Oct 1: The 1999 men's national championship soccer team will be joined by six outstanding former St. Lawrence University athletes when St. Lawrence conducts its annual Athletic Hall of Fame induction on Saturday, Oct. 12.
The undefeated and untied soccer team will be joined by national champion rider Audrey Sparre '78, football and wrestling All America Dave Hudson '80, lacrosse All America Sam Hovey '87, ice hockey All America and Hobey Baker finalist Dan Laperriere '92, cross country All America and Olympian Lawton Redman '98 and field hockey and lacrosse All America Stacy Turner '02 to comprise the Hall of Fame class of 2013. The induction ceremony will take place at the Eben Holden Dining Hall at noon on Saturday, Oct. 12. Tickets are $25.00 each and may be reserved by calling
Cheryl Kennedy at 315-229-5418.
The St. Lawrence Athletic Hall of Fame currently includes 215 alumni, 10 former coaches and the late registrar Helen "Tommie" Whalen, whose support of athletic earned her a honorary letter. Also included are 19 special team inductions, recognizing the outstanding teams in SLU program history.
The latest team to join the Hall of Fame is the first men's team in NCAA Division III history to run the table en route the NCAA Championship. The 1999 men's soccer team went 22-0-0, winning the program's first national title in its fourth tournament appearance in a five year stretch. The team went 17-0-0 in the regular season, the second consecutive unbeaten and untied regular season, and went 5-0-0 in the NCAA tournament. Opening with a 3-1 win over Norwich, the Saints won the regional title with a 4-1 win over Plattsburgh and then beat Messiah 1-0 in the quarterfinals, Alma 2-0 in the semifinals and Wheaton 2-0 in the final.
Combined with a 17-0-2 record in 1998, the team was part of a 60-game non-losing streak, a 29-game win streak and a 40-game regular season consecutive win streak. It outscored its opposition 62-15 and posted 12 shutouts including the final three in the NCAA tournament. It featured the 1999 NCAA Division III Player of the Year in Dan Annan Jr. and three other All America players: first team selection Ali Montacer and second team choices Nick Hillary and Ryan Carruth. Coach
Bob Durocher was the NCAA Division III National Coach of the Year in addition to earning regional and league coach of the year honors.
Sparre is one of the only four-time open competition qualifiers for the Intercollegiate Horse
Show Association national championships in Saint program history. She was the 1978 IHSA Champion in open horsemanship over fences and remains the Saints' only national champion in that class today. Consistently among the high point riders in the region during her intercollegiate career, she was a member of the 1976 and 1977 IHSA Cartier Cup national championship teams. She was the only SLU individual qualifier and was regional open champion both on the flat and over fences as a freshman and the top over fences rider as a sophomore. She qualified for nationals both on the flat and over fences as a junior and was again regional high point rider as a senior.
Following graduation she went to work for Outward Bound USA. In later years she earned a master's degree in family therapy, She is now the Vice President and Chief of Operations for Homes with Hope in Westport, CT.
Hudson was a four-year starter on the offensive line in football and an outstanding heavyweight on the wrestling team as an undergraduate, earning All America honors in both sports and captaining both
teams. He earned first-team All America honors at tackle as a senior football co-captain and was a member of the 1976 NCAA semifinalist football team and on the 1978 NCAA team. He was a key blocker on offensive lines which produced some of the most prolific offensive attacks in program history. A three-time conference champion and a New York State champion in wrestling, he earned All America honors at heavyweight as a sophomore. He wrestled on two NCAA top ten teams during his career and captained the team as a junior and senior.
Following graduation, he spent two years as a graduate assistant coach and then began his prep coaching career at Phillips Exeter. He returned to St. Lawrence as head wrestling coach in 1991 and earned New York State Coach of the Year honors. He returned to the prep ranks following his SLU career and coached at Governor Dummer before returning to Phillips Exeter as athletic director. He is currently Exeter's wrestling coach and has earned New England Coach of the Year honors and the Brown Teaching Award from Phillips Exeter.
