 Our fifth inductee is Steve Montalvo. Steve was a member of the men's soccer and men's lacrosse teams, a three-year captain for the men's soccer team. Steve, a goalie, had 76 saves as a sophomore and as a junior recorded a 0.76 goals against average. He was a midfielder in lacrosse and was the recipient of the Athletic Department's Fighting Heart Award. Yes, Steve is, I would say, his whole of fame qualities are really his leadership ability, his overall character and the example that he set for teammates, as I said before, both on and off the field. Well, Steve, it's interesting, as a goalie and soccer, he's a vocal leader of the soccer team and obviously he was a great soccer player. In lacrosse, he led by example. He was not an overly vocal guy, but everybody knew he was serious as a heart attack and that he was going to give it everything he had. So he had really quite different styles between the two sports. When I think of what embodies the true student athlete, Steve Montalvo does that and he's the kind of kid that when you're recruiting, he's really the kind of kid that you're looking for. He kind of exemplifies a student athlete. He excelled in athletics, but he did well in the classroom too and he took them equally seriously. And I think he was successful in both because he treated both with the same amount of dedication, commitment and put the time in and the effort in all the time, not just some of the time. You're not a model student athlete. You're really what you're looking for. The kind of kid that you know is going to class and the kind of kid that sets an example, not just for his peers, but also especially for the younger guys. So when Steve kind of came of age or came into his own, he was that missing component and not just that he, as I said before, did he solidify the defense but he took charge of the defense. And when he did that, the confidence and the performance of the team rose. His hard work, positive attitude and disciplined approach to playing the game rubbed off on his teammates and he made them better by that example. So I think that's one of the many things that he contributed to the lacrosse program. He was a good bit of glue that held the team together. From the class of 2002, it is my honor to welcome Steve Montalvo into the Dick Watts Athletic Hall of Fame. Hello, thank you. Before I get started, there were two things and I'm echoing what other people have said here tonight. But first and foremost, I wanted to thank the people that helped put this evening together. Coach Canabine, Coach McFadden, Coach Adams, Fran, they reached out to us months ago starting this. So it wasn't something that came together over the short term. And if you saw how many hours of work and how many emails went back and forth between us and then to make all this happen and how much work they put in, I think a lot of that gets kind of buried in the shadows of this event. So I just want you to know how much we appreciate it. And we really do. The other person that I want to thank tonight about making today happen is my wife in the back of the room. So I don't have a lot of opportunities like this to thank her in front of a group of people, a room full of people. But just like Jamie was saying, big family. This morning we had three soccer games going. We came out here to the football game. My daughter had a birthday party she was going to between three and five. We're coming back from that. Kids are napping. We're getting changed real quick. We're coming back out here. She has a three month old on her lap right now. And it's a kid's bedtime in 15 minutes. So she's a glue that holds it all together. And I just want to let her know how much I appreciate her support. But going back to the day when Coach Adams called me, I remember very specifically I was at an exercise with my work. And we're kind of in the middle of nowhere in Michigan. So there was a little bit of phone tag getting back and forth or calling back and forth trying to get in touch with each other. And I didn't really understand the urgency at the time, but he was really trying to get in touch with me. And so when he finally called and told me that I was getting recognized this way. I was speechless. I think he recognized that, like a lot of us were. And as he was telling me all the stuff that's about to happen and all the people that are going to be reaching out for different pieces of information, I remember starting to think, why me? And a lot of that was because I played with a lot of gifted people when I was here. And I wanted to make sure where I was just thinking about what made me worthy of this over the other athletes that I played with. And I hope that once the word of this got out, which eventually it always does, that they were as proud as I was of this recognition. But the more I thought about it, and the more I thought about the people that I played with, I kind of came to the conclusion that even though this is a very much individual recognition, it's not an individual accomplishment by any stretch. So I started thinking back about all the things that have happened in my life that kind of got me here. And it starts at home like it always does. So this is just going to really be a long list of thank yous to people that have helped me get to this stage today. And so it starts at home. So you don't get to a point where you get to be a collegiate athlete and to do well on the field if you don't have the support in your house when you're growing up. So I wanted to thank my mom, my dad, they're in the back of the room, my stepmothers back there. They supported me all through my life growing up. All the crazy things that I ever did, the soccer, the lacrosse. My dad was against me going in the military, I did that anyway. So a lot of things they supported me along the way and you don't get to where you are now without that support. So I want them to know that I really appreciate all the support that they give me. I wouldn't be here without it. My younger brother's back there, my older brother, and my grandfather's not here tonight. He's in Puerto Rico, but I wanted him to be here and I hope this way to get back to him. A lot of my success over my early years here were because of them. I broke my leg playing soccer my freshman year and even with a broken leg, they were driving me to and from school every day. I played, I was on the lacrosse team as a freshman, as a red shirt freshman, didn't play a single game. But my grandfather still drove me to school every