Accomplishments of Our Members
Jenna Carme
Our daughter,
Jenna Carme, learned to play tennis when she was in
high school under Coach Barry McColgan. She
continued to play tennis after leaving high school and her Endicott College
team is the first to win their conference and go to NCAA Regional's in the
Spring. We would like to thank Barry for a wonderful start to a life
long pleasure. Barb & Chris Carme
Corsair Athletic Hall of Fame Induction on Friday,
October 17th
10/1/2008
(Dartmouth, MA) -- The UMass Dartmouth Corsair Hall of Fame will celebrate
its 21st anniversary on Friday, October 17, 2008 at Rachel's Lakeside in
Dartmouth when the annual induction ceremonies will take place.
The 21st anniversary induction class includes representatives from UMass
Dartmouth and one of its predecessor institutions, Southeastern Massachusetts
University (SMU). Joining the Corsair Hall of Fame this year will be Steve Camara (baseball, SMU '77), Dale Whiting (track and
field, SMU '85), Bill Casey (football, UMass Dartmouth '96), Maura McDonald
(cross country/track, UMass Dartmouth '99) and Mike Lane (swimming, UMass
Dartmouth '02). The 1997-98 UMass Dartmouth ice hockey team will
be this year's inductee in the team category.
The Corsair Hall of Fame kicks off UMass Dartmouth's 2008 Homecoming Weekend.
The Hall of Fame ceremony includes a social hour at 6:30 pm followed by
dinner and the induction ceremony. Tickets are $35 per person and must be
reserved in advance of the event by calling Jim Mullins in the UMass
Dartmouth Athletic Department at (508) 910-6930. No tickets will
be sold at the door.
Following are the biographies of the Corsair Hall of Fame Induction Class of
2008:
A freshman would have a difficult time making a bigger impression than Steve Camara (Southeastern Massachusetts University '77) did to
the Corsair baseball team in 1973. A year out of pitching at Fall
River's Durfee High, Camara
walked into Coach Bruce Wheeler's baseball program and posted a 6-0 mark in
his first season. Camara continued to
carry the load for the Corsairs throughout his four-year career, setting
several pitching records, including one that stands out more than 32 years
after his final game. Camara holds the UMass Dartmouth
career record for shutouts with nine, while also holding second in both
career strikeouts (220) and complete games (22) and is third in career starts
(37). What isn't apparent in the record books was Camara's competitiveness. During an era when
then SMU traveled throughout the region and beyond playing Division I and II
schools, Camara's performance against the
University of Maryland in 1976 stands out. After the Corsairs took an early
1-0 lead, only to go on to lose 18-1 in the first game of a doubleheader, it
was left to Camara to salvage the day. He responded
with a one-hit shutout (the hit deflected off his glove) to lift his team to
a doubleheader split. In his nomination letter, teammate Steve Taber wrote,
"Steve was a true competitor in every sense of the word. When Steve took
the mound, we always knew we had a very good chance to win and most of the
time we did."
As part of Bob Dowd's track and field program which produced a handful of
national champions, countless All-America selections and several candidates
for the Corsair Hall of Fame, Dale Whiting (Southeastern Massachusetts
University '85) accomplished a rare feat during his collegiate track and
field career. Whiting was the first Division III student-athlete
from New England to ever win the All-New England Outdoor Decathlon
Championship. Competing against the best track athletes from all
divisions in the region, Whiting won the New England championship and
advanced to the NCAA Division III Championships. He also won the
New England Division title during his career. Twenty-four years after
establishing the UMass Dartmouth decathlon record of 6,452 points, Whiting's mark still stands among the record-setting
performances by UMass Dartmouth track and field athletes. Since the Olympic
decathlon champion is often considered the "best all-around athlete in
the world," the argument could be made that Dale Whiting is the best
all-around athlete to ever represent this institution. According
to his long-time track and field coach Bob Dowd, "Dale Whiting's athletic performance in ten events, ranging
from running to throwing to jumping to vaulting, over a two-day period is one
of the best overall athletic efforts I ever witnessed in my coaching
experience."
