Seven new members will be inducted into the SUNY Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame during its 40th annual banquet and ceremonies on Saturday, Oct. 25, in the school's Corey Union.

The 2008 honorees are:

• James McGuidwin '63,  a standout men's soccer player for Cortland's first-ever NCAA tournament qualifying team and director of academic services at Monroe Community College from 1969-97;

• Lloyd Mott '65, a long-time director of physical education and athletics at three New York State high schools and, since 1997, the assistant director of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association;
 
• Thomas LaPuma '66, a former Cortland football quarterback and lacrosse player and long-time lacrosse coach and administrator at Herkimer County Community College;

• Paul Fernandes '67, a basketball and baseball standout at Cortland who coached the Columbia University baseball team to 493 victories over 23 years;

• Thomas Rogan '67, a highly successful men's soccer coach for 31 years at Hudson Valley Community College and a record-setting long jumper and hurdler on Cortland's track and field teams;

• Leslie Schall White '70, who led the Whitney Point field hockey program to 309 victories and five appearances in the New York State high school finals during her 29-year coaching career;

• and Joan Schockow '85, the nation's first four-time collegiate women's soccer All-American and currently the successful women's soccer head coach at SUNY Brockport.

In addition to Saturday night's official ceremony, the inductees also will be introduced at halftime of the Cortland-William Paterson football game earlier that afternoon.

Established in 1969, the C-Club Hall of Fame recognizes Cortland alumni who competed as athletes at the College and who have since distinguished themselves in their professions and within their communities. Honorary members are recognized for their long and significant contributions to SUNY Cortland athletics. New C-Club members have been added annually and this year's ceremony will bring the Hall of Fame roster to 202 alumni and 21 honorary members.

A closer look at this year's inductees follows.


James McGuidwin '63
Canandaigua, N.Y.

A sophomore starter on SUNY Cortland's first-ever NCAA Tournament team in 1960, multi-sport athlete James McGuidwin '63 still holds the College's men's soccer single season scoring record of 21 goals that he set as a junior 48 years ago.

A scholastic standout in baseball, soccer and basketball at Brighton (N.Y.) High School, McGuidwin earned all-conference, all-state and All-American honors – when there was only one collegiate men's soccer division in the U.S. — for legendary Coach T. Fred “Prof” Holloway at SUNY Cortland.

McGuidwin netted 16 goals on the freshman squad. As a sophomore, he helped Cortland become one of only eight colleges and universities in the nation to be selected for the 1960 NCAA Men's Soccer Tournament. As a junior, he tallied his record 21 goals in just 10 games. Despite moving from forward to midfield the next year, McGuidwin still ranks fourth today on the College's all-time scoring list. The senior co-captain led Cortland to a second NCAA Tournament spot and finished his career with a 24-4-1 overall mark. He was invited to United States Olympic Soccer Trials and advanced to the second of three trial rounds.

In track and field at Cortland, McGuidwin ran hurdles, relays, threw the javelin and high jumped. His 1963 indoor team won the prestigious Union Relays, the then-equivalent of a state meet. His outdoor team went undefeated and placed second in the state. He competed in junior varsity and varsity basketball and played on the State University of New York Athletic Conference champion team as a senior. He also competed for a season on the varsity baseball squad.

McGuidwin was active on campus as an undergraduate. He participated in the Men's Athletic Association Executive Committee, Cardinal Key, Beta Phi Epsilon fraternity, was a resident advisor as a junior and senior, and served as a student representative for the Admission Office.    

He received his bachelor's degree in physical education from SUNY Cortland and earned a master's degree in counseling from the University of Bridgeport in Connecticut. He completed post-graduate work in higher education administration at the University of Rochester and SUNY Buffalo.

Between 1964-69, McGuidwin worked at SUNY Oneonta, where as an admission counselor he developed and administered that college's first program for transfer student admissions and advisement.

McGuidwin worked at Monroe Community College (MCC) from 1969 until his retirement in 1997 as a director of academic services. He created, developed and administered MCC's first Offices of Off-Campus Programs, Community Services, and Corporate Services at various locations throughout Rochester and Monroe County. He was the principal academic field administrator for major construction projects on the main campus in Brighton, at the Damon City Campus in downtown Rochester, and at the Applied Technologies Center.

