Five individuals and one team make up the Lawrence University Intercollegiate Athletic Hall of Fame class of 2020.

Alex Goodson Ruikis '10, Joe Loehnis '06, Sue Schneider Harrison '78, Hayley Vatch Breden '09, Andrew Wong '06 and the 1967-68 swimming and diving team will be inducted at a date to be determined. The Hall of Fame induction is traditionally held in the fall but will be pushed back in 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Alex Goodson Ruikis '10
Alex Goodson provided the power in the middle of the lineup for Lawrence softball in the first decade of the 2000s.

A native of Plainfield, Illinois, Goodson was a cornerstone at first base during her career. A career .408 hitter, Goodson was a four-time first-team All-Midwest Conference selection and a three-time All-Great Lakes Region pick. Goodson was selected for the all-conference team in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and made the all-region second team in 2007 and 2010 and the third team in 2009.

Goodson posted a school-record .735 career slugging percentage to go with her .470 on-base percentage. She piled up 145 hits, and that included a school-record 41 doubles, six triples and a school-record 21 home runs. Goodson finished with a school-record 122 runs batted in for her career. When she graduated, Goodson ranked third in career batting average, second with 261 career total bases, fourth in career hits and sixth with 92 career runs scored.
 
Goodson had her best season at the plate in 2010 when she hit a career-best .456. She also matched her career high of seven home runs in 2010 (she also hit seven homers in 2007).

Goodson, who continues to rank in the top five in nearly 20 statistical categories in the school records, set the season record with 43 RBIs in 2007 and posted a school-record 13 doubles in 2009. She matched the game record with five hits vs. D'Youville College in 2009 and set the school record with two homers in a game three times as she accomplished the feat against Monmouth College, Illinois College and Grinnell College.
 
A National Fastpitch Coaches Association Scholar-Athlete, Goodson earned a degree in psychology from Lawrence and also achieved her certification in sign language interpreting. Goodson has worked as an educational interpreter and is currently a stay-at-home mom. Goodson and her husband, Victor Ruikis, have a daughter, Avery, and live in Omaha, Nebraska.

Joe Loehnis '06
Joe Loehnis is only golfer in Lawrence history to grab the title of All-American.

An Appleton native, Loehnis was a Golf Coaches Association of America All-American in 2006 to cap a stellar career. A Midwest Conference champion and a three-time all-conference honoree, Loehnis holds the best scoring average in Lawrence history.

Led by his superlative game around and on the greens, Loehnis set the Lawrence career scoring record of 76.69. He also set the school's season scoring record of 74.52 in 2005-06. Loehnis broke the school record for low round with a 68 at LeSueur Country Club in Minnesota in 2004, and then bettered his own mark with a 67 at Waverly Country Club in Iowa in 2006.

Loehnis posted five tournament victories during his career to go along with a slew of second-place finishes.

Loehnis won the Midwest Conference Championships in 2003 when he posted two consecutive rounds of 74 at Aldeen Golf Club in Rockford, Illinois, to tie Knox College's Mack Foster. Loehnis then birdied the first two playoff holes to win the title. Loehnis, who also won the Beloit College Classic earlier that spring, earned all-conference honors with a fifth-place finish at the league championships in 2005 and a second-place finish in 2006. Loehnis collected three wins during the spring of 2006 when he won titles at Beloit, the Ripon College Open and the MSOE Invitational.
 
Loehnis earned his degree at Lawrence in cello performance with an environmental science minor. Loehnis, who has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin, is the chief executive officer for the Wisconsin Chamber Orchestra. Loehnis and wife, Evan, have two children, Levi and Sunny, and live in Madison, Wisconsin.

Sue Schneider Harrison '78
Sue Schneider was the first great distance runner in Lawrence women's track and field history.
 
A native of Glendale, Wisconsin, Schneider was already attending Lawrence and playing on the tennis team when the women's track program began in 1976. Schneider also was a part of the first Lawrence women's cross country team, which had just two runners when it started in the fall of 1976.
 
Schneider easily moved from two seasons of tennis to the track in 1977 after studying in London in the winter and spring of 1976. She would go to to win three Wisconsin Independent Colleges-Women's Athletic Conference titles. Prior to the Midwest Conference sponsoring women's sports, Lawrence was part of the WIC-WAC, and Schneider claimed her first league title when she won the mile at the 1977 WIC-WAC Championships in 5:40.4.
 
