Five Lawrence University standouts are set to be inducted into the Lawrence Intercollegiate Athletic Hall of Fame in October.
Football’s Joel Bogenschuetz, softball star Carli Gurholt, three-sport standout Vickie Leathers, men’s basketball star Chris Siebert and distance running great Sam Stevens will be inducted into the Hall of Fame on Oct. 9 at the Warch Campus Center.
The 2026 inductees also will be introduced at halftime of the Homecoming football game against Beloit College on Oct. 10 on Ron Roberts Field at the Banta Bowl.
Joel Bogenschuetz, Class of 1998
Joel Bogenschuetz powered some of the most prolific offenses in Lawrence football history. The offensive guard from Sheboygan, Wisconsin, led the group that made the Vikings a feared ground attack.
A team captain, Bogenschuetz was a three-time All-Midwest Conference selection. The 6-foot-3, 260-pound Bogenschuetz earned first-team all-conference honors in both 1995 and 1997 and was a second-team selection in 1996. A four-year starter, Bogenschuetz also was chosen as a Midwest Conference Player of the Week, a rarity for an offensive lineman.
Led by Bogenschuetz, Lawrence finished first in the Midwest Conference in total offense at 473.2 yards per game and was tops in rushing offense at 298.0 yards per game in 1994. Lawrence finished fifth in all of NCAA Division III in total offense and seventh in rushing offense.
Bogenschuetz helped the Vikings lead NCAA Division III in rushing offense in 1995 as the Vikings averaged 344.0 yards per game on the ground. Lawrence also led the Midwest Conference in total offense and finished fourth in NCAA Division III at 479.4 yards per game. The Vikings then led the Midwest Conference in rushing again in 1997 at 281.0 yards per game and were second in total offense at 397.2 yards per contest.
Also the team’s long snapper all four seasons, Bogenschuetz was a key to the offense that broke multiple Lawrence records. The Vikings set team records for rushing yards (3,096 in 1995), yards per rushing attempt (5.9 in 1994), rushing yards per game (344 in 1995) and rushing touchdowns (31 in 1995). Lawrence also set season total offense records for yards (4,315 in 1995), yards per play (6.7 in 1994), yards per game (479.4 in 1995) and plays per game (82.1 in 1995).
Bogenschuetz was a double major at Lawrence, earning degrees in economics and mathematics. Bogenschuetz started at Morgan Stanley a week after he graduated in 1998 and has worked there for 29 years. He serves as a financial advisor and executive director at Morgan Stanley, where he has been named a Best-In-State Wealth Advisor by Forbes each of the past four years.
Bogenschuetz and his wife, Tracy, live in Suamico, Wisconsin, with their children, Easton and Kyra.
Carli Gurholt, Class of 2011
Carli Gurholt set a new standard for power at the plate during her Lawrence softball career. The shortstop powered her way to multiple honors and set records for power hitting for the Vikings.
A native of Scandinavia, Wisconsin, Gurholt was the 2009 Midwest Conference Player of the Year, and a three-time All-Midwest Conference selection. She also earned National Fastpitch Coaches Association All-Great Lakes Region honors in 2009. Gurholt was a first-team all-conference pick in both 2009 and 2011 and earned second-team honors in 2008.
A career .386 hitter, Gurholt ranked seventh in career batting average when she graduated. She collected 26 doubles, three triples and blasted a Lawrence-record 22 homers to go with 107 runs batted in. The 107 RBIs ranks second in school history. She also set the school record with a .746 career slugging percentage.
Gurholt hit a career-best .421 in 2011 and set multiple school records in 2009 with 12 homers, 45 RBIs, 79 total bases and a .919 slugging percentage. She also drove in a career-best six runs against D’Youville College in 2009. Gurholt finished second in all of NCAA Division III in a pair of statistical categories. She was second at 0.41 home runs per game and second in RBIs at 1.55 per contest in 2009.
A biology major at Lawrence, Gurholt was an Academic All-Midwest Conference selection and a National Fastpitch Coaches Association Scholar Athlete. Gurholt went on to earn a Master’s degree in biology from Central Michigan University before completing her Master’s and Doctor of Psychology in clinical psychology from the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology.
