2005 inductees

Tom Stone '66
Football

The captain of coach Ron Schipper's first Iowa Conference championship squad at Central in 1965, Stone ranks among the most successful and highly regarded high school football coaches in Iowa history. An all-conference linebacker and also a kicker and offensive guard, Stone received the Mentink Award for leadership in 1965. He booted a school and Iowa Conference record 11 extra points against Iowa Wesleyan in 1964.

Stone was an assistant coach for two seasons at Cardinal High School in Eldon. At Pekin High School since 1968, Stone earlier this fall became just the fourth coach in state history to win 300 games and now has a 302-70-1 career mark. His Pekin teams have earned 19 playoff berths with seven state finals appearances and four state titles. Stone's clubs have posted eight undefeated seasons, once recording a 33-game winning streak.

A past president of the Iowa Football Coaches Association, Stone has been the chair of the Football Playoff Committee for 22 years. He was chosen to serve as an assistant coach and later, a head coach, for the Iowa Shrine High School All-Star Game.

He was inducted into the Iowa Football Coaches Association's Hall of Fame in 1997 and was named the state Class 1A coach of the year by the IFCA and the Des Moines Register. In 2001 he was tabbed as the national coach of the year by the National High School Athletic Coaches Association.

Nancy Cisar Wright '84
Women's track and field

A record-setting sprinter who turned down Division I offers to attend Central, Wright captured four individual NCAA Division III track and field titles, the most ever by a Central athlete at the time of her induction. She was a key component of Central's 1982 NCAA Division III track and field championship squad, earned all-America honors 12 times and was a national placewinner 16 times. Wright ran the second leg of NCAA champion 4 x 100 meter relay units in 1982 and 1983, then swept the 200 and 400 meter crowns in 1984, leading the Dutch to a second-place team finish after helping Central place fourth nationally in 1981 and 1983.

Wright later served as assistant women's track and field coach at Central and was the head volleyball coach for four seasons, including the 1988 Iowa Conference championship campaign.

She is Central's director of the Educational Talent Search program, part of the federal TRIO program, and received the TRIO Achiever of the Year Award. She also was an admission counselor, GEAR UP liaison and director and special assistant to the dean at the college. She was president of Iowa MAEOPP and the College is Possible liaison for the American Council on Education. Wright earned a master's degree at Drake University before pursuing a Ph.D. in educational policy and leadership studies at the University of Iowa , where she was a program assistant to the AERA History of Education program chair.

Scot Storjohann '85
Football, Wrestling

Storjohann capped a two-sport career with a remarkable 1984-85 season. A two-time all-conference center and co-captain of the Dutch football team, he helped lead Central to the 1984 NCAA Division III title game at the Amos Alonzo Stagg Bowl and a second-place finish. Joining the wrestling squad in mid-December, Storjohann propelled the Dutch to a national runner-up team finish in that sport as well while finishing second individually at heavyweight, losing the NCAA Division III title match in overtime. A two-time all-Iowa Conference pick as a center in football, Storjohann won a league title in wrestling and was the squad's MVP in 1982-83. Storjohann worked for Principal Financial Group in Des Moines for 16 years before becoming vice president of retirement plan services for Bankers Trust Co.

Storjohann is also active in church and service work, particularly with Habitat for Humanity of Polk County through the Ankeny Circle of Faith.