EASTON, Pa. – Harrison Bailey III '95, Veronica Canto-Ponce '07, Javier Fente '95, Ray Moyer '63, Tom Odjakjian '76 and George Yolich '87 make up the 2022-23 Maroon Club Hall of Fame Induction Class. The six outstanding student-athletes will be enshrined at the Hall of Fame Dinner on Nov. 18, 2022, in Kirby Sports Center along with the 1988 and 1989 women's lacrosse teams. 

For tickets to the event, which is set to begin at 6 p.m., please register by Nov. 9, or contact Tara Connolly at connolta@lafayette.edu or (610) 330-5675 for more information. Tickets are $75 for adults and $20 for children under 12.
 
Bailey was a two-sport athlete and a longtime holder of the Lafayette career sacks record in football and the discus record in track and field. He was a two-time ECAC All-Star in 1993 and 1994, when he also secured All-Patriot League First-Team laurels at defensive end.
 
The Lakewood, N.J., native helped lead his team to a pair of Patriot League titles (1992, 1994) as the Leopards racked up a 16-3-1 mark over four seasons of conference play. Bailey held the Lafayette career sacks record for nearly three decades, finishing his career with 25, a mark that was not eclipsed until 2022. Bailey, who served as a team captain as a senior, currently ranks second in career sacks and is tied for fourth for sacks in a season (nine in 1993 and 1994). Upon his graduation, he played for the Connecticut Coyotes of the Arena Football League.
 
Bailey's football credentials alone likely would have led to his enshrinement, but they only tell part of the story for the two-time ECAC/IC4A qualifier and two-time Patriot League champion in track and field. In 1995, the team captain won the Patriot League discus title by 21 feet to set a new school record. His school record stood from 1995 to 2016 and snapped a 42-year-old mark. Bailey's 1995 performance in the Penn Relays led to a second-place finish. He was named a Strength and Conditioning All-American prior to graduation. After graduation, Bailey was a Highland Games world champion and world record holder in the 20-pound weight-over-bar event.
 
Bailey graduated with a degree in Anthropology and Sociology from Lafayette in 1995, earned his doctoral degree in Education from East Stroudsburg in 2020 and was awarded the Doctor of Humane Letters from Lafayette in 2022. Since 2013, Bailey has served as the principal at Liberty High School in Bethlehem, Pa. In 2021, he was selected as the state's Secondary School Principal of the Year by the Pennsylvania Principals Association. Bailey has been integrally involved with the Lafayette football program and the greater Lafayette community as a speaker and mentor.
 
Canto-Ponce was a three-time All-Patriot League selection at right side hitter for the volleyball team. Fifteen years after her graduation, the La Jolla, Calif., native still ranks third in Patriot League history for career service aces (250) and fourth for career kills (1,600). Upon her graduation, she was in the top 10 in eight statistical categories at Lafayette, and she holds career records in kills, kills per set, aces and aces per set. She still holds the NCAA record for most consecutive service aces in a three-game match with 15.
 
Canto-Ponce helped guide her team to a Patriot League Tournament appearance in 2006, when the team was 18-10 overall and 9-5 in Patriot League play. Canto-Ponce served as a team captain in 2006 and went on to win the Charles L. Albert '08 Award in 2007.
 
An Anthropology and Sociology degree holder, Canto-Ponce currently lives in Brooklyn, N.Y., and serves as a director at One Model Management. 
 
Fente is one of the most ­decorated swimmers in Lafayette history. He was a four-time Patriot League champion and left as the school record holder in the 100 backstroke and the 100 freestyle (a record he still holds). A look at the Lafayette record books shows him in the all-time top 10 in 200 IM, 50 free, 100 butterfly, 100 backstroke, 100 free, 100 free relay and 50 free relay.
 
Fente managed five top-10 finishes in the ECAC Championships and won the 100 free at that meet in 1995. He was selected as the Patriot League's Most Outstanding Swimmer in 1995 and was a three-time All-Patriot League honoree (1993-95). In 2002, he was named to the Patriot league All-Decade Team.
 
He was the team's most outstanding swimmer in 1994 and 1995 and was honored as the Pepper Prize winner in 1995, given annually to a Lafayette senior "who most nearly represents the Lafayette ideal." In 1996, Fente qualified for Spain's Olympic Trials in the 100 free.
 
Fente graduated from Lafayette with a degree in Civil Engineering and went on to earn master's degrees in Civil Engineering and Construction Management from Arizona State in 1999. Fente, who was born in Madrid, Spain, currently works as a project manager for ExxonMobil and has traveled the world in recent decades, spending time in Alaska and Houston in the U.S., and in France, England, Qatar and Spain.
 
Moyer was a two-sport athlete who played four years of varsity football and baseball on College Hill. On the diamond, he was an ABCA Second-Team All-American in 1962, also earning All NCAA District II First-Team honors in 1961 and 1962 while garnering honorable mention status in 1963, when he also served as a team captain. The shortstop was a three-time All-Mid-Atlantic Conference selection.
 
In his junior campaign of 1962, he hit for a .412 average, a mark that still ranks ninth at Lafayette for single-season batting average. He helped lead his squad to a 16-5 mark with the team narrowly missing a berth into the College World Series.
 
