The UND Athletics Hall of Fame will induct hockey player Jon Casey, softball-hockey player Casie Hanson and football player Mike Mooney as members of the 2021 class of inductees, the school announced Monday.
The group of three individuals will join the previously announced Class of 2020 to be honored Oct. 1, 2021, during the annual Hall of Fame Banquet.
With no event last season due to the Coronavirus pandemic, the 46th annual Athletics Hall of Fame event will be Friday, Oct. 1. The Classes of 2020 and 2021 will both be recognized the following day during halftime of UND football's game against North Dakota State at the Alerus Center.
Casey was part of an NCAA title team (1982) at UND, then enjoyed a 12-year NHL career with the Minnesota North Stars, Boston Bruins and St. Louis Blues. He currently sits fifth all-time at UND in winning percentage at .711, eighth in save percentage and saves.
The Grand Rapids, Minn., native won 25 games in 1984 alone, fifth-most in a single season at UND. His 1,160 saves that season are the most on record at the school in a single year. He earned First Team All-America honors that season and was a Hobey Baker Award finalist. Casey was a three-time All-WCHA member.
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His NHL career saw him play 425 games, registering a 170-157-55 mark over those 12 seasons.
Hanson was a two-time National Fastpitch Coaches Association First Team All-America selection and still leads UND in a host of offensive statistical categories. The 2008 North Central Region Player of the Year, Hanson led UND into the NCAA Division I transition, winning three CoSIDA Academic All-District nods, two in Division II and a third in her senior season (2010) in UND's D1 era.
The St. Peter, Minn., native was the Great West Conference Scholar-Athlete of the Year, Player of the Year and Tournament Most Valuable Player as a senior. That season marked her fourth as an all-conference player as she led UND to its first and only conference championship.
Her career .455 batting average is 62 points better than the field at UND. She owns three of the top four season batting averages, paced by her .534 campaign in 2008. Her 183 career runs scored is 55 better than the runner-up at North Dakota and her 278 hits outpace the competition by 68. Hanson stakes claim to the top three-single season hit totals in program history, led by her 86 in 2007.
She also leads the school in career homers (32), is second in runs batted in (104) and stolen bases (60).
On the ice, Hanson was a three-time Western Collegiate Hockey Association scholar-athlete and all-academic team selection. As a senior she was named an ESPN the Magazine Academic All-District honoree. In 2007 she was named the WCHA Outstanding Student-Athlete of the Year.
Mooney is best known for his forced fumble and return for a touchdown that helped North Dakota end a 12-game losing streak to North Dakota State, thus beginning the shifting of balance of power in NCAA Division II and the North Central Conference. With the lead and the ball, NDSU seemed primed to make it 13 straight wins in that 1993 game at Memorial Stadium until Mooney's fourth-quarter touchdown put UND in the lead for good and the goalposts came down on one of the most memorable games in the rivalry' history. Known as “the Mooney Game”, that win would be the first of a stretch that saw UND win 11 of the final 13 meetings with NDSU in their Division II rivalry.
Mooney was a two-time All-NCC (1993, 1994) selection and a co-captain of the 1994 squad. He was a Third Team Football Gazette All-America honoree as a junior and added All-America honors from three different organizations as a senior (1994).
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His 137 total tackles currently ranks third in the UND record books for single-season stops. He totaled 172 assisted tackles for his career, which ranks seventh in the UND annals. He owns the fifth-most postseason tackles for a North Dakota player (48), tallying 30 of those in the 1994 postseason alone, tied for third-most in a single postseason.
