POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – Marist Director of Athletics
Tim Murray and assistant football coach Larry Riley were inducted into the Dutchess County Sports Museum Hall of Fame's Coaches Corner on Sunday in a ceremony held at the Italian Center.
Murray has served as Director of Athletics at Marist since February of 1995. In his tenure, Marist has won a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference record 31 total Commissioner's Cups (12 overall, 11 women, eight men) and a MAAC-best 113 tournament championships. The Red Foxes have made 49 NCAA Tournament appearances and have won 11 games in NCAA Tournament play. In 2007, the Marist women's basketball team became the first basketball team in MAAC history to advance to the Sweet Sixteen of the NCAA Tournament.
Murray is currently in his third season as a member of the Football Championship Subdivision selection committee. He is also the chair of the MAAC Women's Basketball Committee and MAAC Awards Committee.
Riley currently serves as the Red Foxes' cornerbacks coach, and is in 32
nd year as a defensive assistant with the Red Foxes. He has coached the team's defensive backs and linebackers in his tenure, and has served as position coach for some of the top student-athletes in program history.
Riley is one of the top athletes the Hudson Valley has ever produced. He starred locally at Arlington High school, and played collegiately at Salem College in West Virginia. He then played three years in the NFL with the Denver Broncos and New York Jets, and was a member of the Broncos' 1977 AFC Championship team and "Orange Crush" defense. Riley went on to play three years in the Canadian Football League.