ITHACA, N.Y. -- Fifteen new members, including Olympic medalists, national champions and All-Americans, have been selected for induction into the Cornell University Athletics Hall of Fame as the Class of 2023. The ceremony will be held on Saturday, Set. 30. After taking a one year pause in electing a new class due to a backup caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, the class of 2023 is the largest since 1998 when 16 members were inducted.

Selected to be enshrined in September are Steve Bosak '13, wrestling; Kyle Dake '13, Wrestling; Tracy Eisser '12, women's rowing; Laura Fortino '13, women's ice hockey; Melissa Hewitt '13, women's track and field; Victoria Imbesi '13, women's track and field; Rebecca Johnston '12, women's ice hockey; Katie Kellner '13, women's track & field/cross country; Andy Noel, special category; Rob Pannell '13, men's lacrosse; Lauriane Rougeau '13, women's ice hockey; Ben Scrivens '10, men's ice hockey; Cam Simaz '12, wrestling; JC Tretter '13, football; and Chris Wroblewski '12, men's basketball.

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 15 inductees follows.

Steve Bosak '13, Wrestling
A three-time All-American, Bosak won an NCAA title at 184 pounds as a junior in 2012 and placed third as a senior. The four-time NCAA qualifier won an Eastern title in 2013, the last of three consecutive years in which he reached the finals. Bosak was a four-time All-Ivy pick, including a first-teamer in each of his final three seasons. He claimed the EIWA's Sheridan Award in 2011. Bosak closed his career with a record of 131-30 and ranked among the school's career leaders in wins, winning percentage, falls and major decisions.

Kyle Dake '13, Wrestling
Dake became the first NCAA wrestler to win national titles in four different weight classes, the first to win four national titles without taking a redshirt season and just the third athlete to claim four national titles overall. The 2013 Hodge Award winner as the national Wrestler of the Year, Dake was a three-time EIWA Wrestler of the Year. The Outstanding Wrestler of the NCAA tournament in 2013, Dake became the third Cornell wrestler to capture the award and the first since Dave Auble in 1960. He wrapped up his amazing career with a 137-4 record, including winning his final 79 collegiate matches. Dake was named the Charles H. Moore Senior co-Athlete of the Year at Cornell, the Sports Illustrated Male College Athlete of the Year and was an ESPY finalist for Best Male College Athlete in 2013. The four-time NCAA All-American was elected to the EIWA Hall of Fame in 2014. Following his Cornell career, Dake won four World titles, an Olympic bronze medal at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, as well as two Pan-American championships. In addition, he was the runner-up at the 2016 Olympic Trials.

Tracy Eisser '12, Women's Rowing
A seven-time national team member, two-time world champion and two time Olympian, Eisser medaled at four world championships, including winning a gold in the quadruple sculls in 2015 and the eight in 2018. Eisser also won silver in the pair in 2017 and bronze in 2014 in quadruple sculls. She took fifth in the quadruple sculls at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and 10th in the pair at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. A three-year member of the varsity eight boat, she helped the Big Red to national rankings in each of her final two seasons, culminating in the team's first NCAA championship appearance in a decade in 2012. Cornell finished second in the Ivy League that season, its highest finish in more than two decades, to help Eisser to second-team All-Ivy and Mid-Atlantic Region honors. Eisser earned CRCA national scholar-athlete accolades in each of her final three years.

Laura Fortino '13, Women's Ice Hockey
Fortino, a three-time first-team All-American, helped anchor a defense that spearheaded the Big Red to four consecutive Ivy League and ECAC Hockey regular season titles, three ECAC Hockey tournament crowns, four NCAA tournament appearances and three Frozen Fours. The 2011 Ivy League Player of the Year and a three-time first-team All-Ivy and All-ECAC Hockey pick was a three-time Patty Kazmaier Award nominee (finalist in both 2011 and 2012). An assistant captain her senior year, Fortino graduated with the sixth-most assists in team history (98). Fortino closed her career with 35 goals and 133 points in 133 career contests. She earned a spot on the 2010 all-tournament team for the NCAA Championships. She would go on to become part of an Olympic gold medal-winning team at the 2014 Sochi Olympics and helped claim silver in 2018 in Pyeongchang for Team Canada. She medaled at six World Championships, including capturing gold in 2012. She was the first overall pick at the 2014 CWHL Draft by the Brampton Thunder.

