Dr. Conrad Andringa has been awarded the Wisconsin NFHS Award for Outstanding service, presented to individuals to recognize a record of longstanding service and significant contributions that have had an impact on high school activity programs.

Andringa was a charter member of the WIAA Sports Medical Advisory Committee and has remained a key part of that group for 37 years, with 26 years in the leadership role of Committee Chair.  Largely due to his work on this Committee, the WIAA has developed practices and policies regarding the prevention, the identification and the treatment of concussions in athletics for schools, officials, athletes and parents.

As the chair of the WIAA Sports Medical Advisory Committee, he was also a pioneer in the development of the wrestling minimum weight program and skinfold testing in Wisconsin.  Both of these initiatives contributed to the adoption of nation-wide policies in those areas. He has been part of the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee that rewrote the School Health Manual, and has been a presenter for the Academy at the national level. 

Andringa’s dedication to athletics has spanned his lifetime. He has served as the team physician for Madison Memorial High School since 1972, where his four children were very active interscholastic athletes.  In recognition for his years of service, Madison Memorial honored him by naming it sports facility the “Conrad Andringa Fieldhouse.”  

In addition to his long term on the WIAA Medical Advisory Committee, his dedication to high school student-athletes continued with his role as the WIAA State Tournament Physician in the sports of football, baseball, wrestling, soccer, swimming and diving, hockey and track & field.

Another significant contribution to the world of athletics is his role as the team physician for the United States Men’s Hockey Team in the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Andringa has received numerous honors for the significant impact he has had on athletics in Wisconsin.  He was inducted into the Madison Sports Hall of Fame and the Madison Skating Hall of Fame; he received the Dave McClain Distinguished Service Award by the Wisconsin Football Coaches Association; he was named Olympian of the Year by the Madison Service Club; and he received the Blue Line Club Service Award.

Upon graduation in 1956, he attended undergraduate and medical school at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and graduated in 1963.  Following an enlistment in the United States Air Force, Andringa returned to Madison to begin practicing pediatric medicine.  This continued until his recent retirement from the Dean Clinic West in July, 2015.

His love for high school sports began with his own athletic career at Waukesha High School, where he competed in football, swimming and track & field.  He was a State swim finalist in two events, and was part of an All-American Freestyle Relay team.