Over the years, McGuidwin was an assistant soccer coach at both SUNY Oneonta and MCC and was head coach for many years in the Pittsford (N.Y.) Youth Soccer Program.

He and his wife, Leslie Griffith McGuidwin '63, have two children, Andrew, and Molly, a 1992 SUNY Cortland alumna.


Lloyd Mott '65
Queensbury, N.Y.

Following a successful 31-year career as a director of physical education and athletics at three New York State school districts, Lloyd Mott '65 has continued his service to scholastic athletics as assistant director of the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) since 1997.

A Cobleskill (N.Y) Central School graduate, Mott earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from SUNY Cortland, a master's degree in physical education from the University of Massachusetts and a S.A.S. in administration from SUNY Albany.

Mott competed in basketball, lacrosse and track and field at SUNY Cortland. He was assistant freshmen basketball coach under Bob Wallace '53 and was a modified basketball coach at the Campus School. He served as chaplain of Beta Phi Epsilon fraternity and vice president of the New York State Association for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (NYSAHPERD) Student Association.

He directed physical education and athletics and coached basketball, track and field and modified football in the Broadalbin (N.Y.) Central School District from 1966-73 and in the Cobleskill (N.Y.) Central School District from 1973-83.

Mott became director of health, physical education, athletics and safety at Queensbury (N.Y.) Union Free School District from 1983 until his retirement in 1997. While there, he coached basketball. He also coordinated many programs and committees, including Safe and Drug Free Schools, District Health and Wellness Committee and AIDS Education and Curriculum.

From 1978-80, Mott was president of NYSPHSAA Section II. For a decade, he chaired the New York State Athletic Administrators' Committee for Interscholastic Athletics in Contingency Budgets and was president of the NYSHPERD's Council of Administrators in 1996-97. He developed the Professional Trainers' Certificate Program for New York State teachers and coaches. He worked closely with then-New York State Regents Chancellor Carl Hayden and SUNY Cortland Professor of Physical Education Eric Malmberg on the development of the Educational Interscholastic Athletics Committee.

Mott has presented at many professional conferences and has written numerous articles for professional publications relative to health, physical education and athletics, as well as wellness program development and creative scheduling in schools.

He has received the NYSHPERD's Professional Contribution Award, Director of the Year Award and Anne Mackey Award. The NYSAAA presented Mott with its Apple Award for significant professional contributions and its Section II Director of the Year Award.

Within his communities, Mott directed the Broadalbin Beach Program, the Cobleskill Youth Center, taught Sunday School at Cobleskill United Methodist Church, served on the Queensbury Recreation Committee and the Queensbury United Methodist Church Outreach Committee. He also coordinated several fundraisers in the fight against cystic fibrosis.

He and his wife, Ginny, have three children, Suzanne, Timothy and Jennifer.


Thomas J. LaPuma '66
Frankfort, N.Y.

The Red Letter Award winner in both football and lacrosse at SUNY Cortland, Thomas J. LaPuma '66 has been a respected leader whose impact on intercollegiate athletics spans New York State and reaches across the nation.

LaPuma started and then coached the men's lacrosse programs at SUNY Geneseo, Ball State University, Rush-Henrietta High School and Herkimer County Community College (HCCC).

During his 34-year career at HCCC, he initiated and developed the men's and women's athletic programs and guided them from their infancy into regional and national powerhouses. LaPuma also developed the curriculum for the physical education and health courses. He organized intramural sports on the campus and was instrumental in the development of the HCCC programs in sports medicine, athletic and fitness studies, and sports and recreation management. He designed and launched the HCC Fitness Center and its curriculum.

A 2001 recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching, LaPuma is a past president of the HCCC Faculty Student Association. He helped create the HCCC Day Care Center, one of the first in SUNY. He pioneered a pre-school swim program taught by physical education majors.

A native of Frankfort, N.Y., LaPuma graduated from Frankfort-Schuyler School. At SUNY Cortland, he lettered three years as a quarterback during which the Red Dragons went 19-5 and were undefeated at home. He was the team captain as a senior. He was a three-year letter winner and a senior captain in lacrosse. Voted the College's Athlete of the Year as a senior, LaPuma was a resident assistant and president of the Men's Athletic Association. He was awarded professor emeritus status when he retired from HCCC in 2004.

