EASTON, Pa. – Geddes Alexander '97, Jackie D'Angelo Stowe '94, Cathy Novello '83, Duncan Woodard '01 and Phil Yarberough '01 will be inducted into the 2023-24 Maroon Club Hall of Fame alongside the 1983 men's tennis team. This class of inductees will be enshrined at the Hall of Fame Dinner on Friday, Nov. 17, 2023 inside Kirby Sports Center.

For tickets to the event, which is set to begin at 5:30 p.m., please register at the link above or contact LaKitha Murrary at murrayla@lafayette.edu or (610) 330-5457 for more information. Tickets are $90 for adults and $30 for children under 12.

Alexander, a two-time All-Patriot League selection in men's soccer, was named an NSCAA All-Mid-Atlantic Region honoree in his junior season of 1995. The forward helped guide his squad to conference titles in 1994 and 1995 with an additional regular-season championship in 1993. The Leopards were the first team in history to capture back-to-back Patriot League Tournament titles. As a sophomore, the Economics & Business major earned the 1994 conference tournament MVP title.

In his final campaign, he led the league and amassed 26 total points. By scoring the game-tying goal in regulation and the 128^th-minute game-winning goal in double overtime of an NCAA play-in game over Loyola, Alexander gave the Leopards their first NCAA Tournament bid. That 1995 run would be a part of Lafayette's Sweet 16 appearance. To this day, he is ranked in the top 20 in career goals, assists and points at Lafayette as well as in the top 20 for each of those marks in a single season. 

Upon graduation, Alexander began working for CitiGroup in New York, where he stayed until 2015. For the following eight years, he held a position at  Wells Fargo as a registered financial professional and has spent three years in his current role as a director. He currently resides in Kennesaw, Ga., with his wife of 14 years, Colleen, and his children. Alexander remains very active in his Calabar High School's alumni chapter, serving as vice president of the Calabar Atlanta Old Boys Association, where the Sons of Rabalac host a charity soccer game every March in Kingston, Jamaica.

D'Angelo Stowe, a standout field hockey goalkeeper, was tabbed a CFHCA All-Mideast Regional honoree in 1992. That same year, she garnered her first of two All-Patriot League First-Team laurels. The Government and Law major also earned the Patriot League's Field Hockey Scholar-Athlete of the Year award in 1993. The senior tri-captain helped guide her squad, under head coach Ann Gold, to four straight league championships (1990-93) and three ECAC championships with a final combined record of 57-24-3. The 1993 team was ranked 18^th nationally by the NCAA.

While in the cage, she led the conference in shutouts for three seasons (1991-93), goals-against average (1990, 1992) in two seasons and and save percentage (1993) for one season. D'Angelo Stowe ranks first in Lafayette and Patriot League history for career shutouts (33) and shutouts in a season (12 in 1993) and is second in career save percentage in the Patriot League (.864) and first for save percentage in a season (.910 in 1993)

To no surprise, she holds the Patriot League record for most Player of the Week awards in her career, prior to offensive and defensive awards being established in fall 1994. D'Angelo Stowe still sits among Patriot League leaders for her goals-against average in a single season (2^nd with 0.67 in 1990 and 5^th with 0.91 in 1993), saves in a career (11^th with 510) and saves in a season (9^th with 210 in 1993). The Philadelphia, Pa. native currently ranks 18^th in the NCAA for career shutouts.

Following Lafayette, D'Angelo Stowe earned a Juris Doctor/Master's Degree in Public Administration from Suffolk University Law School. She then worked at the Department of Health and Human Services in Baltimore, Md. and for private health service companies and New York and Portland, Ore. She found most rewarding her work in public service and consumer protection while she served as a Deputy Attorney General for the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General, Bureau of Consumer Protection.

Most recently, D'Angelo Stowe and her husband Albert, an officer with the U.S. Navy, returned to Philadelphia, Pa. after living in Naples, Italy for six years with their twin girls, Mary and Sophie. She currently enjoys her return to field hockey by coaching the goalkeepers for her daughter's field hockey team.

Novello was honored as the 1983 East Coast Conference Player of the Year and MVP while serving as a team captain and pitcher/hitter for Lafayette softball's ECC finals run that season. During that campaign, she broke the single-season record for victories with 15. In her career, the History major finished second in pitching wins (35) and ERA (1.94). Novello ranks sixth all-time for strikeouts (199) and seventh for innings pitched (407.2) and strikeouts per game (3.42) while in the circle. On offense, she ranks fourth all-time in on-base percentage (.433) and is sixth in career batting average (.333).

Novello recorded nine shutouts in her career, including four in one season, and threw two no-hitters. The scoreless opponents include Eastern, Allentown College, Seton Hall, Lehigh, Villanova, Princeton, Scranton, East Stroudsburg and Rider. The two no-hitters took place against Eastern, 3-0, on April 25, 1980 and versus Seton Hall, 3-0, on May 1, 1981. As for individual season records, she holds three of the top-five spots in lowest earned-run average with 1.52 (147.0 IP) in 1983, 1.81 (58.0 IP) in 1980 and 1.84 (118.0 IP) in 1981. Lastly, she ranks fifth in most strikeouts per seven-inning game with 5.43 in 1980.

Alongside her History degree, she graduated from Lafayette with a teaching certificate in Social Studies. Novello furthered her education at rival Lehigh, where she earned her Master's of Education in 1998.

