CLASS OF 2025 - Impressive group of 8 chosen for Medford Hall of Fame induction

The Medford Area Senior High Athletic Hall of Fame will add eight new members when they are inducted next week during the school’s homecoming festivities.

The Hall of Fame induction class of 2025 includes four new members for their accomplishments in competition and four who will be inducted for their coaching contributions to Medford athletics.

The new Hall of Famers will be recognized at halftime of the Friday, Oct. 3 homecoming football game against Tomahawk. The game will kick off at 7 p.m. at Raider Field.

Mallory (Zuelsdorff) Anderson

A 2006 graduate, Mallory (Zuelsdorff) Anderson was a standout four-year letter winner in track and field and gymnastics and was a three-time letter winner in volleyball as well.

Anderson remains on Medford’s girls track record board in three events. Most notably she was part of the 2004 WIAA Division 2 state champion 800-meter relay team, which still holds the school record at 1:44.8. She is still the record holder in the 100-meter dash at 12.54 seconds and is part of the 400 meter relay record team of 2006, which had a time of 50.66 seconds. Anderson went to three state meets from 2004-06. As a senior, she was on Medford’s state runner-up 800-meter relay team and its ninth-place 400-meter relay team and placed 13th in the 100-meter dash. As a junior, she placed seventh in the 100meter dash, 10th in the 200-meter dash and was part of Medford’s sixth-place 800-meter relay team. Along with the 800-meter relay title team, she was on the 400-meter relay state-qualifying team.

In gymnastics, Anderson qualified for state on the balance beam as a junior in 2005. She placed 23rd. She was a twotime team MVP.

Virgil Berndt

Also a 2025 inductee into the Wisconsin Fastpitch Softball Coaches Association’s Hall of Fame, Virgil Berndt completed his 35th season this past spring as the only head coach the Medford Raiders have ever had in softball. In that time, Berndt’s teams have won 449 games, 10 Lumberjack or Great Northern Conference championships, eight WIAA Division 2 regional championships and two sectional title. Those state trips came in 2003 and 2006.

Berndt is a 10time LC or GNC Coach of the Year and has coached in the WFSCA All-Star event three times, twice as a head coach.

Berndt also spent several years on Medford’s wrestling coaching staff with another 2025 inductee, Timothy Raymond.

Mike Bub

While officially the program’s head coach for just the last five seasons, twice earning a Great Northern Conference Coach of the Year award, Mike Bub was a fixture on Medford’s track and field coaching staff from 1986 through 2019. He started as a girls assistant in 1986 and added the title of boys assistant in 1998 before becoming the program’s head coach in the spring of 2014. During that time, the program experienced consistent success with more than 160 state qualifiers, 60 state individual place winners and three individual state champions and the girls 800-meter relay champions in 2004.

Bub has been involved in several other endeavors on Medford’s sports scene. Some examples include starting the Medford All-Sports Booster Club and launching American Legion baseball in Medford. He led fundraising drives to improve the school’s track, softball and baseball facilities as well as the Raider Field renovation project that was completed in 2018.

Osy Ekwueme

One of the most dominant Medford athletes of the 2000s, 2017 graduate Osy Ekwueme was a three-sport standout in soccer, basketball and track and field. During his senior season, he achieved a rare trifecta, being named the Great Northern Conference’s co-Offensive Player of the Year in soccer, the Player of the Year in basketball and the Field Athlete of the Year in track and field. He remains the school record holder in triple jump at 44 feet, 9.5 inches, which gave him fourth place in the WIAA Division 2 state meet in 2017. He was sixth at state in 2016. He went to state in long jump in 2017 and 2016 and was part of Medford’s 12thplace 800-meter relay team in 2016. He was a two-time GNC champion in triple jump and was the long jump champion as a senior. He’s part of the school-record 400-meter relay team.

Ekwueme went on to triple jump collegiately at Notre Dame.

Along with being the GNC’s 2016-17 Player of the Year while leading Medford to the GNC and WIAA Division 2 regional titles in basketball, he also was an Associated Press honorable mention All-State selection, a Channel 7 All-Star and he had 119 assists that year, ranking second in school history. He was a secondteam All-GNC pick as a junior and got honorable mention in sophomore.

