General | 6/21/2016 11:19:00 AM

BLOOMSBURG-- The 35^th Bloomsburg University Athletic Hall of Fame class will be inducted on Friday, Oct. 7. The induction of six individuals will bring the number of members in the Bloomsburg University Athletic Hall of Fame to 169.
 
This year's Hall of Fame inductees are Jan Hutchinson, Mary Gardner, Ron Sheehan '74, Kim Maguire Petrosky '94, John Stillo '98, and Buck Eardley '96.
 
The Hall of Fame Induction Dinner and Ceremony will be held at the Nelson Field House starting at 6 p.m. with a cocktail hour followed by dinner at 7 p.m. Tickets for the dinner can be purchased on-line at http://buhuskies.com/2016HOFDinner
 
 
RON SHEEHAN
Ron Sheehan was a four-year member of the wrestling team winning a Bloomsburg first NCAA Division II title as a senior in 1973-74. He was an NAIA All-American as a freshman finishing sixth. Sheehan was a three-time Pennsylvania Conference place-winner with one Championship and runner-up twice. He posted a career-record of 79-19-4 with 39 career pins. As a senior he posted a record of 37-7-1 with 18 pins, including pinning all four of his opponents on his way to an NCAA title. In his career he also captured tournament championships at the Wilkes Open, York College, the Bloomsburg Open and the Coast Guard Invitational.  
 
After graduating from Bloomsburg he attended Indiana State University where he was the assistant wrestling coach under Grey Simons.  He went on to teach at Upper Darby High School and was the assistant coach in wrestling under Art McCall. He later left the education field and went into sales where he spent 15 years in the steel industry working for National Steel.  Sheehan would later work in the Information Technology field for 15 years working for Sirius Computer Solutions. He has since moved to Delray Beach, FL where he owns and operate Sheehan's Corner Pub.  
 
Sheehan been married for 38 years to Donna Brenesal Sheehan '77. The couple has three children Courtney, Ryan and Brynn, '10.  
 
KIM MAGUIRE PETROSKY
Kim Maguire Petrosky was a four-year member of the softball team.  As a pitcher for the Huskies she won 71 career games (tied for 7^th all-time) against just 12 losses with an ERA of 0.72. Started her career winning her first 40 games (then an NCAA record). As a sophomore she  posted an ERA of 0.26 to lead all of Division II giving up just four earned runs in 108 innings pitched. She ranks eighth all-time in school history in career strikeouts with 474 and is ninth in career innings pitched with 552. A two-time All-American, Maguire Petrosky was the 1993 winner of the Joanne McComb Award winner as the top Female Underclassmen. As senior she was named the 1994 PSAC East Player of the Year and first team All-PSAC East as a pitcher.
 
After receiving her undergraduate degree at Bloomsburg in 1994, she continued her education at Wilkes University where she received a Master's in Education.  Since September of 1995 Maguire Petrosky has been employed by the Crestwood School District as a sixth grade math teacher. She was head softball coach at Crestwood High School from 1996 to 2000, twice earning Coach of the Year honors.  She also coached Crestwood junior high basketball for three years. She was inducted into the first Hall of Fame class at E.L Meyers High School for softball and basketball in 2005, and is still Meyers all-time scoring leader in basketball with 2,136 points.  She was inducted into the Luzerne County Sports Hall of Fame in 2000.
 
She is married to Stan Petrosky and is the mother of two children, Ryan (13) & Kendall (9), and coaches both youth basketball and softball.  She resides in Mountain Top, PA.
 
JOHN STILLO
John Stillo was a four-year member of the baseball team. He was a two-time All-PSAC East first team selection and was the 1997 PSAC East Athlete of the Year. For his career he is Bloomsburg's all-time leader in career hits with 235, runs scored with 187, stolen bases with 71; is tied for first in doubles with 50; is second in career triples with 11; fourth in home runs with 21 and is sixth in RBI with 121 and batting average with a mark of .375. Stillo also holds the school single-season record for runs scored with 58 and for stolen bases with 31. He was also named first team All-ECAC and a CoSIDA Academic All-American in 1997.
 
Following graduation, he spent 13 years as a Special Education teacher at Phillipsburg (NJ) High School and since 2009 has been an assistant principal at the school. Stillo was also was the head baseball coach at the school from 2001 to 2009.
 
He and his wife Melanie are the parents of two boys, Trent (5) and Drew (3).
 
BUCK EARDLEY
Bruce "Buck" Eardley was a four-year member of the football team. A standout wide receiver he would graduate as the Huskies career leader in career receptions with 185 (now 2^nd); first in career receiving yards with 3,134 (now 2^nd) and receiving touchdowns with 29 (now 2^nd). He was the first player in school history to reach 1,000 receiving yards in a season (1,006 in 1995) and the first with 10 TD receptions in a season (1995).
 
He was named first team All-PSAC East in 1993 and 1994 and was second team in 1994. He was also named All-ECAC and second team All-American by the Football Gazette and Farm Magazine in 1995. He was a two-time winner of the Bob Tucker Award given to the top offensive player at BU. He closed out his senior year being named the winner of the Robert B. Redman Award as the top Senior Male Athlete at Bloomsburg. 
 
