ITHACA, N.Y. -- Ten new members, including four All-Americans, have been selected for induction into the Cornell University Athletics Hall of Fame at the 41st annual ceremonies to be held Saturday, Sept. 22 on the Cornell campus. After this year's class is inducted, the membership in the Hall will stand at 608.
The All-Americans who will be inducted are Tyler Baier '05, wrestling; Courtney Farrell '08, women's lacrosse; Muhammad Halim '08, men's track and field; Dan Ratushny '92, men's ice hockey.
Also selected to be enshrined in September are Jenna Campagnolo '08, softball; Andrea Dutcher, special category; Keith Ferguson '03, football; David McKechnie '07, men's swimming and diving; Richard Stimpson '01, men's soccer; and Joanna Weiss '07, volleyball.
In addition to the formal induction ceremonies on Saturday evening, the honorees will be recognized at halftime of the Cornell-Yale Homecoming football game that afternoon.
The Cornell Athletics Hall of Fame was initiated in 1978. It became a reality through the thoughtfulness and generosity of the late Ellis H. Robison, Class of 1918, whose devotion, advice and financial support to his alma mater started immediately upon graduation from the university.
A brief biography of each of the 10 inductees follows.
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Tyler Baier '05, Wrestling
A three-time first-team All-Ivy League selection, Baier was the NCAA runner-up at 184 pounds as a senior. That season he went 40-4, won an EIWA title and captured All-America honors. Baier was a three-time NCAA qualifier who finished his career with a 103-41 record. He recorded 24 wins by fall and earned 51 total bonus wins. Baier was named first-team All-Ivy in each of his final three seasons. He won a pair of Body Bar Invitational titles (2002, 2004) and a Mat Town Invitational championship (2003). Baier's 13 wins by fall as a senior tied Walter Grote's 32-year-old Cornell record.
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Jenna Campagnolo '08, Softball
Campagnolo became the 11th player in Ivy League softball history and second Cornellian (Kate Varde, 2001-04) to become a four-time first-team All-Ivy selection. She graduated as the school record holder for games played (200) and at bats (640). She also ranked second in hits and runs scored. The talented centerfielder batted .342 with 19 home runs and 38 stolen bases in her career, earning second-team NFCA Mid-Atlantic All-Region honors as a junior. She led the Big Red and Ivy League as a senior with a .423 batting average, helping Cornell to lead the nation with a .349 average, and ended her career with a 27-game hitting streak. As a junior, she was second on the team with a .361 batting average, adding seven doubles, a triple, and three home runs. Known around the league for her defensive prowess in the outfield, Campagnolo hit .279 with eight doubles, three homers and 27 RBI as a sophomore after a strong freshman season that saw her bat .316 with three homers and 17 RBI to go along with nine stolen bases. In her four seasons, the Big Red posted an impressive 136-64-1 record (.679) overall and a 50-18 record in Ivy League play (.735).
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Andrea Dutcher, Special Category
From 1974-88, Dutcher served as Cornell's women's volleyball head coach, posting a 346-158-7 (.687) record. Her teams won four New York State tournaments and two district crowns, tallying at least 20 wins in a season nine times. As a result, the Andrea J. Dutcher Trophy is presented annually to the Ivy League women's volleyball champion. Dutcher also coached the Big Red ski team from 1974-84 and was an assistant to the director of athletics public affairs from 1984-89. She became the first Helen A. Newman Director of Recreational Services in 1997 after serving as director of Helen Newman Hall and Intramural Sports since 1988. Dutcher became the Robert E. Browning, Director of Physical Education when she assumed the reigns of the entire non-intercollegiate program in 2009 as an Associate Athletic Director. She was promoted to Senior Associate Director of Athletics for Physical Education in 2012 before retiring in 2016. During her time she was instrumental in developing, implementing and growing Cornell Recreational Services into a model that schools nationwide strived to emulate. Her leadership and stewardship helped Cornell renovate Helen Newman Hall and build the Noyes Community Recreation Center while establishing Cornell intramurals as one of the premier programs in the nation. In 2011, she received the NIRSA Regional Award of Merit for demonstrating exceptional performance in the field of collegiate recreation. A 1974 graduate of Penn State, she was a member of the golf and basketball teams. Her 1970 and 1971 golf teams were Eastern champions, and she earned individual medalist honors in 1971. Dutcher received master's degrees from Cortland State University and the Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations.
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Courtney Farrell '08, Women's Lacrosse
Farrell capped off an outstanding career for the Cornell women's lacrosse program by being named to the IWLCA/US Lacrosse All-America third team in 2008. Farrell, a Tewaaraton Trophy watch list selection and two-year member of the junior national team, led the Big Red in points (54), assists (26), game-winning goals (3) and ground balls (25) en route to first-team All-Ivy and IWLCA All-Northeast District honors in 2008. The two-time Ivy League Player of the Week graduated as the school's all-time leader in points (213) and assists (91). The first-team IWLCA all-region pick in 2007 also held school records for season assists (34) and assists in a game (6), which she has reached twice. Farrell set an NCAA record for fastest goal to start a game (8 seconds) in a 2007 win at Loyola (MD). Her 1.62 assists per game as a senior were good for first in the Ivy League and 27th in the nation, while her 3.38 points per game rank her fourth in the conference. She ended her career by registering at least one point in her final 53 games, the third-longest streak in the country. She was a second-team all-region pick as both a sophomore and junior.
