MOHAWK MOUNTAINEER HALL OF FAME
Three soccer stars were among five athletes and a team inducted into the Mohawk Mountaineer Hall of Fame at the college Saturday.
Three soccer stars were among five athletes and a team inducted
into the Mohawk Mountaineer Hall of Fame at the college Saturday
(June 9).
Two time OCAA League All-Star Christine Stoneman
was a member of the 1998-99 OCAA championship soccer squad. She
also won OCAA silver and bronze medals during her three years at
Mohawk, set a record with seven goals in one game and was named to
the OCAA Women's Soccer All-Millennium Team. Stoneman was the
recipient of the prestigious Dr. Sam Mitminger Award for academic
and athletic excellence by a graduating player.
Anthony Notarianni, a two-time all-star, led his
men's soccer team to OCAA silver medals in both 1990 and 1992.
Twice he was named MVP, was selected a CCAA All-Canadian, while
captaining his team and took home Mohawk's Outstanding Male Athlete
Award. Notarianni was named to the OCAA Men's Soccer All-Millennium
Team.
Three time OCAA All-Star men's soccer player John
Sozio was the Mountaineer MVP in both 2000 and 2001 and
was selected the Outstanding Male Athlete at Mohawk in both of
those years. Sozio became Mohawk's first OCAA Overall Athlete of
the Year across all OCAA sports, was a two-time CCAA All-Canadian
and was named to the OCAA Men's Soccer All-Millennium Team.
Golfer Dave Storoschuk won OCAA individual silver
medals in both 1977 and 1978. He helped Mohawk to a fourth place
finish in the team competition the first year, then led the
Mountaineers to the gold medal the second year. A two-time team
MVP, who was also selected Mohawk's Outstanding Male Athlete of the
Year, Storoschuk was named to the OCAA Golf All-Millennium
Team.
Rugby star Kevin Bundy had a great debut at
Mohawk, as the Mountaineers won the OCAA gold medal his first
season in 2000-01. The following year he was the team's MVP, an
OCAA league All-Star and was the Outstanding Male Athlete at the
college. In his last season, Bundy was again the team MVP, an OCAA
All-Star, OCAA All-Academic and captured the Dr. Sam Mitminger
Award.
The 1985-86 Mohawk women's basketball squad enters the Mountaineer
Hall of Fame as a 'Team of Distinction'. After running the table
with a perfect 14-0 OCAA regular season, Mohawk won the OCAA
championship with a 75-65 win over Fanshawe in the gold medal game.
They then became the first Ontario team to win a bronze medal at
the CCAA Championship. Their lone loss was to eventual champion
Dawson College. The Mountaineers, coached by Hall of Famer
Earl Begg, were led by OCAA and CCAA All-Star
Marcine Blake and OCAA All-Star Claudia
DeIulio, who was second in league scoring.
Other members of the team included Theresa Kay, Joanne Laforest, Jalea Filiatrault, Deb Rensen, Michelle Osenenko, Pam Rocca, Lesley Anne Grill, Carolyn Meech and Candy Armstrong and assistant coaches Peter Stoyakovich and Mary Hrycay.
Source: Mohawk College
