2004 inductees

Denise Boll Baker '84
Women's basketball

Among the purest jump shooters to ever wear a Central uniform, Baker started all 99 games of her collegiate women's basketball career. Her collegiate coach, Gary Boeyink, described her shooting form as "poetry in motion." Baker's 1,547 points stood for a decade as the school's career scoring mark and she set the single-game scoring record (36) in 1981 as well as the season free throw record (83.5 percent) in 1982-83. She was the top scorer on Central's 1983 Iowa Conference championship team which gained the program's first NCAA tournament berth, and Baker led the league that year in field goal percentage at 62.9. A two-time first-team all-league pick, she was also a two-time academic all-America selection. Baker is an elementary school teacher in Conyers, Ga.

Dr. Kenneth J. Weller
Central College president
NCAA vice president

Central's president from 1969-90, a period of unprecedented growth, Weller was, perhaps more than any other individual, a guiding force in the development of Division III within the NCAA. He authored the Division III philosophy, a visionary document in which intercollegiate athletics programs are seen as existing for the benefit of the participants rather than spectators. Weller held numerous leadership positions within the NCAA, including a term as a vice president in 1984. He was instrumental in the incorporation of women into the NCAA and the Iowa Conference and his pioneering leadership was evident on Central's campus, where the school's women's athletics program quickly became a national model. Prior to coming to Central Weller was a coach and served on the economics department faculty at Hope College (Mich.). He was an assistant football coach when future Central hall of famer Ron Schipper was a quarterback at Hope. Weller is retired and lives near Pella.

Dana Snoap '73
Baseball, men's basketball

Packing a career's worth of academic and athletics achievements into just two years, Snoap starred in both baseball and basketball after transferring from junior college. A fiery competitor and scrappy inside player as well as a talented shooter, Snoap scored 1,107 points in just 45 games. He set school records for highest career scoring average (24.6) and most free throws in a game (18). As a baseball pitcher, Snoap was almost untouchable, posting a sparkling 0.22 earned run average in two Iowa Conference seasons. Snoap still found time to excel in the classroom, becoming Central's second NCAA postgraduate scholarship winner and earning his law degree at the University of Notre Dame before becoming a partner with Dunn, Schouten and Snoap in Wyoming, Mich.