Melissa Hewitt '12, Women's Track & Field
Hewitt was one of Cornell's all-time greats in track and field, winning nine Heptagonal championships in her four years. A captain her senior year, she helped the team to three Heps team titles and took over the claim of fastest woman in the history of the Ivy League with her 100-meter mark of 11.66. She also was part of a 4x100 relay squad that holds the fastest recorded time in conference history and ranked third all-time in the long jump (20-3 ¾) and second in the 60 meters, just .01 behind Cornell track star Jeomi Maduka '08 (6.46). The 2010 Ivy League Most Valuable Track and Field Athlete, she graduated holding school records in the 100 and 200 meters and as part of the 4x100 relay squad. Though she wasn't able to compete at full strength as a senior, her inspirational attempts to compete while injured at the 2012 Outdoor Heps championships inspired her teammates as the squad finished second.

Victoria Imbesi '13, Women's Track & Field
A six-time Heptagonal champion, Imbesi earned All-America honors in the javelin as a senior after placing 11th at the NCAA Championships. She also competed at NCAAs in 2010, making her the first freshman to advance to nationals for Cornell track. She captured Heps titles in the indoor shot put as a junior and senior, the outdoor shot put as a junior and senior and the outdoor javelin as a freshman and senior. She was named the co-Most Outstanding Field Performer of the Outdoor Heps as a senior in 2013. Imbesi won the Eastern section in the shot at the Penn Relays. The Team MVP as a senior, she took the javelin title at the Outdoor ECAC meet in 2013. She graduated with school records in the outdoor shot put and javelin as well as the indoor shot. A captain and team MVP her senior year, Imbesi helped the team to three Heps team titles.

Rebecca Johnston '12, Women's Ice Hockey
A three-time Olympic gold medalist and three-time All-American, Johnston graduated as the most accomplished skater in the history of the women's hockey program. Johnston, who earned a team-high 30 goals and 61 points during her senior season, was named the squad's most valuable player after a season that saw her become a first-team All-American and earn a Top 10 Patty Kazmaier nomination for the third time. She graduated as the fifth-leading scorer in team history with 188 points (97 goals, 91 assists). She was a four-time first-team all-ECAC Hockey and first-team All-Ivy pick. Johnston was both the ECAC Hockey and Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2008 and earned a spot on ECAC Hockey's all-tournament team as a senior. Despite taking a year off for the Olympics, Johnston helped the Big Red to a pair of ECAC Hockey and Ivy League regular season titles, an ECAC Hockey tournament crown and two NCAA Frozen Four appearances. She was team captain as a senior and an assistant captain as a junior. In her international career, Johnston has posted 30 goals and 42 assists for 72 points in 76 games, helping Team Canada to Olympic Gold in 2010, 2014 and 2022, Olympic silver in 2018 as a four-time Olympian. A 16-year member of the national team, she also was part of teams that won a gold, eight silvers and a bronze at the IIHF World Women's Championships. Professionally, she was selected second overall in the 2012 CWHL Draft by the Calgary Inferno.

Katie Kellner '13, Women's Cross Country/Track & Field
A three-time All-American, Kellner finished 36th at the NCAA Cross Country Championships in 2012 and finished seventh nationally in the 10K in 2013 and 21st in 2012, both outdoors. She became the first Cornellian to win an individual cross country Heps crown since 1994 and helped the team to consecutive league titles, including the program's first in 13 years when the squad won in 2011. A two-time first-team All-Ivy cross country runner, she was the school record holder in the 10K with a mark that ranks fifth all-time in Ivy history. She was also ranked second all-time at Cornell in the indoor and outdoor 5K and ranked third in both the indoor and outdoor 3K. She was instrumental in helping her teams win a total of five Heps crowns (two cross country, three outdoor track and field), winning three individual championships along the way (10K in 2012 and 2013 outdoor, cross country in 2012).

