2017 Hall of Fame
David Wayne Zimmerman ’73 – Football/Baseball
David Zimmerman was a two-sport standout for the Bulldogs in the early 1970s.
David was a three-time All-MIAA defensive back who helped Adrian to three consecutive conference championships in 1970-71-72. He’s also a member of the hall of fame with those teams’ induction in 2004. Adrian went 12-3 in conference games during that time span. He served as the Bulldogs team captain during his junior and senior years.
David also played four years of baseball for Coach Gregg Arbaugh and was voted the team captain during his senior season.
David’s greatest memory of his athletic career at Adrian College was winning three football conference titles and playing with his older brother, Johnny (a Vietnam Vet), for two seasons. He was grateful to this father who watched him play in every game.
These days, David is a retired school teacher in the Cassopolis Public School system. He also coached high school football and baseball at Cassopolis for 30 years. The 1973 graduate from the College still enjoys being active playing golf and bowling.
Chris Dubbs ‘98 – Baseball
Chris Dubbs batted .321 in a 115-game career for the Bulldogs baseball team from 1994 to 1997. He also had a career .454 on-base percentage.
A three-year starter, Chris was the 1996 team most valuable player and a 1997 All-MIAA First Team designated hitter after career bests of .383 batting average and .461 slugging percentage. He also paced the conference with four saves that season. The team captain earned second-team all-region as a senior.
Today, Chris is a mathematics intervention teacher in the Madison School District and coaches the high school varsity baseball team.
Chris has stayed active in baseball since his college graduation, serving as a youth coach for the Adrian Lookouts since 2008. He twice won district coach of the year in 2015 and 2016. He also serves on the Adrian Diamond Club as a board member.
Chris is married to his wife, Michelle, and they share a son, Aaron. He received a BA degree in mathematics and science from the College.
Angie Adams Hines ’99 – Softball
Known then as Angie Adams, the mathematics and chemistry double-major was a terror on the basepaths for opponents as a three-year letterwinner for the Adrian softball team.
Angie’s best season came in 1997 when she was named NFCA All-America Third Team, NFCA Great Lakes All-Region First Team, All-MIAA First Team and Adrian co-Most Valuable Player. The second baseman batted a Bulldogs’ best .402 in 31 games and also led the team in runs scored (31), hits (47) and stolen bases (13-for-13).
Her career highlights include an entry in the famous Sports Illustrated “Faces in the Crowd”, once owning the NCAA Division III record with a 33-game hitting streak (still ranks third all-time) and listing third with 33 stolen bases on the school’s career chart.
Angie also participated on the Bulldogs’ women’s soccer team.
Her fondest memories were taking softball road trips to Florida for spring break.
Currently, Angie is a teacher for the Carman-Ainsworth School District in Flint. After receiving a BA degree from Adrian, she earned her master’s degree in curriculum and instruction from the University of Phoenix.
Angie is married to her husband, Johnny, and the couple has three children: Arika, Colten and Casen. She has coached varsity and junior varsity prep softball, basketball and volleyball and also is a softball coach for the Aftershock travel squad.
Mike Riley ’01 – Men’s Basketball – Adrian, Mich.
Guard Mike Riley was a 1,000-point scorer for the Bulldogs near the turn of Y2K. He finished with 1,007 points as a three-year letterman from 1997 to 2000.
Mike was a three-time all-conference pick, including to the first team in 2000 when he was the MIAA scoring champion with 18 points per game (16.9 ppg overall). He twice was named the Bulldogs’ most valuable player (1999, 2000), including his junior campaign when he averaged 17.2 points.
Mike initially signed a National Letter of Intent to play at Division I Oakland University, but decided to return to his hometown team because he thought “life was too short to not play college ball for my dad” Buck Riley – who coached at the College from 1982 to 2009 and is the program’s all-time wins leader.