Bill Casey (UMass Dartmouth '96) is the first Corsair football player to be
inducted into the Corsair Hall of Fame in the 20-year history of the sport at
UMass Dartmouth. In his first season Casey did everything asked of
him, playing wide receiver, defensive back and special teams. Casey took his
first snaps at quarterback late in his freshman year and was the starter as a
sophomore. By the end of his career he had led the Corsairs to their first
championship season and post-season experience. Casey was the Corsairs'
second-leading scorer with nine touchdowns, rushing for 560 yards as UMass
Dartmouth posted a 5-3 mark in 1993. Casey's junior year was the
breakout campaign for Corsair football as Casey led them to a then-school
record of 8-3, a share of the New England Football Conference title and an
invitation to the ECAC North-West Bowl game. Casey was the NEFC First Team
All-Star quarterback and first player in school history to rush for 1,000
yards in season when he picked up 1,032 yards. Casey led the NEFC
in total offense with 164.3 yards per game, and threw for nine touchdowns and
another 611 yards. In his senior season, Casey rushed for close to 500 yards,
threw for another 561 yards, scored three touchdowns and threw for five
more. For his career, Casey finished with more than 2,000 yards
rushing; an average of 4.4 yards per carry, 21 touchdowns, 16 touchdown
passes a handful of receptions, and two interceptions. Casey's
accomplishments are many but one of his records will live forever in NCAA
football history. Casey tied an NCAA record with a 99-yard run from scrimmage
in a 13-0 win over Norwich in 1995.
Maura McDonald (UMass Dartmouth '99) finished her four-year collegiate career
by competing in the 1999 NCAA Division III National Track and Field
Championships. A national championship qualification was a fitting
end to a career which spanned five years with competition in both cross
country and track and field. McDonald's accomplishments are numerous and
distinguished, having achieved regional and national success in both events.
McDonald was the 1996 Little East Conference cross country champion, while
helping her team to the LEC title. She was LEC runner up in 1998, also
earning All-New England Regional Team honors that same
year. During the outdoor track season of 1998, McDonald posted the
LEC record in the 3000 meters, a mark that still stands at 10:57.09. Her best
year in track was 1999 when she set the LEC outdoor record in the 5000, took
second indoors, earning Div III All-New England Honors and was the ECAC
Indoor champion at 5000 meters, posting a personal best 17:40. She
qualified for the 1999 NCAA Div. III Indoor nationals, placed seventh
nationally, and earned New England Alliance championships at both 1500 and
1000 meters. In total, she earned four LEC conference championships
indoors and two more outdoors. In the UMass Dartmouth track and
field record book, McDonald has seven top-six records; her best is second
all-time in the 1500 meters and a pair of thirds in the indoor 1000 and
outdoor 5000 meters.
Mike Lane's (UMass Dartmouth '02) name is prominent in UMass Dartmouth's
record books, holding four individual records more than 10 years after his
last collegiate competition. A four-time NCAA Division III
All-America, Lane's best finish was a second place in the 200-yard Breast at
the 1997 NCAA Division III championships along with three other top-eight
national championship race finishes. During the 1997 season, Lane rewrote the
Corsair record book in the breast stroke, establishing school records in the
50 (26.58), 100 (56.89) and 200 (2:03.35), while also setting the record for
the 100 IM (54.63). Lane was a three-time New England Intercollegiate
champion and record holder while going undefeated in dual meet competition in
eight individual events. Lane's collegiate swimming career is only
part of a body of competitive work that has spanned almost his entire life.
He has over twenty years of competitive swimming experience. During that
time, Lane was a 16-time All-American and a 5-time national individual and
relay champion in collegiate and masters' swimming. At the age of 35, Lane
was a finalist at the 2006 Speedo Sectional Championships in both
breaststroke events. In the summer of 2006 at the Final Masters World
Championships he took three individual top-five places and three relay
top-three finishes including a World and American record-breaking finish in
the 200-medley relay.
In 34 ice hockey seasons at UMass Dartmouth, the record for most victories in
a four-year span belongs to the senior class of 1998. Their overall
record of 92-14-2 (.861 winning percentage) produced three ECAC championships
in four years with only an overtime loss in 1996 preventing a four-year
sweep. The 1997-98 Corsair Ice Hockey Team capped that great run
with a 22-5 overall record and a third league championship. Coach John Rolli's team finished the season with a 4-2 ECAC
North/Central/South championship game victory at St. Michael's College, their
third straight road victory in the tournament. Defenseman Kayne
Beaudry, selected as the game's Most Outstanding
Player, scored the game-winner late in the first period. Goalie Ryan Sloper completed a solid playoff run with 23 saves for
the victory, his third in as many games. Captain Steve Bartkus
and Beaudry were ECAC Central All-League selections
as well as New England Hockey Writers Division III
All-Stars. Bartkus was the team's
leading scorer (28-30-58), with Jim Egan second (21-21-42), followed by Jamie
DiBona (20-17-37) and Pat Shultz (17-19-36). Sloper and Louis Weimann shared
the Corsairs' goaltending duties as Sloper posted
an 11-3 record with one shutout, a 3.80 GAA and a .892 saves percentage,
while Weimann was 10-2 with a 3.87 GAA and a .880
saves percentage. Bartkus and Schultz
placed their names in the Corsair record books. Bartkus set power play records for both a season (13) and
career (29). Schultz set shorthanded goal records for a single-season (seven)
and career (8).
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