Andy Noel, Special Category
Noel served nearly a quarter-century as the Meakem Smith Director of Athletics & Physical Education, leading the programs to unprecedented success while setting a course for continued prosperity. The Big Red teams parlayed Noel's accomplishments into success on and off the playing field, winning 106 Ivy League team titles and 37 national championships (17 team, 20 individual). During his tenure as Athletics Director, nearly 2,300 athletes have garnered All-Ivy honors, including more than 850 first-teamers, and 400 were named All-Americans. An accomplished fund-raiser, he led an effort that raised more than $300 million in support of capital projects and program endowment, all while growing the department annual fund over 260 percent. Over that same span, 25 coaching and staff positions were endowed, bringing the total number of endowed positions within the department to 35, the most of any school in the country. He also added women's sailing to become the department's 37th varsity sport. In 16 of his final 17 seasons, Cornell ranked among the top 100 programs in the NACDA Directors Cup standings with a high of 52nd in 2009-10 and finished in the top half of the Ivy standings 11 times, including holding down the top spot among Ancient Eight schools in 2006-07. In all, Big Red coaches earned national coach of the year honors 14 times during his tenure - 11 of them being awarded to Noel hires who were first-time head coaches. Of the top 15 winningest coaches in school history, nine were hired by or coached under Noel's leadership. Noel was the Big Red's head wrestling coach from 1974-88, helping his teams to four Ivy League championships and four runner-up finishes. Under Noel's direction, the wrestling team established a strong network of support from alumni and friends. In 1990, he was recognized at the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association Championships for his distinguished coaching career at Cornell, and in 1992 he was inducted into the New York State Wrestling Coaches Association Hall of Fame. He is also a member of the Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) Hall of Fame. He was inducted into the New York chapter of the National Wrestling Hall of Fame in 2014. Noel coached 10 NCAA qualifiers, three EIWA champions and an All-American and guided his teams to a 108-82-1 dual meet record, including 56-22 against Ivy League foes. His teams claimed four unbeaten conference titles in his final six seasons on the sidelines, and with wrestlers he recruited and developed, the teams went unbeaten in Ivy play for the next five years. After serving as head wrestling coach, Noel spent two years as an assistant director in the department's public affairs office, implementing the athletic department's annual giving program. His position was endowed in December 2003 by Scott `79 and Heidi Smith and Jack '58 and Diane '61 Meakem.

Rob Pannell '13, Men's Lacrosse
Pannell became just the fourth Cornell player ever to be named a four-time All-American, earning first-team accolades in each of his final three seasons after a third-team selection in 2009.  He punctuated one of the greatest college lacrosse careers of all-time by winning the 2013 Tewaaraton Trophy. The award was the final one in a long list for Pannell, who was a two-time Lt. Raymond J. Enners Award winner (2011, 2013) as the USILA Outstanding Player of the Year, and a two-time Jack Turnbull Award winner (2010, 2011) as the USILA Attackman of the Year. Pannell was a three-time Ivy League Player of the Year selection (2013; Unanimous selection in 2010 & 2011) after being named the 2009 Ivy League Rookie of the Year, becoming just the fourth player in the history of Division I college lacrosse to be named conference player of the year three times during their career. He was also just the third player in the history of the Ivy League to be named first-team All-Ivy four times (2009; Unanimous selection in 2010, 2011, 2013). Additionally, Pannell was a three-time Ivy League All-Tournament Team selection, earning the Ivy Tournament Most Outstanding Player award in 2011. The 2011 Ithaca Journal Male Athlete of the Year, he was also Cornell's first-ever ESPY award nominee (Best Collegiate Athlete) that same season. Pannell also shared the Charles H. Moore Outstanding Senior Varsity Athlete Award in 2013.  The all-time NCAA Division I career points leader (354), Pannell proved to be one of the most consistent players in the country, having registered at least one point in all 72 games of his career. He finished his career ranked first all-time in Cornell history with 204 career assists, a mark that ranked second all-time in Ivy League history and third all-time in NCAA history. Likewise, his 150 career goals were good for second in Big Red and fourth in Ivy League history. He capped his senior season by ranking third in the nation in points per game (5.67), third overall in assists per game (3.06), and 14th overall in goals per game (2.61). Pannell finished the 2013 campaign with 102 points, just three off the school record set by Mike French in 1976. Pannell's 102 points this season were the most ever for a Tewaaraton Award winner. Pannell finished his career ranked in the top 10 of Cornell's single season rankings as well. He graduated holding the fourth (55 in 2013), fifth (51 in 2010), seventh (47 in 2011) and 10th (42 in 2009) spots on the single-season assist list, as well as the second (102 in 2013), eighth (89 in 2011) and 10th (80 in 2010) spots in the single-season points list. Pannell's career-high 47 goals in 2013 was good for 10th overall in the Cornell single-season list.

Lauriane Rougeau '13, Women's Ice Hockey
Rougeau was a four-time second-team All-American who helped anchor a defense that led the Big Red to four consecutive Ivy League and ECAC Hockey regular season titles, three ECAC Hockey tournament crowns, four NCAA tournament appearances and three Frozen Fours. Rougeau served as the team's captain her senior year. She was named ECAC Hockey's Best Defensive Defenseman in each of her final three seasons after being named Ivy League Rookie of the Year in 2010. Rougeau was a four-time first-team All-ECAC pick and a three-time first-team All-Ivy selection as well as a four-time Kazmaier Award nominee. After graduation, she joined Team Canada and won Olympic Gold at the 2014 games in Sochi and silver in 2018 in PyeongChang and was part of five medal-winning teams at the World Championships, including gold in 2012.

