University of North Dakota Athletics

  Bohnet started on the UND athletic scene in 1946, and began as Sports Information Director in 1953. In 1951 he graduated UND with a journalism degree, and was a sports writer for the Dakota Student. After he graduated he held a few other sports writing jobs before becoming the Sports Information Director, which he became a full-time athletic staff member and was the first man to serve in that capacity. Bohnet also became a member of the North Central Conference Hall of Fame in 1978. He has published hundreds of UND athletes, helped make some of them All Americans in their sports and assisted in the development of the entire program to where it ranks among the best in the country in NCAA Division II.