NEW WILMINGTON, Pa.--The Westminster College Department of Athletics enshrined five new members in its 2024 induction class during the Titan Sports Hall of Fame Dinner and Celebratory Ceremony Friday night in the McKelvey Campus Center's Witherspoon Room.
Members of the Class of 2024 include former Titan greats Kathy Travers Fehrs '85 (softball, tennis) of New Castle, Pa., Amy Dolsak '10 (basketball) of McDonald, Ohio, Ben Gutmann '10 (swimming & diving) of Alum Bank, Pa., Jenny Krueger '12 (cross country, track & field) of New Castle, Pa. and Matt Baurle '16 (swimming & diving) of Jeannette, Pa.
The members of the Class of 2024 will be permanently recognized within the Titan Sports Hall of Fame installation in the Grover Washabaugh Lobby and Darwin Huey Heritage Center, located in Memorial Field House. This year's class will also be introduced at halftime during the football game at 1 p.m. Saturday against Waynesburg University.
Kathy Travers Fehrs
Class of 1985
Hometown: New Castle, Pennsylvania
High School: Wilmington High School
Major: Mathematics
Sports: Softball, Tennis
A four-year letter winner at third base, Travers Fehrs was a part of three district championship teams, one regional title team and a national tournament qualifier. She was a member of Westminster's 1983 championship team, which recently celebrated the 40th anniversary of the program's first-ever trip to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) national tournament. The 1983 team, which went 17-6 overall and 6-1 in conference play, captured NAIA District 18 and Women's Keystone Conference (WKC) titles. Back-to-back home wins over Davis & Elkins College in the Western Pennsylvania-West Virginia District 18-District 28 Bi-District Championship secured Westminster's spot in the national tournament. The team traveled to Kearney, Neb. for the NAIA National Championship, which was hosted by the University of Nebraska at Kearney and played at Harvey Park. Travers Fehrs hit .405 and set then-program records in home runs (3), triples (4), RBIs (21) and sacrifice hits (7) as a senior when she was named First Team All-District 18 and First Team All-WKC. Travers Fehrs helped Westminster claim back to-back District 18 women's tennis titles as a junior and senior. She partnered with Becky Gladden '85 to finish 6-2 at No. 3 doubles, securing Second Team All-WKC, and went 7-2 at No. 6 singles, also earning Second Team All-WKC. Travers Fehrs was inducted as a member of the Lawrence County Historical Society Sports Hall of Fame Class of 1994.
Amy Dolsak
Class of 2010
Hometown: McDonald, Ohio
High School: McDonald High School
Major: Elementary Education
Sport: Basketball
Dolsak, a two-time All-PAC selection and team captain during the 2009 and 2010 seasons, finished her career with 944 points, currently the 11th-most in program history, and 143 made three-pointers, the fifth most among the program's all-time leaders. She was part of three teams that advanced to the title game of the PAC Championship Tournament. As a senior in 2010, Dolsak was named Second Team All-PAC. Westminster, the No. 4 seed in the 2009-10 PAC Championship Tournament, moved on to the title game with a four-point first round win over No. 5 Waynesburg University (55-51) and a three-point upset victory over second-seeded Washington & Jefferson College (64-61). Dolsak finished with 12 points against the Yellow Jackets and bucketed a game-high 18 points on 6-of-8 shooting against the Presidents, which entered the game ranked No. 17 in Division III. She scored 17 points in the championship game loss to top-seeded and 16th-ranked Thomas More College. Dolsak finished the year second in the league in scoring, averaging 15.2 points per game, and drilled a conference-high 60 three-pointers, which currently rank as the second-most in a single season in program history. Dolsak, a PAC Academic Honor Roll designee in 2009 and 2010, joins her sister, Emily '12, as a member of the Titan Sports Hall of Fame.
