StFX Sports Hall of Fame to welcome 1986 X-Women Soccer team

The StFX Sports Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction Ceremony is taking place this Thursday evening, September 30th on the campus of StFX University. 

The StFX Department of Athletics is pleased to be inducting four athletes, one builder and one team into the 2010 induction class. The four athletes receiving entry include X-Men football players Burns McPherson (1970) and Don Dempsey (1985), X-Women basketball standout Diane Orsini (1971) and X-Men hockey forward David Purcell (1988). Being inducted into the builder category is former X-Men hockey coach Danny Flynn (1979) and entering in the team category is the 1986 AUS champion X-Women soccer team.

Each day this week, leading up to the Sports Hall of Fame Dinner and Induction ceremony, we will profile one or two of the inductees and highlight their accomplishments.

1986 Women’s Soccer Team.  Under the direction of Hall of Fame Builder Peggy Gallant, the 1986 Women’s Soccer Team won the first ever AUS women’s soccer title for StFX and enters the Hall of Fame in the team category.  This AUS soccer title was the first ever AUS-sanctioned conference championship victory for any female sports team at StFX. The X-Women also made history as the winners of the first AUS-sanctioned women’s soccer championship.  This celebrated team featured a strong contingent of 11 Antigonish soccer players.  Team members include: Laurie (MacKenzie) Boucher, captain Trina (Ross) Chisholm, Sharon Cunningham, Marsha Fairfield, Tanya (MacMillan) Feltmate, Lorraine Gavin, Heather Hickson, Joanne (Cecchetto) Hubert, Jane MacDonald-Lacey, Shelene (Burke) MacDonald, Chrissy MacDougall, Colleen (Chisholm) MacDougall, Karla Marsh, Margot McKenna, Michelle (MacDonald) Mertens, Lynn (MacIsaac) Murphy, Janice (Thompson) Pedlar, Sheena (Granville) Quish, Kathy Ross, Susan (Lawson) Stewart, assistant coach Theresa Doyle and head coach Peggy Gallant.

The StFX Sports Hall of Fame was founded in 1976 and exists to honor those individuals who have contributed significantly to StFX sports as athletes, teams or as builders. Those chosen inductees have exemplified the spirit and ideals of Xaverian athletics in their professional and community lives.
The induction portion of the evening this coming Thursday night will be webcast live courtesy of StFX Athletics and the Streaming Sports Network. Click on www.ssncanada.ca beginning at 8:00 pm AST to tune into the event.