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Wyandot
Sports Hall of Fame Class
of 2015
The Wyandot Sports Hall of Fame inducted its fifth class April 18,
2015 in a banquet
at the Masters’ Building at the Wyandot County Fairgrounds. Members of the fifth class were: David Kalb, Wynford;
Nick Mengerink, Carey; Vaughn Shell, Sycamore; John
Reed, Upper Sandusky; Joelyn Shoup-Ridder,
Upper Sandusky; Pat Weber, Riverdale; and the 1968 Riverdale football team. Brief profiles of each member of the class of 2015 are available
below. Longer profiles and additional photos are available by clicking on the
photos above or the links below. A 2000 graduate of Wynford High School, David
Kalb is the only athlete in the school's history to earn
All-Ohio honors in three different sports - football, basketball and track
and field. A point guard, Kalb
scored 1,037 career points with the Royals and was an All-Ohio third-team
pick as a senior. He twice earned All-North Central Conference selection and
played in the Mansfield News Journal All-Star Game and the Ohio-Kentucky
All-Star Game. Upon graduation, Kalb
went on to play a year at the University of Akron and two years at Capital
University. He recently gained recognition by beating LeBron James in a trick
shot challenge and twice in horse. As a football player
with the Royals, Kalb was an All-Ohio first-team defensive player his senior
year and threw for 2,497 yards in his career as a quarterback. Kalb also
placed fifth in the state in the 300 hurdles his senior year. A 1996 graduate of
Carey High school, Nick Mengerink won back-to-back state
championships in wrestling in 1995 and 1996 after finishing as runner-up his
sophomore year. Mengerink finished his high
school career with a 136-9 record before going on to wrestle at the
University of Pittsburgh, where he went 105-27 while claiming All-American
honors in 1998. He also was a three-time NCAA Division I Academic
All-American with the Panthers. A 1955 graduate of
Sycamore High School, Vaughn Shell
excelled in basketball, track and field and especially baseball, going onto
play in college and professionally. Shell went 14-1 in
two years pitching at Mesa Community College and then went 3-5 at the
University of Colorado before signing to play in the New York Yankees
organization. He spent four years in the minor leagues, missing one of them
with an injury. With the Wildcats,
Shell played all four years on the baseball team, leading his team to the
state final his senior year. During the same season, he also competed in
track and field, never losing in the pole vault. Shell had to miss the state
meet because of a conflict with the state baseball tournament. Shell also played
four years of basketball, earning All-Ohio status his senior year when the
Wildcats went 27-1. A 1963 Upper Sandusky
High School graduate, the late John
Reed developed Coldwater High School into the one of the
state's top small-school football program. Before taking over
the Cavaliers in 1995, the team had made the playoffs just one time. They
were the postseason in all but one of Reed's 15 years at the helm, winning
the state championship in 2005 and 2007 and finishing as runner-up in 1998,
2000 and in his final year in 2009. Reed led Coldwater to 168 wins and six
conference championships. The tradition Reed
helped the Cavaliers develop has continued even after his death at from
cancer at age 64 in 2010. Coldwater has won the last three Division V state
championships. Prior to taking over
the Cavaliers, Reed had coaching stints with Lebanon, Upper Sandusky, Marion
Harding, Parkway and Montpelier. A graduate of Upper
Sandusky High School, Joelyn Shoup-Ridder
was a four-year starter for the Bowling Green State University women's
basketball team. While with the
Falcons, Shoup-Ridder earned All-Mid-American
Conference honors her junior and senior seasons while leading the league in
rebounding both seasons. She finished as the ninth-leading rebounder in the
nation her senior year and twice competed in the NCAA Tournament. She then
served as a graduate assistant during the 1986-87 season. During her time on
the team, the Rams were 57-16 with a trip to the state tournament and two
Northern Ohio League championships. Shoup-Ridder
was an All-Ohio tournament team member, was picked to the McDonald's All-Ohio
team and also earned All-NOL honors in basketball and softball. A 1970 graduate of
Riverdale High School, Pat
Weber was a 10-time letterwinner for
the Falcons and coached the Falcons baseball team for 29 years. Weber was a member of
Riverdale's undefeated 1968 football team as a halfback and cornerback and
earned All-North Central Conference honors his junior and senior seasons. He
lettered in football and basketball three times and baseball four times,
going onto pitch for Bluffton College for two years. A teacher at RHS for
36 years, Weber won more than 400 games as baseball coach, leading the
Falcons to three NCC championships, two district titles and a state semifinal
appearance in 1980. In addition to
coaching baseball, Weber was varsity basketball coach for two years and also
served as assistant varsity football coach, head junior high football coach,
junior varsity basketball coach and eighth grade boys
basketball coach. The 1968
Riverdale football team finished 10-0 and was ranked seventh in the
state in a time when there was only two divisions. The Falcons outscored
opponents 326-64 and outgained them 3,939 yards to 1,725 on the year. John Altman was
All-Ohio and named the lineman of the year. Steve Trout earned first-team
All-Ohio honors, and Rusty Young and Bob Wigle both
were All-Ohio honorable mention. Numerous other
players earned All-North Central Conference recognition.
The 1968 Riverdale football team
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