In his senior year of 1963, he, like Fente, was awarded the Pepper Prize. He also garnered Class of 1913 Award honors, given to a Lafayette student-athlete who has attained the greatest distinction both as an athlete and a scholar.
 
Upon graduation, he signed with the Chicago Cubs and played in six games for the Cubs' short-season affiliate. Moyer left professional baseball to attend medical school, graduating from the University of Pennsylvania Medical School in 1968. Moyer served in the United States Navy from 1969 to 1972 in Da Nang, Vietnam as a flight surgeon with the 1^st Marine Aircraft Wing.
 
Moyer worked as the director of sports medicine with Temple University Athletics from 1978 to 2013. He also spent time with the Philadelphia Flyers (1976-78), the United States Olympic men's field hockey team (1978) and the Philadelphia 76ers (1988-90) as a team physician. Moyer has continued in his orthopedic practice, still seeing patients at Temple Health while also working as an NFL consultant.
 
Moyer, who serves as a professor of orthopedic surgery at Temple's medical school, was inducted into Temple's Athletic Hall of Fame in 2009 following a 1997 induction into the Pennsylvania Sports Hall of Fame. In 2015, he was awarded Lafayette College's George Washington Kidd Class of 1836 Award for distinction in his career.
 
Odjakjian worked for 50 years in college athletics and sports television, last serving as the Senior Associate Commissioner for Broadcasting and Digital Content at the American Athletic Conference from 2013 until his retirement in early October 2022. Prior to that, Odjakjian was an associate commissioner with the Big East Conference from 1995 to 2013, managing the relationships with CBS and ESPN, and serving as the Tournament Director at Madison Square Garden.
 
Prior to joining the Big East Conference, Odjakjian worked in various roles at ESPN from 1981 to 1994, including as its director of college sports when he was responsible for negotiation, acquisition, scheduling and budget supervision for the network's collegiate sports programming. He was behind the creation of ESPN's basketball Championship Week and football Bowl Week. In his original post at ESPN, he was responsible for deciding the 24-hour daily schedule of events for all sports, including in the network's NFL, NBA, NHL and Olympic sports programming.
 
Prior to joining ESPN, Odjakjian also served as associate commissioner of the Eastern College Athletic Conference and assistant sports information director at Princeton University. While at ESPN, in 1994, he was named "The Most Influential Person in College Sports" by College Sports Magazine and was tabbed as one of the four most influential people in college basketball by Sporting News in 1990. Odjakjian was the recipient of the 2019 Sports Video Group College Pioneer Award.
 
Odjakjian, who graduated from Lafayette with a degree in Economics and Business, is currently the president of the Class of 1976. He was a member of the freshman football and baseball teams, and like Fente and Moyer, he was a recipient of the Pepper Prize. He received the College's Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 1991. In his time on College Hill, he worked on-air at WJRH and was the sports editor of The Lafayette while also working for WEST-AM radio and The Easton Express. He currently resides in Marstons Mills, Mass., on Cape Cod.
 
Yolich was a two-time All-East Coast Conference selection at shortstop, securing the honors in 1986 and 1987, when he helped lead the Leopards to a pair of East Coast Conference regular-season titles. He also garnered All-East Region Second-Team recognition following his junior season of 1986. A captain of the 1987 team, he pushed Lafayette to the East Coast Conference Tournament Final, delivering a walk-off hit in the semifinal round.
 
Yolich's career .633 slugging percentage is still No. 1 in the annals of Lafayette baseball history as is his mark for RBI in a season (64 in 1986). He ranks second in career RBI (152) and fifth in career total bases (292) and he places in the top 10 for career doubles, triples, home runs and total bases and is among the top 10 for single-season records in home runs, total bases, slugging percentage and runs scored.
 
A native of Upper Deerfield Township, N.J., Yolich passed away in 2015 and is survived by his mother, Tina Yolich, his wife, Missy, and sons John Ryan Bondi and Michael Shipman.
 
The 1988 and 1989 women's lacrosse teams each captured East Coast Conference titles and advanced to the NCAA Tournament under the guidance of head coach Ann Gold.
 
The 1988 squad posted a 17-2 mark (including 17 straight wins) and was ranked No. 2 in the final regular-season poll. Led by All-Americans Tracey Wright and Linda Sansone, the Leopards registered top-20 wins over Delaware, Lehigh and defending NCAA champion Penn State. Lafayette advanced to the NCAA Tournament Finals, before dropping a Final-Four game at home vs. No. 2 seed Penn State. In that season, Wright set the ECC single-season scoring record with 50 goals and 54 assists and joined Jennie Smith, Sansone and Gold as individual inductees into the Maroon Club Hall of Fame.
 
The 1989 installment was just as impressive, running up a 16-2 mark that included wins over five top-20 teams, including the eventual national champion Temple. Led by All-Americans Smith, Julie Hespe and Hall of Famer Suzi Farrell, the team qualified for the six-team NCAA Tournament in which, as a No. 4 seed, it lost in the first round to Temple.
 
The championship lacrosse teams mark the 18^th and 19^th team inductions since teams were first eligible in 2012-13.