University of North Carolina Athletics
Carolina Standout Tom Haus Tapped For US Lacrosse Hall of Fame Induction
June 22, 2005 | Men's Lacrosse
June 22, 2005
BALTIMORE, MD. - US Lacrosse today announced the 48th class of inductees to the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame. The class includes 10 of the sport's most significant players, coaches, officials and contributors. The list includes Tom Haus (1983-87), a three-time first-team All-America defenseman at the University of North Carolina and the younger brother of Tar Heel head coach John Haus.
Tom Haus is the first Tar Heel player to ever be inducted into the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame. Legendary Tar Heel head coach Willie Scroggs was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2003.
The class of 2005 is: Mildred Barnes, Jack Emmer, Norm Engleke, Gary Gait, Paul Gait, Susie Ganzenmuller, Tom Haus, Dottie Hayden, Mandy (Moore) O'Leary and Gillian Rattray.
The honorees will be enshrined at the 2005 National Lacrosse Hall of Fame Induction Celebration on Saturday, Nov. 12, at the Grand Lodge in Hunt Valley, Md. Ticket information will be announced at a later date. Their plaques will be located in the Lacrosse Museum and National Hall of Fame at the US Lacrosse headquarters in Baltimore.
Candidates must have been out of college for 15 years and are nominated through a questionnaire. The top candidates are included on a national ballot sent to a random sampling of current Hall of Fame members, coaches, officials, members of the press, US Lacrosse Board of Directors and presidents of US Lacrosse regional chapters. The men's and women's nominating committees use the votes from that sampling to determine a final slate of nominees to submit to the Board of Directors. The Board approved the current class June 11.
More information about each inductee:
Mildred J. Barnes
oston Lacrosse Association
Mildred Barnes played attack on the United States national teams during the 1950s and early '60s, including the teams that toured Great Britain and Ireland in 1954 and 1960. From 1949 to 1961, she played in the competitive Boston Lacrosse Association. She also served as a nationally-rated umpire for 10 years before moving on to teach the sport at numerous colleges and clinics in the 1960s. Barnes has authored several lacrosse-related papers.
John "Jack" Emmer
Rutgers University
Head Coach at SUNY-Cortland, Washington and Lee, Army
Jack Emmer recently retired from Army as the NCAA's all-time winningest coach with 326 career victories. He is one of only two coaches to have guided three teams to the NCAA tournament, and he coached the 2002 U.S. Men's Team to the International Lacrosse Federation World Championship. Three times the USILA named him a divisional Coach of the Year, and in 2003 that organization honored him with the Howdy Meyers Man of the Year award. Emmer was a second-team All-American defenseman at Rutgers, where he also enjoyed a stellar football career. His lacrosse peers voted him team MVP in 1967, which he concluded with an appearance in the USILA's North-South All-Star Game. Three US Lacrosse chapters (Charlottesville (Va.), Hudson Valley (N.Y.) and Long Island Metro) already have inducted him into their respective halls of fame.
Norman Engleke
Cornell University
Norm Engleke played midfield on ILF World Champion U.S. teams in 1982, 1986 and 1990. Following a stellar career at Cornell, where he was a second-team All-American, a North-South All-Star and a two-time All-Ivy League selection, Engleke played 13 years of post-collegiate club lacrosse. During that time he won four championships with the Long Island Lacrosse Club and was a four-time all-star in the United States Club Lacrosse Association. He is a member of the Cornell University and US Lacrosse Long Island Metro Chapter halls of fame.
Gary Gait
Syracuse University
One of the greatest lacrosse players ever, Gary Gait began his illustrious career by earning first-team All-America honors three times and USILA Player of the Year honors twice in leading Syracuse to the 1988 and 1989 NCAA championships. He holds numerous NCAA records, including goals scored in a tournament game, single tournament and career tournament. Gait remains Syracuse's all-time leading goal scorer with 192 and he was named to the 1990 USILA North-South Game. He played for the Canadian National Team in the ILF World Championship in 1990, 1994 and 1998, earning a place on the All-World Team each year. In 1991, he began a 15-year professional indoor career, winning Rookie of the Year honors. Gait is a 15-time All-Pro and six-time MVP of the National Lacrosse League. He ranks as the NLL's all-time goals and points leader in regular-season play. He guided the Baltimore Bayhawks of the outdoor Major League Lacrosse to its championship in 2002. Prior to that, Gait played for more than 10 years in the USCLA, winning its Player of the Year award four times and its championship twice. Gait served as an assistant coach on the University of Maryland women's teams that won seven straight NCAA championships in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Lacrosse Magazine named him to its All-20th Century Team and the NCAA named him to its 25th Anniversary Team. He has assumed the head coaching duties of the NLL's Colorado Mammoth.
