DE PERE – The St. Norbert College Department of Intercollegiate Athletics 2021 Hall of Fame Class has grown by five individuals.
Inductees are Marc Belanger (men’s hockey), Jeff Pentek (men’s cross country and track and field), Jenny Scherer (women’s cross country and track and field), Nick Tabisz (men’s hockey) and Jared Yost (baseball).
Belanger, a 2008 graduate, was a four-year letterwinner in men’s hockey from 2005 to 2008. He is a two-time first-team AHCA All-America selection in 2007 and 2008 and a second-team CoSIDA Academic All-American in 2008. Seventh in career scoring at St. Norbert with 132 points, he scored 62 goals and 70 assists. Belanger scored a team-high 45 points in 2008, when the Green Knights captured their first national championship. He totaled 132 points as a forward.
Pentek, a 2008 graduate, was a four-year letterwinner in men’s cross country from 2004 to 2007 and men’s track and field from 2005 to 2008. He is the only male cross country runner at St. Norbert to capture the Midwest Conference individual championship, and the only male to qualify for the NCAA Division III championship. A three-time overall NCAA qualifier, he won five Midwest Conference titles and holds four school records.
Scherer, a 2010 graduate, was a four-year letterwinner in women’s cross country from 2007 to 2010 and women’s track and field from 2007 to 2010, and also earned one letter win women’s basketball in 2007. She is a nine-time All-American, with four coming at the NCAA outdoor track championship, three at the NCAA cross country championship, and two at the NCAA indoor track championship. She is one of 20 Division III athletes to earn three Top 10 finishes at the NCAA cross country championship. Scherer totaled 11 overall Midwest Conference titles in her career.
Tabisz, a 2011 graduate, was a four-year letterwinner in men’s hockey from 2008 to 2011. He was a three-time first-team AHCA All-American in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and was a two-time second-team CoSIDA Academic All-American in 2010 and 2011. The first four-time first-team All-Northern Collegiate Hockey Association selection in program history, he played on national championship teams in 2008 and 2011. Tabisz scored the game-winning goal in the 2011 national championship game, finishing with 98 career points as a defenseman.
Yost, a 2011 graduate, was a four-year letterwinner in baseball from 2008 to 2011. He was St. Norbert’s first male four-time first-team All-Midwest Conference selection in any sport and was the MWC North Division Player of the Year and first-team All-Central Region pick in 2009. He finished his career at St. Norbert as the school’s career leader in hits (210), runs batted in (147) and total bases (326), and is third all-time in stolen bases (73). One of three players in St. Norbert history to hit three home runs in a game, Yost also shares school records for hits in a season (74) and consecutive games hitting streak (23).
The Class of 2021 brings the total enshrined in the St. Norbert Athletics Hall of Fame at 157 persons. The Hall of Fame Induction will be held Saturday, October 2, 2021.
