SUNY Cortland Athletics

Michael Hoppey earned two All-America honors as a men's lacrosse attackman for the Red Dragons. He taught and coached in the Three Village School District for more than 30 years.
 
* A native of Setauket, N.Y., he earned a Bachelor of Science in Education in Physical Education from Cortland in 1978 and a Master of Liberal Arts from SUNY Stony Brook in 1986.
 
* Four-year lacrosse player from 1975-78. Posted career totals of 118 goals and 105 assists for 223 points. Graduated as Cortland's career leader in points and assists and second in goals, and still ranks sixth in assists, seventh in points, and 12th in goals scored.
 
* Member of Cortland's 1975 NCAA Division II championship team. Scored two goals in Cortland's 11-10 win over Hobart in the national championship game. His teams also played in the NCAA Division II quarterfinals in both 1976 and 1977 and advanced to the Division II semifinals in 1978, and they won the SUNYAC's first championship in the sport in 1978 with a 5-0 regular-season record.
 
* First Team All-American in 1978 after recording 30 goals and 37 assists for 67 points, and was a second team All-American in 1977 with 48 goals and 37 assists for 85 points. His point total in 1977 still ranks fifth on Cortland's career charts.
 
* Team captain as a senior and won the team's Red Letter Award in both his junior and senior seasons. Selected to compete in the 1978 North/South Senior All-Star Game.
 
* Coached lacrosse on the scholastic level for 35 years and football for 17 seasons, along with other coaching experience in wrestling, soccer, volleyball, tennis and basketball.
 
* Physical education teacher and coach in the Three Village Central School District on Long Island from 1981-2013. Head coach at Ward Melville High School, his alma mater, from 2006-2013; team won 2013 New York State Class A title, finished 21-0 and was voted the top team in the nation. Also served as head coach at Mount Sinai High School from 2004-05, and was the assistant varsity coach from 1997-2001 for Ward Melville teams that won three state titles and finished second once.
 
* Inducted into the Long Island Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 1999 and Ward Melville High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2007.
 
* Volunteer for Special Olympics Play Days from 1995-2005.
 
* His late father, Robert Hoppey '55, was a 1987 C-Club Hall of Fame inductee.