MOUNT VERNON – Two hometown classmates who helped transform women's sports, a three-time wrestling all-American and a rare same season dual-sport athlete will be enshrined in Cornell College's Athletics Hall of Fame during Homecoming weekend on Saturday, Oct. 11.
 
The 2025 Hall of Fame class features Taylor (Dicus) Connor '15 (women's volleyball/basketball), Kylea (Weber) Brautigam '15 (volleyball/softball), Nick Nothern '10 (men's wrestling) and Pete Stachow '86 (men's soccer/football).
 
The inductions will be held the morning of Oct. 11 in conjunction with the Alumni C Club Breakfast. The new inductees will also be recognized at halftime of the Cornell-Ripon football game at Van Metre Field at Ash Park.
 
Taylor (Dicus) Connor
Connor, a Mount Vernon High School teammate with Brautigam, stayed home and blossomed into one of the most decorated student-athletes in Cornell history. Connor led the Rams to six Midwest Conference team championships and five NCAA Tournament appearances. Her name is etched in the school-record books a whopping 51 times for volleyball and basketball.
 
A 2014 AVCA Honorable Mention Volleyball All-American, Connor earned first team all-conference honors in four consecutive seasons – one of two Rams to achieve the feat. The 6-foot-2 middle blocker is Cornell's career leader for attack percentage (.303), total blocks (571) and blocks per set (1.24). Connor also set program standards for blocks in a season (159 in 2011) and attack percentage in a match (.800).   
 
With her presence in the front row, Cornell compiled a glossy four-year volleyball record of 102-28, including a perfect 30-0 mark in the MWC. In Connor's first season, the Rams won the 2011 Iowa Conference Tournament title and secured the program's first-ever NCAA berth. Cornell proceeded to capture three straight MWC championships and went back to nationals three more times. The 2014 squad made history by advancing to the Sweet 16, dropping a five-set battle with UW-Stevens Point.
 
The late-fall transition to basketball was quite seamless for Connor, a three-time all-conference center who was crowned the 2013-14 NCAA Division III season statistical champion for field goal percentage (65.2) as a junior. Connor shot at a 60.8-percent clip for her career, a Cornell record.
 
Tabbed to the D3hoops.com All-Central Region Third Team in 2015, Connor accumulated 1,247 points, 912 rebounds and 73 blocked shots over four seasons. She made 289 free throws, converting at a 79.0-percent rate.
 
Connor set single-game school records for points (39), rebounds (26) and field goals made (16) with an otherworldly effort at Knox on Dec. 4, 2013. She averaged 10.9 rebounds per game during the 2014-15 campaign, also a program record.
 
Connor was key to Cornell's record-setting 2012-13 MWC championship team that finished 25-2 and qualified for nationals for the first time. The host Rams defeated St. Scholastica before falling by one point to St. Thomas in the Round of 32. Connor guided the Rams to a second MWC championship in 2013-14. She sported a 70-31 career basketball record, including 45-9 in conference play.
 
Kylea (Weber) Brautigam
Brautigam was the back row fixture during Cornell's extraordinary volleyball run from 2011-14, which saw the Rams win 78.4 percent of their matches while bursting onto the national scene. In a banner-filled 2014 senior campaign at libero, Brautigam was named MWC Player of the Year, First Team All-Midwest Region and landed on the AVCA All-America Third Team.
 
As a junior, Brautigam collected AVCA Honorable Mention All-America honors. She was a four-time all-conference performer, claiming first team accolades her final three seasons. Brautigam shattered Cornell's career records for digs (2,508) and digs per set (5.62). She also owns the program record for digs per set in a season (6.01), established in 2013.
 
Brautigam made an impact on the softball diamond, joining the program for her junior and senior seasons. She was selected to the 2015 All-MWC First Team as an outfielder. Brautigam batted .338 with 22 stolen bases and a school-record 44 runs scored in her final campaign.
 
Brautigam directed the 2015 team to Cornell's first-ever 30-win season and a berth in the MWC Tournament. The Rams finished 30-8 and compiled a two-year record of 54-17 with Brautigam in the lineup. She finished No. 9 on Cornell's career list for slugging percentage (.553) and stolen bases (29).  
 
Nick Nothern
Nothern, of Salina, Kan., was a centerpiece to Cornell's most successful four-year wrestling run at the Division III level. The Rams placed 12th (2007), seventh (2008), eighth (2009) and 12th (2010) at the NCAA Championships under the late Hall of Fame coach Mike Duroe.
 
A four-time NCAA qualifier at 133 pounds, Nothern earned all-America status each of his final three seasons. He was the 2009 national runner-up as the No. 8 seed, becoming Cornell's first NCAA finalist in 13 years. Nothern placed fifth at the NCAAs in 2010, and sixth in 2008. He wrestled 16 career matches at the NCAA Championships, 12 of them decided by two points or less.
 
Nothern was voted Cornell's 2007 First-Year Male Athlete of the Year following an impressive 36-14 rookie season. The 36 wins stand ninth on the school's all-time season list. Ranked No. 1 nationally for a portion of his senior year, Nothern finished his career with a 118-45 record. He ranks sixth on the program's career list for wins and 20th for winning percentage (72.4).
 
The Rams scored 40.5 points at the 2008 NCAA Championships, the most ever by a Cornell team. Cornell won 50 dual meets from 2006-10 as members of the Iowa Conference. Nothern reached the IIAC finals in 2010 and 2018.
 
Pete Stachow
Cornell relied on Stachow's strong leg in more ways than one as an accomplished soccer midfielder and football placekicker. In the fall of 1984, the Springville, Iowa, native became the first athlete in MWC history to earn all-conference honors in two sports played in the same season.
 
Stachow is Cornell's first soccer player to garner first team all-conference accolades four times in a career (1982-85). The three-time team captain helped steer the Rams to their first and only MWC soccer championship in 1982 under coach Ted Stachow, his father. Cornell rallied from a two-goal deficit to beat Carleton, 3-2, in the title match.
 
In 1983, Stachow was recognized among the top nine midfielders in NCAA Division III in the Far West-Midwest Region.
 
Stachow quickly established himself as one of Cornell's all-time kicking greats in only two seasons playing football. A 1984 honorable mention all-conference pick, Stachow ranks in the program's career top 10 for PATs (58), field goals made (15) and points by a kicker (103).
 
Stachow booted eight field goals (one shy of the school record) and scored 58 points during the 1984 season, which saw the 8-2 Rams capture the MWC championship with a 31-14 victory over Beloit. Cornell's 1986 Sportsman of the Year helped the football team to a 16-3 record over two years.