Gurholt is the assistant director of clinical training at the Wisconsin School of Professional Psychology. As a psychologist, she has a practice in Milwaukee and is a senior consultant for Vital WorkLife. She is board certified in psychoanalytic and psychodynamic psychology and was recently elected president-elect of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalytic and Psychodynamic Psychology.
Vickie Leathers Paupore, Class of 1993
Vickie Leathers Paupore is a rarity at any level of college athletics as a true three-sport athlete. A standout in volleyball, basketball, and track and field, Leathers excelled in all three sports during her four years at Lawrence.
A native of Niagara, Wisconsin, Leathers was the college’s only three-sport female athlete during her career.
A sprinter, jumper and hurdler for the Lawrence track and field team, Leathers was a two-time Midwest Conference champion and eight-time all-league honoree for the Vikings. Leathers also set Lawrence records in the high jump, 100-meter hurdles and 400-meter hurdles.
Leathers broke the Lawrence record in the high jump at 5-foot-0 in 1990 and then broke it when she jumped 5-2 at the Midwest Conference Championships. During that 1990 indoor season, the only indoor campaign in which she was able to compete, she also broke the school’s indoor record in the high jump at 5-2.
Leathers earned her first Midwest Conference title in 1991 when she teamed with Diana Ling, Lauren Gatti and Betsy Blahnik to win the 4×400-meter relay with a time of 4:09.97. She also set the Lawrence record on her way to taking third in 100 hurdles in 16.33 seconds. She also grabbed second in the high jump at 5-2.
During the 1992 season, Leathers pushed her high jump record to 5-4 and would grab all-conference honors three times at the Midwest Conference Championships. She broke the school record with a time of 1:08.22 on her way to finishing third in the 400 hurdles at the conference meet. She also took third in the 100 hurdles and 4×400 relay. The 4×400 relay team of Leathers, Gatti, Blahnik and Debbie Czarniecki also broke the school record with a time of 4:04.97.
Leathers earned another Midwest Conference title during the 1993 outdoor championships. She raced to first in the 100 hurdles in a school-record time of 16.14 seconds. She also grabbed third in the 400 hurdles.
A forward for the women’s basketball team, Leathers played for the 1989-90 Midwest Conference championship team and competed in the Midwest Conference Tournament in all three of her seasons. A team captain, Leathers also captured the team’s Hustle Award and Spirit Award during her career.
Leathers scored 544 points during her career and finished second in career field goal percentage at 48.1 percent. She scored a career-high 159 points in both 1992-93 and 1990-91. Leathers ranked eighth with 439 rebounds and set the Lawrence record with 95 games played.
Lawrence won its first Midwest Conference women’s basketball title in 1990 as the Vikings posted the best record in program history at 18-6. The Vikings knocked off Knox College in the Midwest Conference Tournament semifinals and then defeated Grinnell College 53-50 in the championship game.
A 5-foot-10 middle hitter for the volleyball team, Leathers earned a trio of team awards with the Vikings. As a senior, Leathers was chosen as the team’s Best Offensive Player. She was chosen as the Most Valuable Player in 1991 and collected the Most Improved Player in 1990.
Leathers earned multiple Lawrence awards during her career. She received the Oustanding Freshman Athlete Award for Women in 1990 and took hom the Pond Award for Women as the top senior two-sport athlete in 1993. She also was chosen as Lawrence’s NCAA Woman of the Year in 1993.
Leathers earned a degree in Spanish at Lawrence and went on to receive a Master’s degree in educational leadership from Northern Michigan University in 2000.
Leathers taught Spanish and English for 31 years in the Negaunee (Michigan) Public School District and retired in 2024. Leathers continued her coaching career after retirement and completed her 30th season as the head girls’ track coach at Negaunee in 2026. Her team won the 2026 Upper Peninsula title in Division 1 and 16th consecutive Mid-Peninsula Conference championship. Leathers also has coached varsity cross country, middle school and junior varsity basketball and started the varsity volleyball program in Negaunee in 1995.
