Eight individuals will be inducted into the Wartburg Athletic Hall of Fame Saturday, Oct. 20, as part of the annual Homecoming weekend festivities.

Dave Devine ’01 played three years on the football team as a defensive back and was a three-time All-Conference selection (twice first team), receiving All-American honors in 1999 and 2000. His three interceptions against Dubuque (1999) is a single-game record. Devine, a mortgage banker, resides in Shawnee, Kan.

Teresa Cordes Graven ’88, a four-year member of the women’s cross country and track and field teams, was a two-time track All-American — sixth at the 1987 NCAA indoor high jump  and second outdoors in 1988. She won the Hertel Award as the outstanding two-sport athlete in 1988. Graven, a business education teacher, lives in Horicon, Wis.

Chad Klunder ’95 played in all 43 games in his four-year football career as a defensive back, finishing with 243 tackles — 140 solo — on teams that won the Iowa Conference (1993) and advanced to the NCAA quarterfinals (1994). A two-time first-team All-Conference selection, he was honorable mention All-American as a senior. Klunder resides in Granger, Ind. where he has served since 2005 as director of football operations at the University of Notre Dame. He previously was a graduate assistant and running backs coach for the Irish and coordinator of football operations at Harvard from 1998-2002.

Nick Mitchell ’01, a four-year wrestler, was on the 1999 national championship team. He was a three-time All-American — national runner-up in 1999 and third twice. Mitchell was a three-time Iowa Conference individual champion with 114 career wins on four league title teams. As head coach at Grand View University in Des Moines, he started the wrestling program in 2008 and won the NAIA championship four years later. Mitchell lives in Ankeny.

Richard Nickels ’76, a three-year member of the men’s basketball team, played on the 1974 and 1975 Iowa Conference championship teams, finishing with 1,244 points — No. 14 all-time. He lives in Waukesha, Wis., where he works in the Department of Parks and Land Use for Waukesha County and serves on the Izaak Walton League of Milwaukee County, a conservation-based organization.

Brianne Schoonover ’02 played was a four-year basketball and track and field stalwart. In basketball, she was the No. 8 career scoring leading (1,314 points), playing on two Iowa Conference championship teams and a three-time All-Conference, two-time Academic All-American and All-Region selection. She was the conference’s 2002 most valuable track performer, and won three 400 meters and 4×400-meter relay titles, two in the 4×100-meter relay and one at 200 meters. A a seven-time Drake Relays champion and two-time Academic All-American, she won the 2001 Hertel Award as Wartburg’s outstanding two-sport athlete and the  2002 Chellevold Award for outstanding academic and athletic success, graduating summa cum laude (3.96 GPA) as an accounting and business administration double-major. As a senior, she was the Duane Schroeder conference Female Athlete of the Year and an NCAA Postgraduate Scholarship recipient. A West Des Moines resident, she’s a senior manager at Ernst & Young LLP.

Jennifer Donohue Talbott played volleyball and basketball for four years and ran track for three. She is No. 2 in volleyball for career attack percentage (.261) and No. 6 in kills (1,302) — a second-team Lutheran Brotherhood All-American, three-time Verizon Academic All-American, two-time All-Conference and an AVCA All-Region honoree. She was on the 2000-01 Iowa Conference championship and Elite Eight basketball team, finishing her career with 934 points and 418 rebounds and an NCAA Woman of the Year nomination. Talbott was a GTE and CoSIDA Verizon Academic All-American in track as a senior. She set school records in the 100-meter hurdles and the 4×200-meter and shuttle-hurdle relays during her career. A health-care administration executive director for regional operations at McFarland Clinic, Talbott resides in Ames.
Matt Thede ’01 played four years of baseball, compiling a .410 batting average and posting school records with .715 slugging percentage and 28 home runs. He was twice named Iowa Conference most valuable player and All-Conference four time. He still holds the conference record of 45 runs batted in (2000). Thede, a two-time All-American and regional MVP, played three seasons in the Montreal Expos’ minor league system as a catcher. A biology teacher and baseball coach at Prairie High School in Cedar Rapids, Thede resides in Ely.