Six Inducted Into Cobber Hall of Fame

MOORHEAD, Minn. (10/03/15)-- Concordia inducted six former student/athletes into the Athletic Hall of Fame on Saturday during the annual Homecoming celebration.

This year’s inductees included wrestler Paul Budd '68, basketball standout Robert Peterson '70, women's golfer Karna Johnson Peters '83, women's track and field star Cynthia Bogatzki Doussard '86, football All-American Tim Lowry '96 and men's soccer program catalyst Brian Mahan '96.     

Budd was a two-time MIAC champion at the 125-pound weight class in 1967 and 1968 and earned the MIAC Most Outstanding Wrestler award in 1968.

Peterson was a two-time MIAC All-Conference player and still ranks third on Concordia’s all-time scoring list in basketball with 1,373 points.

Peters was Concordia’s first-ever women’s golf All-American and was twice named to the All-Region Team. She was also a member of the 1982 Cobber national championship basketball team.

Bogatzki Doussard was a two-time NCAA All-American, a three-time NCAA national meet participant, and three-time MIAC All-Conference award winner in the discus for the Cobber women’s track and field team.

Lowry was a dominant offensive tackle on the Cobber team that won the MIAX championship in 1995. After that season he was named to the prestigious AFCA All-American Team and was an MIAC All-Conference honoree.

Mahan was one of the few Cobber athletes to earn MIAC postseason honors in all four seasons as a member of the Concordia men’s soccer team. He helped the Cobbers win their first-ever MIAC championship in 1995 and was named to the NSCAA All-Region Team.

Paul Budd '68
During his outstanding career as a Cobber wrestler, Paul Budd compiled a 47-10-1 career record. He was a two-time MIAC champion at the125-pound weight class in 1967 and 1968 and, as a senior, earned the MIAC Most Outstanding Wrestler award after reaching the quarter finalsin the national tournament.

After earning a degree in biology, Budd served in the Army, spending a year in Vietnam with a mobile 105 Howitzer battery that moved along theCambodian border. He returned to Concordia to earn a teaching certification in 1972 and joined the staff at Oak Grove Lutheran School in Fargoas a teacher and coach. While at Oak Grove, Budd built the wrestling team into a perennially strong, highly competitive program.

For the past 35 years, Budd has owned and operated Budd’s Christmas Tree Farm near Albert Lea, Minn. Beginning with planting the first tree, hehas developed the farm into a high quality tree and wreath business providing a variety of fresh trees for customers in a 50-mile radius.

For more than 40 years, Budd’s passion has been working with youth through his church, community and school. He has coached softball teams,taught Sunday school and led youth ministry, and has worked with gifted and talented programs including coaching Odyssey of the Mind andMath Masters where his teams consistently place among the top in competitions. Budd and his wife, Val, are active at Crossroads Church inAlbert Lea. They have four grown children and six grandchildren.

Robert Peterson '70
Robert Peterson ranks third on Concordia’s all-time scoring list in basketball with 1,373 points scored over his four-year career from 1966 to 1970. A standout player, he was twice named to the MIAC All-Conference Team.

After earning his degree, Peterson attend nearby North Dakota State University to further his study of mathematics, then began a 35-year teaching career in Red Wing, Minn., teaching junior high and senior high classes. The subject matter he taught included basic math, two levels of algebra, precalculus and calculus. Peterson also remained active in athletics, coaching junior high cross country, basketball and tennis.

Karna Johnson Peters '83
Karna Johnson Peters was Concordia’s first-ever women’s golf All-American. She was twice named to the All-Region team and was instrumental in helping Concordia win MIAC team titles in 1981 and 1982. She was also a member of the 1982 Cobber national championship basketball team, which was inducted as a team into the Athletic Hall of Fame in 2002.

In addition to her stellar athletic career, Peters maintained a rigorous academic schedule, completing the Credo honors program, the Washington, D.C., semester at American University, was on the student council, played piano and organ, and graduated summa cum laude.

