Seven distinguished Laurentians and two teams will be recognized for their athletic achievements at the Robert J. Sheldon Hall of Fame Induction Dinner on Friday, June 2, 2023.

Jon Goodemote '88, Dave Tropeano '95, Steve Reynolds '00, Kyle Rank '06, M'07, Alyssa Pirinelli-Deslauriers '10 and Abby Hart (Rose) '11 and are individual inductees, while John Clark '69 has been selected in the coach/administrator category and the 2012 and 2013 back-to-back National Championship Riding Teams will be inducted as teams.

The induction ceremony will take place at 6:30 p.m. in Appleton Arena and is open to the public. Tickets are $40 per adult and $25 per child ages 6-18 and must be reserved in advance. Please call 888-758-4438 or visit https://alumni.stlawu.edu/reunion/registration/hof23 to make reservations.

The St. Lawrence Athletic Hall of Fame was established in 1979, and the 2023 class will be the Hall's 43rd. With the new inductees, it will include 297 student-athletes, 17 coaches/administrators, and 22 teams. This year's induction ceremony will be the sixth to honor the memory of former coach and athletic director, Bob Sheldon.
 

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A native of Gloversville, New York, Jon Goodemote '88, a guard and forward for the St. Lawrence University men's basketball team, Jon was a three-time team MVP and a team captain during his final two seasons. During his senior year, Jon became the tenth member in the history of the program to score 1000 points, and graduated with 1435 points, the third most points of all-time, and he currently ranks seventh on the program's scoring list. He was a three-time ICAC All-League First-Team selection and was named ICAC Player of the Year in 1988. Jon led the Saints in scoring and rebounding in each of his last three years in Scarlet and Brown. After graduation, Jon played four years of professional basketball in England for the Plymouth Raiders and two of those years he was named a league All-Star and was the top scorer on his team for all four years. He returned to the United States and earned his Master's Degree at The College of St. Rose. Jon is currently a physical education teacher at Northville Central School and has had the honor of teaching there for twenty-nine years.  While teaching there, he has coached in both the Northville School District and the Mayfield School District. He has been an assistant coach or head coach for girls soccer, boys soccer, boys basketball and girls and boys track and field teams. He and his wife Kristine have been married for 25 years and have two sons, Walker and Britain.
 
Dave Tropeano '95 grew up in Stoneham, Massachusetts playing baseball, hockey, and golf. While he's being inducted into the hall of fame as a baseball player, it was actually the hockey team that first drew his attention to St. Lawrence. While he did have a two-year stint on the Saints' JV hockey team, and later played on the football team in his final two years at St. Lawrence, it was on the baseball diamond where Dave really shined. He was a career .354 hitter and flirted with a .400 batting average in each of his final two seasons. He set a school record with 18 doubles as a senior, a mark that stood for 17 years, and his 24 stolen bases in 1995 ranks second in program history. Dave was invited to try out for the Atlanta Braves organization but was unable to attend the tryout after breaking his foot at a college all-star game in Yankees Stadium two days after he graduated from St. Lawrence. Dave has spent the last 16 years as a police officer in Charlotte, North Carolina. Dave and his wife Beth have three daughters, Meghan, Nicki and Lauren.
 
A native of Lake Placid, New York, Steve Reynolds '00 grew up on the ski slopes and followed in his family's footsteps as he became a member of St. Lawrence's Alpine ski team and the fourth in his family to join the Laurentian community. A top-level FIS skier, he earned All-American honors in 1998 and recorded a seventh-place finish in the slalom and an 11th-place finish in the giant slalom at NCAA Championships. Prior to his time with the Saints, he was a member of the United States Eastern Development Team from 1995-1996. After graduation, Steve began his career in real estate, building a development firm based out of Raleigh, North Carolina and a brokerage firm called The Reynolds Group in Lake Placid. He and his family now help sponsor the Saints Alpine Skiing MVP awards in honor of his father JD Reynolds, Class of 1964, who passed away last year. Steve and his wife Brooks have two children, their son Thomas and daughter Ava.
 
A native of Elmira, Ontario, Kyle Rank '06, M'07, was a two-sport star in Canton competing for the St. Lawrence University men's hockey and men's golf teams. As a hockey player, Kyle tallied 99 career points in his 151-game career, and helped the team improve in record in each of his four seasons going from tenth in the ECAC as a first-year to first place as a senior. He captained the Skating Saints alongside Drew Bagnall '07 during his senior year to a 23-14-2 record, a first-place regular-season finish in the ECAC, and an appearance in the NCAA Northeast Regional Semifinal. As for golf, Kyle was named Liberty League Player of the Year in 2004 and also earned All-American honors for the men's golf team in 2005. He holds golf records for single-season wins and top-10 finishes, along with career tournament wins, top-10 finishes, and scoring average. Following graduation Kyle signed a minor pro contract with the Pittsburgh Penguins and the Buffalo Sabres. After playing pro hockey in the AHL and ECHL, he married his wife Roxanne and went back to school to become a firefighter. After graduating from the fire academy, Kyle got hired by the Waterloo Ontario Fire Department, where he has worked the last 10 years and recently became Acting Captain. He and his wife Roxanne have two daughters Mckenzie and Charlotte
 
