Courtesy: Mount St. Mary's Sports
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Release: 03/17/2008
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Courtesy: Mount St. Mary's Sports
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EMMITSBURG, MD--Mount St. Mary's University
inducted several new members into the Mount St. Mary's Sports Hall
of Fame on Saturday in Patriot Hall on the Mount campus.
This year's inductees include Amy Langville, C'97; Dennis
Toomey, C'91; and the 1981 men's basketball team which includes
Dennis Dempsey, Michael Johnson, Tom Looney, Steve Rossignoli, Jim
Rowe, Durelle Lewis, Michael Jones and Joe Reedy.
Amy Langville, C'97 excelled in basketball. She was named to the
All-Northeast Conference First Team twice and made the Second Team
once. Langville also held the title NEC Player of the Year for the
1995-1996 season, and was a key player in the Mount's three
consecutive Northeast Conference championships (1993, 1994, and
1995). During those three seasons she was named to the
All-Tournament team and she was tournament MVP for the 1994-1995
season. Senior year, Langville was not only an NEC Scholar Athlete
but scored her 1,000th career point in January 1997. To this day,
Langville remains on four top-ten lists at the Mount- she is third
in made 3-pointers with 104; fourth in attempted 3-pointers with
304; fourth in assists with 513; and fourth in assists per game
4.9. Not only was she an exceptional athlete but she was a talented
scholar as well. Langville received the Edward J. Flanagan Memorial
Prize, the Rev. Phillip A. Barrett Scholarship Prize, and was named
a Marion Burke Knott Scholar as well as an All-American
Academic.
Dennis Tommey, C'91 is one of the best players in Mount men's
golf history. He remains the only player ever to win Northeast
Conference medalist honors in golf; and he did so twice, winning
the NEC Conference championship as a junior with a then-record
score of 149, and again as a senior after posting a two-day score
of 152 in a playoff. Tommey also won medalist honors at the
Dickinson Invitational and was the only golfer to break par over
the 6,735-yard, par-72 Monroe Valley layout at the 31st Annual
Lebanon County Amateur Golf Tournament in 1990. Toomey is the first
inductee into the Mount St. Mary's Hall of Fame in the sport of
golf.
The 1981 Men's Basketball Team was a remarkable team with
talented players. The Gettysburg Times predicted in November of
1980 that the season had the potential to make its mark in Mount
history. And they were right. The 1981 Team is the only Mount team
other than the 1962 NCAA Champions to ever play in an NCAA
Championship game. They tied the school record of most wins in a
season with 28, and the team's .908 winning percentage still
remains a school record. The team won 24 out of the first 25 games,
before winning the NCAA Division II South Atlantic Regional and
advancing all the way to the finals. Four members are presently in
the Hall of Fame: Steve Rossignoli, Jim Rowe, Durelle Lewis, and
Joe Reedy. Joining them this year will be teammates Dennis Dempsey,
Michael Johnson, Tom Looney, Jay Bruchak, Angelo Frazier, Michael
Jones, Jim Kessler, and Vince Gersiskie.
Established in 1971 and sponsored by the National Alumni
Association, the Mount St. Mary's Sports Hall of Fame acknowledges
past athletes who "have exhibited athletic prowess of an
outstanding nature in an intercollegiate sport." Inductees over the
past years have included former members of the basketball,
football, baseball, cross country, boxing, soccer, track, tennis,
lacrosse, decathlon, field hockey, softball, and golf teams, as
well as coaches and individuals who have contributed to the Mount's
athletic program.
The late Monsignor John L. Sheridan, former president of the
Mount, had the distinction of being the first athlete elected to
membership into the Hall of Fame. A versatile athlete, Monsignor
Sheridan was captain of the Mount basketball team and an
all-Maryland football player. He graduated from the college in 1917
and was ordained to the priesthood in 1921.
