BEMIDJI, Minn. – Bemidji State University hockey greats, alumni, friends and fans of the BSU Men's Hockey program will gather at the Bemidji Town and Country Club this Friday, July 14 to participate in the Galen Nagle Memorial Golf Tournament.
The 26th annual event will have 42 teams, 210 golfers and over 70 alumni set to participate.
"The Galen Nagle is a big fundraiser for us and it's great seeing all of the alumni come back to participate," BSU head coach Tom Serratore said. "It will be special having our two Stanley Cup champions participating in the event as well."
Recent Stanley Cup champion Zach Whitecloud will be competing in the event along with Joel Otto who lifted the Stanley Cup with the Calgary Flames in 1989.
All proceeds from the Texas scramble golf tournament and auction will directly benefit the BSU's Men's Hockey program and the endowment fund set up in honor of Galen Nagle, who was a goaltender for the Beavers from 1980-84 and member of the historic 1984 national championship team at BSU, who went on to serve as a coach and teacher in Minnesota for several years before losing his life to cancer on Oct. 18, 1994 at the age of 34.
The tournament got its start in 1998 in an effort to build the Galen Nagle Endowment Fund, which was established to benefit BSU Men's Hockey in 1997.
Nagle, a native of Baudette, Minn., graduated from BSU in 1984 and was a 1980 graduate of Bemidji High School.
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Located on the shore of Lake Bemidji, Bemidji State University sponsors 15 varsity athletic programs with NCAA Division I men's hockey in the Central Collegiate Hockey Association and women's hockey in the Western Collegiate Hockey Association, while its 13 NCAA Division II programs hold membership in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).
