2021 Quincy Notre Dame Hall of Fame inductee: Kyle Awerkamp, athlete

(EDITOR’S NOTE: The 2020 and 2021 classes are being inducted into the Quincy Notre Dame Hall of Fame together this year. Awerkamp will be inducted on Saturday, Nov. 27 before QND’s boys basketball game.)

Kyle Awerkamp doesn’t have any individual state championships on his resume, but few golfers in Illinois history can say they finished in the top 20 of the Class A state tournament in each of their four years in high school.

Awerkamp, a 2000 graduate, was a member of two state championship teams, a third-place team and a fourth-place team. 

As a sophomore, Awerkamp’s round of 69 on the second day of the 1997 state tournament at Prairie Vista Golf Course in Bloomington was 16 strokes better than his first-day score, allowing him to finish 11th individually and helped the Raiders claim the title. As a junior, Awerkamp shot a 155 at wind-swept Prairie Vista to finish third individually as the Raiders defended their state championship.

He shot a 160 to finish tied for 14th as a senior in the 1999 tournament, helping the Raiders finish fourth. He shot a 164 as a freshman to tie for 20th place in the 1996 tournament, helping the Raiders finish third.

Awerkamp went on to play at Eastern Illinois University. He lives in Quincy and is the general sales manager at WGEM. He and his wife, Kelly (Brennan), have three children.