Ben Scrivens '10, Men's Ice Hockey
Scrivens was named a first team All-American following a 2009-10 season in which he backstopped the men's hockey team to an ECAC Hockey championship. He led the country with a .934 save percentage and his 1.84 goals-against average was mere thousandths of a point behind the national leader en route to earning a spot as a Hobey Baker top 10 finalist. As of the conclusion of his career, he ranked fourth in the program's career list with a 1.93 goals-against average and held school records for consecutive starts, career games played and career shutouts. He was a unanimous selection as the All-Ivy League first team goaltender in 2010 after earning honorable mention the previous two seasons and led the Big Red to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances. He was also presented the Ken Dryden Award in 2010, which is given to the top goalie in ECAC Hockey. In addition to being an All-ECAC Hockey first team selection in 2010, he earned a spot on the second team in 2009. Undrafted when he arrived at Cornell, Scrivens played eight years of professional hockey, including for Toronto, Los Angeles, Edmonton and Montreal in the NHL. He was a member of the Canadian national team that played in the 2014 IIHF World Championships and won bronze at the 2018 Olympic Games in Pyeongchang, South Korea. 

Cam Simaz '12, Wrestling
Simaz, a two-time Ivy League Wrestler of the Year, won an NCAA title as a senior at 197 pounds. He ranks second in the school's career record book with a 145-21 record and first with 100 bonus victories. Simaz was 31-1 for the season with his only loss coming from a medical forfeit. The four-time All-American went 5-0 at the NCAA tournament to top off his stellar career with an NCAA title. At the EIWA tournament, Simaz became just the 11th wrestler in conference history to win four titles. That earned him the Fletcher Award, given to the wrestler that has scored the most points for his team at the tournament in his career. With two wins by fall and a major decision, Simaz was named the tournament's Most Outstanding Wrestler. Simaz finished his Ancient Eight career a perfect 20-0 and was named first-team All-Ivy for the fourth time. During his career, the Big Red won four Ivy League and EIWA team titles and finished in the top six at the NCAAs each year, including national runner-up finishes in 2010 and 2011.

JC Tretter '13, Football
Tretter was a second-team Associated Press All-American at the Football Championship Subdivision as a senior at left tackle. He was responsible for protecting record-breaking quarterback Jeff Mathews' blind side and allowed the Big Red to set new Cornell and Ivy passing records in his two seasons there. A preseason honorable mention FCS All-American by Beyond Sports College Network, he was part of a line that allowed the passing game to pile up 3,748 yards, a mark that ranked third in the FCS in 2012. He started each of his final 20 games at left tackle and is the first offensive lineman to earn first-team All-Ivy honors since Kevin Boothe in 2005. Tretter lettered his first two seasons as a tight end, even catching a touchdown pass as a sophomore at Columbia. He was taken with the 25th pick of the fourth round (122nd overall) by the Green Bay Packers in the 2013 NFL Draft and also played for the Cleveland Browns. He was named President of the NFL Players Association during the spring of 2020.

Chris Wroblewski '12, Men's Basketball
Wroblewski, a three-time All-Ivy selection and two-time third-team Capital One Academic All-American, graduated as the school's all-time career leader in assists (482) and a 1,000-point scorer (1,202 points - 13th all-time). A two-year captain, Wroblewski was a three-year starter who played on a pair of Ivy League championship teams, including the 2009-10 squad that advanced to the Sweet 16. He ended his career ranked fourth in career 3-point field goals made (189), fifth in 3-point percentage (.414), ninth in free-throw percentage (.823), ninth in steals (139) and 10th in free throws made (279). His 119 games played ranked second all-time among Cornellians, and his 3,594 minutes played sits third. As a senior, Wroblewski led the team in scoring (11.5 ppg.) and was third in the Ivy League in assists (5.3 apg.) and second in steals (1.6 spg.) in earning first-team all-league accolades. He twice was named Ivy League Player of the Week during his career and became just the second player in Cornell history to surpass 1,000 points, 400 assists, 300 rebounds and 100 steals, joining All-American and Ivy Player of the Year Louis Dale, his former backcourt mate.