In May of her senior year, she was hired to teach Social Studies at Pen Argyl Area High School where she taught for 38 years. Over the course of that position, the Mountain Lakes, N.J. native taught Advanced Placement European History, World Cultures, Psychology, American Government and Modern American History. She coached six years of softball and two years of basketball and served as the advisor to the National Honor Society and Student Government. Novello founded the Diversity, Tolerance and Awareness Club and carried out duties as the Social Studies Department Coordinator for more than 20 years. Before retiring in 2021, she was awarded the Educator of the Year by Pen Argyl School district.

Novello currently resides in Northampton, Pa., where she has been teaching Foundations of Education as a visiting professor at Lafayette since 2016.

As a men's lacrosse goalkeeper, Woodard lays claim to a multitude of conference awards and records. He was a four-time team MVP and All-Patriot League selection, with two first-team (2000, 2001) and two second-team (1998, 1999) laurels. The Economics & Business major is one of 14 student-athletes in men's lacrosse conference history to achieve this feat.

During his senior season, he recorded 229 saves, good for fourth all-time in the conference, to total a Lafayette and Patriot League record of 769 career saves, thus cementing him as the Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year in 2001. Nationally, he finished 10^th in the country for save percentage in 2001 and 13^th in the U.S. in goals-against average in 2000. In the NCAA's record book, he sits at 17^th for career saves and 20^th for all-time saves per game (14.79).

After college from 2001-07, Woodard served in the United States Marine Corps as a captain and ground intelligence and reconnaissance officer. He lived in Seattle and worked in commercial real estate for the next five years before earning a graduate degree from the University of Washington in 2012. Continuing on the private equity commercial real estate path, he worked for Colony Capital and JLL before his present position with Boston Capital Real Estate Partners. Woodard is a managing director whose job focus is on fundraising and acquisitions.

He currently resides in Cohasset, Mass. with his wife, Liz, of 17 years and their three children.

A fellow graduate of the Class of 2001, Yarberough captained the Leopards' football team in 2000 on his way to ECAC All-Star First Team and Football Gazette's honorable mention All-America status. In his final two seasons, he garnered both All-Patriot League First- and Second-Team selections.

Yarberough was the fourth Lafayette football student-athlete to be named the conference's Offensive Player of the Year. During his senior campaign, he led the league and ranked sixth nationally in receiving yards (1,139) and receptions (77).

The Lebanon, Pa. native earned the Hugh H. "Stoney" Jones '27 Award team MVP award in 2000 and also secured the Charles L. Albert '08 Award presented annually to the most outstanding athlete. In 2000, he earned the George McGaughey Award as the MVP of the Bucknell game after recording one of his top career performances with nine receptions for 124 yards and three touchdowns. He currently ranks fourth on College Hill for career receptions (160), third in career receiving yards (2,385) and 10^th in receiving touchdowns (13). Inside the classroom, Yarberough received Academic All-District II honors in 1998.

Yarberough graduated with an A.B. in Economics and Business with a minor in Sociology/Anthropology. After Lafayette, he briefly worked in the financial services industry as a registered representative with ING Variable Annuities. He also played a season of arena football for the Albany Conquest, obtained an M.S. in Criminal Justice from Shippensburg University and moved to Atlanta where he volunteered for a year with homeless-service and youth-development programs. Yarberough followed his Master's degree with a J.D. at Emory University School of Law in 2010. Most recently, he began working for the U.S. Treasury Dept., Office of Chief Counsel, where he litigated cases in the U.S. Tax Court. He currently serves as a managing attorney in Philadelphia, Pa. 

The 1983 men's tennis team, coached by the late Pete Tomaino and captained by Bob Beck (1^st singles, 1^st doubles) and Sal Lomanto (4^th singles, 3^rd doubles), will be the 20th induction since teams were first eligible in 2012-13. Other members included Mark Delehey, Brad Demsky (5^th singles, 2^nd doubles), Rob Lyles (3^rd doubles), Rick Stassa (3^rd singles, 1^st doubles), Nick Greenfield (2^nd singles, 2^nd doubles), Pete Gruenberg and Ed Duffy (6^th singles).
 
The program finished the season with a perfect 14-0 mark, the most victories in a single season, on the way to an East Coast Conference championship. During the ECC Championship, their second time in three years, five players won or finished as a runner-up in their flights, pushing the team to the largest margin of victory in conference tournament history. For the first time in program history, Lafayette defeated Colgate, Rutgers, Temple and Haverford and secured a team title at the Scranton Invitational/College Bowl Tournament. Delehy finished undefeated in singles, while he and Gruenberg went undefeated
in doubles. Additionally, the Leopards claimed a No. 10 ranking in the NCAA's eastern region as the team shared a fall ECAC title with Franklin and Marshall.

Enshrinement into the Lafayette College Maroon Club Athletic Hall of Fame is truly the highest honor the College can bestow upon its former student-athletes, coaches, administrators, support staff and teams. Of the many men and women who have represented Lafayette in athletic competitions, only 160 individuals and 19 teams have been inducted into the Hall of Fame as of 2022-23. Each year, the Maroon Club hosts a banquet and ceremony on the eve of the Lafayette-Lehigh football game to induct a Hall of Fame class.

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