Six to be enshrined at ceremony, four others recognized for contributions
Tickets are priced at $45 and must be reserved by Wednesday, Oct. 21 at 4 p.m. by contacting Dr. David G. Yeo at 860-465-5166 or at yeo@easternct.edu or Scott Smith at 860-465-4326 or at smithsc@easternct.edu.
Comprisiing the 16th induction class are Jeff Brewer (baseball), Louis Canady (men's basketball), Terry Hinesley (men's soccer), Sue Mullaney (women's volleyball) Brian Murphy (baseball), and Tammy Schondelmayer (softball).
Four individuals will also join the Class of 2009 as special award recipients. Eastern will bestow a Pioneer Award upon Patti Lawson and Steve Sylvester, who served as student Sports Information Directors in the 1970s, and will present the Michael A. Atkind Exceptional Service Award to Richard Ganoe and and Dr. Edward Drew. Ganoe is the department's former Athletic Equipment Manager and Vehicle Coordinator and long-time member of the E-Club, while Drew is a retired faculty member and accomplished musician who has provided musical entertainment at each Hall of Fame ceremony.
Eastern graduate Bonnie Edmondson '87 will serve as Master of Ceremonies. Edmondson is a former Eastern track and field All-America who went on to win consecutive USATF national championships in the hammer throw and qualify for the trials of the Pan Am Games.
JEFF BREWER
A native of Rutland, VT, Brewer was a three-year member of the baseball program between 1981 and 1983 and a member of the program's first national championship in 1982. He is one of only three pitchers in program history to make his mark as both a dominant starter and closer. As a starter, the 6-foot-4 inch, 220-pound righty won 16 games in 26 career appearances, and chalked up 12 more victories and added eight saves in 34 appearances out of the bullpen. His three-year career produced a 28-11 pitching record with 247 strikeouts in 266 2/3 innings. Behind Brewer, Eastern won two regional
crowns and compiled an overall record of 104-35-1. In 1981.vA two-time first-team All-New England selection, Brewer was named third-team All-America as a sophomore in 1982, and the following June, was drafted in the tenth round of the First-Year Player Draft by the Chicago Cubs.
LOUIS CANADY
A Waterbury native, Canady was a three-time team scoring and rebounding leader who was a force on both ends of the floor, utilizing quickness and speed and a soft fadeaway jump shot to average doubled figures in points and rebounds in a 92-game career between 1974 and 1978.
The 6-foot-6, 195 pound Canady provided his teams with quiet, yet firm, leadership and a strong defensive presence in the paint, and served as a premier shot-blocker as a four-year starter. Born in Jacksonville, N.C., the "Candyman" led the Warriors in scoring, rebounding and blocked shots in each of his final three seasons and in field goal percentage twice. Canady's controlled exterior and easy personality belied a fierce competitive nature and a workman-like approach to both practice and game competition. He averaged a double-double in his career in scoring and rebounding, averaging 14.2 points and 10.4 rebounds with a career field goal percentage of .520. The two-time team captain's career total of 1,306 points ranked him fourth all-time at the time of graduation and his final rebounding total landed him just 40 shy of 1,000 caroms in a career.
TERRY HINESLEY
A goalkeeper, Hinesley backstopped the team to shutouts in nearly half of his starts in a three-year varsity career between 1984 and 1986. In his 56 starts, the Warriors posted shutouts 27 times en route to a record of 35-15-6. In each of Hinesley's three varsity seasons, the Warriors won at least a dozen matches and contested for post-season play each year. The Trumbull native started every match in which he appeared over three years (missing the first two matches of his senior season due to an ankle injury). In his career, Hinesley authored a goals-against average of 1.00 and an .850 save percentage in 5,138 minutes. Twenty-one times, he posted complete-match shutouts, including nine in his first varsity season in 1984. A two-time team captain, Hinesley was a third-team all-region selection and team MVP as a senior in 1986, when he recorded seven shutouts in one stretch of eight starts. He was also named to the prestigious New England Intercollegiate Soccer League (NEISL) All-Star Game that season. For 21 years, the rugged 5-foot-10 inch, 175-pounder remained the program's only goalkeeper to earn either all-region or NEISL all-star honors. Hinesley concluded his career by winning his final seven decisions.
SUE MULLANEY
Mullaney was a two-time all-region and team MVP selection and two-year team captain for the Warriors under Eastern Hall of Fame coach Floretta Crabtree between 1986 and 1989. The 5-foot-9 inch middle hitter from Billerica, MA led the Warriors into post-season competition each season - the team winning the 1988 ECAC tournament championship -- and graduated as the program's all-time leader in matches played (158), total blocks (257), block solos (143), and attack percentage (.320) and was second in service aces (189). As the team's only senior, Mullaney repeated as a first-team All-East Region selection and All-New England honoree after leading Division III with a program-record .459 attack percentage. Eight times in her career, Mullaney was named to all-tournament teams, garnering tournament MVP accolades at Roger Williams University as a senior. With Mullaney, Eastern averaged 32.8 wins per year and posted an overall .757 winning percentage, capturing 131 of 173 matches. In that span, the Warriors won ten in-season tournaments and were ranked nationally eight times, including a program-best third during a record 17-1 start in 1986.
BRIAN MURPHY
Murphy was a left-handed pitcher who rose from the sub-varsity to stardom in two short years. After pitching exclusively on the sub-varsity level as a freshman in 1976 and seeing limited varsity action as a sophomore, Murphy developed into the team's stopper in his final two seasons. In his junior and senior seasons, the North Grosvenor Dale native won 20 of 25 decisions with 2.09 ERA in 176 2/3 innings, completed 14 of his 24 starts, and won all three of his decisions in NCAA regional tournament competition. In his career, Murphy was 24-8 with three saves and a 2.62 ERA in 209 2/3 innings. He completed more than half (15) of his 29 career starts with four shutouts, 178 strikeouts, and 81 walks. As a junior in 1978, Murphy led Division III with 12 victories and New England Division III with a 1.61 ERA (11th nationally) on the way to third-team All-America accolades. In winning one-third of the team's 36 games that season, Murphy lost only two, completed seven of his 13 starts with three shutouts, and fashioned a 3-1 strikeout-to-walk ratio in 95 1/3 innings. Following his senior year, Murphy was drafted in the 23rd round of the 1979 First-Year Player draft by the New York Yankees.
TAMMY SCHONDELMAYER
Through 2009, no player in the 33-year history of the fastpitch softball program has started more games at shortstop than Schondelmayer, a four-year starter between 1986 and 1989. A member of four straight regional championship teams and one national titlist, Schondelmayer made 153 of her 165 career starts as a shortstop, departing the program as the all-time leader with 279 assists. The New London native took over at shortstop after starting the first nine games of her career in center field. Schondelmayer started 27 games at shortstop that year as the Warriors successfully defended their 1985 national championship. All of her starts over the final three seasons of her career were at shortstop, including the final 100. Schondelmayer's batting average improved every season, from .250 as a freshman to a team-leading .411 as a first-team all-region selection as a senior. As the program's first all-region selection ever at shortstop, Schondelmayer topped all Eastern players in 11 individual categories, among them batting, slugging and on-base average, total bases and assists. That season, Schondelmayer set the current program record with an 18-game hitting streak, batting .507 during a month-long stretch. That year, the 5-foot-9 inch, 145-pounder led the Warriors into the national tournament championship round and was named to the national all-tournament team
