Aquinas College

Inducted in 2004, came to Aquinas from New Riegel, Ohio for the opportunity to live out his passion for baseball. During his college career, he won eight varsity letters -- four in baseball and four in basketball-as an outstanding two-sport athlete. Paul was Aquinas' first baseball All-American, earning the honors in both 1973 and 1974. As a catcher, he went two and a half seasons without making an error and the led the team in his senior year to its first NAIA State Baseball Championship and on the regionals, where the team eventually lost to the national champion, Lewis University. Paul also excelled as a four year starter in basketball. He led the team in scoring as a sophomore and junior and, currently, is the seventh leading scorer in Aquinas College Basketball History, scoring over 1,400 total points and averaging 15 points per game. After earning his master's degree at Bowling Green State University in 1975, he joined Lakota Schools in Kansas, Ohio , where he is in his 30 th and final year of teaching eighth grade Health and Physical Education. In the late 1980's, he became the winningest basketball coach in Lakota High School history. And, as head baseball coach at Lakota, Gnepper took his 1994 team to the Regional tournament for the first time in school history. Paul and his wife, Mary (Lauer '73) have two adult sons Brad and Adam, and one grandchild.