A highly decorated teacher, Leathers was the Outstanding Graduating Graduate Student in the Department of Education at Northern Michigan University, won Michigan’s Best Award for leading the Global Awareness Program in 2007, won Teacher of the Year for Negaunee Public Schools in 2013, earned multiple conference track and cross country Coach of the Year awards and was selected as an influential educator seven times during her teaching career.
Leathers and her husband, Mark Paupore, have been married for 33 years and live in Negaunee, Michigan. They have two married adult children, Jacob and Emily, and two grandchildren.
Chris Siebert, Class of 2014
Chris Siebert was the engine that drove the Lawrence men’s basketball team during his four seasons with the Vikings. A prolific scorer, Siebert also handed out assists at the pace of a point guard.
A native of Baraboo, Wisconsin, Siebert earned All-Midwest Conference honors in three consecutive seasons and was a first-team pick in 2013-14. He earned second-team honors in both 2011-12 and 2012-13. The 6-foot-2 guard also grabbed D3hoops.com All-Midwest Region honors in 2013-14.
Siebert ranked fourth in Lawrence history with 1,360 points when he graduated and averaged a healthy 15.1 points per game. Siebert also ranks third in school history with 342 assists and averaged 3.8 assists per contest. He collected a career-best 101 assists in 2010-11 and is one of just six players in school history to have 100 assists in a season. Siebert handed out a career-high 13 assists, second in school history, against Grinnell College in January 2012.
Siebert shot 44.6 percent from the floor and ranks fifth in school history in 3-point shooting at 43.3 percent. His best scoring season came in 2013-14 when he averaged 17.9 points and made a career-best 72 3-pointers. Siebert ranks fourth in Lawrence history with 189 career 3-pointers. He made a career-best seven 3-pointers at Beloit College in February 2014.
An excellent free-throw shooter, Siebert shot 82.9 percent from the line for his career, and that is tops for any Lawrence player in the 21st century. He ranks third overall in free-throw shooting in Lawrence history and enjoyed his best season in 2011-12 when he shot 88 percent from the stripe. Siebert went 10-for-10 from the foul line three times in his career.
Siebert earned a degree in history at Lawrence and went on to earn a Master of Science in sports leadership from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
A sales executive at JustAGame Impressions, Siebert also has put together a stellar coaching record as the boys’ basketball coach at Oregon High School over the past decade. Siebert and his wife, Carson, live in Madison, Wisconsin.
Sam Stevens, Class of 2013
Sam Stevens ushered in the resurgence in Lawrence men’s distance running and became a decorated athlete in both cross country and track and field.
A native of Suamico, Wisconsin, Stevens raced to victory at the 2011 Midwest Conference Championships to become Lawrence’s first individual cross country champion in the 21st century. Led by Stevens, the Vikings edged Grinnell College by two points for Lawrence’s first team title since 1985. Stevens’ winning time at the conference meet in 2011 was 25:09.11, and that was the fifth-fastest time in Lawrence history.
A four-time Midwest Conference Performer of the Week, Stevens is one of just five runners in Lawrence history to earn all-conference honors four times. After finishing 18th at the league championships as a freshman, Stevens finished third, first and seventh in the next three seasons.
A four-time Midwest Conference champion in track, Stevens went on to earn all-conference honors (top-three finish in an event) at the league championships 14 times.
Stevens earned his first individual league title in 2010 when he won the mile indoors with a time of 4:24.84. Also a conference Performer of the Week in track, Stevens then claimed a pair of conference titles during the 2012 season. He won the 5,000 meters indoors with a time of 15:12.93, and then took the 1,500 crown outdoors with a time of 3:59.36. Stevens grabbed another league title as a senior in 2013 when he won the 3,000-meter steeplechase in 9:34.42.
An Academic All-Midwest Conference selection, Stevens earned a degree in biology at Lawrence. He went on to receive his medical degree from the Medical College of Wisconsin in 2017 and went on to do a family medicine residency. Stevens serves as a family medicine physician with Froedtert ThedaCare Health.
Stevens and his wife, former Lawrence women’s cross country and track standout Katherine Dannecker-Stevens, class of 2014, live in Mequon, Wisconsin, and have two daughters, Sage and Georgia.