In soccer, he led the GNC in scoring as a senior and set a single-season school record with 44 goals. His is second alltime in school history with 89 goals. He also was the GNC’s Offensive Player of the Year in 2015 when he led the league in assists and ranked second in goals. The 12 wins that team earned ranks second in program history. He got second-team All-GNC honors as a sophomore.

Leading the program to several of the best seasons in its history, Justin Hraby was Medford’s head baseball coach for 20 seasons, 2005-24. In that time, the Raiders won 277 games, three Lumberjack Conference championships in 2006, 2007 and 2008 and three Great Northern Conference titles in 2019, 2021 and 2023. Hraby is a four-time GNC Coach of the Year and won the award three times in the Lumberjack Conference.

Hraby’s teams won WIAA Division 2 regional titles in 2006, 2007, 2010, 2021 and 2024 and won the sectional championship in 2006 when the Raiders fell to Portage 10-6 in a state semifinal. The Raiders got to the sectional final in 2007, 2010, 2021 and 2024.

Nine of the Raiders Hraby coached were selected for the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association All-Star Game and he was on the West team’s coaching staff in 2015. He and Mike Bub launched the American Legion baseball program in Medford. Hraby was the Medford Little League president from 2015-24 and is the 2025 recipient of the Wisconsin Baseball Coaches Association’s Distinguished Service Award.

Amanda (Jochimsen) Lange

Part of the most successful period in the history of Medford’s girls athletics, Amanda (Jochimsen) Lange was an eighttime letter winner in the sports of volleyball, basketball and softball as a 2003 graduate.

With 15 wins, Lange’s pitching was a driving force in Medford’s first-ever WIAA Division 2 state softball team in 2003. She was an All-State honorable mention selection that year as well as the District Player of the Year, posting a 15-1 record, a 1.13 ERA and a .302 batting average that year. She finished with a 1.93 career earned run average and was a two-time first-team All-Lumberjack Conference selection.

Lange was a second-team All-Lumberjack Conference performer as an outside hitter on Medford’s 2001 volleyball team that reached the sectional final and got honorable mention with the 2002 team that remains the program’s only WIAA Division 2 state qualifier in that sport.

Finally, Lange was a member of the 2001-02 girls basketball team, the first of two consecutive teams to make it to the WIAA Division 2 state tournament.

Lange is currently on Medford’s volleyball and softball coaching staffs and for the past several years has led the successful Medford Storm Volleyball Club.

Becky Pepper

Also part of Medford’s great success in the early 2000s, Becky Pepper was a key member on both of Medford’s WIAA Division 2 state tournament girls basketball teams of 2001-02 and 200203. A four-time letter winner in the sport, Pepper earned first-team All- Lumber j a c k Conference honors as a sophomore and senior and was named the conference’s co-Player of the Year as a senior in 2002-03 when she averaged 13.7 points and 4.9 rebounds per LC game. She was a second-team pick in 2001-02. Pepper earned two All-State honorable mention awards and played in the 2003 Wisconsin Basketball Coaches Association All-Star Game.

The Raiders were 12-0 in the Lumberjack Conference in both of the state years. They were 23-2 overall in 2001-02 and 22-3 overall in 2002-03.

Pepper went on to play four years of college basketball at UW-Stevens Point.

Timothy Raymond

In turning Medford into a wrestling power by building a tradition of relentless, pressure-style wrestling in the 1990s and early 2000s, Timothy Raymond was the head coach of seven Lumberjack Conference team champions and won the league’s Coach of the Year award seven times during his 12-year run from 1990-2002. He was named the Division 1 Regional Coach of the Year in 1991. Raymond’s 1997-98 team won the WIAA Division 1 regional championship and nearly won the team sectional championship dual, losing in a tiebreaker.

Under Raymond’s leadership, Medford wrestlers earned 33 Division 1 state berths and earned 20 state place finishes, including 11 finalists and five state champions.

During his time as head coach, Medford wrestlers won 62 individual Lumberjack Conference championships.