The 47th annual induction banquet will be held May 12 at Island Resort & Casino in Harris. It will begin at 6 p.m. EDT, with a social at 5 p.m.

Karen Plaisier of Ishpeming and Ingrid Gallo of Ironwood have been premier golfers during their careers, with Plaisier also a highly successful three-sport high school coach.

Other coaches joining her in the 2018 class will be Herb Grenke and Jim Karabetsos of Marquette, Jack Ingalls of Gladstone, the late Walfred (Mike) Mickelson of Eben and Munising and Pete Pericolosi of Iron Mountain and Menominee.

Also selected were Don Michaelson of L’Anse, Sarah (Stream) Stanek of Ishpeming and the late Rich McCarthy of Kingsford. They were exceptional athletes, with McCarthy also excelling as a coach.

From left, Graveraet High School football coach Bill Hart diagrams a play on his palm with 1957 football captain Dan Francisco and team MVP Jim Karabetsos. Karabetsos was among the 10 inductees in teh class of 2018 into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame. (Photo courtesy Marquette Senior High School)

The selections were made recently by the UPSHF Executive Council at Riverside Country Club in Menominee.

Here are brief sketches of each inductee, listed alphabetically:

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Ingrid Gallo (Ironwood) — A pioneer in women’s sports and a champion golfer and skier, Gallo won the 1973 U.P. Ladies Golf Association championship. She played on the University of Minnesota women’s golf team and won the women’s Big Ten title in 1974. After spending four years on the LPGA minitour and qualifying for the 1978 U.S. Open, she became a golf teacher and is among the top instructors in Minnesota. She led the fight for the University of Minnesota to establish the Patty Berg Scholarship for female athletes and the school later established a women’s athletic department.

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Sarah Stream plays basketball during her collegiate career at Michigan Tech University. She was also a record-setter at Westwood High School. Stream was mong 10 inductees for 2018 into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame. (Journal file photo)

Herb Grenke (Marquette) — The native of Laona, Wisconsin, was defensive line coach for Northern Michigan University’s NCAA Division II championship football team in 1975, and later server as NMU’s head coach from 1983-90 when he compiled a school-best 53-28-1 record. In 1987, Grenke was named coach of the year in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Confernce and for Region 3 Kodak College Football. After serving in the Marine Corps, Grenke played football at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and was a two-time all-conference selection and two-time team captain. He also coached at UW-Platteville and Northern Illinois.

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Jack Ingalls (Gladstone) — An all-around athlete while growing up in Petoskey, Ingalls spent 14 seasons as Gladstone High School’s boys basketball coach and seven years at Vestaburg, compiling a 263-159 record. He was U.P. Class A-B coach of the year four times and directed Gladstone to two Class B quarterfinals. Ingalls also coached track, football and Little League baseball, and has served as a volunteer coach for the five-time state champion St. Ignace High School girls basketball teams.

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Jim Karabetsos (Marquette) — After earning 11 varsity letters in four sports at Graveraet High School in Marquette, Karabetsos earned a basketball scholarship and was a four-year letterman at NMU. He helped the Wildcats finish third in the NAIA tournament with an overall school-best 24-3 record in 1960-61. He was team captain in 1961-62. He then became head basketball coach at Ashland, Wisconsin, High School, then was an assistant at Mankato State and Kansas University. After one season as an assistant at Denver University, he spent two seasons as that school’s head coach and was head coach at Regis College in Denver from 1973-77. He was also assistant athletic director at University of North Dakota from 1982-86 and his final 13 years were spent as professor of sport management at Western Illinois University.

