Madison, Wis. - The Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (WIAC) has announced the members of its 2025 Hall of Fame class.  The WIAC established a Hall of Fame to coincide with the conference's celebration of its 100th anniversary, which took place during the 2012-13 academic year. 
 
Two former University of Wisconsin-La Crosse student-athletes, Ryan Allen and Chelsea (Hoff) Endres and one coach, Richard Pein, have been selected to the WIAC Hall of Fame.
 
The 25-member class for 2025 will be inducted at the WIAC Hall of Fame Banquet to be held on July 26, 2025, and hosted by UW-Stout at Memorial Student Center in the Great Hall. The 25 individuals will join a prestigious conference Hall of Fame that includes 114 members.  
 
Allen was a member of UWL's wrestling team from 2003-06, winning National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Division III Championships at 285-pounds in 2004, 2005 and 2006. He also earned All-America honors with a runner-up finish at 285-pounds in 2003. Allen was named the 2005 NCAA Division III Most Outstanding Wrestler, becoming the first individual in program history to receive the honor.
 
He was a member of four teams to finish in the top-eight at the national championships. The Eagles finished second in 2006, fourth in 2005, seventh in 2004 and eighth in 2003.

The all-time leader in wins at UWL, Allen finished 161-14 in his career. He won four WIAC titles at 285 pounds from 2003-06, as UWL secured the team championship all four years. In 2012, Allen was selected to the WIAC Wrestling All-Time Team in conjunction with the conference's Centennial Celebration.

 

He was inducted into the UWL Wall of Fame in 2016. Allen earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from UWL in 2008.
 
A member of UWL's swimming & diving team from 2008-10, Hoff collected 18 NCAA Division III All-America awards, including seven individual honors. At the 2008 national championship, Hoff placed second in the 100-yard backstroke and ninth in the 50-yard freestyle. In 2009, she was fifth in the 50-yard freestyle and sixth in the 100-yard backstroke. Hoff was second in the 100-yard backstroke, fifth in the 50-yard freestyle and fifth in the 100-yard freestyle in 2010.
 
At the WIAC Championships, Hoff secured nine individual titles and 11 relay crowns, and helped UWL claim league titles in 2008 and 2009. She was tabbed the conference Swimmer of the Meet from 2008-10, the first individual in conference history to receive the honor three consecutive years. Hoff earned WIAC Swimmer of the Week accolades five times in her career.
 
In 2012, Hoff was selected to the WIAC Women's Swimming & Diving All-Time Team in conjunction with the conference's Centennial Celebration. She was inducted into the UWL Wall of Fame in 2022. Hoff was a member of two league championship teams and helped lead UWL to three top-13 finishes at the NCAA Division III Championships. 

 
Hoff was named a 2010 NCAA Woman of the Year finalist. A recipient of an NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship, she was voted the 2010 WIAC Judy Kruckman Scholar-Athlete. Hoff was named the 2010 College Sports Communicators Academic All-America o the Year and to the 2009 and 2010 CSC Academic All-America First Team.
 
She earned her bachelor's degree from UWL in 2010 in exercise sport science and her Doctorate of Physical Therapy degree from UWL in 2013.
 
Pein served as UWL's men's swimming & diving coach from 1979-2012 and 2018-19, and the women's swimming & diving coach from 1985-2012 and 2018-19. The men's team placed among the top-20 nationally in either the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) or NCAA Division III in 11 seasons, while the women's team finished in the top-12 at the NCAA Division III Championship four times, including a school-best fifth in 2004. The women also recorded a pair of NAIA top-20 finishes.
 
Pein led the women's team to eight conference titles in his last 12 seasons, including four consecutive. He received the conference's Coach of the Year distinction 11 times for the women and six times for the men. Pein was tabbed the NCAA Diving III Women's Swimming National Coach of the Year in 2003-04 by the College Swimming & Diving Coaches Association of America.
 
He was named the NAIA District 14 Men's Coach of the Year in 1990-91. He was inducted into the UWL Wall of Fame in 2006, and the Richard L. Pein Natatorium at UWL was dedicated in his honor in 2014. Pein taught in UWL's Exercise Sport Science Department for 30 years.
 

Pein earned his bachelor's degree from Ohio University 1971, his master's degree from Illinois State University in 1979 and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee in 1990.
 
In announcing the 2025 class, WIAC Commissioner Danielle Harris stated, "I would like to congratulate the outstanding inductees, who have helped solidify the conference's status as the premier NCAA Division III conference. As we celebrate these inductees, it remains our intention to continue to induct future Hall of Fame classes every three years with the goal of recognizing those student-athletes, coaches, administrators, officials and others who have made remarkable contributions and achievements."
 
For more information on the Hall of Fame class, please visit www.wiacsports.com. Information on purchasing tickets for the banquet, and more detailed bios and photos on each of the inductees will be provided at a later date.

Hoff, Laurent and Pein join nine other UWL representatives in the WIAC Hall of Fame. Phil Esten, Mark Guthrie and Roger Harring were inducted into the inaugural class in 2012. Tori Neubauer-Meusing, Tom Newberry and Andrew Rock were inducted in 2015 and Jim Drews, Barbara Gibson, and Jennifer Tischaefer-Ignacio in 2018. Pat Healy, Martha Stephens and Patti (Franckowiak) Krautscheid joined the WIAC Hall of Fame in 2022. Former UWL student-athlete Jason Church was also named to the 2018 WIAC Hall of Fame representing the WIAC for lifetime achievement and inspiration.

For more information on the WIAC Hall of Fame, please visit http://www.wiacsports.com/hof.aspx.