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Rose Inducted Into Cortland Hall

Wed, Oct 19, 2011

Rose Inducted Into Cortland Hall
A Hamilton resident who made lasting impacts on both soccer and lacrosse in Central New York, is one of eight new members of the SUNY Cortland C-Club Hall of Fame. Paul Rose, who coached at Colgate, Morrisville College and HCS will be inducted during the C-Club's 43rd annual banquet and ceremonies on Saturday, Oct. 29, in the college’s Corey Union.
Rose graduated from Cortland in 1967. While at Cortland, Rose competed in soccer, wrestling and lacrosse, and enjoyed a long lacrosse coaching career at Clarkson, Geneseo, Colgate and Morrisville. He also assisted his son, Brian, when HCS had a lacrosse team.
 
The other 2011 honorees are:
 
• Thomas Major ’59, a football, baseball and wrestling letterwinner at Cortland and a long-time teacher, coach and athletic director at Trumansburg High School;
 
• James Sellars ’59, a standout football player, among his three sports, for the Red Dragons who signed professional contracts with the Philadelphia Eagles and Buffalo Bills and is currently a successful business owner;
 
• Barbara Moenich LoPiccolo ’69, one of Cortland’s first female intercollegiate athletes and a successful physical educator and coach in the Norwich City Schools;
 
• Michel “Mic” Potter ’77, one of the nation’s foremost collegiate women’s golf coaches at Furman University and the University of Alabama and mentor to numerous LPGA professional players;
 
• Janine Henrickson ’84, a star women’s lacrosse and field hockey player who is an accomplished clinical audiologist for the Department of Veteran Affairs;
 
• Janine Engelhard Bennett ’91, a four-time women’s soccer All-American and national Player of the Year and currently a successful girls’ soccer coach at Dryden High School;
 
• and honorary inductee Phyllis McGinley, a 30-plus year Cortland physical education faculty member who mentored numerous student-athletes and served from 1981-83 as the acting chair of Cortland’s Women’s Physical Education Department.
 
In addition to Saturday night’s official ceremony, the inductees also will be introduced at halftime of the Cortland-College of New Jersey 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 220 alumni and 25 honorary members.
 
A native of Baldwinsville, Rose starred in three sports during his Cortland athletic career. He then enjoyed a storied collegiate coaching career, primarily in lacrosse and wrestling.
 
Rose, who passed away in March 2010, lettered four years in soccer, wrestling and lacrosse with the Red Dragons. As a forward on the soccer pitch, he twice earned first team all-state and All-SUNYAC honors, won the Red Letter Award twice, and helped Cortland make two NCAA tournament appearances. A three-time All-SUNYAC wrestler, Rose won conference crowns at 137 pounds in 1966 and 130 pounds in 1967.
 
Rose led the lacrosse team in scoring and earned the Red Letter Award in 1965. As a senior, he started on a squad that ranked 12th nationally. Off the field, he was named to Who’s Who in American Colleges and Universities as a senior.
 
After one year as freshman soccer coach at Penn State, Rose coached soccer, wrestling and lacrosse at Clarkson University from 1968-70. He moved to Geneseo State in 1970 and served as lacrosse head coach for 10 years and wrestling head coach for nine seasons. The Knights won ECAC lacrosse titles in 1975 and 1976, defeated Syracuse in the 1977 season and posted an overall record of 86-24.
 
Rose took over the head soccer and lacrosse coaching reins at Colgate University in 1980 and coached at the school for five seasons. He then spent eight years at Morrisville State College from 1985-93 and coached three lacrosse All-Americans. He remained at Morrisville as a senior admissions counselor from 1993-97 and dean of enrollment management from 1997-2001, then resumed as part-time lacrosse head coach from 2001-06. He spent his final years as a volunteer lacrosse coach at HCS.
 
Both Geneseo and Morrisville have inducted Rose into their athletics Halls of Fame. He also was named the 2008 Upstate Lacrosse Man of the Year and was a 2010 inductee into the Upstate New York chapter of the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame.
 
Rose was very active in the village of Hamilton for many years. He incorporated youth soccer as part of Hamilton’s summer recreational program from 1980-83. He was a member of the village recreation commission from 1987-94 and chaired the commission for four years. He also started a youth lacrosse program in 2003 and was a 30-year member of the Park United Methodist Church.
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