Who's Who Award
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Minnesota Trappers Association
History of Individual Awards in Various Categories.
"Who's Who" Award HistoryThe Who's Who Award is the prerogative of the president and voting members of the BOD exclusively and seeks to recognize someone who has worked diligently for trappers (particularly within the Association) generally behind the scenes. Hosting district leadership of convention, DNR liaisons, legislature, trapping supply businesses, news media, elected officials in the State legislature, MTA members/directors/chairs, etc. have all received this award at one time or another over the years.1982 Leo Reding1982 Senator Bob Lessard1982 Kenneth D. McLellan1983 Ed Boggess1983 Senator Bob Lessard1984 N/A1985 Ted Olds1985 Rob "Timber" Dahlberg1985 Al Dobie1986 Joe Bambenek1986 Johnnie Epley1987 Roger Hoelscher1987 Butch Dykhoff1987 Don Dykhoff1988 Melvin Smith1988 Mike Chalich1988 Darrell Hook1989 Sid Berg1989 Loren Spinler1989 Leo Jewett (posthumously)1990 Jim Thompson1990 Tim Caven1991 Rick Siepel1992 Dick Doll1993 Sid Berg1994 Richard Raeker1995 Roger Degner1996 Darrell Knish1997 George Fortier1998 Dennis McNally1999 Joe Bambenek2000 Charlie Schaefer2001 Deb Offerdahl2002 Bill Silverberg2003 Kathy Peterson2004 Tim Bauer2006 Gary Meis2007 Gary Leistico2008 Mark Melby2009 N/A2010 Senator Patricia Pariseau2011 Dave D'Aigle-- 2012 N/A Hosting NTA Convention2013 Pete Jonas2014 Dale "Gabby" Hayes2015 N/A2016 TJ Johnson2017 N/A2018 Mark Melby2019 N/A-- 2020 N/A COVID Convention Cancelled2021 N/A
MTA Trapper of the Year (Men)1982 Herman Snow1983 Ray Flesch1984 Dan Croke1985 Scott Evans1986 Steve Sipe1987 Pete Stupar1988 Gary Rutherford1989 Darrell Knish1990 Dick Lorrette1991 Sid Berg1992 Ron Hook1993 Merlin Ladd1994 George Fortier1995 Jerome Blazevic1996 Gary Meis1997 Todd Roggenkamp1998 Butch Dykhoff1999 Marty Kessler2000 Rich Raeker2001 Arnie Peterson2002 Bob Newcomb2003 Dave Graham2004 Tim Bauer2005 Wayne Thom2006 Carl Ernst2007 Todd Imdieke2007 Darrel Oberloh2008 Tom Marks2008 Gene Anderson2009 Leon Windschitl2010 Shawn Johnson2011 Dave D'Aigle-- 2012 N/A Hosting NTA Convention2013 Gary Leistico2013 Albert Dietz2013 Frank Brula2014 Buzz Neprud2014 Jerry Madsen2014 Jim Zimmerman (posthumously)2015 Bert Highland2015 Lyle Roseen2015 Dan Swedberg2016 Roland "Rollie" Aho2017 Andy Shoemaker2017 Lloyd Baakkonen2018 N/A2019 N/A-- 2020 N/A COVID Convention Cancelled2021 N/A
Lady Trapper of the Year1982 Jonelle Kallio1983 Jackie Wilken1984 N/A1985 Kathy Croke1986 Ellie Dahlberg1987 Lorna Morrow1988 Chris Orbird1989 Dorothy Knish1990 Karen Andersen1991 Judy Andersen1992 Thelen Schultz1993 Patti Ladd1994 Gale Hanson1995 Kathy Peterson1996 Debbie Burnt1997 Audrey Fortier1998 Peggy Zgonc1999 Jackie Strand2000 Josie McElmury2001 Karen Oakquist2002 Karen Panchot2003 Liz Thom2004 Betty Meis2005 Linda Johnson2005 Mary Bauer2006 Pam Marsolek2007 Barb Edminster2007 Deb VanDriel2008 Lois Pauly2009 LaRae Roseen2010 Betty Erickson2011 Mitzi Heavirland2011 Denise Windschitl-- 2012 N/A Hosting NTA Convention2013 Linda Johnson2014 Yvonne "Tweety" Highland2015 N/A2016 Amanda Larsen2016 Brianna Jonas2017 Cindy Nelson2017 Trish Coons2018 N/A2019 N/A-- 2020 N/A COVID Convention Cancelled2021 Brenda Jindra
