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Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame

The Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame was created to honor and celebrate our many wonderful alumni athletes and the rich athletic history at University Liggett School.

Our 2022 Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame inductees were reviewed and selected by our Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame Committee which is comprised of inductees, past and current coaches, our athletic department staff, and our alumni relations manager.

The Class of 2023

Alumni Athletic Hall of Fame Abby Tompkins

Abby Tompkins Johannson '97

Sports Achievements at ULS

Four Years Varsity Field Hockey

Senior Year: Captain of the 1996 State Championship Team; Team MVP; was recruited to play at NCAA Division 1 colleges across the country (but chose to play college level soccer at U of M)
Junior Year: 1st team All-State
Freshman Year: Scored 17 of the teams 22 goals; Team MVP
Participated in USA Field Hockey’s Future’s Program (and Olympic Development program)
Represented the Great Lakes Regional at the AAU Junior Olympics

Four Years Varsity Soccer

Metro Conference Champions '94, '95, '96, '97

Senior year: scored 26 goals (school record at the time) and had 6 assists; played forward and defense; 1st team All-State B-C-D, 1st team All-Metro conference district champs, metro conference champs (8-0); Selected as a Michigan High School All-Star
Junior year: 12 goals and 8 assists, sweeper et al; 2nd team All State B-C-D, 1st team All-Metro Conference, District Champs, Metro Conference Champs
Sophomore year: 18 goals/5 assists, sweeper, center forward, Team MVP; District Champs, Metro conference champs (10-0)
Freshman year: 22 goals and 7 assists, center midfield; Honorable mentions All-State B-C-D; District Champs, Metro Conference Champs (8-0)
Represented Michigan on the Olympic Development Program Soccer Team

Four Years Varsity Ice Hockey

Senior year: Team Captain; Team Goalie; State Championship Team
Junior Year Team Goalie; State Championship Team
Sophomore Year: Team Goalie; State Championship Team
Freshman Year: Team Goalie; State Championship Team

Sports Achievements After ULS

University of Michigan

NCAA Division 1 Women's Soccer: 1997-2000 (a redshirt Freshman in '97)
Soccer record at U of M over 4 years: 57-12-3
Team was nationally ranked in the Top 25; made the NCAA Tournament four times and won the Big Ten Tournament
Named to the Big Ten All-Academic Team senior year
Served as the Women’s Soccer Team Community Engagement Representative
Student Athletic Advisory:
- Executive Board Member Junior and Senior Year
Was active in the Michigan From The Heart Program, supporting young patients at CS Mott hospital by providing visits with U of M athletes

Additional Information

20+ years at the US Olympic and Paralympic Committee: International Games Division; International Relations; Special Projects; Sports Partnerships
Has worked at 10 Olympic Games and dozens of International Events in support of Team USA
Instrumental in several Olympic Games bids, including a successful bid for the US to host the 2028 Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
1 Olympic Torch Relay and a White House visit
Children's Soccer Coach
Liggett “Lifer,” who began playing soccer in first grade, learned to skate at McCann Ice Arena and began her field hockey career in Middle School.
Holds a Master of Sports Administration from Northwestern University
Master of Business Administration from the EHL Business Hospitality School in Lausanne, Switzerland

Mags B. Dillon '02

Sports Achievements at ULS

Middle School Football: First girl to play on the football team!

Field Hockey

1-year JV and 1-year varsity
First Team All-State Senior Year

Four Years Varsity Ice Hockey

Co-captain senior year; According to Co-captain Lauren Harris "was one of our top two players and definitely won All-State distinctions senior year"

Four Years Varsity Softball

1st in Career Batting Average (.605); 1st On Base Percentage (.696); 3rd in triples (13) and 5th in stolen bases (98); Batting Average (.713) is top-10 all time in MHSAA
Team captain junior and senior year
Senior year the team:
- Won Districts and were Regional Finalists
- Had the MHSAA Highest Team Batting average of 2002
- Most season victories (28) in the history of the softball team

