From Hall of Honor press release dated June 14, 2003:

Bill Beach is one of the finest defensive backs in Wittenberg history and an individual who took the student in student-athlete seriously. Beach was a four-year football letterwinner at Wittenberg and an All-Ohio Athletic Conference selection following both his junior and senior seasons. He earned many awards, including the Hank Critchfield Award as the OAC's top defensive back (1981), Kodak College Division All-America (1981), Associated Press Little All-America honorable mention (1981) and CoSIDA College Division Academic All-America first-team (1980 and 1981). He still ranks fifth in school history with 336 career tackles, including 152 solos. Upon graduating from Wittenberg magna cum laude in 1979, Beach attended medical school at Ohio State. An orthopaedic surgeon at Tuckahoe Orthopaedics Associates in Richmond, Va., he and wife, Betsy, have four children.

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