GLADSTONE — Two years ago, Brittany Jurek was inducted into the Gladstone Athletic Hall of Fame as a member of the 2009 state championship softball team.

Jurek added an additional honor to her resume here Saturday night as an individual inductee during the 10th Annual Hall of Fame banquet at the Terrace Bluff Golf & Country Club.

She played shortstop for the Braves through four seasons, earning Division 3 state honorable mention as a junior in ’09 and continued her softball career at Lakeland College in Sheboygan, Wis. for four years.

The 2010 graduate continues to serve as an assistant softball coach and is head women’s tennis coach at Lakeland.

As a tennis player for the Muskies, Jurek compiled a 28-9 record in singles and was selected to the All-Northern Athletic Collegiate Conference team and finished 20-17 in doubles.

Jurek, who earned nine varsity letters at Gladstone, ran cross country for four years and was a starter for the Braves basketball team in her junior and senior years.

Casey Young, Dave Gagnon, Dave Lahtinen and the late Marianne (Cowell) Poe were also among the individual inductees.

Lahtinen coached varsity cross country for 35 years, varsity track for five seasons and JV, freshman and seventh and eighth-grade basketball for more than 20 seasons.

“I’ve been retired for 17 years,” he said. “This was unexpected. I didn’t even know I was nominated. I feel very honored and humbled to think former athletes from Gladstone would support me and come to the induction and very honored to have my family here to support me.”

His 1978 and ’84 boys’ cross country teams were Upper Peninsula Class A-B champions and were runners-up in ’85 and ’87. He also coached the girls’ team to a U.P. runner-up finish in ’81.

“We had some real good teams and real good kids,” he said. “There’s no politics in cross country. We tried to make it that every kid was important.”

Lahtinen was selected U.P. Division 1 Boys’ Coach of the Year in 2003. Alongside two other coaches, he started the U.P. Cross Country Coaches Association, recognizing runners in the peninsula.

He was active in the Gladstone Little League, coaching softball for nine years and served on its Board of Directors from 1993-2002. He has also served on the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame Executive Council since 2000.

Dave Gagnon, a 1977 graduate, has served as a Michigan High School Athletic Association wrestling official since ’78. He officiated 35 conference finals, the U.P. Finals and two state finals tournaments throughout his career.

He also coached area youth wrestling, basketball and football teams and served as a Little League coach for 38 years.

Gagnon did three years of high school wrestling and was a U.P., regional, GNC and Escanaba Elks champion as a senior. He played varsity football for two years, earning All-GNC honorable mention in his senior year.

In track, he participated in shot put and discus.

Young was a three-time U.P. pole vault champion and once held the school record at 14 feet, two inches. He received the Eldon Cappy Keil trophy in his senior year (1999).

In football, he was a Class B all-state and All-U.P. Dream Team defensive back as a senior during the ’98 season. He also gained All-GNC honorable mention as a running back and received the Brian Butler team MVP Award.

As a junior, Young was an All-U.P. and GNC first-team defensive back.

From 1999-2002 he played football at Northern Michigan University.

In basketball, he received GNC honorable mention.

The 2002 U.P. Division 2 championship girls’ track team was also honored.

Gladstone, which went undefeated that year, also won the GNC and was D-2 regional champion.

“We definitely enjoyed that year,” said coach Jim Murtha. “We had 37 on the team and had every event covered. We knew we’d be strong. The regional was scary because we beat Sault Ste. Marie by one point. After we went 1-2-3 in the 200 (meter dash) in the GNC meet, the other coaches said, ‘that’s it, we’re done.'”

At the Finals, Jamie Lyberg won the 200 and 400. Tiffany Peter took the 100 and anchored the winning 400 relay. Sarah Ducheny, also part of that relay, won the 100 hurdles and Mallory Nelsen took the 300s.

Other members of the 400 relay were Nikki LaLonde and Breanne Marshall.

“That meant a lot to me and the school, community and team,” said Nelsen, who now lives in Ramsay and works at the Ironwood Public Safety Department. “I’m getting back into coaching track and love having the chance to teach the kids the same things Coach Murtha taught me. We knew we were going to win every time we came off the bus. It feels great to be the second member of our family to be inducted.”

Her father Mark was inducted in 2012.

Poe, who passed away July 9 after a long battle with breast cancer, was honored as this year’s community contributor.

She was the fourth generation of family skiers and a lifetime Gladstone resident. She began teaching ski lessons at the local ski hill (currently Gladstone Golf Club) after her high school graduation in 1962 and continued at the Gladstone Ski Hill, which opened in 1973.

Poe taught ski lessons from young kids to adults for more than 40 years, bringing her experiences from skiing in Michigan, Montana and Colorado and was a member of the Ski Patrol for more than 30 years.

In 2019, Poe and her husband Don were honored as Grand Marshals in the Gladstone Independence Day (July 4) parade.