C-SC to induct four student-athletes, one team into Hall of Fame during banquet Saturday

CANTON, Mo. — Four individual student-athletes and one team comprise the latest class of inductees into the Culver-Stockton College Hall of Fame and will be enshrined during ceremonies planned for Saturday.

The inductees include football standout Steve Altmix, volleyball standout Laure (Crone) Klipsch, soccer standout Luke Schneider, baseball standout Greg Modica and the 1984 softball team.

The Hall of Fame banquet is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Saturday at Meaders Lounge in the Gladys Crown Student Center on the C-SC campus. Tickets cost $35 and are available in advance through the Alumni Relations Office or at the door.

Altmix, a 1982 graduate and native of Quincy, was a four-year letter winner and starter for the C-SC football team at cornerback from 1977-80. Altmix still holds the football program’s record for career interceptions with 17. Altmix registered seven of his 17 takeaways during the 1980 season when he was named to the All-Heart of America Athletic Conference second team. That was C-SC’s first year as a member of the league.

For his career, Altmix registered 247 total tackles, including 169 solo stops, and had 19 career pass breakups.

Klipsch, a 2000 graduate, was a four-year letter winner in volleyball who helped the Wildcats win four consecutive Heart of America Athletic Conference championships. A full rotation player, Klipsch ended her career second on the school’s all-time list for both kills and digs, recording 1,389 kills and 2,200 digs. In addition, Klipsch is the school’s all-time leader in sets played with 580, and she is ninth all-time with 3.79 digs per set.

Klipsch registered 792 digs during the 1999 season, which is second-most all-time for a single season. She also has the fourth-highest single-season kill total (562), third-highest kill attempts (1,477) and most sets played in a season (167). In her career, Klipsch recorded 164 service aces while garnering an attack percentage of 21 percent in her career.

Klipsch was named to the All-Heart team two times in her career, earning first-team honors in 1999 after garnering second team honors her junior season.

Schneider, a 2000 graduate, joins his brother, Jacob, as a member of the Wildcat Hall of Fame. He was named the Heart of America Athletic Conference Offensive Player of the Year in 1998 when he tied a single-season school record with 14 goals while adding five assists for a school-record 33 total points. In his career, Schneider scored 29 career goals, which is third on the school’s all-time list, and added 15 career assists for 73 total points, which is also third all-time. Schneider was also an all-conference performer his freshman season, earning second team honors.

Modica, a 2004 graduate, was a pitcher for the baseball team from 1999-01, helping the Wildcats to a third-place finish at the NAIA World Series in 1999 and a Heart of America Athletic Conference championship in 2000.

Modica is second on the school’s all-time win list with 20 victories. He is currently second in innings pitched with 245 1/3 career innings, and fifth overall in strikeouts with 176. In his career he was 20-10 overall with 17 complete games. His most memorable moment came on April 10, 2001, when he threw a no-hitter against Central Methodist University in the inaugural game at Nichols Field.

Modica was a three-time all-conference performer, earning first team honors in 2001. He signed with the San Diego Padres as an unrestricted free agent after his junior season on the Hill.

The 1984 softball team, coached by Hall of Famer Kathy Turpin, won the first Heart of America Athletic Conference softball championship in school history. The Wildcats finished 15-10 overall and missed a district seed by only a small margin. The staff ERA that season was 0.93.

Members of the 1984 team were Cheryl Sullentrup, Linda Miller, Mari Kramer, Kelly Winters, Julie Hinton, Donna Barnes, Anne Estes, Judy Favor, Cindy Mathes, Lory Roller, Karen Kowalski, Sally Beverly, and Charlotte Miller.