CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa - The Coe College Athletics Hall of Fame will add six new members to its fraternity this October at Homecoming 2019.
The 2019 class includes: Tiffany Foster Resig '03 (cross country, track and field), Amy Ernst Muessel '05 (softball, basketball), Tanner Pump '00 (track and field), Dougie Peters '81 (equipment manager), Brian Lenz '96 (football, baseball, track and field), and Nick Barnes '04 (tennis).
Resig was the first Kohawk, male or female, to qualify for the NCAA national championships in cross country in 2002. She was a two-time All-Iowa Conference selection which included a runner-up performance in 2002. A two-time Academic All-American, Resig is the current Coe record holder for fastest time at an NCAA Regional meet. In track and field, she was a three-year letter winner and set four school records, which have since been broken. Resig is now the co-founder of Resign Wine in Austin, Texas.
Muessel is one of five First Team All-American honorees in Coe softball history. In her great 2005 season where she also received First Team Academic All-American accolades, Muessel led the Kohawks to an Iowa Conference crown with a minuscule earned run average of 0.69 and an opposition batting average of .139. She recorded 24 wins and four saves in the circle to earn Iowa Conference MVP honors. She ranks in the top six in Coe history in career wins (65), strikeouts (505), earned run average (1.19), saves (8), and shutouts (26). She also was a letter winner on the women's basketball team her sophomore season. Muessel is now the vice president of accounting at ACI Worldwide in Omaha, Nebraska.
Pump was a four-year letter winner for the Coe indoor/outdoor track and field teams where he earned multiple All-Conference and All-American honors. Pump won an indoor conference championship in the 400-meter dash in 1998 and was a member of the winning 4x400-meter relay. team. His relay team earned All-American honors with a third-place finish at the NCAA Championships in 1998 and with a second-place finish in 1999. The 4x400-meter relay school record of 3:18.83 set in 1999 still stands. His team's outdoor school record of 3:10.45 set in 1999 also still stands. Pump was a six-time All-American as a member of the 4x400-meter relay team (4 outdoor, 2 indoor) and earned multiple All-Iowa Conference selections in individual and relay events. Pump is now the senior vice president at Bank of America in Dallas, Texas.
Peters has been a beloved member of the Coe community and athletic department ever since he first stepped on the campus as a student in the fall of 1977. Two months after his graduation in 1981, Peters was named equipment manager, a position he has held for 38 years and counting. In May of 2019, a mosaic was placed in his honor inside Kohawk Arena that characterizes his iconic "Have A Nice Day" phrase. He is well known for knowing a student-athlete's jersey number and size years after they graduate and for his famous Dougie "Send-offs" for when teams travel to their game/event destinations.
Lenz was a three-sport standout earning accolades in football, baseball, and track and field. He was a defensive force on two Midwest Conference championship teams (1993-94) and was a two-time Midwest Conference Defensive MVP (1994-95). On the baseball diamond, Lenz compiled a .344 batting average over three seasons earning All-Conference and All-Division honors. Lenz batted .400 in 1996 while leading the team in runs batted in. Moving to track and field in 1995, Lenz earned All-Conference honors with a runner-up position in the javelin. Lenz now owns Lenz Truck Center and resides in Minocqua, Wisconsin.
Barnes has his name all over the Coe tennis record books. He is first in program history in career wins (both singles and doubles) with 200 and first in career doubles wins for a pair with 66. He is second in career singles wins (106) and in single-season singles wins (29). Barnes was a three-time NCAA Tournament participant (2002-04) in both singles and doubles competition earning All-American honors in singles all three times and an All-American nod in doubles in 2003. The three-time Iowa Conference MVP was the 2004 Central ITA/Arthur Ashe Award winner for Leadership and Sportsmanship. Barnes received his PhD in Political Science from UW-Madison in 2017 and is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs in Providence, Rhode Island.
The six inductees will be honored at the 47th Coe Athletic Hall of Fame Banquet October 25 and they will be honored at Coe's Homecoming game against Simpson October 26.
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