•  The and Augsburg men’s hockey coach Chris Brown, who was named MIAC Coach of the Year for his leadership of the MIAC-champion Auggies. Eight Augsburg men’s hockey players earned postseason honors from the MIAC.

•  Enjoy a when Mack Ohnsted scored in the third overtime to lift Augsburg over St. John’s to the MIAC men’s hockey championship, sending the Auggies to the NCAA Division III national playoffs.

•  Augsburg men’s hockey goalie , named to the CCM Hockey/AHCA Division II-III All-America Team. Kaufer is Augsburg’s 34th All-American in men’s hockey.

•  qualified for the MIAC postseason playoffs for the fifth time in school history. The Auggies third-place conference finish was the team’s highest MIAC finished since 1999-00, when the team won the conference and regular season playoff titles. .

•  finished fifth at the NCAA Division III National Championships, and had four All-Americans this year.

•  Augsburg wrestler qualified for a spot in this weekend’s U.S. Olympic Wrestling Trials in Iowa City, Iowa.

•  (All-MIAC Sportsmanship Team), who earned MIAC women’s basketball postseason honors.

•  will be honored with the Bud Grant Distinguished Minnesotan Award by the National Football Foundation on April 17.

•  , head athletic trainer at Augsburg College, will receive the Fred Zamberletti Award from the National Football Foundation.

•  Augsburg wrestling alumni who were inducted into the National Wrestling Coaches Association Division III Hall of Fame.

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As an Augsburg student, Nelson was a four-year letter-winner in football, basketball, baseball, and golf. In football he was named all-MIAC and served as team captain in 1942; in 1943, he was selected as an Honor Athlete.

After graduation, he served in the Navy in World War II, taking part in the 1944 D-Day invasion at Normandy, as well as serving in the Pacific theater. After returning from the war, he married Marcie Solheim ’46, whom he met at Augsburg. Together, they raised three children and were married for 64 years before she passed away in 2011.

After WWII, Nelson continued his education with a Master’s in Education from the University of Minnesota (1951). Then he began coaching, first at Zumbrota and Farmington (both in Minn.), then at Anoka (Minn.) High School in 1953, where he spent 26 of his 33 years as a high school coach. Legendary in Anoka sports, he coached basketball, baseball, and—perhaps most notably—football, in which he once enjoyed a 33-game winning streak. His career record was 154-70-8.

In addition to being inducted into the Augsburg Athletic Hall of Fame in 1977, he was named Minnesota High School Coaches Association Coach of the Year in 1964, and was inducted into the Minnesota Football Coaches Hall of Fame (1983), the Minnesota High School League Hall of Fame (1981), and the Old Timers Football Hall of Fame (2007). Other honors include the Augsburg Sports Achievement Award (1979) and the Minnesota High School Athletic Directors Distinguished Alumni Award (2008). —Cheryl Crockett ’89

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