LaPuma earned a bachelor's degree in physical education and health education from SUNY Cortland and a master's degree from Ball State University in Muncie, Ind.

In 1967-68, he taught physical education and coached lacrosse and football at Rush-Henrietta Central School. He taught physical education and coached men's lacrosse and soccer at SUNY Geneseo from 1968-70.

Within the National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA), LaPuma was the Region III director from 1989-1997, with the 33 Upstate New York colleges forming the second largest region in the country. Nationally, he was secretary-treasurer for the men's division from 1997-2005 and has been the vice president of the men's division since 2005.

Internationally, LaPuma has served on the USA International University Sports Federation since 1999. He is the lone American representative on its 18-member International Control Commission. He has represented the organization at World University Games and karate, sailing, bridge and floorball championships in Europe, Asia, Mexico and the U.S.

Within his community, LaPuma served on the board of directors for the American Heart Association, the Herkimer Salvation Army and the Red Cross Safety Committee. He has refereed Pop Warner and high school football. He has operated children's programs as a member of the Ilion (N.Y.) and Chippewa Bay (N.Y.) Fish and Game Clubs. He is an usher at St. Cyril's Catholic Church in Alexandria Bay, N.Y.

LaPuma and his wife, Kay, have three children, Peter, Mary Kay and Jackie, and six grandchildren.


Paul E. Fernandes '67
Westwood, N.J.

A baseball and basketball standout at SUNY Cortland, Paul E. Fernandes '67 has earned acclaim within the Ivy League as a widely respected baseball coach and athletic administrator at Columbia University.

Fernandes, who grew up in Malverne, N.Y., graduated from Valley Stream North High School. At SUNY Cortland, he was a three-year varsity competitor as a basketball guard and a second baseman in baseball. As a senior, he captained the Red Dragons basketball squad and was a first team All-State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC) second baseman in baseball.

A member of Kappa Delta Rho fraternity, Fernandes earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from SUNY Cortland. He received a master's degree in guidance education at C.W. Post College of Long Island University in 1969 and a C.A.S. in administration of physical education from New York University in 1975.

He joined C.W. Post on 1968 as an assistant professor of physical education and the head baseball coach. In 1970, he directed the team to the Knickerbocker Conference title and was named the league Coach of the Year. He was named the NCAA District Coach of the Year in 1974 and 1976, when he guided C.W. Post to the NCAA Regional Tournament both seasons. In 1987, he was inducted into the C.W. Post College Baseball Hall of Fame.

In 1977, Fernandes joined Columbia University as the associate athletic director and head baseball coach. He guided the baseball team to 493 victories as coach from 1977-98 and 2003-05. During that time, he coached 24 players who advanced to the professional leagues, including two major leaguers — the Minnesota Twins' Gene Larkin who had the game-winning hit in the 1991 World Series and National League pitcher Frank Seminara.

Fernandes coached 28 All-Ivy League first team players, a trio of Ivy League Pitchers of the Year, and an Ivy League Player of the Year. In 1987, his Columbia pitching staff led the NCAA with its 2.12 earned-run average. In 1993, his Columbia team won the Ivy League Gehrig Division title.

A co-founder of the New York State Baseball Coaches Association in 1980, Fernandes served as its vice president and president. In 1983, he coached the USA Junior National Team at the World Friendship Series in Johnstown, Pa. In 1989, he was the U.S. Baseball Federation liaison between the U.S. Senior Team and the Canadian National Team for the USA-Canada Series. In 1990, he was the field coordinator for the Goodwill Games' baseball competition in Seattle and Tacoma, Wash.

Fernandes was a member of the NCAA Division I Baseball Committee from 1997-2001. Since 1997, he has been an NCAA representative at its NCAA Division I post-season baseball regional and super regional competitions across the nation, where the winners advance to the College World Series.

In 2001, the All-America Football Committee named Fernandes as its Outstanding Associate Athletics Director. Within his community, he co-founded and co-directed the Coaches 3 Youth baseball Camp from 1977-80 and the Paul Fernandes Baseball Camp from 1990-2005. The latter was the first at the university to serve youth in the Bronx, Manhattan and Harlem.

