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Former Sports Information Director Jim Angele is Nebraska Wesleyan’s Spirit of the Plainsman Award recipient for 2005. During his tenure as SID, Angele took sports information at NWU to new levels.
He gathered records from coaches and coordinated the compilation of all-time statistical charts in order to improve the overall quality of information contained in Nebraska Wesleyan’s media guides. He generated regular news releases for each intercollegiate team and was the first to undertake writing player profiles on every letter winner in all 18 sports.
These player histories proved helpful when he nominated them for honors, including the GTE/CoSIDA Academic All-America Team, an award NWU student-athletes had received 21 times prior to Angele’s arrival in July 1990. But by the time he departed Nebraska Wesleyan in 1998, that number had grown to 61. In other words, it nearly tripled in less than eight years.
Angele earned the respect of his peers across the country as a district coordinator for the Academic All-America program, and his publications won awards on a regular basis from the College Sports Information Directors of America. In fact, Nebraska Wesleyan athletic posters won “Best in the Nation” designations in 1991, 1994 and 1997, as did NWU’s 1994 track and field brochure.
Before his stint at NWU was complete, he also helped the sports information office start its transition into the era of computerized statistics. The benefits of Angele’s meticulous record keeping are still felt every year when NWU’s Hall of Fame committee meets to review profiles on its field of Hall of Fame candidates.
Angele now works as an assistant director for the Nebraska School Activities Association, where he has continued to work with NWU students, offering internships to those in Nebraska Wesleyan’s sport management program.
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