Hovey remains the all-time leading scorer in Saint lacrosse history and was a two-time All America. He
helped his teams to two NCAA tournament appearances in his four years as a starter and was a two-year captain. He holds the career record for goals with 160 and points with 273 and is fourth on the all-time assist list with 113. He is third in season goals with 53 as a junior and is second on the goals in a game list with seven. He played on teams which went 46-23 in his four seasons and captained the 13-4 1987 team.
Sam earned his degree in government in 1987 and is now a financial advisor with Northwestern Mutual. He is a member of the Million Dollar Roundtable.
Laperriere was a record-setting defenseman for the 1992 ECAC Champion men's hockey team, earning first team All America honors and finishing as runner-up for the Hobey Baker Memorial Trophy. He is theSLU record holder for points in a career, points in a season, assists in a
career and assists in a season by a defenseman and is the only defenseman on the all-time assists list with 106. He finished his SLU career with 128 points on 22 goals and 106 assists, setting the record for points in a season (53) and assists in season (45) as a senior. He was first-team All-ECAC, ECAC Player of the Year, All America and Hobey Baker finalist in 1992 and the MVP of the ECAC tournament. He was the second player in SLU history to earn Player of the Year honors and the first defenseman to do so. He was assistant captain of the 1991 team and captain of the 1992 squad.
A draft choice of the St. Louis Blues, he had a 16-year professional hockey career which included teams in the National, International and American hockey leagues, Germany, Switzerland and the Central Hockey League. He played 48 games in the NHL with the Blues and Ottawa Senators, 417 games in the IHL, AHL and CHL and 388 in the German and Swiss professional leagues prior to his retirement as a player in 2008. He was a coach in the AHL and at the time of induction is a professional scout for the Colorado Avalanche.
Redman was a three-sport standout, competing in cross country, Nordic skiing and track. He went on to represent the United States in the 2002 Winter Olympics in the biathlon. The 1998 Male Athlete of the
Year, he earned All America honors in cross country and was a three-time conference champion. He qualified for the NCAAs in Nordic skiing and was a standout at 5,000 and 10,000 meters in outdoor track. Captain of the cross country team in 1996 and 1997, he was Upstate Collegiate Athletic Association champion in 1995, 1996 and 1997 and was New York State Collegiate Track Association cross country champion and Runner of the Year in 1997. A consistent top-15 finisher in EISA Nordic skiing, he qualified for the 1997 NCAAs at Stowe.
Following graduation he joined the US Army and was a member of the Army's World Class Athlete Program, competing in the biathlon. He won three consecutive US Biathlon National CHampionlship races in 2001 and 2002 leading up to the Olympics. A Blackhawk helicopter pilot, he is a MEDEVAC pilot for the Vermont Army National Guard. He has deployed to Iraq twice.
Turner is the all-time leading scorer in both field hockey and women's lacrosse, earning first-team All America honors in both sports and was named the New York State Senior Scholar-Athlete and Saint
Outstanding Senior Athlete in 2002. She earned first team All America honors in field hockey in both 2000 and 2001 and was a three-time regional All America. She led her teams to SLU's first-ever NYWSCAA and ECAC Championships and to the NCAA Regionals in field hockey. She was MVP of the 2000 ECAC tournament and played in the North-South All Star game as a senior. She set the record for goals in a season with 31 and assists in a season with 17 for a record 79 points in 2000. She matched the record for points in a game with 10 and finished her career with 63 goals and 163 points. She was a four-time all-league choice in field hockey and a three-time all-academic selection. Also a four-time all-league choice and three-time all-academic in lacrosse, she earned first team All America honors as a senior, setting the record for goals in a season with 85 and points in a season with 122. She completed her lacrosse career with a record 240 goals, and the records for assists with 73 and points with 313. She holds the record for points in a game with 13 and scored 50 or more goals in three straight seasons.
Stacy is an actuary/strategy analyst and an associate of the Society of Actuaries and a member of the American Academy of Actuaries.