Herb Grenke, a 2018 inductee into the Upper Peninsula Sports Hall of Fame

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Rich McCarthy (Kingsford) — Despite serious health issues — four kidney transplants and one liver transplant — McCarthy was a successful athlete and high school coach for 32 years before he died in 2003. He earned 11 letters in four sports at Kingsford High and was a three-year starting quarterback at NMU, where he set 10 school records and was MVP in 1969. He was head football coach at Muskegon Oakridge High School for five years and was an assistant coach at Muskegon Orchard View and Muskegon Reeths-Puffer for 21 years. He was also girls track coach for 12 years at Reeths-Puffer. He was Michigan’s assistant football coach of the year in 1997 and was selected to the Michigan High School Football Coaches Hall of Fame in 2007.

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Don Michaelson (L’Anse) — Perhaps the best football player in L’Anse High School history, Michaelson was also a top performer in basketball and track. He was U.P. Back of the Year and Class C all-state in 1970, then helped the Purple Hornets win the U.P. Class C track title in 1971 by winning the shot put and going unbeaten for three years in the 440-yard dash. He played two football seasons at Mesabi State Junior College in Minnesota, helping the team win the state junior college title while earning Junior College All-America laurels in 1972. He then played football for two years at Eastern Michigan University. He was named to the Mesabi Range College Athletic Hall of Fame in 2017.

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Don Michaelson was accompanied recently to the Mesabi (Minn.) State Sports Hall of Fame ceremonies by his daughter Kylie. Michaelson was a multi-sport standout at L'Anse. (Photo courtesy Houghton Daily Mining Gazette)

Walfred (Mike) Mickelson (Eben and Munising) — Despite a lack of basketball facilities at Eben and track facilities at Munising high schools, he directed Eben to Class D district basketball titles in 1946 and 1947 and Munising to U.P. track titles in 1957 and 1958. His Eben cross country teams won four U.P. crowns. He worked tirelessly to generate funds for a new gymnasium at Eben in 1950 and led the fund-raising campaign for an all-weather track at Munising Memorial Field when it opened in 1977. A 1936 graduate of Eben High School, Mickelson set track records in high and low hurdles and broad jump. He had a 55-year career officiating high school athletic events. He was a member of the Army’s elite “Black Devils Brigade” during World War II. He died in 2002.

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Pete Pericolosi (Iron Mountain and Menominee) — An All-U.P. basketball player at Iron Mountain High, Pericolosi spent 30 years as head basketball coach at Menominee and also officiated for 40 years. Pericolosi was 366-253 as the Maroons’ coach, winning a Class B regional title and a state quarterfinal and six district crowns to go with 11 Great Northern Conference championships. He was a two-time U.P. Class A-B-C coach of the year.

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Karen Plaisier (Ishpeming and Negaunee) — A three-sport high school coach over four decades, Plaisier has been a standout golfer for even longer. She won the UPLGA championship in 2015 at age 65 after finishing second six times, and won five UPLGA senior titles. Plaisier also won two Great Lakes Senior Championships, 20 Wawonowin Country Club women’s titles and more than a hundred tournaments in the U.P. and the northern Lower Peninsula. She coached the Negaunee High School boys and girls golf teams from 1990-2011, with the boys winning U.P. Class A-B in 1993 and Class C in 2000. She also coached Negaunee girls track from 1975-84, winning four U.P. Class C titles and finishing second three times by a total of seven points. Plaisier was Negaunee’s girls basketball coach from 1975-84 and won the 1979 U.P. Class C title.

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Sarah (Stream) Stanek (Ishpeming) — Despite two serious knee injuries, Sarah Stream ranks as one of the U.P.’s premier basketball players. She led Westwood High School to the 2003 Class C state championship, was U.P. Class A-B-C player of the year and earned all-state. She is the school’s all-time scoring leader with 1,842 points and holds the Mid-Peninsula Conference single-season mark of 373 points. She then started a program-record 126 games at Michigan Tech University despite knee injuries in 2005 and 2007 and twice helped the Huskies reach the NCAA Division II Elite Eight. She holds MTU’s career assist record with 459 and is sixth with 1,464 points. She was a three-time team captain and MVP in 2006-07, GLIAC freshman of the year and three-time GLIAC first-team all-star winner. She was also an assistant coach at Tech for two years