Peters earned a law degree from the University of Minnesota law school and is now senior counsel with 3M Company working in the areas of environmental, health and safety, and sustainability. She advises teams developing and implementing company-wide compliance programs related to legal harvesting of timber and pulp and paper sourcing. In 2011, she was named a Super Lawyer in the area of environmental law.

Community service is important for Peters, who has served as president of the Glenwood Lutheran Church Council where she was instrumental in helping lead a capital improvement campaign. She started the Minnewaska Laker Foundation at a time of severe school funding cuts to help keep activities in the arts, athletics and music available and affordable at the local junior high and high school. Peters has three sons and enjoys playing piano, composing music, cooking, writing, and golfing with the boys.

Cynthia Bogatzki Doussard '86
For four years from 1982 to 1986, Cynthia (Bogatzki) Doussard played a key role on the Lady Cobber basketball team, but it was as a track athlete where she has left an enduring legacy.

As a discus thrower, she remains in second place on Concordia’s all-time top 10 list. She was a two-time NCAA All-American, a three-time NCAA national meet participant, and was honored three times with election to the All-MIAC track teams during her outstanding career. Demonstrating her dedication to hard work, perseverance, mental toughness and love of the sport, Doussard won all but two meets in the discus event during her senior season.

As a student, Doussard worked in the campus television center and for Fargo-Moorhead station KXJB, which helped the Cobbers get television sports coverage for all women’s home basketball games as well as track meets. After earning a degree in communication and businessadministration, she worked in Bismarck, N.D., for the American Lutheran Church and for television station KXMB.

For several years, Doussard led camping tours for English-speaking international visitors across the United States and Canada before heading up management and training programs for Trek America in the New York City area. For the past 20 years, she has been serving people in Burlington, Wash., through her financial planning practice. Currently living in Sedro Woolley, Wash., with her husband, Kevin, and their son, Marek, Doussard’s heart is directed toward her faith, her family, being active outdoors and enjoying travel.

Tim Lowry '96
A native of Sun River, Mont., Tim Lowry was a vital part of the perennially powerful Cobber football running game, leading the team to the MIAC championship in 1995 as a senior offensive tackle. That same season, Lowry was named to the All-MIAC team and the AFCA All-American team in recognition of his outstanding play “in the trenches.”

Following graduation, Lowry went to work alongside his father doing crane and excavation work. He traveled extensively across the United States to all but four states providing services in national, state and city parks.

In 2006, Lowry founded Specialty Mobile Mix, a volumetric concrete business in Spokane, Wash., that caters to homeowners and small contractors with customized, specialty mixes for a variety of construction projects. His company serves customers throughout the Spokane valley, eastern Washington and Idaho panhandle.

Lowry actively serves his community and is very involved at First Presbyterian Church in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, where he is a member of numerous committees and is currently a head usher. In 2014, he was a member of his church team that traveled to Bolivia on an exploratory mission to build a relationship with a children’s orphanage.

Lowry and his wife, Annie, are parents of three children, Lillian, Henry and Benjamin, and enjoy many summer and winter activities at their family cabin in Montana, camping and boating near their home at Hayden, Idaho. He is also involved in his children’s youth sports leagues as a sponsor and coach.

Brian Mahan '96
After coming to Concordia from Fargo South High School, Brian Mahan became one of the most honored Cobber soccer players during his four-year career from 1992 to 1996.

He earned MIAC All-Conference postseason honors in each of his four seasons at Concordia.As a forward and team captain, Mahan helped Concordia win the program’s first-ever MIAC championship in 1995. For his stellar play in his senior season, he was elected to the NSCAA All-Region Team. He is third on Concordia’s all-time goal scoring list with 29 goals. He also owns the second highest season assist total with 12, and finished with the third most points in program history with 93.

After earning a degree in business, Mahan began working exclusively in sales and marketing and, along with two partners, founded Alias Marketing in 2010 serving the Minneapolis and St. Paul region. Mahan and his wife, Amy (Martenson) ’96, live in Plymouth, Minn., and are the parents of two sons, Evan and Kieran, who share their father’s love of soccer and are active in the sport.