Schneider, who was the team MVP in both 1977 and 1978, won a pair of titles at the 1978 WIC-WAC Championships at Whiting Field. Schneider finished in a dead heat for the title in the mile in 5:30.5, and she raced to first in the two mile in 13:36.2. Led by Schneider's two individual titles, Lawrence captured the team championship. Schneider also collected the title in the mile at the first Wisconsin Private College meet in 1978.
 
Schneider, who regularly raced in everything from the 880-yard run to the two mile, was dominant during her senior season as she set the school's indoor record in the mile at 5:22.11 and outdoors in the mile in 5:30.5. She also set the Lawrence outdoor record in the two mile at 13:02.2.   

Running continued to be a part of her life after she graduated from Lawrence. Schneider worked in Australia for a year in the early 1980s and finished third in the 1,500 meters and fourth in the 3,000 at the Australian Open Track and Field Championships. After returning to the United States, Schneider ran professionally for New Balance from 1983-90 and competed in road races around the world. Schneider competed in the 1984 and 1988 United States Olympic Trials in the marathon with her best finish a 22nd in 2:37.58 in 1984. Back home in Wisconsin, she won the prestigious Al's Run in Milwaukee four times.
 
Schneider had a chemistry/biology interdisciplinary major at Lawrence and went on to receive her master's degree from the Institute of Paper Chemistry in 1980. Schneider, who coached prep cross country for many years, has been a coach at Mound Westonka High School for 15-plus years. She currently is the head Nordic ski coach and coaches the distance runners on the track team.
 
Schneider and her husband, Ralph Harrison '78, live in Minnestrista, Minnesota, with their dog and cat. The couple has three adult children, Matthew, Julia and Scott.

Hayley Vatch '09
Hayley Vatch is one of the finest distance swimmers in Lawrence and Midwest Conference history.
 
A native of Elmhurst, Illinois, she was a seven-time conference champion and the 2009 Midwest Conference Swimmer of the Year. She led Lawrence to three consecutive second-place finishes at the Midwest Conference Championships in her final three seasons of competition.
 
In her senior season of 2008-09, Vatch won three titles at the MWC Championships and set eight records. She won the 500-yard freestyle in 5:08.28 and set Lawrence, meet and pool records as she broke the old conference record by more than four seconds. Vatch also won the 200 freestyle in 1:57.03, and that broke a 23-year-old conference record and the Lawrence record. She finished the MWC Championships that season by winning the 1,650 freestyle in 17:45.10, breaking the Lawrence, meet and pool records.
 
Vatch, who earned MWC Swimmer of the Week honors four times during her career, also set the Lawrence record in the 1,000 freestyle with a time of 10:52.67.
 
Vatch was the dominant distance swimmer at the MWC Championships in both 2007 and 2008 as she won both the 500 freestyle and 1,650 freestyle in both seasons. In 2007, she nipped teammate Julia Ziege by .21 seconds to win the 500 freestyle and then posted a 28-second victory in the 1,650 freestyle. In 2008, Vatch won the 500 freestyle by a more comfortable four seconds before a dominating 48-second victory in the 1,650 freestyle.
 
Vatch also collected five titles at the prestigious Wisconsin Private College Championships. She won the 1,650 freestyle three consecutive years (2006, 2007, 2008) and took the 500 freestyle in 2008 and 2009. In 2008, she set the Private College Championships record in the 500 freestyle with a time of 5:18.73.

Vatch earned a bachelor's degree in history at Lawrence and has a master's degree in education policy from the University of Colorado Boulder. She teaches social studies at Denver South High School in Denver, Colorado, and also teaches an undergraduate course in the School of Education at Colorado Boulder. Vatch also serves on the advisory board for Teaching Tolerance, a national anti-bias educational resource non-profit. She lives in the foothills of the Rocky Mountains west of Golden, Colorado, with her dog, Radar.

Andrew Wong '06
Andrew Wong put together three spectacular seasons at the plate and was just as impressive in the classroom during his time at Lawrence.
 
