Pete played in two Super bowls for the Raiders, winning the Championship in 1975. Pete became over time the 4th leading rusher in Oakland Raider history, and currently hold the team record for rushing touchdowns with 52 in his storied career. He is also the third leading scorer in Raider team history.

Meanwhile, back at Crivitz High School, a mild uproar was taking place as Green Bay Packer fans of Pete Banaszak all hoped for a great game by the Crivitz alumni, but a Packer victory. In Super Bowl II, that's exactly what they got as Pete had a great game for the Raiders, who were beaten 33-14 by the Vince Lombardi led Green Bay Packers.

In 1970, Crivitz High School started an athletic and scholarship award handed out to the outstanding senior student athlete. Every year since, the Crivitz Wolverine Booster Club has named a Pete Banaszak Award recipient. Since 1983, there have been boys and girls honored each year.

Saturday evening, May 30, 2009 marked the 40th year for the Pete Banaszak Award to be handed out, and this just happened to be Pete's number for the University of Miami and the Oakland Raiders. Pete was contacted, and agreed to come back as the guest speaker and to hand out the trophies to the fortieth year winners.

Weyauwega-Fremont Track & Cross Country Coach, Arnie Behnke was the first ever winner of the Pete Banaszak Award back in 1970. Coach Behnke and almost three dozen past winners were at the ceremony honoring Mr. Banaszak, who will have his Crivitz football number retired this fall at one of the home football games. Coach Behnke was responsible for introducing the main speaker of the evening.

The Crivitz Booster Club, led by President Jon Behnke, put on a whale of a show, putting on a spaghetti dinner, and invited all the old award winners to return for this historic ceremony commemorating the first forty years of the highest award given to any Crivitz Student-Athlete.

Here is the list of the Pete Banaszak Award Winners at Crivitz High School.

1970:  Arnie Behnke, Wega-Fremont Track & CC Coach

1971:  Ralph Wesoloski

1972:  Glenn Seyfert

1973:  Jerry Fancher

1974:  Tom Walters

1975:  Barry Franzen

1976:  Roman Maye

1977:  Andy Boduch

1978:  Jerry Kamps

1979:  Joe Baranek

1980:  Bill Plucker

1981:  Kathy Walters-Steiner

1982:  Mark Hassman

1983:  Rob Kabacinski & Becky Tillotson

1984:  Jeff Weber & Becki Kotecki-Portier

1985:  Al Osten & Julie Piasecki-Chilcote

1986:  Jim Picket & Debby Woods-Smith

1987:  John Jacomet & Laura Gehm-Kline

1988:  Tom Tomaszewski & Jodi McDowell-Matelski

1989:  Wayne Steigelman & Chris Stocki-Ruby

1990:  Buck Gehm & Kim Kwiatkowski-Haines

1991:  Steve Petraski & Nicki Deschaine

1992:  Charley Johnson & Kris Kwiatkowski

1993:  Jason Bouche & Rebecca Descahne

1994:  Brian Wesolowski & Jodi Kwiatkowski

1995:  Brad Wesolowski & Kerri Ducaine

1996:  Kyle Hansen & Kelly Kaminski-Gust

1997:  Keith Kamps & Celeste Hoffman

1998:  Jake Franzmeier & Nicole Plucker

1999:  Josh Zorn & Amy Mommaerts-Klimek

2000:  Rob Kaas & Sara Banaszak-Wettstein

2001:  Jeremy Sherman & Randi Schubert-Brand

2002:  Scott Schramm & Tiffany Solway-Wesolowski

2003:  Scott Wolf

2004:  Jake Johnston & Kelly Zielinski-Robinson

2005:  Chris Thoma & Lindsey Kamps

2006:  Doug Benoit & Lisa Walters

2007:  Jon Tomaszewski & Kayla Gauthier

2008:  Duane Hartkopf & Amanda Kempka