Since receiving a degree in English, Mike has been active in his community: Boys & Girls Club of Lenawee County Board Member (2016-12; Outstanding Service Award in 2008), Habitat for Humanity, Lenawee Humane Society, youth basketball coach, and Lenawee Community Arbor Vice President/Chaplin.
Today, Mike works as a project strategist for Artonic Software Development. He is married to his wife, the former Ashley Palmer, and the couple has two children: Grace and Izzy; the family has a dog, Chief. He also recently accepted his first coaching position with the Adrian High School girls’ varsity basketball program.
Danielle Alexandra Hobbs Savard ’04 – Women’s Track & Cross Country
Danielle was a standout runner in two sports in the mid-2000s, receiving eight varsity letters combined in her two sports.
Danielle’s cross country accomplishments are impressive. She was named All-MIAA four times and is the first Bulldog to be First Team twice (2002-03), while being tabbed all-region. She also excelled in the classroom evidenced by four years on the conference honor roll and USTFCCCA Scholar All-American accolades. She was a team captain and Bulldogs MVP.
On the track, she set four school records in the 1500-meter run, 3000m, 3000m steeplechase and 5000m during her Adrian career. Like Cross Country, she placed on the academic all-conference team four times and was a Scholar All-American by the national governing body for coaches. She provisionally qualified for the NCAA Division III Outdoor Championships in the steeplechase. She was a team MVP and captain, as well.
After more than a decade since finishing her last collegiate race, Danielle still is an avid runner on a competitive basis. She has run in collegiate meets as an unattached athlete. Interestingly, she bettered her AC steeplechase record (which still stands) of 11 minutes and 6.7 seconds at the Hillsdale College Gina Relays just before her 29th birthday. The mathematics graduate also has completed the Boston Marathon.
Danielle, an employee with Edward Jones Investments, is married to her husband, Dennis ‘04, and they have a daughter, Josephine. Dennis also competed in Cross Country and Track & Field at Adrian College.
2007-08 NCAA Men’s Hockey Team
The first Bulldogs squad set the tone for the gold standard of excellence that the College has been known for in the sport of ice hockey. Led by the program’s founder Ron Fogarty (who now coach’s Division I Princeton of ECAC Hockey), upstart Adrian finished with a 26-3 record versus established programs, swept the Midwest Collegiate Hockey Association regular-season (19-1) and tournament titles, set four NCAA Division III records, and was the national statistical champion in goals scored (220), scoring offense (7.59 gpg), scoring margin (+5.34 gpg) and power play percentage (.340).
Individually, Adrian student-athletes led the nation in several categories led by MCHA Player of the Year and ACHA/CCM Second Team All-America forward Adam Krug (the Bulldogs’ current head coach). Krug himself led all of NCAA hockey with 77 points on 30 goals and a nation-leading 47 assists. Additionally, Eric Miller topped Division III with 1.43 goals per game as a freshman; Miller tied for the power-play goals lead with 13; freshman Shawn Skelly posted seven game-winning goals; classmate Quinn Waller piled up 46 points (7g-39a) to top all defensemen; Skelly was the nation’s top-scoring rookie with 74 points (30g-44a); and freshman Brad Fogal led all netminders with a .909 winning percentage (20-2).
Several of those numbers still stand at the top of Bulldog annals and rank among the best in NCAA and conference history.
The inaugural AC hockey team produced six All-MCHA selections in Krug, Miller, Skelly, freshman defenseman Chris Stansik, fellow blueliner Waller, and Fogal in goal.
Adrian christened the cozy Arrington Ice Arena with a 9-1 thumping of Potsdam State – an NCAA program in existence since 1976 – on Oct. 19 in its team debut. The Bulldogs were 14-1 and outscored opponents 130 to 27 on home ice during the 2007-08 season.
Since then, the Bulldogs have been nearly unbeatable in their “barn”, going 125-19-7 for an .851 winning percentage while outscoring their opponents. Adrian has led the nation in attendance based on capacity-percentage eight times, including the first team in 2007-08 with a USCHO.com-record 166.8.
