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Owens and Sertich HOF

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Tiger Greats Owens and Sertich Inducted Into Colo. Springs Sports Hall of Fame

Scott Owens, the winningest head coach in the history of Colorado College hockey, and Marty Sertich, the Hobey Baker Award winner as National Player of the Year for CC in 2005, were inducted into the Colorado Springs Sports Hall of Fame Monday night at the Broadmoor World Arena.
 
Owens, a 1979 Colorado College graduate, posted a record of 324-228-54 as head coach at his alma mater from 1999-2014. He was a goalie for the Tigers from 1975-79 and played in 51 career games.
 
Sertich, meanwhile, led the nation in scoring as a junior in '05 with 64 points, (27 goals, 37 assists) and earned first-team All-America honors. He ranks 12th on the school's career scoring list with 182 points (61g, 121a).
 
The Class of 2021, included undefeated Cheyenne Mountain High School tennis player Becky (Varnum) Bucolo, record-setting Fountain-Fort Carson High School track and football coach Art Hassler, former Air Force wrestler and football player Terry Maki and the 1970 Air Force football team.

Owens is the longest tenured and winningest head coach in the illustrious history of the Colorado College hockey program with 324 wins (.579) in 15 seasons. A 1979 graduate of CC, he became the school's head coach in 1999 and one of the nation's best recruiters, recording 16 All-American selections and two Hobey Baker Memorial Award winners— Peter Sejna (2003) and Sertich (2005).
 
The Tigers averaged 22 wins per season, including a historic 31 victories in 2004-05, won three WCHA regular-season championships, reached seven NCAA tournaments and made it to the 2005 NCAA Frozen Four under Owens' direction. The Tigers also held a 35-24-9 record against its archrival, the University of Denver, in one of the most intense rivalries in NCAA Division I Hockey.
 
After leaving CC in 2014, Owens became the head coach and general manager of the Sioux Falls Stampede in the USHL. Over his five seasons there, he obtained 144 wins (.561), including a 39-16-7 record during the 2018-19 season and an 11-1 post-season record culminating in the team's third Clark Cup Championship.
 
Retiring in 2020, he finished his career with a 729-454-116 (.606) record and set many regular season records between the Madison Capitols, Des Moines Buccaneers, CC Tigers and Sioux Falls Stampede. He ranks eighth in USHL wins with 405 and has 52 career post-season wins and two Clark Cup Championships.

Sertich, meanwhile, joined the Tigers as a top prospect from Minnesota in 2002. He was recognized as Minnesota's Mr. Hockey in 2001.
 
Recruited by fellow Hall of Fame inductee Owens, Sertich was one of the most skilled and reliable players on the ice – dressing for every collegiate game while at CC. He led the nation in scoring in 2005 with 64 points, (27 goals, 37 assists) averaging about 1.5 points per game. That same season, he was named first-team All-Western Collegiate Hockey Association, first-team All-American for the American Hockey Coaches Association (West), and USA Hockey's College Player of the Year. As a junior in 2005, Sertich won the Hobey Baker Memorial Award as the National Player of the Year.
 
He was honored as a finalist for the Hobey Baker Memorial Award in 2006 and named second-team All-Western Collegiate Hockey Association. Following his collegiate career, he signed with the Dallas Stars as a free agent and was traded to the Colorado Avalanche. He then played professional hockey in the AHL for the Iowa Stars and Lake Erie Monsters.
 
Sertich continues to give back to the game of hockey with Tradition Hockey - a program focused on developing youth hockey players on and off the ice, and he currently serves as an assistant coach for University of St. Thomas' women's hockey team.
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