\u201cAugsburg football is the new MIAC contender in town.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\nEric Rolland \u201997<\/strong>, coach of Augsburg\u2019s men\u2019s and women\u2019s golf, competed in the 2023 3M Open golf tournament. He earned a spot in the tournament after achieving Minnesota PGA Rolex Player of the Year honors in 2022.<\/p>\n
\n2000s<\/h2>\n2000, 2005, 2006, 2009, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022<\/h3>\n
A writing group largely made up of alumni from Augsburg\u2019s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program recently published its second book, \u201cWhat\u2019s in the Body Bag? A Collection of Dark Fiction by the Dead Birds Writing Group.\u201d Authors include Trena Bolden Fields \u201900, \u201915 MFA<\/strong>; Judy Niemi Johnson \u201905 MAL, \u201917 MFA<\/strong>; David Nash \u201906<\/strong>; Amanda Symes \u201909, \u201915 MFA<\/strong>; Jayne Carlson \u201916 MFA<\/strong>; Jon Dahl \u201916 MFA<\/strong>; Andrew Marks \u201921<\/strong>; and Michelle Linder \u201922 MFA<\/strong>.<\/p>\n2003<\/h3>\n
Jason Baumgartner \u201903<\/strong> is the campus chaplain at Minnesota State University Moorhead.<\/p>\nSheila Hoehn \u201903 MAN<\/strong> was named dean of the Central Lakes College campuses in Staples, Minnesota, in June 2023.<\/p>\n2004<\/h3>\n
Mary (New) Taris \u201904<\/strong> opened Strive Bookstore in the Young Quinlan building in downtown Minneapolis. She owns a smaller version of the store, which includes many books from underrepresented authors, in the Sistah Co-op, located in the IDS Center in downtown Minneapolis.<\/p>\n2006<\/h3>\n
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz appointed Brent Kelsey \u201906 MBA<\/strong> to the Rural Finance Authority, the state\u2019s main agricultural lending arm. Kelsey is a farmer and a principal credit officer at Compeer Financial.<\/p>\n2007<\/h3>\n
Erik Hinderlie \u201907<\/strong> graduated from the University of Massachusetts Boston School for the Environment with a Master of Science in urban planning and community development in 2023. He received the Urban Planning and Community Development Graduate Program Director\u2019s Award for Public Service.<\/p>\n2008<\/h3>\n
Cyrus Batheja \u201908, \u201910 MBA<\/strong>, a member of Augsburg\u2019s Board of Regents, is the national vice president of infusion care services at Optum.<\/p>\nGreg May \u201908<\/strong>, most recently head coach of Augsburg\u2019s men\u2019s hockey team, accepted the position of associate head coach of the University of Minnesota women\u2019s hockey team in July 2023.<\/p>\n
\n2010s<\/h2>\n2011<\/h3>\n
Ashley Booker \u201911 MAE<\/strong> was named CEO of YWCA St. Paul in 2023.<\/p>\n2012<\/h3>\n
Ashley Aretz \u201912, \u201919 MSPAS<\/strong> has joined Essentia Health-St. Mary\u2019s Medical Center in Duluth, Minnesota, where she specializes in hospitalist services. Aretz is a certified physician assistant.<\/p>\n2013<\/h3>\n
Gottleib Uahengo \u201913<\/strong> graduated with his PhD in engineering from the University of Southern California in May 2023.<\/p>\n2015<\/h3>\n
Parker Hines \u201915<\/strong> is an assistant coach for the Texas Legends, a professional basketball team.<\/p>\n2016<\/h3>\n
Gabriella (Hooper) Rooker \u201916<\/strong> finished as the fourth American woman and 11th woman overall in the Chicago Marathon on October 8, 2023.<\/p>\n2019<\/h3>\n
Colin Mustful \u201919 MFA<\/strong> is the author of \u201cReclaiming Mni Sota: An Alternate History of the U.S.\u2013Dakota War of 1862,\u201d which was published by History Through Fiction in October 2023. Mustful is the founder and editor of History Through Fiction. He and his press have created the Reclaiming Mni Sota Indigenous Writers Grant, a literary diversity initiative to raise $10,000 for one Indigenous writer from Minnesota.<\/p>\n
\n2020s<\/h2>\n2022<\/h3>\n
In September 2023, Gavin Holland \u201922<\/strong> re-signed with the Huntsville Havoc, a professional ice hockey team in Huntsville, Alabama, for the 2023\u201324 season.<\/p>\n2023<\/h3>\n
Rachel Allen \u201923 MAT<\/strong> teaches 10th- and 11th-grade American history and world history at Pine River-Backus School in Pine River, Minnesota.<\/p>\nHope Manu Kannare \u201923<\/strong> was featured in the October 24, 2023, Star Tribune story, \u201cSix recent Minnesota college grads tell us how adulting is going.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\nBrandon Ratzloff \u201923<\/strong> was named an assistant coach with the Rochester Grizzlies junior ice hockey team in 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"1960s 1965 John Luoma \u201965 published \u201cSaddlebag Preacher: The Story of the Rev. John Stough and the Evangelizing of the Ohio Frontier\u201d in September 2023. 1970s 1970 Peter Agre \u201970, Bloomberg Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and winner of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 2003, gave the inaugural <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":470,"featured_media":13050,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,73],"tags":[237],"class_list":["post-13028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni-news","category-auggies-connect","tag-spring-2024"],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/470"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13028"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13150,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13028\/revisions\/13150"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}