Alyssa Pirinelli-Deslauriers '10 grew up in North Tonawanda, New York, and was a two-time National Champion for the St. Lawrence University women's track and field team. She won her first at the 2010 Indoor Track and Field Championships in the shot put and defended her title at the outdoor meet. She was an 11-time All-American in shot put, hammer throw, and weight throw. She still holds the school record in all those events, as well as the Liberty League record in the weight throw and the shot put, both indoors and outdoors. She was named the Liberty League Field Performer of the Year seven times between the indoor and outdoor seasons. Undefeated at ECAC's, States, and Liberty League's during her four-year career, she was also a two-time Mid-Atlantic Regional Athlete of the Year and was named the Martha Finch Outstanding Female Student-Athlete as a senior. After graduating from St. Lawrence, Aly went on to pursue her Ph. D in Organic Chemistry from Indiana University. She now works as an Assistant Professor of Chemistry at the University of Minnesota Morris and married her husband Stephen in October of 2022.
 
Growing up in the San Francisco Bay area in a small waterfront town called Sausalito, St. Lawrence wasn't on Abby's radar, until a handwritten note showed up in her mailbox one day. Abby Hart (Rose) '11 led the St. Lawrence volleyball program to their first Liberty League title during the 2010-11 season. A team captain for all four seasons, she earned AVCA All-American Honorable Mention accolades in 2010 and was named the Liberty League Player of the Year in 2009. She also earned First-Team All-Liberty League in all four of her seasons on the court. She still holds seven program records, including career assists, matches played, and career service aces. She holds the top three highest spots in assists per season and holds four of the top five spots in the same category. Since graduation, she has built a career in recruiting. Most notably, she was the first recruiter at the Facebook Boston office when it launched in 2013 and went on to help scale the office from four engineers to over 300. Now, she works at Greylock Partners, a top venture capital firm in Silicon Valley where she helps early-stage entrepreneurs and founders hire their first employees at their company. Abby and her husband Brett have two children, their daughter Noelle and son Jack.
 
John Clark '69, a native of Fulton, New York, was a prominent high school wrestler in Section III becoming his school's first sectional champion in 1964 at 145 pounds. John became a member of the Saints' wrestling team as an athlete in 1965 the same year the program was revived at the University. It did not take him long to establish himself on the roster becoming the first ICAC Champion in program history taking the title his sophomore year at 160 pounds. He would go on to earn First-Team honors that same season and would win his second career ICAC title during his senior campaign in 1968-69. After graduation, John was drafted in the Vietnam War and came back to earn his second bachelor's degree and his Master's in Education in 1972. Shortly after, he became the Saints head coach during the 1971-72 season. As head coach of the program, John led the St. Lawrence University wrestling program and the "Iron Five" to the 1988 NCAA Division III Championship and was named the 1988 NCAA Division III Coach of the Year that same season. He also coached his wrestlers to a New York State team championship in 1977 and his teams produced nine NCAA Division III National Champions along with 64 NYS All-State place winners. Thirteen of his teams had top-10 finishes in NCAA Championships; four of them finished in the top four. His career 182-54-7 record in dual meets ranks highly among Division III schools. Upon his retirement from coaching at St. Lawrence in 1990, he took on the duties of Athletic Director for eight years and managed an athletic program that included 26 intercollegiate sports. During that time, John was instrumental in taking the Saints from the Empire Athletic Association to the Liberty League. In 2003 John was diagnosed with prostate cancer and following surgery became a spokesperson for cancer survival. Shortly after in 2004, he embarked on a dream of his, to bike, boat, and hike across Canada, something he called a "Journey to Daybreak" in which he biked 3000 miles, traveled 900 miles by sea kayak, and 500 miles on foot in Newfoundland. John would go on to publish a 173-page memoir detailing his trek. John and his wife Donna met at St. Lawrence as students in 1965 and married shortly after graduation. They have raised seven children together and have 17 grandchildren. Clark now owns and operates a bed and breakfast with his wife, Donna, just outside of Canton.
 
Since the early years of the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association, St. Lawrence University has been a top-performing school. They won the Collegiate Cup in 1973, earned back-to-back championships in 1976 and 1977, and won again in 1981. In 1997, head coach Mary Drueding took over with a plan to be at St. Lawrence for two years, luckily for the Saints she has now been coaching for the past 26 years and was once again able to lead the Scarlet and Brown to back-to-back victories in 2012 and 2013 with long-time assistants Cate Wagner and Katherine Hankin. In doing so she became the first head coach in IHSA history to win National Championships with two schools. St. Lawrence has qualified at least multiple individual students for the national championships every year since Drueding became head coach. The 2012 and 2013 back-to-back National Championship riding teams, captained by Michelle Harazim, will go down as two of the most successful teams in program history. The pair of teams make up two out of six of the national-championship winning teams for the Saints and consisted of two-time individual National Champion in Emily D'Alessandro and individual National Champions Casey Zuratis, Jenna Gunnell and Mackenzie Alderman. 386 colleges and universities start the competition season, 16 vie for the National Championship title and besting those top 16 schools once is impressive, but twice is legendary.