Six former athletes and a former coach were named for inductioninto the Canisius College Sports Hall of Fame.
The former athletes include Golden Griffins men's lacrosse coachRandy Mearns, who played 11 seasons of professional indoor lacrossewith the Buffalo Bandits and Rochester Knighthawks. Mearns (Class of1992) was a three-year letter winner in lacrosse, setting Canisiussingle-season records for points (94) and assists (49) in 1990.
The former coach is Tom Hersey, who served as head coach forCanisius football for nine seasons and finished with a 49-42-2record. Hershey is director of student retention at Canisius. Hiscoaching career was highlighted by a 17-7 victory at Dayton in 1983.
Others named to the Hall are:
Michelle Corrigan ('94), a four-year letter winner in softballand holder of several Canisius records as a pitcher.
Daniel Mullins ('88), a four-year letter winner in cross countryand track and a member of the distance medley relay team that set aschool record of 10:19.20 in 1985-86.
Jason Rausch ('91), a four-year letter winner in baseball whoholds the Canisius record for career home runs (27) and is the onlythree-time CoSIDA Academic All-American in school history.
Cindy Ulreich Reinhard, a four-year letter winner in basketballand two-year letter winner in softball. She ranks first in Canisiushistory in career field-goal percentage (.530), including a 7 for 7game against Siena in 1988.
Amy Vredenburgh, a four-year letter winner as a catcher insoftball. She caught 10 no-hitters, including five by Corrigan. In1994 she was an All-Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference selection andhelped Canisius to its first NCAA Tournament appearance.
The ceremony will be Feb. 5 during halftime of the Canisius-Siena men's basketball game, which tips off at 2 p.m. in theKoessler Center. A pregame reception will be held in the Patrick LeeCenter. Contact the Alumni Office at 888-2700.
MEN'S BASKETBALL: Canisius announced that Bret Wackerly (Canton,Ohio) and Joe Young (Battle Creek, Mich.) have signed nationalletters of intent.
A 5-foot-11 guard, Wackerly led Stark County in scoring as ajunior, averaging 21 points a contest, and was named the RepositoryStark County Player of the Year.
Young is rated the 11th-best prospect in Michigan byPrepSpotlight.com. He averaged 16.2 points and seven rebounds as ajunior, earning all-city honors.
Elsewhere, Daemen, which defeated Tiffin (Ohio), 87-72, for itsfourth victory in five games, is ranked 12th in the nation amongNAIA schools. Darnell Jackson's 21 points led the Wildcats' victoryover Tiffin.
WOMEN'S HOCKEY: Buffalo State freshman goaltender ShannonAnesetti was named to the ECAC West Women's Hockey Weekly HonorRoll. She posted 55 saves in the Bengals' 1-1 tie with RIT andstopped 44 shots against Plattsburgh in the conference opener, a 4-0 loss. . . . College Hockey America has named Niagara junior AmyJack Offensive Player of the Week and freshman Ashley Riggs Rookieof the Week.
WOMEN'S SOCCER: University at Buffalo goalie Anna-Lesa Calvertwas named to the Mid-American Conference All-Academic Team. Shecarries a 3.67 grade-point average as a psychology major.
WOMEN'S VOLLEYBALL: Sarah Ballard (Frontier), a senior setter atRIT, has been selected to the CoSIDA Academic All-District 1 team.Ballard maintains a 3.96 GPA while majoring in industrialengineering.
