Hall of Fame

Five new members will join the Owatonna High School Athletic Hall of Fame this week.

Introducing OHS Athletic Hall of Fame members George Soukup and Marc Wiese.

2005 OHS grad Sean Murphy is one of the five newest members of the athletic hall of fame.

1996 Graduate Andrea Jurgens to enter OHS Athletic Hall of Fame.

Beth Christensen earned 15 letters during her high school career and enters the Owatonna High School Athletic Hall of Fame September 14.

The Owatonna High School Athletic Hall of Fame class for 2018 has been announced. Each of the five inductees in an O-Club member and two played Division 1 sports.

An Olympian, a politician and a wrestling announcer walk into a room. And the punchlines were many at Saturday's induction into the Minnesota chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame at the Austin Holiday Inn.

His voice is synonymous with Owatonna wrestling specifically, and all wrestling in general. His exclamation, "Takedown! Owatonna!" is a legendary call. Dale Benjamin will enter the Minnesota Chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a lifetime service honoree at a banquet on Saturd…

The 1960 Edgerton boys' basketball team, which is the smallest school to win the Minnesota state championship during the single-class era, is among the honorees into the first Minnesota Basketball Hall of Fame class. Players from that team were among those recognized at Monday's Minnesota …

Jeff Becker, a former longtime assistant wrestling coach at Owatonna, will be inducted into the Region One-Mayo Civic Center Wrestling Hall of Fame Monday, March 5. The banquet will be held at Charlie's Eatery on Highway 52 North in Rochester in the Hillcrest Mall. Call for tickets at 507-358-7…