MSU to induct 4 athletes, 2 teams in Hall of Fame

By The Montana Standard News Services - 09/26/2008

BOZEMAN — Miles City native Kathleen (Monaghan) Jorgenson and the late Mike McCormick, a Culbertson native, will be among four individuals and two championship teams will be inducted to Montana State's Athletic Hall of Fame on Friday.

Joining them will be All-America tight end Joe Bignell, all-Big Sky men's basketball forward Doug Hashley, the 1964 Camellia Bowl Championship football team and the 1994-'95 Big Sky women's cross country championship teams.

Jorgenson earned all-Big Sky and all-league academic honors 11 times during her cross country and indoor and outdoor track career. She ran on the 1986 Big Sky title squad, and is the only Bobcat harrier in history to earn all-conference honors four times.

McCormick was a standout in both basketball and football for the Bobcats. In basketball, he averaged 5.4 points in 19 games as a freshman, and 5.0 points in 32 games as a sophomore.

Originally from Deer Lodge, Bignell's 1984 season remains the most prolific in school history. He caught a school-record 88 passes that year for 1,149 yards, also a school record, in helping lead the Bobcats to the Division I-AA national championship.

Hashley, a Big Sandy native, remains second on the Bobcats' all-time rebounding chart. He led MSU in rebounding three times on his way to earning first team all-league honors as a junior in 1980-81 and second team honors as a sophomore and senior.

The only team in school history to win an end-of-the-season bowl game, the 1964 Bobcats lost two of their first four games, before winning five of their final seven. The Bobcats beat Montana 30-6 and clinched the school's first Big Sky title with a 24-0 win at Weber State.

Dale Kennedy's 1994 and ‘95 women's cross country teams won back-to-back Big Sky Conference championships, the second set of MSU squads in a decade to do so.