Ron Ray
Inducted November 7, 2009

Ron Ray was a four-year letterman in both football and wrestling between 1966-70.

On the gridiron, Ray served as team captain of a Northern Intercol-legiate Conference championship team in 1969. He earned All-NIC First Team honors as a guard that year.

Ray was a successful wrestler as well, finishing fourth at the NIC meet in 1969 at 190 pounds.

The Minneapolis, Minn., native earned Michigan Tech’s Terry Wilson Award as the top freshman student-athlete in 1967 and later was given the Raymond L. Smith Award as the school’s top senior student-athlete in 1970.

Ray, who graduated in 1970 with a degree in business administration, currently serves as vice president for operations for Arctic Cat in Thief River Falls, Minn.