UW Athletic Hall of Fame

Steve Alley

  • Class
  • Induction
    2001
  • Sport(s)
    Men's Hockey
Steve Alley
  • Enrolled at Wisconsin from Anoka, Minnesota
  • Ninth round draft choice of the National Hockey League Chicago Blackhawks, 1973
  • Led the Wisconsin Badgers in scoring with 23 goals during the 1974-1975 season
  • U.S. national team member in 1974, 1975 and 1978
  • Chosen as one of Wisconsin's tri-captains in 1975 and 1977
  • Held the Wisconsin record for nine game-winning goals during the 1976-1977 season
  • Member of the 1976 U.S. Olympic Hockey Team that competed in Innsbruck, Austria
  • Member of Wisconsin's 1973 and 1977 NCAA championship hockey teams
  • In 1977, scored the game-winning goal, 23 seconds into overtime, to give the Badgers a 6-5 victory over Michigan, for their second NCAA championship
  • Had fourteen game-winning goals in his career as a Badger skater
  • Won the Ivan B. Williamson award in 1977, symbolic of both academic and athletic achievement
  • In four seasons with the Badgers, totaled 75 goals and 90 assists
  • Charter member of Wisconsin's Blue Line Club hockey hall of fame
  • Played for the Birmingham Bulls Professional Hockey Team, in the World Hockey Association, 1977-1979
  • Played for the Hartford Whalers Professional Hockey Team, in the National Hockey League, 1979-1981
Steve Alley
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