CSC Athletics Hall of Fame inducts four former Eagles

Chadron State College Athletic Hall of Fame will induct four more former athletes, Saturday, during the annual dinner and induction ceremony. 

The ceremony was originally scheduled in the fall but was postponed due to COVID-19 concerns. The Hall of Fame committee decided to induct 10 former CSC athletes, but six chose to wait until later this year for the 2021 fall ceremony. 

The four former Eagles to be induced will be Jordan Johnson, Aric Lopez, Michael Wahlstrom and Melissa Burke. 

Johnson, of Oakland, was a former CSC wrestler in the 165-pound weight class who was a three-time national qualifier.  

Two of the former athletes being inducted were participants with the football team. Inside linebacker Lopez, of Gillette, Wyoming, tied for second on the team with 70 tackles in his 2001 season. 

Wahlstrom, of Chadron, received 64 catches for 801 yards and he assisted the Eagles in a back-to-back Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference championship in 2002. 

Burke, of Chadron, was an Eagle on the women’s basketball team, placing herself ninth in the program for career points with 956 from 1997 to 2001. 

The CSC Athletic Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony will begin at 6 p.m. in the CSC Student Center Ballroom following the football joint practice with Wayne State College.