Ben Gutmann
Class of 2010
Hometown: Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania
High School: Seneca Valley High School
Major: History
Sport: Swimming & Diving
Gutmann, the 2010 PAC Swimmer of the Year, earned All-American honors in the 200 breaststroke at the 2010 NCAA Division III Championships, which were held at the Jean K. Freeman Aquatic Center in Minneapolis, after posting a sixth-place finish with a personal-best time of 2 minutes, 02.31 seconds. He was also named an Honorable Mention All-American in the 100 breaststroke in 2010 with a personal-best time of 56.86. A First Team All-PAC selection in 2009 and 2010, Gutmann captured both breaststroke titles in 2010 after winning the 100 breaststroke in 2009. His winning 200 breaststroke time of 2:03.47 was an NCAA A-cut qualifying time along with a school, conference and pool record. As a freshman in 2007, Gutmann scored a fourth-place finish in the 200 breaststroke to help Westminster win its fifth-straight PAC title. In 2008, he was the runner-up in the 100 breaststroke and finished third in both the 200 breaststroke and 400 individual medley. In 2009, Gutmann added a runner-up finish in the 200 breaststroke and a third-place finish in the 400 individual medley. During the 2010 championships he swam breaststroke on the second-place 400 medley relay and finished third in the 400 individual medley.
Jennifer Krueger
Class of 2012
Hometown: Conneaut Lake, Pa.
High School: Conneaut Lake High School
Major: Biology
Sports: Cross Country, Track & Field
Krueger established four program records during her time as a Westminster standout. Three of those records remain today. A three-time First Team All-PAC cross country performer, Krueger finished sixth in 2010 and 2011 after posting a seventh-place finish in 2009. She was a top-100 individual finisher at three-straight NCAA Division III Mideast Regional Championships, registering a career-best 72nd-place finish in 2011 at DeSales University. She set the program's five-kilometer record in 2011 with a time of 19 minutes, 02 seconds and runner-up finish at the Penn State Behrend Invitational, breaking Amy Kepple's '90 23-year-old school-record time of 19:48. Krueger was honored as a member of the PAC's 60th anniversary team in 2014. In 2012 she established program records in both the 3000-meter steeplechase and the 10,000-meter run. She finished fourth in the steeplechase at the Westminster Invitational, posting a time of 11:46.99. Krueger was fourth in the 10,000 at the PAC Championships, hosted by Geneva College, with a time of 39:37.01, and added a fourth-place finish in the 5,000-meter run (19:04.20) and fifth-place finish in the steeplechase (11:54.52). She also scored PAC Championship runner-up finishes in the steeplechase in 2010 and in the 10,000 in 2011. Westminster's women's outdoor track and field program won conference titles in 2009, 2010 and 2012.
Matt Baurle
Class of 2016
Hometown: Jeannette, Pennsylvania
High School: Penn-Trafford High School
Major: Media Art
Sport: Swimming & Diving
A four-time First Team All-PAC selection that was voted the PAC's Swimmer of the Year in 2016, Baurle claimed All-American honors at the 2013 NCAA Division III Championships, which were held at Conroe Natatorium in Shenandoah, Texas, after registering an eighth-place finish in the 100 breaststroke with a time of 55.93 seconds. He was also named an Honorable Mention All-American at the 2016 Division III Championships, held at the Greensboro Aquatic Center in Greensboro, N.C., after finishing 15th in the 200 breaststroke with a time of 2:02.92. Baurle owns the most individual conference titles of any male swimmer in program history (8), winning the 100 breaststroke and 200 breaststroke at four-straight PAC Championships. He was also a four-time conference champion while swimming breaststroke on the 200 medley relay and three-time champion while swimming breaststroke on the 400 medley relay. His preliminary times of 55.61 in the 100 breaststroke and 2:01.57 in the 200 breaststroke at the 2016 PAC Championships remain conference meet records. In total, Baurle recorded 15 PAC titles and played a key part during Westminster's run to three-straight PAC Championships in 2013, 2014 and 2015. He holds individual school records in the 100 breaststroke (55.61) and 200 breaststroke (2:01.57) and swam breaststroke on the school-record 200 medley (1:32.30) and 400 medley (3:22.54) relays.