Alumni Tracker: Elmer earns St. Olaf mat honor

Carl Elmer

2011 FHS male Athlete of the Year Carl Elmer (left) who recently completed his second year with the St. Olaf College wrestling team, received the coach's Heart and Hustle Award at the 2013 post-season banquet held last month.

2006 Tiger grads Carson Jones and Tyler Jones, who both played football and baseball at St. Olaf, are back playing amateur baseball for the Dundas Dukes of the Cannon Valley League...Ex-Tiger Kyle Rains is an infielder playing for the Hampton Cardinals in the same league.

Former Tiger girls basketball coach Jim Schreffler, a member of the Iowa Girls High School Basketball of Fame, will be moving over to the boys' game next winter when he assumes an assistant coaching position at Northfield. Since leaving Farmington Schreffler has been an assistant to Andy Berkvam with the highly successful Lakeville North girls' program. Berkvam will be the head boys' coach at Northfield next season.

2004 FHS male Athlete of the Year Matt Simon, who played for Minnesota football coach Jerry Kill at Northern Illinois and coached at the University of St. Thomas for a season, is now the wide receivers coach for Rutgers University who will be moving to the Big Ten Conference in 2014...1994 Tiger female Athlete of the Year Amber Hegland, who later played softball and hockey at the University of Minnesota is the girl's softball coach at Wayzata...Jack Benedict who served as a Tiger assistant baseball coach for a couple of season passed away last month at the age of 57. 

Greg Werner

Erin Hickey led off of the University of Minnesota-Duluth's 4x200 relay team at the 104th running of the Drake Relays in Des Moines, Iowa, two weeks ago....Greg Werner  (left), a state meet golder in his Tiger playing days, is a senior on the Minnesota State, Mankato men's team and will be playing in a NCAA Division II regional qualifying tournament in Kenosha, Wisconsin this weekend.

FHS grad Nate Rowan says he remains a Minnesota Twins fan but still likes his intern position with the Norfolk Tides (Virginia), the Class AAA Baltimore Orioles affiliate playing in the International League. Rowan had a similar experience with the Twins last season when he served as a broadcast intern.

Former Tiger running standout Ben Kampf who went on to run cross country and track at the University of Minnesota has left his job with the Run 'n Fun running stores to take a sales representative position with Adidas. Kampf is still running, too, finishing 15th out of more than 3400 finishers at the annual Get In Gear 10K road race in Minneapolis last month...Kampf's wife Heather (Dorniden) Kampf, an all-state runner at Rosemount and an all-American at Minnesota, runs professionally for Asics.

Tim Sejba

Ex-Tiger Tim Sejba, a United States Air Force career officer,  received notice in March he is being promoted to full colonel. Sejba now lives in Virginia but will me moving to Florida this summer where he will be stationed at Elgin Air Force Base near Ft. Walton Beach...Former Tiger Kary Sifferath, who went on to play football at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls, now lives in Tunis, Tunisia, where he is a regional director for the U.S. Grain Council, a non-profit organization that works to increase profits for United States farmers through export market development..

Doug Dingman, a 1977 Tiger grad who has been instrumental in the development of the Minnesota State Clay Target League as the high school shooting coach for Prior Lake, has hired one of his FHS classmates, Dave Warweg, as an assistant coach. Warweg was formerly an assistant coach with the New Prague trap team.

Three ex-Tigers are head coaches of spring sports at their alma mater this spring: Jon Holmes (boys golf), Paul Harrington (softball) and Jon Stock (girls golf).