SCHENECTADY, N.Y. – The Union College Department of Athletics is proud to announce the newest class of inductees into the Union Athletics Hall of Fame, as seven individuals and two teams will be recognized as part of the Class of 2019.
 
The College's 14th induction class includes five former All-Americans: football powerhouse Tom Arcidiacono '07, women's soccer star Brittany Cressman '05, soccer and softball record-setter Julie Gawronski '06, men's hockey trailblazer Jack Rankin '80 and field hockey groundbreaker Carolyn Zutell '88; as well as longtime men's soccer coach Bob Magee and pioneering head coach Martha Morrison. In addition, the 1975 men's soccer team and the 1999 women's lacrosse team will also be inducted as Teams of Distinction.
 
With this year's class, the number of individuals inducted into the Hall of Fame climbs to 87 since the first ceremony in 2002, while the number of Teams of Distinction rises to 15 since the honor was first awarded in 2007.
 
The biennial celebration is set to take place on Saturday, November 9 at College Park Hall in Schenectady. Registration for the event are available now at www.UnionAthleticsTickets.com, so be sure to register so you can join us in celebrating the accomplishments of these former student-athletes and coaches.
 
Tom Arcidiacono '07
In four years with the Union College football team from 2003-06, Tom Arcidiacono completely rewrote the school record books on the way to one of the most prolific careers in NCAA Division III history.
 
He finished his career 16th in D-III annals with 4,919 rushing yards, eclipsing the previous school record by an amazing 1,300 yards, and still ranks 32nd in D-III history in career rushing yards. A 2018 inductee into the Capital District Football Hall of Fame, he was named to D3football.com's All-Decade Team for the 2000s, was an AFCA and D3football.com All-America selection and Liberty League Offensive Player of the Year in both 2005 and 2006, and was named D3football.com (2005) and ECAC (2005, 2006) Regional Player of the Year as well.
 
He was named a finalist for the Gagliardi Trophy as the nation's top player during the team's dominant 2005 campaign, when he rushed for a school-record 1,954 yards and 20 touchdowns in 12 games, a mark that ranked 13th in D-III history at the time. He put an exclamation point on that season by rushing for 264 yards and five touchdowns in an NCAA Tournament victory over Ithaca College, the second-most yards in a game in program history. He added one more score in the next round against Rowan University to give him a school-record 54 touchdowns in 40 games.
 
Brittany Cressman '05
In the impressive history of the Union College women's soccer team, there has only been one player to earn multiple All-America honors, and that player is Brittany Cressman.

Cressman starred for four years on the pitch for the Dutchwomen from 2001-04, finishing her career with 49 goals and 43 assists for 141 points in 83 games – making her one of only 58 D-III women's soccer players ever to record 40 goals and 40 assists in a career. She remains the school's all-time leader in assists in addition to ranking second in goals, points and games played, while also boasting the top-two single-season assist totals and two of the three highest single-season point totals in program history.
 
She was named to the NSCAA All-America second team for the first time in 2003, when she set the school single-season record with 18 assists and added 16 goals for 50 points. She then earned NSCAA All-America second-team honors again in 2004, which she added to Liberty League Player of the Year honors after once again scoring 16 goals with 18 assists as a senior, making her the only player in school history to twice reach 50 points in a season. She capped her career by earning Most Valuable Player honors at the 2004 ECAC Upstate Championship, scoring both goals in the title-game win over Plattsburgh State that gave Union a program-record 19 wins for the second straight year.
 
Julie Gawronski '06
In four years as a starter with the Union women's soccer and softball teams, Julie Gawronski did a lot to ensure her teams didn't lose. So much so, in fact, that her teams boasted a combined 183-33-5 (.839) record and reached seven NCAA Tournaments during her time in Schenectady from 2002-06.
 
Gawronski was a force in the outfield for the Union softball team, where she was named the program's first and (to date) only NFCA All-America first-team selection in 2005. A three-time NFCA All-Region selection and two-time Liberty League Player of the Year, she graduated as the school's all-time leader in seven different categories and still ranks top-four in nearly every statistical category: second in runs batted in (121); third in runs scored (123), home runs (18), triples (9) and total bases (282); and fourth in batting average (.410), slugging percentage (.645), on-base percentage (.463), hits (179) and doubles (31).
 
