckett was a two-year letterwinner at Bowling Green after spending her first two years at Ashland College. She was the first female track athlete to earn outdoor All-America honors in the history of the program after finishing sixth in the discus in the NCAA meet as a senior and eighth as a junior. When she graduated, she was one of only two female athletes in MAC history to earn All-America honors at least twice in track. Puckett held the MAC record in the discus until 1998 and was a two-time MAC champion in that event.
The native of Magnolia, Ohio (Sandy Valley High School) also won the MAC title in the shot put twice and was a two-time MAC academic at-large selection. In 1988, she won the pentathlon at the MAC Indoor Track Invitational. She served eight years as the head women's track and field coach at Davidson (NC) until ending her tenure this past spring.
Puckett coached 20 all-conference athletes, including one conference champion and an NCAA provisional qualifier. Nearly 30 indoor and outdoor school records were broken under her tutelage. She and her husband, Mack, recently had their first child.
Markell was a four-year letterwinner and served as an assistant captain as a senior on a team that went 37-6-2. He was BG's leading scorer as a junior with 61 points after leading the team in goals as a sophomore with 26. Markell currently ranks sixth on BG's all-time scoring list with 235 points while his 102 career goals ties him for seventh with Brian Holzinger. His 133 career assists places him ninth on the BG all-time list.
The Cornwall, Ontario native was voted BG's outstanding forward in 1978 and 1979 and won the "Gay Blade Award" for Best Attitude all four years. Markell was CCHA Co-Player of the Year as a junior and was selected to the CCHA First Team his last three years after earning honorable mention accolades as a freshman. BG compiled a 117-34-4 (.768 winning percentage) record in his four seasons. Following his collegiate career, he played parts of four seasons in the NHL before finishing his career in Europe.
He is currently the head hockey coach at Ohio State and was runner-up in national coach of the year voting in 1997-98. Markell resides in Pickerington, Ohio with his wife, Kim, and two children, Ryan and Taylor.
Young came to BGSU in 1959 as an assistant football and head baseball coach. He compiled a 31-7 record in eight seasons as head coach of BGSU's freshman football team. Young was the defensive backfield coach for the 1959 NCAA Small College Championship team under Doyt Perry.
He compiled a mark of 184-146-6 in 12 seasons as baseball coach and then spent the next seven years as BGSU Athletics Director. As athletics director, he oversaw the merger of the men's and women's athletic programs during the 1976-77 academic year.
Young received his doctor of philosophy degree in educational administration from BGSU in 1975 and following his tenure at BGSU, served as athletic director at Oklahoma State, Washington State, Florida International and is currently the athletics director at Lynn University in Boca Raton, Florida. He was the athletics director who hired Jimmy Johnson at Oklahoma State and Dennis Erickson at Washington State.
