Aquinas College

Inducted in 2005, was an outstanding athlete at Aquinas in the late 1950s and early 60s, playing both baseball and
basketball. He captained the 1961 baseball team to a 16-3 record and was one of the first winners of the Joseph Baker
Award given annually to the outstanding senior athlete. After college, Hofmann began a teaching career that has now
spanned nearly five decades. He enjoyed a brief stint in semi-professional baseball, playing with the Grand Rapids
Sullivans (1961-1974) and was a member of the 1970 National Baseball Congress championship team. In 1965, he
joined the Grand Rapids Junior College (now GR Community College-GRCC) as a coach and educator. In his Raider
coaching career (1966-1990), he guided his teams to nearly 700 wins and five national tournament appearances. His
coaching prowess earned him induction into the Community College Baseball Coaches Hall of Fame in 1988. He was
selected as one of the coaches for the 1984 United States Olympic baseball team, on several occasions, coached
Taiwanese national teams. Hofmann also spent three decades officiating high school basketball and football as well as
twenty years officiating Big Ten football. His highlights included the 1989 Rose Bowl and the 1995 Orange Bowl as well
as XFL Football's Million Dollar Game in 2000. Hofmann is now in his 46th year as an educator. He served as president
of the GRCC faculty for 21 years and has spent the past 15 years as chair of GRCC's Wellness Department. Hofmann
and his wife Becky (Busch '61-AQ), have four adult children, Karen, Julie, Michael, and Eric, and five grandchildren.