Gawronski's job on the soccer field was to prevent goals, and she did that better than arguably any other player in school history. She posted a 61-8-5 record with 31 shutouts as a four-year starter with a miniscule 0.52 goals against average in more than 6,629 minutes between the posts, holding school records in all of those categories. A two-time NSCAA All-Region selection and three-time All-Liberty League pick, she owns the three-highest single-season win totals in school history, including a 19-2-1 mark in 2004 that featured an incredible 15 shutouts and only seven goals allowed in nearly 2,000 minutes of action.
 
In addition to her exploits in competition, Gawronski was a four-time CoSIDA Academic All-District selection (the second-most in school history) and also was named a CoSIDA Academic All-America second-team honoree in softball to cap her career.
 
Bob Magee
In 18 seasons at the helm of the Union men's soccer team from 1973-90, Bob Magee helped to establish a tradition of success and guided the program to many of the best years in school history.
 
Inheriting a team that had won 13 games in the previous three seasons combined, Magee guided the Dutchmen to a winning season in his first year and to a 13-2-0 record by his third year in 1975, a mark that is tied for second on the school single-season wins list. In all, he posted a 148-93-18 (.641) record in 18 seasons, ranking as the program's career leader in winning percentage and sitting second in total wins. His .641 winning percentage ranked third-best of any Union coach ever when he left in 1990, and it still ranks ninth all-time among coaches with a tenure of at least five years. Five of Union's seven NCAA Tournament appearances and three of Union's four All-America selections occurred during Magee's mentorship.
 
Three of the five highest single-season win totals came under Magee's watch, including a remarkable four-year stretch from 1983-86 that saw the Dutchmen go a combined 48-10-5 and reach four straight NCAA Tournaments. The 1983 team won two NCAA Tournament games to reach the third round for the first and only time in school history, while each season saw Union ranked in the top-10 of the Intercollegiate Soccer Coaches Association of America national poll.
 
Martha Morrison
As a coach of no fewer than four Union teams between 1977-97, Martha "Marty" Morrison helped to establish multiple female sports in the early stages of coeducation at Union and affected the lives of countless female student-athletes in the process.
 
Morrison did everything during her time at Union, coaching women's lacrosse for 13 years as well as seven years with the field hockey team, six years with the women's soccer team and three years with the swimming and diving program. For a three-year stretch from 1984-87, Morrison coached soccer in the fall, swimming in the winter and lacrosse in the spring. She also served as Senior Woman Administrator at the school and helped to establish the Friends of Union Athletics program that remains a vital source of support for the Athletics Department.
 
Her first coaching appointment at Union came with the field hockey team, which she took over in 1977 and promptly led the third-year program to a 34-14-2 record over her first four years and a top seed in the 1979 New York State Tournament. She remains the program's leader in career winning percentage, posting a 52-37-3 (.582) record in seven seasons. Her longest tenure came with women's lacrosse, where she won 59 games over 13 seasons, including an 8-3 record in 1981 that marked the most wins for the program until 1998. She also coached two different Union teams to the first wins in program history, taking over the soccer program in 1983 in its third year of play and serving as the first coach of the swimming and diving program from 1984-87.
 
Then, when it seemed she had coached her last game at Union following the 1988-89 school year, Morrison helped out the department by returning to the sidelines for one last year with the field hockey and lacrosse squads during the 1996-97 school year, winning 13 games between the two teams.
 
Jack Rankin '80
One of the most important figures in modern Union men's hockey history, Jack Rankin was the program's first All-American whose excellence helped to restart the varsity program after a nearly 30-year absence.
 
When Union reinstated hockey as a varsity team prior to the 1975-76 season, Rankin was part of the original class that was the first to skate at the newly constructed Achilles Rink. He was elected tri-captain of that initial squad and filled that role in both subsequent seasons, making him one of only two players in school history to wear a letter three times. Rankin earned the program's first AHCA College Division All-America honors as a sophomore in 1976-77, as he led the team to a 22-3-1 record and a school-record .865 winning percentage. In addition to his stellar defensive play, Rankin also scored seven goals with 40 assists for 47 points in 55 games, including three goals and 23 assists during his All-American campaign.
 
Rankin became one of the first Dutchmen to make it to the professional ranks in 1978 when he signed with the Detroit Red Wings. He played two seasons with the Kansas City Red Wings of the Central Hockey League and both the Kalamazoo Wings and Fort Wayne Komets of the International Hockey League, scoring seven goals with 25 assists in 85 games on the blue line.
 
Carolyn Zutell '88
As the first female in Union College history to be recognized as an All-American, Carolyn Zutell helped to pave the way for future Dutchwomen to achieve great feats as a member of the field hockey and lacrosse teams from 1984-88.
 
