Nebraska Wesleyan University Athletics

Bruce Otto and Les Schmidt are the 2009 Spirit of the Plainsmen award winners.  Both Bruce and Les have been dedicated advocates to the Nebraska Wesleyan softball program over the years.  Not a NWU softball game day is complete without spotting Bruce and Les in the press box.  Bruce has served as the Public Address Announcer and the official “Voice” of NWU softball, while Les has been running the scoreboard and keeping score at all the games.

“Bruce and Les are two of the great statesmen of the game of softball in Lincoln,” NWU head softball coach Lance Kingery says.  “These two men have helped encourage and promote our players here at NWU and they have added an element of tradition and dignity to our game days.”