day, picked me up from school every day. It just helped out a lot in that. And that really helped set you up for success when you can learn an entire offensive and defensive system without playing a game and then you go into your sophomore year with a year of experience starting as a red shirt freshman. It really helps, but again I wouldn't have been able to take advantage of that opportunity if I didn't have the support in the house that I had. So I really want to let them know that a lot of my accomplishments in college were because you guys were helping me out along the way. So thank you very much for that. As I started thinking about the teams that I played on, there were two kind of things that I was thinking about that really helped me along the way. And it was a combination of coaching and then the players as well. So for the lacrosse program I played under, you saw them in the video, Coach Chadwick. And how much they can develop you as a player speaks a lot about how good of a coach they are. And so Coach Chadwick was a all-American goalkeeper on the lacrosse at Washington and Lee. He went on to play on the Team USA. He's in the lacrosse Hall of Fame. So that's the kind of person. I was a defensive player on the lacrosse. It's teaching me defense. Of course we're going to learn a lot from that. He's going to help develop us as a player. And then you're going to do better things on the field as a result of that instruction and that coaching. So I couldn't have been that successful without him. On the soccer field we went a different direction by hiring Coach Cromwell. Coach Cromwell was a player in Europe. He played in a lot of leagues in Holland. He brought a lot of the flavor of the Portuguese League into this school. And at the time the team needed that. We needed to go a little bit of a different direction. And soccer is better in Europe and he brought all that to us. And so as a result of his coaching, we as a team got better. His direct attention that he paid to individual players really helped us get better. And so we would not have been as successful as we were in both of those programs without phenomenal coaches, which is also a testament to the university and the direction that they were seeking to go at the time. So the coaches couldn't be here tonight but they ever get a chance to see this. I want you to know from the bottom of my heart I wouldn't have been as successful as I was without their coaching. And I really appreciate all the time and effort they put into making us better. And then the last thing I was thinking about was, again, like I said in the beginning, the players. So all the guys I played with in both teams were absolutely phenomenal athletes. And I felt there were times I did not feel worthy to be on the same field with them. There were times I was very honored to be on the same field with them. But when you play with a supporting cast of players that is that successful, it makes you better for two reasons. The first is because when you're on the field and you know you have all this talent around you, you don't want to be the weak link. So it makes you work harder. And then the second is just when they're that skilled, every time you're interacting with them, it just makes you better as a player. So without the phenomenal supporting cast I had in both teams, I don't get here. So it's as much their accomplishment as it is mine. So I wrote down a couple of names earlier that I was thinking of that I wanted them to know that I was thinking about them. And for the soccer program, and these are some of the names you'll see not only here, but also in the Hall of Fame, but I was able to play with Tony Taimanini. He's been inducted into the Hall of Fame. Joe Kiss, Brian Shepley, James Smirneo, that was my defensive unit. BJ Miller was probably one of the best midfielders I've ever played with. Chad Clark, one of the best stoppers and sweepers I've ever played with. That's just the name of a few of these guys were phenomenal soccer players. And the fact that I was able to play with them made me a better athlete and made our team more successful. And then on the La Crosse program, you can see some of the names like Nick Brownlee, Phenomenal, Pat Gill, Dan Velez is getting honored tonight as a Hall of Fame inductee, Matt Slater, Rob Ruff, Travis Williams, Eric Schmitz also in the Hall of Fame, John Doby, phenomenal athletes in and around us. And at that time bringing in that kind of talent is what made both of those programs successful, which is what has helped me become a better athlete and it allowed me to probably get recognized here at Nikes. If I didn't have that supporting cast around me, that absolutely would not have happened. So it was absolutely about the coaches and the players and all the support that happens along the way. And then finally the last thing I kind of wanted to say is it's really to my kids in the back of the room. So I have five, so Ava and Kayla are back there, my two older daughters and then Jackson, Braden and Mason are all back there looking and to all the other kids in the room. When I started playing both soccer and lacrosse, I had a little bit of self down. I never thought that I was the best athlete out there by far. So if you asked me when I was young, if I ever thought I'd be playing on a high school team, the answer probably would have been no. And then if you said you're going to play in college, I also would have thought no. And then to say you're going to be on two athletic teams in college, that was a longer shot. And then to hear that you'd be getting recognized as a Hall of Fame inductee this evening amongst these group of inductees, I'd have been like you're absolutely crazy. So I want them to know that it doesn't matter, like it was always my dream to play on all these different levels, to get honored here tonight is humbling and absolutely amazing beyond anything I would have ever thought. So to you guys in the back of the room, I just want you to know to dream big. It doesn't matter if it's sports or if you want to be an Olympic gymnast or if you want to be a professional ballerina or even if it's a farmer and you're going to hire all your brothers and sisters to be farm hands. Whatever it is, dream big because we're going to support you the same way that I had support and that everybody in this room supported us. And then you'll also have the opportunity to be up here because it's an absolutely amazing and humbling feeling and I want to thank everybody involved.