MISSOULA, MT (8/21/13) — Former soccer standout Courtney (Mathieson) Jenkins and the 1972 University of Montana men’s track and field team will be formally inducted into the Grizzly Sports Hall of Fame, Friday, Sept. 20, 2013, and tickets for the induction banquet are now available.
The banquet will be at the Hilton garden Inn and begins with a social hour at 6:00 p.m., with dinner served at 7:00 p.m., with the induction ceremony to follow. They will also be introduced prior to the Grizzly-Oklahoma Panhandle State University football game in Washington-Grizzly Stadium on Saturday. Sept. 21.
Tickets are $35 and available at the UM Ticket Office, or may be ordered by calling 243-4051 or 1-888-
MONTANA (phone orders have a service charge). The final deadline to purchase tickets is Monday, Sept. 16.
Mathieson will be the 51st individual to join the prestigious group. The 1972 track squad becomes the fifth team to be inducted. Last year Montana’s 2001 Division I-AA national championship football team joined the Grizzly Sports Hall of Fame.
Courtney, an outside mid-fielder from Redmond, Wash., started all 75 games in soccer at Montana from 1994-97, and the team she played on had an overall record of 50-24-1. She led the Griz soccer team to their first Big Sky championship as a senior in 1997.
She was named first team All-Big Sky Conference and to the All-Northwest Regional squad in 1997. She holds Griz records with 112 career points, (43 goals, 26 assists ). Fifteen years after graduating she still leads UM with 13 game-winning goals.
Courtney was a three-time GTE Academic All-American selection in 1995-96-97. In addition, she was the NSCAA Female Scholar Athlete of the Year for the entire country in 1997. She also received the UM’s President’s Award (highest GPA) as a junior and senior.
More than four decades ago, Montana’s 1972 track and field squad scored 147 points en route to win the first (and only) Big Sky championship for the Grizzlies in that sport. The Big Sky is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2013-14.
Despite winning just one league track and field title, Montana was a dominant team in the Big Sky’s first 12 seasons, from 1964 to 1975. In that time span, the Grizzlies placed second in the Big Sky meet six times (1965, 1967-70, and 1975).
The only time that Montana has placed in the top two in the Big Sky the past 38 seasons (since 1975), was a second place finish in 2002, when they hosted the conference meet.
The Griz tracksters placed in 17 of 18 events (UM had no placers in the long jump) in that conference championship meet in 1972 which was hosted by Boise State. Fourteen of the athletes who scored points for the Grizzlies were from the state of Montana.
The head coach of the ‘72 team was Harley Lewis. Naseby Rhinehart was in his 37th season (he retired in 1982) as Montana’s athletic trainer that year.
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