sports spotlight: debbie MUEGGENBORG

By Mike Tupa

Bartlesville Area Sports Report

DEBBIE MUEGGENBORG

Not all sports legends are rocket-footed, cloud-climbing, marble-muscled, junkyard dog-pugnacious, meticulously-coordinated paradigms of athletic prowess.

Or crafty, charismatic coaches possessing the cumulative instincts of foxes, sharks and tigers, and are a composite of X’s and O’s Einsteins and jock-wise Freudian attitude manipulators.

Sometimes they’re just ubiquitous “ordinary” people with extraordinary talents, energy, vision, organization skills, a love of athletes and athletic competition done right and loyalty to community.

Such might describe Debbie Mueggenborg. Her past as an athlete is unknown. Her past as one of Bartlesville’s most successful behind-the-scenes movers and shakers in the sports realm is well known by those in the know.

Despite a hectic professional career and keeping up with her two athletic sons, Jeff and Gregg, Mueggenborg volunteered countless hours in the early-to-late 2000s as the co-chairperson (along with Charlie Bowerman) for the Bartlesville American Legion World Series (ALWS) Committee.

This group oversaw Bartlesville's extremely successful performance in hosting both the 2003 and 2007 ALWS tournaments.

Her commitment was extraordinary — including multiple trips spread through a number of years to Indianapolis to help pitch Bartlesville’s bid to host the ALWS.

Debbie Mueggenborg