Austin grad Heidi ‘Bergstrom’ Kelly was will be inducted into University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire Bluegold Hall of Fame Oct. 4.

Kelly played on the UWEC softball team as a pitcher from 1997 to 200 and the Blugolds went 144-53 overall in that time span. Kelly was a four-time All-Conference pick, a three-team All-Great Lakes Region first team selection and an NFCA third team All-American in 1999 and second team All-American in 2000. She was named to the 2000 NCAA finals all-tournament team, a tournament in which she pitched all 15 innings in a 3-2 elimination game win over Roanoke.

Kelly still holds the school record for innings pitched in a season with 214 2/3 in the 1999 season when she fashioned a 24-9 record with an 0.91 ERA. She is still the career leader in games started (88), complete games (68) and tied for the lead in shutouts (27). She is second in wins (74), appearances (108), innings pitched (628 1/3), ERA (1.34) and strikeouts (343).

Kelly was a Blugold Super Six Award Winner in 2000 and both she was named to the WIAC All-Time softball team in 2012 as part of the conference’s Centennial celebration.

Kelly graduated cum laude in 2000 with a degree in biology and is currently pursuing her master’s degree in food science from Kansas State. She has been employed by Land O’Lakes since 2002 and has been a senior technologist since 2003. She was a member of the Foodservice K12 Team that won the Land O’Lakes President’s Award in 2010. She began her career as a lab technologist with the Parker Hughes Cancer Center.

Kelly and her husband Kyle, a corrections officer, have one child, Oliver, who is 7 ½ months old.