Academics

A ULS “Lifer”
Terrill Newnan all four years
Class of 2002 Valedictorian, but was also nominated by class to speak at graduation
One of Faculty Emeritus Glynn Conley's "Top 5 4th graders of all time"
Student Council President
Received a $5,000 scholarship from Gatorade that was awarded to only one person per state. Mags wrote a winning essay entitled the “Will To Win” about the ULS hockey team

Sports Achievements Afterward

Rugby

Princeton University: Four years on teams that won the Eastern Pennsylvania Rugby Union and Ivy League Championships (2003), advanced to the USA Rugby National Championship Game (2004), and USA Rugby Sweet Sixteen (2006)

Mags played rugby for the Berliner Sport Verein 1892 while studying abroad in Germany in 2005 and ice hockey for the Eishockey Club Lustenau while living in Austria from 2007-2009

Additional Information

Lao Rugby Federation: Vientiane, Laos

In 2010 become Operations Manager and Technical Advisor at the Lao Rugby Federation as a Princeton in Asia (PiA) Fellow
Mags developed women’s rugby by supporting the Vientiane Lions Women’s Rugby Football Club and managing the Lao Women’s National Team (7s and 15s)
After directing the Federation’s operations for two years, Mags worked with an Australian NGO to launch a sport-for-development project, which uses rugby to deliver life skills, leadership and healthy living messages to youth in H’mong and Khmu communities in the rural north of Laos.
Mags was Lao Rugby’s delegate to the 28-member Asian Rugby Football Union (now Asia Rugby) Council from 2011-2013 and served on the Executive Committee and as Chair of the Women’s Rugby Committee
Recognized with the Asian Rugby Football Union Women’s Rugby Development Award in 2013
Mags has been the Executive Director of Princeton in Asia since 2013
Mags serves on the board of Princeton in Beijing and the Princeton University Rugby Endowment Board of Governors, which he chaired from 2015-2020, contributing to the elevation of the women's team to Varsity status at Princeton

Class of 2023 Ceremony Photos

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Previous Recipients

Class of 2022
Bruce Birgbauer '60 GPUS
Kevin Whitfield '91
Emmet "Tripp" Tracy III '92
Monte Squiers '07

Class of 2020
Richard Trim, Coach/Teacher
Brian Bruenton '98
Kirk Haggarty '86
Tomasine Polizzi Marx '78
Michael C. Ware '69 GPUS

Class of 2019
Heidi Henkel McGarry ‘82
JT Parks ‘83
Chris Ford ‘96
Leython Williams ’03
Jim Schmidt, Faculty/Coach Emeritus (posthumous)

Class of 2018
Susie Mascarin Keane '82
Katherine Riddle Miller '96
CR Moultry '99
David Backhurst, Faculty/Coach Emeritus

Class of 2017
Glynn Conley ‘59 GPUS, Faculty/Coach Emeritus
Jimmy Carson ‘86
Martina Jerant ‘91
Michael Fox ‘93

Class of 2016
John Welchli ‘46 DUS
Megan Brady Hishmeh ‘89
Jennifer Miller ‘92
Romilly Brigid McMahon Stackpoole, Faculty/Coach Emerita

Class of 2015
Neil “Shorty” McMillan ‘08 DUS (posthumous)
Jack Foster ‘48 DUS
Peter Monroe ‘61 GPUS
William Hummel ‘78
Paula Mighion Cornwall ‘84

Class of 2014
George Haggarty ‘59 GPUS
Harris Brown ‘66 GPUS
Marty Wittmer ‘83
Monica Paul Dennis ‘92

Class of 2013
John Neil Patterson ‘06 DUS (posthumous)
David Rentschler ’52 DUS (posthumous)
George Perrin ’64 GPUS
Laura Khelokian Byron ‘87
Gene Overton, Faculty Emeritus

Class of 2012
Bob Wood ’59 GPUS
Art Getz ’67 GPUS
Allen Taber ‘80
Heather Heidel Petty ’93
Kevin Crociata ’90
Lauren Ealba Harris ’02
Muriel Brock, Faculty/Coach Emerita

Class of 2011 – Inaugural Class
Bruce Garbutt '53 DUS
Chuck Wright '66 GPUS
Onnie Killifer '74
Andrea Kincannon '83
Mike Coello ‘90
Doug Wood ‘90

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