MILWAUKEE – Three recent Milwaukee student-athletes and a former Panther football player who starred on the gridiron over 50 years ago will be inducted into the Bud K. Haidet Milwaukee Athletics Hall of Fame on November 18.
 
The members of the Class of 2023 include Luke Meeteer (baseball), Durell Busby (men's track & field), Craig Greene (men's basketball), and Dan Hovland (football).
 
Interested parties can now make plans to join the festivities and register through the following attendance LINK. The Hall of Fame banquet honoring these four individuals will take place with an afternoon (11:30 am to 2 pm) luncheon on Saturday, November 18, at Pilot Project Brewing Milwaukee (1128 N. 9th Street). Any questions can be directed to Cody Bohl, Assistant Athletic Director, Development at bohl@uwm.edu.
 
Meeteer put together one of the most accomplished careers for a Milwaukee baseball player all-time from 2012 through 2016, graduating as the program "hit king" with 273 hits. He also reset career records in stolen bases (finished with 98, was 73), at bats (854, was 803), runs scored (189/178), walks (tied with 99), games started (217/211) and games played (tied with 222). Meeteer also finished second all-time in hit-by-pitches (41), tied for fourth in triples (8), and fourth in total bases (373).
 
He capped his impressive Milwaukee career with a stellar senior season, earning First-Team All-Horizon League honors. A leading candidate for league player of the year, he batted a career-high .362 with 44 runs batted in, scoring 53 runs while collecting 79 hits – including 16 doubles and a career-high six home runs. He slugged .537, recorded a .452 on-base percentage and stole 25 bases in 26 attempts while also becoming just the third Academic All-American in Milwaukee baseball history when he earned a spot on the Third Team Academic All-America squad.
 
Meeteer led the conference in stolen bases that season, with his 25 steals the second-most in program history behind his own record of 37 in 2015 and was among the top five in numerous other categories: second in average, on-base percentage, and total bases, third in slugging and runs scored, fifth in hits, sixth in walks, and seventh in RBI and doubles.
 
In addition to becoming the 12th player to record over 200 hits (finishing with the record of 273), he was named Horizon League all-conference three times in his career as well as to a spot on the All-Newcomer Team as a freshman in 2012, the same year he put together the fifth-longest hitting streak in school history at 23 games. He also holds the school record with eight at-bats in a game (March of 2016) and nearly tied the school record of six hits in a contest when he finished with a 5-for-6 effort against Butler in May of 2012. A regular member of the Horizon League All-Academic Team and Honor Roll, Meeteer closed out his career by not making an error over his final 127 games (321 total chances).
 
Busby (2010-2014) graduated as one of the most-decorated athletes in school history, capped by First-Team All-American honors after taking seventh in the 110m hurdles at the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships. Busby was named the Horizon League Outdoor Athlete of the Year for the second time in his career his senior season, as well as crowned league champion in the 110m hurdles for the third-straight year and the javelin for the third time in his career. His time of 13.88 in the 110m hurdles at the league meet broke his own league record and his toss of 62.12m (203-10) in javelin also a new league and school record.
 
Busby won a remarkable 11 league titles during his time with the Black & Gold. He still holds school and league records in the 60m hurdles, 110m hurdles and javelin.
 
He started his career by winning a league championship in the 60m hurdles as a freshman at the 2010 indoor meet and never stopped setting records. Overall, he closed out his career as holder of three league records and five school records, but he didn't just break those marks once – Busby owns the school record in the 55m hurdles, set the school record in the 60m hurdles five different times, set the MKE mark in the 110m hurdles on six different occasions, the javelin twice, and the shuttle relay twice. He also broke the Horizon League standard in the 60m and the javelin twice apiece.
 
His list of conference titles includes the following: 2014 Horizon League 110m Hurdle Champion, 2014 Horizon League Javelin Champion, 2014 Horizon League 60m Hurdle Champion, 2013 Horizon League 110m Hurdle Champion, 2013 Horizon League 4x100m Relay Champion, 2012 Horizon League 110m Hurdle Champion, 2012 Horizon League Javelin Champion, 2012 Horizon League 60m Hurdle Champion, 2011 Horizon League Javelin Champion, 2011 Horizon League 60m Hurdle Champion, and 2010 Horizon League 60m Hurdle Champion. He was also All-League Second Team in the javelin (2013) and 4x100m (2012).
 
Greene was a Panther while the program was transitioning to the NCAA Division I level – his career spanned 1989 to 1993 – and was one of the most successful of his era. When he graduated, his DI totals of 1,174 points and 505 rebounds both ranked No. 1 on the career list. His overall collegiate totals include 1,216 points and 557 rebounds – one of nine players in the all-time history of MKE basketball to cross both the 1,000-point/500-rebound thresholds. He led the team in scoring as both a junior (16.9 ppg) and senior (career-high 17.3 points per game) and also topped the roster in rebounding both of those campaigns (5.8 rpg/6.9 rpg).
 
Upon graduation, Greene held the school record for most blocks with 87 (87 of his 99 career blocks came in the DI era), a number that stood until it was finally broken in 2016. He was also Top 5 in rebounds (505), field goal attempts (886), field-goal percentage (.497), three-point field goals made (124), and three-point field-goal percentage (.423), as well as Top 10 in steals (114) and free-throw percentage (.762, a number which climbs to .771 if you include his non-D1 statistics).
 
Greene was one of the faces of the program his final two seasons and is remembered for his 23 points and nine rebounds in a December 1992 victory over Wisconsin. That 77-72 victory over the Badgers remained the only time the Panthers topped UW until 23 years later in December of 2015.
 
Hovland was a four-year starter and letterwinner for the Milwaukee football team from the 1966 through 1969 seasons. A team co-captain in 1969 and the captain of the defense as both a junior and a senior - calling all the defensive plays on the field - Hovland capped his career by helping lead the Panthers to a 17-10 win over Bradley on Homecoming in a game played at County Stadium in November of 1969. Hovland worked as an assistant coach with the Milwaukee football team after his playing days ended, all of which came after a very successful high school career at nearby Messmer where he lettered seven times in track & field and football and was class president.
 
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The Milwaukee Athletics Hall of Fame is named in honor of Bud K. Haidet, the retired MKE Director of Athletics who made many contributions to Panther athletics during his 21 years in charge of the department.
 
Haidet was officially inducted into the hall and learned of the naming honor in the spring of 2009, just prior to his official retirement from the University. After being hired in 1988, Haidet led Milwaukee to unprecedented athletic and academic heights. He guided the program from NAIA status back to NCAA Division I competition and then established MKE as a powerhouse in the Horizon League.
 
Along the way, Haidet helped Milwaukee Athletics build a national reputation, highlighted by a men's basketball run to the Sweet 16 in 2005. The Panthers won the Horizon League's McCafferty Trophy five times under Haidet, while with him in charge UWM teams won 85 league regular season and tournament championship titles, while Panther coaches claimed 67 league coach of the year honors.
 
MKE teams also excelled on the national stage. Panther squads made 27 NCAA Tournament appearances while Haidet was the AD, while individual athletes appeared in the track & field national championships seven times.