The Dominican University department of athletics has announced the 2019 class to be inducted into the Dominican University Athletics Hall of Fame on June 8 during the university's reunion weekend. Dominican's fifth class inducted into the Hall of Fame features Kelly Donlevy '94 (women's volleyball), Michael Kapusta '11 (men's soccer), Emily Mahoney '13 (softball), Willis Lamont McGee '92 (men's basketball) and Megan Vaccaro '10 (cross country). The Hall of Fame dinner will take place at 7:30 p.m. in the Shaffer Silveri Atrium in Parmer Hall and will be preceded by a cocktail reception in the Crown Library.
Donlevy, formerly McEnery while competing for the Rosary Rebels, was a member of the Rosary women's volleyball program from 1990-1993 earning AVCA All-America honorable mention honors and AVCA All-Region First Team honors as a senior in 1993. During her career, McEnery was named to the NAIA All-District Team for District 20 three times (1991, 1992, 1993) and landed on the All-Chicagoland Collegiate Athletic Conference Team in each of her four season.
Kapusta was a member of Dominican's men's soccer program from 2007-2010, helping Dominican to win four straight Northern Athletics Collegiate Conference (NACC) regular season and tournament championships and making a run to the NCAA Division III Men's Soccer national semifinal match in 2009. Throughout his career, Kapusta captured the NACC
Offensive Player of the Year, Defensive Player of the Year and the
Freshman of the Year. Additionally, Kapusta was a three-time All-NACC First Team selection and was named to the 2010 NSCAA All-America Second Team as a senior.
Mahoney put together one of the most dominant single seasons in Dominican University athletics history, posting a 21-8 mark as a pitcher on the softball diamond with a 1.91 earned run average while collecting 251 strikeouts as a senior in 2013. To this day, the right-hander holds the program's single-season records for wins (21), appearances (34), games started (32), shutouts (9), innings pitched (179.2) and strikeouts (251). That season, Mahoney was recognized as the NACC Pitcher of the Year and named to the NFCA All-Region First Team. Over the course of four seasons, Mahoney amassed 533 career strikeouts, 60 more than any other pitcher in program history.
Despite being limited to just three seasons with the Rosary College men's basketball program due to injury, McGee piled up 1,452 points throughout his career with the Rebels while shooting .539 from the field. Currently, McGee ranks seventh on the men's basketball all-time scoring list while ranking second in field goals made. His 331 offensive rebounds and 7.9 rebounds per game average are both tops in the program all-time while his 170 blocked shots sits in second, only 28 off the program record despite playing just three seasons. Throughout his career, McGee was a three-time all-conference selection and two-time NAIA All-Chicagoland honoree.
Vaccaro was the NACC Women's Cross Country individual champion in 2008, the only individual cross country champion in school history. That year, Vaccaro posted the fastest 6k time in program history, covering the course at Midwest Regional hosted by Augustana College. Vaccaro placed 17
th individually at the race to become the first and only runner in program history to earn USTCCCA All-Region honors. Following her graduation in 2010, Vaccaro returned the program as an assistant coach before taking over the reigns as the program's head coach in 2015.
For more information on the Hall of Fame Dinner or Alumnae/i Weekend 2019, visit
https://www.dom.edu/alumni/news-events/events/alumni-weekend. Registration is set to open in early March.