THE VIRGINIAN-PILOT
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: Sunday, April 2, 1995 TAG: 9504020169
SECTION: SPORTS PAGE: C10 EDITION: FINAL
SOURCE: STAFF STORY
DATELINE: NORFOLK LENGTH: Long : 109 lines
Former Old Dominion women's basketball coach Marianne Stanley, who won three national titles in 10 years with the Lady Monarchs, is one of five new inductees into the school's Sports Hall of Fame.
Others to be inducted Tuesday, April 25, at the Norfolk Omni Hotel include women's basketball star Kelly Lyons, sailing team member Terry Hutchinson, baseball star Kevin Bearse and the late Dick Dozier, who starred in football, baseball and basketball for the old Norfolk Division of the College of William and Mary.
STANLEY: The nation's 19th-winningest women's basketball coach with a 351-146 (.706) record. She compiled a 10-year mark of 269-59 (.820) at ODU. ODU won the AIAW titles in both 1979 and 1980, and the NCAA crown in 1985.
Stanley took over the Lady Monarch program in 1977-78 and ODU rolled to a 30-4 record and won the women's NIT title. In 1978-79, the Lady Monarchs went 35-1 to win their first national title and came back 37-1 in 1979-80 to repeat.
Stanley coached a Naismith Award winner (Anne Donovan), two national Players of the Year (Donovan and Nancy Lieberman), and four Kodak All-Americans (Lieberman, Donovan, Inge Nissen and Medina Dixon). Her Lady Monarch teams won 30 or more games four times and enjoyed eight seasons of 20 or more wins. Stanley left Old Dominion in 1987 and coached at Penn (1988-89) and Southern California (1990-93).
DOZIER: Lettered in football, basketball, and baseball for the Norfolk Division of William and Mary from 1933-36. He was a standout football player at fullback and quarterback, while playing guard in basketball and second base and shortstop in baseball.
Dozier quarterbacked one of the most successful football teams in the school's history. In 1935, the team compiled a 7-1 record, losing only to East Carolina Teachers College, now East Carolina University. Tom Scott, the school's first athletic director selected Dozier as one of the Division's top athletes of that era.
An outstanding defensive player, Dozier led the 1935 basketball team to an 11-6 record. He hit .296 in 1935 on the baseball squad and wrote for the student newspaper, the High Hat.
BEARSE: One of the most dominating pitchers in Old Dominion baseball history. The 6-foot-2 lefthander is still the Sun Belt Conference and ODU all-time strikeout leader with 325 in 316 innings. He compiled a 28-11 career record and topped it off as a sophomore when he was 14-3 with a 2.87 earned run average in 1985 to help lead the Monarchs to a 50-11 record and the Sun Belt Conference Championship. That year, Bearse was named third team All-American by Baseball America magazine.
Bearse still owns the school's mark for strikeouts in a nine-inning game with 15 against Norfolk State in 1984 and Jacksonville in 1987. He earned his degree in August of 1993 in marketing education.
Bearse was drafted in 1987 in the 22nd round by Cleveland. In the summer of 1990, he became the sixth Monarch to pitch in the major leagues, hurling in three games for Cleveland. He retired from baseball because of an arm injury in 1991. He is teaching and coaching at his alma mater, Dickenson High School in Atlantic Heights, N.J.
HUTCHINSON: The nation's premier collegiate sailor for four straight years. He earned first team All-American honors in each of his four seasons at ODU.
He was named the National Collegiate Sailor of the Year in 1989 and 1990. Hutchinson skippered the Monarchs to the 1989 Sloop and Dinghy Collegiate National Championships. He took second in the 1990 Collegiate Singlehanded National Championships.
In 1990, Hutchinson steered the Monarchs to the Collegiate Team National Championship and helped ODU twice earn the Fowle Trophy, given to the school with the most points in all five national championship events.
Hutchinson was named Old Dominion's Alumni Association Male Athlete of the Year in 1990. He graduated with a degree in marketing education in 1990. He works for Sobstat sailmakers and is a professional sailor. He lives in Newport, R.I., with his wife, the former Lady Monarch All-American, Shelley Shepker.
LYONS: One of only five Lady Monarchs to score more than 2,000 career points and grab more than 1,000 career rebounds. She averaged 24.7 points and 10.2 rebounds from 1986-1990. In 1990, she led the nation in field goal percentage at .694 and was selected as a Sports Illustrated Player of the Week.
Lyons was a three-time All-Sun Belt performer and scored 2,224 career points and had 1,008 career rebounds. She scored a career high 42 points in 1989 against fourth-ranked Texas.
Lyons was a Kodak All-District selection in 1989 and 1990. She was the Virginia Collegiate Player of the Year and member of the USA National team in the World University games in 1989. In 1990, Lyons was the Sun Belt Tournament MVP and the Old Dominion University Alumni Association Female Athlete of the Year.
Lyons graduated in 1990 with a degree in marketing.
She played two of years of professional basketball in Europe. She is married to John Cash and resides in New Castle, Ohio, with her husband and new baby daughter, Abigail, born in February.
The Sports Hall of Fame social begins at 5:30 p.m. and the Induction ceremony will start at 6:16 p.m. on April 25.
The awards banquet will follow in the main ballroom at 7 p.m. Tickets are $25 and can be purchased at the Old Dominion ticket office at 683-4444. ILLUSTRATION: Photos
Marianne Stanley
Kevin Bearse
Kelly Lyons
Terry Hutchinson
Dick Dozier
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