Eardley works as an Environmental Manager for Specialty Disposal Services, Inc. He is an active member of the Boyertown Optimist Organization (Youth Athletic Organization for Boyertown) coaching football. He and his wife Toni are the parents of five children, Connor, Griz, Logan, Broc and Ellie.
 
 
MARY GARDNER
 
A pioneer in women's intercollegiate athletics, Mary Gardner became one of the first female athletic directors in the country responsible for both a men's and women's athletics program. She was appointed Bloomsburg's athletic director in July 1988 and served until her retirement in 2011. Under Gardner's direction, BU won the Dixon Trophy in 1996 and 1997, signifying the top all-around athletic program in the PSAC. Other successes include four NCAA national championships in field hockey, a second-place finish in football and two second-place finishes in softball (1991 and 1995). In addition, Bloomsburg University was cited by Sports Illustrated for Women and recognized as one of the best Division II programs for women in both 1999 and 2000. In 2003, the National Association of Collegiate Women Athletics Administrators (NACWAA) honored her as Division II Athletic Director of the Year. In June of 2016 she honored with the D2 Athletic Directors Association (ADA) Lifetime Achievement Award.
 
Prior to becoming the head of the athletic department, Gardner was an assistant professor in BU's exercise science department and served as associate director of athletics for a year and a half. She initiated and served as head coach of the women's swimming and diving program for 14 seasons, posting an overall record of 88-28, and led the men's program for one season. The university's first field hockey coach, she registered a four-year record of 20-12-9. Gardner coached 44 All-Americans, several of whom won individual national titles.
 
In addition to Gardner's daily responsibilities, she served on numerous NCAA committees, including the Division II Management Council and the NCAA Committee on Women's Athletics. She chaired the Division II Membership Committee for two years and was a mentor with the NCAA Fellows Leadership Program. She also served on the Amateurism Project Team, Football Issues Project Team, Legislation Committee, Student-Athlete Reinstatement Committee and the NCAA Swimming and Diving Committee. Tournament director of numerous NCAA and PSAC championships, Gardner was a member of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Executive Committee and chair of the conference field hockey and swimming committee.
 
 The Hatboro, Pa., native earned bachelor's and master's degrees at East Stroudsburg University, where she was the school's first three-time national champion in swimming and a varsity letter winner in both field hockey and swimming. She is a member of both the Hatboro-Horsham and East Stroudsburg University Halls of Fame. She and her husband Dean are the parents of two children, Tim and Kaitlin, and have five grandchildren.
 
JAN HUTCHINSON
 
A true coaching legend, Jan Hutchinson spent 33 years as the Huskies coach of field hockey and softball.

As head field hockey coach she coached the program to 16 national championships and 16 conference titles, while as softball coach she is the NCAA Division II all-time leader in career wins and made an NCAA-record 28 consecutive trips to the Division II championships. She also is the winningest college coach in any division with 1,806 combined wins between field hockey and softball.
 
Hutchinson's field hockey squads posted winning records in 31 of her 32 seasons and amassed an overall record of 591-75-20, for a winning percentage of .872. She is the winningest coach in NCAA field hockey history and is the only coach with over 500 victories.

Under Hutchinson, the Huskies enjoyed many outstanding seasons and won 16 or more games on 26 occasions. The Huskies string of four straight titles (1996-99) was the first time in the history of NCAA field hockey that the feat was accomplished (and was repeated from 2006-2009). Her teams also registered nine national runner-up finishes.

Hutchinson was chosen as the national Division II Coach of the Year seven times in her career, 1991, 1998, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2009. Her 2006 team went undefeated and untied on its way to the NCAA D-II championship, the fourth time in school history for that to happen.
 
As softball coach of the Huskies, Hutchinson posted a record of 1,215-288-2 and made an NCAA record 28 consecutive trips to the NCAA championship tournament (31 including AIAW and NCAA Division III). She has the most wins of any NCAA Division II coach in history and is sixth on the all-time win list regardless of division. She is also second on the NCAA Division list and seventh overall for highest winning percentage.
 
Bloomsburg went to the championship round 10 times, twice finishing as the national runner-up with losses each time in extra innings in the national title game. She also has six third-place showings and two fourth-place finishes. The Huskies also won the 1982 AIAW national championship. In only her fourth season, Hutchinson won the national championship "double" in the 1981-82 school year, claiming the field hockey title in the fall and the softball championship that spring.
 
Hutchinson's achievements in coaching did not go unnoticed by her peers. She has been honored with induction into both the National Fastpitch Coaches Association and the National Field Hockey Coaches Association Halls of Fame. In addition, Hutchinson was named the winner of the C. Vivian Stringer Award by the United States Sports Academy in the summer of 2006.
 
A 1971 graduate of East Stroudsburg University, Hutchinson also earned a master's degree in education from the school in 1979. Prior to Bloomsburg, she initiated the women's physical education program at Blair Academy and served as head coach for field hockey, basketball and softball. She has also been inducted into the Newton High School and Sussex County (NJ) Halls of Fame. In the year 2000, the Bloomsburg softball field was named in her honor.