Paul Gait
Syracuse University
Paul Gait earned first-team All-America honors in 1988-90 and helped Syracuse win NCAA championships in '88 and '89. He was the 1989 final's Most Outstanding Player and was named to the USILA North-South All-Star Game in 1990. Gait played for the Canadian National Team in 1990, '94, '98 and 2002, earning All-World honors in 1994. He competed in the NLL and its predecessor indoor leagues from 1991 to 2005, earning the NLL's MVP award in 2002. Gait was an eight-time first-team All-Pro and three-time second-team All-Pro. He also played outdoor post-collegiate club lacrosse and earned multiple honors. Lacrosse Magazine named him to its All-20th Century Team and the NCAA named him to its 25th Anniversary Team.
Susan L. Ganzenmuller
Wells College
Susie Ganzenmuller has contributed decades of service to women's lacrosse, specifically, umpiring. A nationally-rated umpire since 1989 and internationally-rated since 1991, Ganzenmuller has umpired two International Federation of Women's Lacrosse Associations World Cups and 11 NCAA Division I championship weekends. She has conducted 10-plus years of international umpire training in places such as Australia, Canada, the Czech Republic, England, Japan and Scotland, in addition to seven years of stateside training at the Local, District and National levels. Ganzenmuller chaired the former United States Women's Lacrosse Association's National Umpiring Committee from 1990 to '93. The USWLA honored her with the Nancy Chance Service Award in 1997, the same year she wrote and directed the "Stars and Stripes" rules and umpiring video. More recently she has worked to revise the IFWLA crosse specifications, rulebook and umpire manual. The Potomac Chapter of US Lacrosse inducted her into its Hall of Fame in 2005.
Tom Haus
University of North Carolina
Tom Haus was a three-time first-team All-American and three-time Defenseman of the Year for the Tar Heels in the mid-1980s. He won the USILA's Enners Award as Player of the Year in '86, when he helped North Carolina to the NCAA championship. Haus was a two-time team MVP and earned a place in the 1987 North-South Game. The NCAA named him to its 25th Anniversary Team, and the Atlantic Coast Conference named him to its 50th Anniversary Team. Haus is a member of the US Lacrosse Greater Baltimore Chapter Hall of Fame, and for the last 10 years he has served as a high school and youth coach in Winston-Salem, N.C.
Dorothy Lee Hayden
altimore Lacrosse Club
Dottie Hayden founded the women's lacrosse program at Frostburg State (Md.) University and has devoted numerous years of service to the game. She obtained her National rating as an umpire in 1971 and helped write the first umpiring manual. She chaired the National Umpiring Committee for six years, and multiple times traveled overseas to develop coaches and umpires. From 1993 to 2002, she served on the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame Nominating Committee. Hayden played numerous years in the Baltimore Lacrosse Club and since 1979 has been the head coach at the Madeira (Va.) School.
Amanda (Moore) O'Leary
Temple University
Mandy (Moore) O'Leary was a three-time first-team All-American and the NCAA's Midfielder of the Year in 1987 and '88. She helped Temple to the 1988 national championship and played in the North-South All-Star Game. O'Leary played on the IFWLA World Cup Champion 1989 and 1993 U.S. teams. She played nine years of post-collegiate club lacrosse. O'Leary has served as the head coach at Yale since 1993, winning the Coach of the Year award in '96. She has served as chair of the U.S. team selection committee and on the former USWLA Board of Directors. Lacrosse Magazine named her its 1988 Player of the Year. She was named the USWLA's Beth Allen Award winner in 1997.
Gillian D. Rattray
I.M. March
Gillian Rattray guided Penn State to the 1978, 1979 and 1980 USWLA College Division championships, posting undefeated records in '78 and '79. During her 12 years with the Nittany Lions, her teams made six semifinal appearances and eight consecutive postseason appearances. She was a four-year coach at the National Tournament, and in 1977 she chaired a committee that worked to allow college players to play in the annual Memorial Day weekend event.
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