Jim Karabetsos - Class of 2018

(Marquette)

After earning 11 varsity letters in four sports at Marquette Graveraet High School, Jim Karabetsos earned a basketball scholarship to Northern Michigan University and was a four-year letterman. He helped NMU finish third in the NAIA tournament with an overall school-best 24-3 record in 1960-61. He was the team's captain in 1961-62. He then became head basketball coach at Ashland, Wis. High School, then was an assistant at Mankato (Minn.) State and Kansas University. After one season as an assistant at Denver University, he spent two seasons as Denver's head coach and was head coach at Regis College in Denver from 1973-77. He was also assistant athletic director at University of North Dakota from 1982-86 and his final 13 years were spent as professor of sport management at Western Illinois University.