Junior Trapper of the Year1982 Shawn Johnson1983 Joe Jewett1984 N/A1985 Rob Mathais1986 Wayne Dykhoff1987 Jason Holmes1988 Chad Rutherford1989 Doug Pensaw1990 Tim Rippie1991 Ryan Blazvic1992 Julie Meis1993 Randy Herrett1994 Jessica Kleinschmidt1995 Chris Essig1996 Robbie Ladd1997 Colt Sell1998 Ben Meyer1999 Daniel Knish2000 Kyle Mayers2001 David Bauer2001 Kayla Kleinschmidt2002 Jake Neprud2002 Kami Imdieke2002 Carmen Imdieke2003 Jeff Beard2003 Karina Olson2003 Randane Olson2004 Kaycie Melby2005 Mac Hilburn2006 Katie Bauer2007 Eli Gindele2007 Dawson Sample2008 Toby Armstrong2008 Evan Sipnvieri2009 Remington Moran2010 N/A2011 Robert John Nelson2011 Lexi Winscher-- 2012 N/A Hosting NTA Convention2013 Blake Moran2013 Joseph Cocherell2014 Aaron Padden2014 Marc Lisic2014 Caden Hammer2015 Logan Nelson2016 Jacob Miller2016 Leah Schmitt2016 Dakota Olson2017 Leah Remer2018 N/A2019 N/A-- 2020 N/A COVID Convention Cancelled2021 Evan Rollofson2021 Caleb Englund
President's Awards1984 Dan and Kathy Croke1984 Pete Stupar(1985 NTA Convention work recognition)1995 Ray Rau1995 Ken Carver1995 Joe Vaida1998 Mark Melby1998 AJ Niedorf1999 Gary Botczek1999 Gary Strand1999 Rod Scott2000 Todd Imdieke2000 Dave Graham2000 Tom Marks2003 Mark Palas2003 Terry McElmury2003 Butch Dykhoff2005 Vance Walgrave2005 Roy Oldfield2005 Greg Flor2006 Todd Roggenkamp2006 Dale "Gabby" Hayes2006 Ken Olson2007 Pete Jonas2007 Shawn and Linda Johnson Family2007 Dallas Erickson2007 Cory VanDriel2008 TJ Johnson2008 Roland "Rollie" Aho2008 Kathy Peterson2009 Pete and Tina Jonas Family2009 Rob Caven2009 Dave D'Aigle2009 Gerald Schmitt2010 Dean Anderson Honorary Recognition(award accepted by son Al Anderson)2010 Gary Meis Family2010 Arnie and Kathy Peterson Family2011 Dale "Gabby" Hayes2011 Leon and Denise Windschitl-- 2012 N/A Host NTA Convention2013 Merlin and Patti Ladd Family2013 Gary Leistico2014 Peggy Callahan Wildlife Science Center2014 Rob and Mitzi Heavirland2015 Jerry and Judy Rusert2015 Trish Coons2016 Denise Windschitl2017 Gary Nelson2018 Mark Melby2018 Trish Coons2018 Brian Fischer2018 Dale and Brenda Jindra Family2019 Randy Goldenman2019 Tim Spreck2019 Chris Holm-- 2020 N/A COVID Convention Cancelled2021 Shawn Johnson2021 Buzz Neprud2021 Kaitlyn Jindra
MTA Education Award2010 Wayne Thom2011 Mark Palas on behalf of District 6 Trapper Ed Dream TeamWill Elliott, Mike Tucker, Drake Jackson, Tim Donnay, Dan Nalezny and Company-- 2012 N/A Hosting NTA Convention2013 Dallas Erickson2014 Dana Klos2015 James Tonkin2016 Brad Wobbrock2017 Dana Klos2018 N/A2019 N/A-- 2020 N/A COVID Convention Cancelled2021 N/A