Fernandes co-chaired the SUNY Cortland Class of 1967 Scholarship initiative that raised $81,715 as part of its 40th reunion. He and his wife, Kathy Lopez Fernandes '67, have two children, Paul Jr. and Leigh Anne.


Thomas P. Rogan '67
Troy, N.Y.

For the past four decades, Thomas P. Rogan '67 has been a revered role model to Hudson Valley Community College (HVCC) physical education majors and student-athletes as a professor and a successful soccer and track and field head coach.

A native of Poughkeepsie, N.Y., Rogan was a record-setting long jumper and 440-yard hurdler as a four-year member of the SUNY Cortland track and field squad. He ran on the undefeated cross country squad that captured the state title and competed in nationals in 1965. In gymnastics, he competed on trampoline and long horse vaulting. In soccer, he played on the Cortland team that advanced to the 1966 NCAA Tournament.

As an undergraduate, Rogan was treasurer, vice president and president of the Men's Athletic Association. He was a resident assistant in Hendrick Hall. He served as the emcee and halftime entertainer at the Dolphinotes shows. A Beta Phi Epsilon fraternity brother, he was the chaplain and social chairman and raised money for charities. He served on the Interfraternity Council.

After receiving his bachelor's degree in physical education from SUNY Cortland, Rogan earned a master's degree from Ball State University in 1968.

Rogan joined the HVCC faculty in 1968 and was quickly named coach of the men's soccer squad. He remained in that role for the next 31 years, during which time he directed many All-American players and finished among the nation's top ten teams on numerous occasions. In 1969, he organized the first track and field team at HVCC. As coach for the next 23 years, his teams enjoyed 11 undefeated seasons while capturing eight regional championships. In both sports, Rogan helped to organize a coaches association and served as an officer in the organization.

As a physical educator, Rogan developed and taught nearly a dozen major classes as well as activity classes at HVCC. He served on numerous departmental and college-wide committees. He created and still advises the Physical Education Majors Club. Since 2004, he has been the college supervisor for SUNY Cortland physical education majors who are student teaching in the Capital Region.

In 1996, he received the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Teaching. Over the years, he has been named to many Who's Who lists and has received Coach of the Year awards in both soccer and track and field.

During the late 1970s, Rogan was instrumental in bringing Special Olympics to HVCC and has served as a coach, presenter and host for many events at HVCC and statewide since then. In 2003, he traveled to Ireland to watch his daughter, whom he coached for 15 years, compete in the Special Olympics World Games.

He has raised funds to combat heart disease, cancer and cystic fibrosis as well as to support Big Brothers, Big Sisters and Boys and Girls Clubs. He is a parish council member and Eucharistic minister at Sacred Heart parish in Troy, N.Y. He helped to establish the Brunswick Soccer Club in 1982.

Rogan has competed in several Boston and New York Marathons, the Empire State Games, the 1995 World Track and Field Games, the Ironman Triathlons twice and, in 1996, won the World's Greatest Athlete contest in Bermuda at the International Senior Games.

He and his wife, Susan McDonald Rogan '67, have three children, Thomas '92, Paul and Katie.


Leslie Schall White '70
Binghamton, N.Y.

A competitor on the first-ever club field hockey team at SUNY Cortland in the late 1960s, Leslie Schall White '70 went on to establish field hockey as the first girls' sport at Whitney Point (N.Y.) Central School District in 1972 before guiding the program into a perennial powerhouse over the next three decades.

White, who grew up in Brownville, N.Y., had never been exposed to field hockey prior to college. At SUNY Cortland, she discovered the sport through Valerie Drake, a physical education instructor from England. White recalls being impressed by the British educator's dedication and love for the sport and her ability to impart those traits to her. White joined the newly formed Field Hockey Club. She also was active in student government, the pep band and cheerleading.

She earned both her bachelor's degree and master's degree in physical education from SUNY Cortland,

In 1970, White joined Whitney Point as a physical educator. Two years later in the wake of Title IX legislation, she organized the school's first female athletic squad in field hockey. From 1972-2002, White's squads posted a 309-123-65 win-loss-ties record during 29 seasons in the most competitive scholastic field hockey area in New York state. Her teams won seven regional, six divisional, six sectional and two inter-regional championships. Between 1995-2001, her squads made the state finals five times and, in 1999, won the New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) Class A Championship.

