We want to celebrate a PND legend who is being inducted into the Greater Peoria Sports Hall of Fame tomorrow Saturday, March 29th: Coach Mickey Schallau!
Coach Schallau coached softball and both girls and boys golf at Academy of Our Lady/Spalding Institute from 1973-87, then golf at Peoria Notre Dame from 1988-2007. Her golf teams won five trophies at the IHSA state tournaments – second place with Spalding boys (1978), AOL girls (1979) and Notre Dame boys (2003) and third place with AOL girls (1978) and Notre Dame boys (2007). Her golf teams posted a 486-178 record in dual matches and won 81 tournaments. In 2016, the Journal Star named her AOL girls golf program as the third-best in area history. Individually, she coached 1976 IHSA boys state champion Tom Ferlmann and 1982 girls state runnerup Patty Ehrhart.
Coach Schallau started the women’s golf program at Bradley University, where she coached for seven years. In 2000, she was one of six high school coaches in the nation chosen to help run an 11-day AJGA junior tournament in Hawaii. She founded the Peoria Notre Dame boys golf tournament in 2006 and served from 1982-84 on the IHSA Girls Golf Advisory Committee. She has been a member of the IHSA Golf Hall of Fame Selection Committee since 1994, when she was inducted into the IHSA Golf Coaches Hall of Fame.
Thank you so much to Coach Schallau for your years of service, and congratulations on this honor! #ProudToBePND 
First photo from Peoria Journal Star’s Matt Dayhoff