On the field hockey field, Zutell helped lead the Dutchwomen to three straight winning seasons as a four-year starter, including a 10-5-1 mark as a sophomore that remained one of only four double-digit win totals in the program's first 30 years. She earned All-State second-team honors as a junior before helping the team to a 9-4 record in her senior season, when she was named a Mid-Atlantic representative on the All-America squad, a first for any Union female student-athlete, as well as earning Union's Robert. M. Ridings Award as the school's top female senior athlete. 
 
Zutell also made her mark as one of the top defenders for the Union women's lacrosse team over three varsity seasons. She helped the team earn its first New York State Tournament appearance as a sophomore in 1986, where the team finished fifth, and then started in each of her final two seasons, serving as team captain in her final year.
 
1975 Men's Soccer Team
The 1975 Union men's soccer team was one of the finest in school history, establishing a school record with 12 wins that still is tied for fifth all-time at the school and finishing with the highest single-season winning percentage ever by a Dutchman squad (.857).
 
The Dutchmen captured their first ECAC Upstate Tournament title with an 8-0 win over Plattsburgh State to finish the year on a nine-game winning streak, still the second-longest streak ever by a Union team. The squad, lead by head coach Bob Magee, also set school records for most goals scored (54) and fewest goals allowed (20) in a season and were ranked as high as ninth in New York State behind only Division I and II programs.
 
Individually, Craig Jeffries '76 HOF '04 was named the program's first All-American that season after scoring a team-leading 17 goals, a single-season record that held up for 26 years. George Garivaltis '78 also remains the school's single-season assists leader with his 11 helpers that year, while the four goals of John Denio '76 HOF '11 against Plattsburgh State stood as the school single-game record for 12 years.
 
Team Members:
Parker Antin '77
Jim Bacharach '76
Dan Breg '77
Mark Decker '79
John Denio '76 (captain)
Ted Dunn '81
Richard Earl '76
Tim Fitzgerald '76
Mel Fuller '76
George Garivaltis '79
Peter Handy '79
Miles Hirson '76
Bob Hogan '79
Tom Howes '79
Chris Huban '76
Craig Jeffries '76 (captain)
John Kovacs '79
Jim Manning '78
Peter Martini '78
Jim Philip '76
Mark Rekucki '79
Ralph Roumain '76
Dave Sanderson '76
Alex Shafer '78
Mike Smith '78
Ira Sutton '77
Don Ward '76
Head Coach Bob Magee
Assistant Coach Bill Scanlon
 
1999 Women's Lacrosse Team
The 1999 season was a season of firsts for the Union women's lacrosse team: the first UCAA championship and first national ranking in team history, the first three All-Americans in program history, and, perhaps most impressively, the first female team at Union in any sport to make an NCAA Tournament.
 
Led by UCAA Coach of the Year Linda Bevelander, the Dutchwomen won a then-school-record 14 games against a schedule that included seven nationally ranked opponents, including a stretch of 10 straight victories that remains the third-longest streak in program annals. Union's perfect 6-0 UCAA mark and multiple wins over nationally ranked squads allowed the team to be ranked second in New York State and as high as 13th nationally, as a result earning the team an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament – the first for any female team at Union. The team's 253 goals scored still ranks second all-time on the school single-season list, while the 284 draw controls are still the most ever by a Dutchwoman team.
 
Individually, Union was led by the first three All-Americans in program history. Abby Harris '00 HOF '17 was named to the IWLCA second team after breaking the school single-season scoring record with 53 goals and 72 points. Team Most Valuable Player Sarah Moss '99 was named the UCAA Player of the Year and a second-team All-American after scoring 51 goals and grabbing a team-best 80 ground balls. Samantha Ryall '00 earned third-team All-America honors thanks to her 34 goals, 11 assists and team-leading 45 caused turnovers.
 
Team Members:
Jen Capalbo '00
Lauren Dill '01                   
Abby Harris '00
Tara Ilsley '02
Jane Kaplan '02
Stephanie Maychack '02
Margaret Merriam '01
Michelle Morrin '01
Sarah Moss '99 (captain)
Shoko Okado '99
Jessica Paige '99 (captain)
Liz Peck '02
Samantha Ryall '00
Veronica Sack '00
Alison Struzziero '01
Melanie Thornton '02
Yvonne Turchetti '02
Rebecca Walsh '02
Maura Woessner '99
Head Coach Linda Bevelander   
Assistant Coach Tracy Barclay
Manager Hillary London '00