Besides the many benefits of competing in sports, several of her field hockey players received scholarships to attend universities, colleges and junior colleges while competing with and against some of the best players in the nation. Her Whitney Point coaching staff developed one of the first grass-roots programs in field hockey for girls in third through sixth grade.

The 1991 Whitney Point Central Teacher of the Year, White was named the Northeast Region Field Hockey Coach of the Year by the National Federation Coaches Association in 2000. She was inducted into the NYSPHSAA Section IV Hall of Fame in 2003.

White has been active within Section IV. She served on the section's first interscholastic council for women in the early 1970s and later as vice president of its Women's Athletic Council. She was the section's Susquenango League representative and, for more than a quarter-of-a-century, its badminton and table tennis coordinator.

Within her community, her Badminton for Heart fundraisers raised more than $10,000 for the American Heart Association.

Since her retirement in 2003, White has assisted her church, Calvary's Love, in Johnson City, N.Y., as a volunteer and as a Sunday school teacher. She has done outreach work among the poor in Mexico and has helped with clothing drives.

She has two daughters, Jennifer White Walters '90 and Emily White DeLucia '96, and a son, Michael, a U.S. Marine veteran.


Joan Schockow '85
Rochester, N.Y.

Joan Schockow '85 first made history as a SUNY Cortland goalkeeper when, in 1983, she became the nation's first female four-time All-American collegiate soccer player. Today, she is among only 25 collegiate coaches in the country to have 200-plus victories, a feat she has accomplished as the SUNY Brockport women's soccer coach since 1988.

An exceptional student-athlete, Schockow was captain, Team MVP and all-county in four sports — soccer, basketball, volleyball and softball — at E.J. Wilson High School in Spencerport (N.Y.), where she was inducted into its Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991.

At SUNY Cortland, Schockow was the freshman goalkeeper and an all-tournament team selection on the Red Dragons squad that defeated UCLA for the first-ever national championship in that sport in 1980. During her junior year, she was the Defensive MVP in the University of Central Florida Tournament, where Cortland handed the University of North Carolina one of its rare losses.

In an era when SUNY Cortland hosted and competed against the nation's best teams, such as Connecticut, Massachusetts, Texas, Wisconsin and Boston College, Schockow was perennially voted the nation's best goalkeeper and a four-time National Soccer Coaches Association of America All-American. A four-time all-region selection, she was team captain her senior year and finished her career with 40 shutouts.

A member of the Sports Medicine Club and an athletic training minor, Schockow graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in physical education from SUNY Cortland and later earned a master's degree in physical education from SUNY Brockport.

Between 1979-87, Schockow competed in women's soccer at eight Empire State Games. She won four gold and four silver medals.

She was an assistant coach at SUNY Cortland in 1985 and at Spencerport High from 1986-88, while teaching elementary school physical education in the Diocese of Rochester from 1986-91.

In 1988, Schockow took over as SUNY Brockport's head coach. Since then, she has posted a 211-133-26 record — the most coaching victories by any soccer coach in Brockport history. Her teams have enjoyed 17 consecutive winning seasons and have 24 post-season appearances in the New York State Women's Collegiate Athletic Association (NYSWCAA), SUNYAC, ECAC and NCAA tournaments. Schockow led Brockport to the 1989 SUNYAC Western Division title, the 1995 NYSWCAA crown and the 2006 SUNYAC championship.

A three-time SUNYAC Coach of the Year, Schockow also was named the Northeast Regional Coach of the Year in 2000. She coached the Central Region open division women's soccer teams in the Empire State Games from 1990-96. She coached future Olympian Abby Wambach and other future stars as the ODP New York West girls' soccer coach from 1991-2000. In 1996-97, Schockow was the goalkeeper for the W league Rochester Ravens.

Schockow currently serves as the executive director/president of the NYSWCAA. She had been the organization's soccer sport chair from 1996-99 and its president from 2000-06.

A lecturer in the SUNY Brockport Physical Education Department since 1994, Schockow has annually involved her soccer players in community service projects such as coaching soccer clinics, assisting with Section Five swimming meets and the Adopt-A-Highway program.