Wong, a native of Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, hit .385 over his final three seasons and finished with a stellar .345 career batting average. Wong was a a first-team All-Midwest Conference selection in 2004, 2005 and 2006 and earned American Baseball Coaches Association All-Midwest Region honors twice. Wong was a second-team all-region pick in 2005 and a third-team selection in 2006. The Vikings narrowly missed a berth in the Midwest Conference Tournament in each of those four seasons under the guidance of head coach Korey Krueger as Lawrence collected 51 wins over Wong's career.
 
A third baseman, shortstop and pitcher during his career, Wong ranks sixth with a .550 career slugging percentage, including a .634 mark over the final three seasons. He set Lawrence career records with 154 hits, 35 doubles and 100 runs batted in. He finished second on the career list with nine triples, second with 91 runs scored and third with 13 home runs.
 
Wong hit a career-high .400 in 2005 on his way to collecting a school season record 52 hits and a season record 14 doubles. He set the Lawrence season records with 36 RBIs and 30 runs scored in 2006. Wong tied the game record of five hits against Beloit College in 2005 and drove in a school record nine runs vs. Kalamazoo College in 2006 with a help of a pair of homers.
 
Wong pitched just 26 innings in his career and picked up his first career victory as a rookie in 2003 when he beat St. Norbert College. Wong also delivered a walk-off single to drive in the game-winning run against the Green Knights in the same game. Wong, who struck out 25 in those 26 innings, also collected four career saves, two in 2003 and two in 2005.

Wong earned a degree in economics at Lawrence and was a two-time College Sports Information Directors of America Academic All-American. Wong also earned Academic All-District honors as a junior and senior.

After graduating from Lawrence in 2006, Wong went on to play five years in independent minor leagues across the United States from 2006-10. He also used his passion for the game to play and coach internationally in South Africa, Australia, Spain and Switzerland. Wong earned his Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College and is a management consultant at McKinsey & Company in Chicago, Illinois.  He also served a term on Lawrence's Board of Trustees and is a current member of the Lawrence Viking Athletic Advisory Council.

1967-68 Swimming Team
Lawrence's 1967-68 swim team broke new ground for the program as it became the first undefeated squad in the sport's history at the college. Guided by head coach Gene Davis, the Vikings put together a 10-0 regular season record on their way to winning the Midwest Conference Championships.
 
Lawrence then sent six swimmers to the NCAA College Division Championships in Atlanta, Georgia, and finished in the top third of the 70 teams competing. The Vikings' finish was both respectable and remarkable as Lawrence was competing mostly against much larger schools with more swimmers at the championships.
 
Team captain Pete House earned All-America honors in both the 50- and 100-yard freestyle as he finished fourth in both events with times of 22.0 and 48.49 seconds, respectively. House was just .21 seconds off the winning time in the 50 freestyle and .24 seconds behind the winner in the 100 freestyle Those were the only two races in which House did not finish first in his Lawrence career.
 
The 800 freestyle team of House, Tocher Mitchell, Rick Cogswell and John Fease finished 14th in 800 freestyle relay, and the same group took 27th in the 400 freestyle relay at 3:24.5, breaking the Lawrence and Midwest Conference records in the process. The team of House, Fease, Ken Melnick and Steven Steenrod swam the 400 medley relay and broke Lawrence and Midwest Conference records with a time of 3:51.3.
 
Lawrence started its dual meet season with a 75-28 win over the University of Chicago and then topped St. Olaf College 64-21 and Carleton College 57-38. The Vikings then rocked Ripon College 69-20 before downing North Park College 58-46. Lawrence topped Beloit College 54-40 before a 61-34 victory over UW-Oshkosh and a narrow 53-51 win at UW-Stevens Point. The Vikings finished the perfect regular season with a 68-25 win over Cornell College and a 70-25 drubbing of Grinnell College at Alexander Gymnasium.
 
The Vikings traveled to St. Olaf for the Midwest Conference Championships and House posted victories in both the 50 and 100 freestyle, Fease won the 500 freestyle and the 400 medley relay team of House, Melnick, Steenrod and Carl Liebich raced to victory. Lawrence won the title with 67.5 points, and Monmouth College was second with 58.5. It marked Lawrence's second conference title in five seasons.
 
Team members were seniors Hugh Denison, Pete House, Ken Melnick and John Sanders, juniors Steve Graham, Carl Liebich, Tocher Mitchell, Richard Stockwell, Vern Wilmot and Brian Berbach (manager) and sophomores William Becker, Rick Cogswell, John Fease, Steven Steenrod and Jon Tittle.