Bio

A five-time national champion and nine-time All-American, Holly (Ozanich) Cappelle enjoyed a very decorated career while competing for the UW-Oshkosh women's track & field program from 2008-11.

Cappelle's final season as a Titan was her finest. She captured seven individual titles as UW-Oshkosh won both the Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference and National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III indoor and outdoor championships.

Cappelle was named the Outstanding Field Performer at the 2011 WIAC Indoor Championship after winning both the shot put and 20-pound weight throw. She won both of those events two weeks later as UW-Oshkosh registered its seventh Division III indoor title in program history.

Cappelle and the Titans continued their success during the 2011 outdoor season. Cappelle won both the hammer throw and shot put at the WIAC Championship before winning the hammer throw and placing second in the shot put at the Division III Championship. Cappelle's national performance helped UW-Oshkosh achieve its ninth Division III outdoor title.

The U.S. Track & Field and Cross Country Coaches Association presented Cappelle with three major awards during the 2011 season – Division III Indoor Field Athlete of the Year, Division III Midwest Region Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year and Division III Outdoor Field Athlete of the Year. She also was named the 2011 Division III Track & Field winner of the Collegiate Women's Sports Award.

Cappelle earned a pair of Division III national titles in 2010 by winning the indoor 20-pound weight throw and the outdoor hammer throw. She also placed second nationally in the indoor 20-pound weight throw in 2009 and third in the indoor and fourth in the outdoor shot put in 2010.

Cappelle accumulated seven WIAC titles, including three consecutive victories in the outdoor shot put. The other conference titles for the seven-time WIAC Athlete of the Week selection were in the 2010 indoor 20-pound weight throw and the 2009 and 2010 outdoor shot put.

Cappelle, a Green Bay East High School graduate, currently owns the outdoor hammer throw record for both UW-Oshkosh and the WIAC. She set the standard with a cast of 200-0 at the 2011 Division III Championship.

Cappelle was outstanding in the classroom as well. She was named the 2010 USTFCCCA Division III Outdoor Scholar-Athlete of the Year, 2011 WIAC Indoor Track & Field Scholar-Athlete of the Year and the 2011 UW-Oshkosh John Taylor Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year. The College Sports Communicators selected the four-time WIAC Scholastic Honor Roll member to its Academic All-America Team in both 2010 and 2011.

Cappelle, who appeared in the Faces in the Crowd section of the March 21, 2011, issue of Sports Illustrated, was selected to the WIAC All-Centennial Women's Track & Field Team in 2012.

Cappelle earned a bachelor's degree from UW-Oshkosh in 2012 and a master's degree from UW-Superior in 2021. She teaches science as well as serving as an assistant track & field and girls' basketball coach at Green Bay Preble High School.

Cappelle lives in De Pere with husband Charles and son Jackson.