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Keith Ferguson '03, Football
Ferguson graduated as the school's career leader in receptions (202) and receiving yards (2,569), becoming just the seventh Ivy League player to register more than 200 catches. His 14 career touchdowns also ranked fourth all-time at Cornell upon graduation. Ferguson caught 70 passes for 852 yards as a senior, a mark that ranked fourth all-time in a season at the time. He had seven career 100-yard receiving games, including a 177-yard effort at Brown in 2002, a mark that ranked second in a single game in Cornell history. He set a Big Red and Ivy League record with at least one catch in all 39 career games. Ferguson was a second-team All-Ivy League pick as a senior in 2002. He captured the team's Pop Warner Award as the squad's most valuable player in 2002, took home the Charles Colucci Award as the non-senior who contributed most to the team in 2001, and won the Jack Murphy Big Play Award as a sophomore in 2000. Ferguson was named Ivy League Offensive Player of the Week once during his senior campaign.
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Muhammad Halim '08, Men's Track and Field
A four-time All-American and the 2008 NCAA Outdoor national champion in the triple jump, Halim took runner-up honors indoors as a junior and was eighth outdoors that same season. He capped off his senior indoor season by finishing fourth at the national meet. As a junior, he won the NCAA Regional Championship in the triple jump, leading the Big Red to an unprecedented seventh-place team finish. Halim graduated with the Cornell record in the indoor triple jump and was second all-time outdoors as well. As a sophomore, he was the runner-up in the triple jump at the Heps indoors and won the first of his six Heptagonal titles at the outdoor meet, while also finishing eighth at the regional meet. During his freshman season, he scored at the Heps and qualified for the regionals in both the long jump and the triple jump. As a senior, Halim was named the Outstanding Performer of the Meet during the Indoor Heptagonal Championships at Barton Hall after winning the long jump and the triple jump. Outdoors, he repeated the double, marking the third straight time he captured the two horizontal jump titles at the league championships. He garnered a spot in the 2008 U.S. Olympic Trials in the triple jump after finishing his junior season ranked eighth on the final national list among all jumpers, professional and collegiate. Halim competed in the 2012 (London) and 2016 (Rio) Olympic Games after qualifying for the U.S. Virgin Islands team.
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David McKechnie '07, Men's Swimming & Diving
McKechnie graduated as the Ivy League's fastest swimmer all-time in the 100 breaststroke, was a three-time conference champion (2005, 2006, 2007) and won the double in 2005 and 2007 with first-place finishes in the 200 breast as well. He joined Randy Sprout (100 free) and classmate Mike Smit (500 free) as the only three-time Ivy champs in school history at the time. An NCAA qualifier in the 100 breast as a senior, he finished 24th in the nation. McKechnie was part of four Ivy championship relay teams and was twice named team MVP (2005 and 2007), as well as winning the team's Spirit Award in 2004. He graduated with school records in the 100 and 200 breast and was part of school-record relay teams in the 200 and 400 medley and 200 and 800 free relays, with the 800 record still standing. Over his four varsity seasons, the Big Red sported a 33-8 record (25-8 EISL), including a perfect dual meet season (10-0) as a senior in 2007. In the process, Cornell defeated Harvard for the first time since the 1985-86 campaign and Princeton for the first time since the 1983-84 season. McKechnie swam in the 2004 Canadian Olympic Trials, placing 12th in the 100 and 200 breaststroke.
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Dan Ratushny '92, Men's Ice Hockey
Ratushny was a two-time All-American, earning a spot on the second team in 1990 and a first-team honor in 1991. He was also a two-time All-ECAC first team selection and an All-Ivy League first team honoree both of those seasons after earning ECAC All-Rookie team honors following the 1988-89 campaign. That strong freshman campaign led to the NHL's Winnipeg Jets selecting him in the second round of the entry draft the following summer, and he served as captain of Canada's gold medal-winning team at the IIHF World Junior Championship in 1990. In his three seasons at Cornell, he racked up 14 goals and 51 assists for 65 career points in 80 games, then competed with Canada at the 1992 Winter Olympic Games in Albertville, France. Ratushny ascended to the NHL with the Vancouver Canucks during the 1992-93 season — his first as professional. He played professionally for seven seasons in North America before three professional seasons in Japan, Finland and Scotland.
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Richard Stimpson '01, Men's Soccer
Stimpson was a three-time first-team All-Ivy League selection and earned second-team honors once. The 1997 Ivy League Rookie of the Year, he was a four-year starter and led the team in points three consecutive seasons (1997, 1998 and 1999). In 2000, Stimpson was named to the NSCAA New York Regional team. He was a two-time team captain (1999, 2000) and was team MVP in 2000. He graduated with the Cornell record for assists (25), tied for sixth in goals (22) and was third in points (69). The school's career leader for games started at 65, Stimpson garnered Ivy League Rookie of the Week honors once and Ivy League Player of the Week accolades twice. He represented Great Britain in the World University Games in 1999.
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Joanna Weiss '07, Volleyball
Weiss was a two-time first-team All-Ivy League selection and is one of just two Big Red athletes to be named to the AVCA All-Northeast Region team, earning honorable mention honors as a senior. The school's career leader in hitting percentage (.384), she ranks in the top 10 in blocks per set (second, 1.29), block assists (sixth, 262) and blocks (ninth, 297) and among the top 20 in kills, kills per set, solo blocks, points and points per set. She played on three Ivy championship teams, two as a starter, and holds single season school records for block assists (120 as a senior) and attack percentage (.406 as a junior). Weiss was twice named Ivy League Player of the Week during her career.
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