Inductee Class of 2024
Shel Chapman
Chapman, like Wettuhn-Beaudo, was one of the peninsula’s all-time best female cagers. She led Marquette to the Class A state championship in 1976 – the only U.P. large school title champion – and then played at Stanford University. She is Marquette’s all-time leading scorer with 1,341 points and averaged a school-record 31.2 points in 1976 playing for UPSHF inductee coach Barb Crill. She was a two-time all-state selection and was a unanimous all-U.P. pick. She helped the Redettes to three straight unbeaten seasons and at least 75 straight regular season wins.
After one season at Stanford, she transferred to the University of Pittsburgh at Kansas to play for Crill, then moved to Michigan State University, where a knee injury ended her career in 1981. One of her teammates, Cynie Cory, said Chapman was a “pioneer in basketball. Just as there will never be another Larry Bird, there will never be another Shel Chapman.” Chapman also held the school record in the discus throw.
Harold “Buddy” Duggan
Duggan was a boxer and boxing coach, trainer, manager, and promoter, staging numerous shows in Sault Ste. Marie and lower Michigan. He trained an estimated 300-plus youngsters. After moving to Florida, he formed a bowling league for blind keglers.
Dave “Whitey” Horka
Horka was one of the peninsula’s premier men’s fastpitch softball hurlers, pitching teams to numerous tourney and U.P. titles. In 1990 Horka was named Sault’s Sportsperson of the Year for his years of coaching youth baseball and hockey.
Doug Ingalls
Ingalls was an all-state basketball player at Gladstone High School, helping the Braves to a pair of regional championships. He then played four years at Northern Michigan University. He had two boys basketball coaching tenures at St. Ignace and also joined his wife as a girls’ co-coach. Ingalls has a 355-174 record with the Saints’ boys, while the St. Ignace girls are 499-94 with five state championships. The girls also finished second in the state playoffs four times.
He scored 1,325 points and had 547 assists at Gladstone, where the Braves were 24-1 in 1985-86 and he was U.P. player of the year and a two-time “dream team” selection. He was a two-time captain at NMU, where he has the only triple-double in school annals. He has a record 633 career assists and a single-game record of 16.
Mark Marana
Marana was an all-state quarterback at Ishpeming High School, highlighted by the Hematites winning the Class C state title in 1975 – the first year of the state playoffs – as they snapped Hudson’s national-record 72-game winning streak.
He spent nine seasons as an assistant football coach at NMU and then was head football coach at NMU. He was also the offensive coordinator at Negaunee High School for 14 seasons and helped the Miners win the 2002 Division 6 State Championship.
Karen Olson-Flanagan
Olson-Flanagan skated on Broadway and received numerous invitations to perform at U.P. winter carnivals in the 1950s, and in 1960 was the featured skater on NBC-TV’s Music On Ice in New York. She was also the featured skater around the country and throughout the world, and in 1964, she signed a typical show-business six-week contract that turned into a 15-year deal.
Terry Smith
Smith, who earned 10 letters in four sports at Crystal Falls Forest Park High School, spent 25 years coaching basketball at the college level. He has 38 years of coaching, with championships at 10 locations. He has also worked as a consultant for some of the top women’s college basketball teams, including former NCAA champion University of South Carolina, and is also working with several WNBA teams.
Candy Swetkis
Swetkis, who died in 2022, was an illustrious figure in women’s softball circles. She was a fastpitch softball pitcher for 36 years and helped win two state titles, had a .705 winning percentage as a pitcher while batting .360. When the women’s fastpitch league ended in 2000, she turned to slowpitch softball and had a .881 winning percentage (274-17) and a state title over 21 seasons. She also served as an MHSAA umpire, coached youth and adult teams, and spent 10 years as an ASA area commissioner.
Jill Wettuhn Beaudo
Wettuhn-Beaudo compiled a tremendous record in high school, where she was one of the Upper Peninsula’s most accomplished cagers. She led the Wolves to a stunning 81-1 record in her three seasons, highlighted by a state-record 78-game winning streak and state titles in her final two seasons. The Wolves, who finished second in the state tourney when she was a sophomore, were 55-0 in her final two seasons. She was a three-time All-U.P. selection and was U.P. Class D player of the year as a C-N senior when she averaged 22.1 points. She scored 1,577 points at Carney-Nadeau, and then collected 1,248 points in four seasons at Lake Superior State University. The Lakers were 41-14 in her final two seasons, and she was LSSU’s outstanding athlete as a senior. She also coached for three years for the Stephenson girls and spent 17 years coaching with the C-N junior high boys.
Fritz Wilson
Wilson, a 1954 graduate of Marquette John D. Pierce High School, was boys basketball coach at Menominee (1959-62) and Houghton (1962-76) high schools, guiding Houghton to a Class C state runner-up finish in the state tourney. He was MVP of Northern Michigan University’s NAIA basketball playoff team in 1957 and is in NMU’s Sports Hall of Fame.
He also officiated high school and college football, basketball, and volleyball games for 30-plus years.