The “Cowan Cup” should be competed for by only two teams: the Fond du Lac Cardinals boys’ varsity hockey team and the Waupun Warriors boys’ varsity hockey team.

Awarded to the winning team on an annual basis to start January 05, 2012 at 7:00pm at the Waupun Community Ice Rink, and continue forth into the future.

At the request of the Schubert Family there are five preliminary regulations: 1. The winners shall have the cup presented post game for ceremonies and pictures and return the cup in good order when required by the Trustees so that it may be engraved and prepared for the next year’s contest.

2. Each winning team, at cost to the Trustees, may have the club name, year and score of the game engraved on a silver plate affixed to the base.

3. The cup shall remain a challenge cup, and should not become the property of one team, even if won more than once. It will be on display at the Fond du Lac Blue Line Ice Rink year round.

4. The Schubert Family shall maintain absolute authority in all situations or disputes over the cup.

5. If one of the existing Trustees resigns or steps down, the remaining Trustee shall nominate a substitute*.

*Trustees:

1) Jonathan Schubert
2) Nicole Schubert
3) Donald Schubert
4) Linda Schubert
5) Leah Schubert
6) Theodore Schubert
7) Joseph Schubert
8) Alex Morrell

To honor Mike Cowan for all his accomplishments in promoting and growing the sport of ice hockey statewide, that have changed the landscape of what ice hockey is for all who play prep hockey in Wisconsin.

This is the least that we can do to honor his accomplishments forever.

A native of Superior, Mike Cowan played youth hockey for the Superior Amateur Hockey Association. After a high school career at Superior Cathedral where he played for Wisconsin Hockey Hall of Fame member Ray Liebaert, Cowan went on to play for the Wisconsin Badgers. He capped his playing career as a member of the championship Fond du Lac Bears.

Following his playing career, Cowan began in earnest to pay back to the sport of hockey what he had received from it. As an educator and a coach, Cowan has taught kids on and off the ice.

He began his coaching career in the late 1970s as the bantam coach in Fond du Lac. From there he went on to coach the Waupun High School team for several years.

After one year as an assistant coach in Blaine, Minn., Cowan returned to Wisconsin and took on the job of head coach at Lawrence University in Appleton.

He then returned to the high school ranks where he continued as the coach at Fond du Lac Springs High School.

In the 1997-98 hockey season, along with Wes Bolin, Cowan helped organize the Fond du Lac girls’ hockey program. Cowan coached the Fond du Lac/Waupun girl’s high school team for 8 years. His team has been one of the top programs in the state, winning the state championship twice (2004 and 2006) and finishing second in the state three times (2003, 2008, 2009).

Cowan also organized the Marian University Women’s hockey program where he built the program for three years as the head coach. Since the early 1990s, Cowan has coached and worked on the Wisconsin Selects AAA Summer Hockey Program as well.

Cowan’s greatest contributions to the sport though may be in his desire and ability to organize hockey activities that have furthered the cause of ice hockey in the Badger State.

To name a few of the projects that Cowan has spearheaded or participated in over the past 25 years: Cowan founded and funded the “Wisconsin Hockey Exchange”, a publication that would become the Wisconsin Section of “Let’s Play Hockey” magazine.

Cowan worked on the building of the Waupun indoor rink, one of the few in the State in the late 1970s, and has taught coaching clinics since the late 1970s across the State.

Cowan’s greatest single contribution to Wisconsin hockey is the Wisconsin Senior Class Tournament that he started in Waupun. The Senior Class Tournament provides exposure for Wisconsin high school seniors at this tournament, and also provides additional exposure for those seniors who are selected to go on and play for Team Wisconsin at the Minnesota NIT Showcase Tournament. Mike’s success has been recognized in the state, as he has been honored as a member of both the University of Wisconsin Hockey Hall-of-Fame and the state of Wisconsin Hockey Hall-of-Fame.

Cowan, his wife Evelyn, and their children Willington, Theresa, and Timothy, reside in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.