POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – Dave Magarity and Danielle (Galarneau) Donohue will be Marist's inductees into the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) Honor Roll for 2019.
 
Each of the conference's member institutions will honor one male and one female from its basketball "family" as part of the 2018 induction class. A dinner will take place on Saturday, Sept. 14, at the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame Court of Dreams to recognize the Honor Roll inductees. Each honoree will be profiled in the game program for the 2020 MAAC Basketball Championships and will be featured in a video display at "The MAAC Experience."
 
Red Fox Club basketball season tickets for 2019-20 are on sale. This year's annual Red Fox Club Barbecue will be held on Friday, Sept. 20. Magarity is expected to attend the barbecue. For more information on season tickets and barbecue registration, please visit MaristTickets.com.
 
Dave Magarity (1986-2004)
Dave Magarity served as head coach for the Marist men's basketball program for 18 seasons, and is the program's all-time leader in victories with 253. In his first season at the helm in 1986-87, he guided the Red Foxes to the ECAC Metro championship and an NCAA Tournament appearance. Magarity and his staff were instrumental in the development of Rik Smits, who became the program's first NBA Draft choice. Smits was selected second overall in 1988 by the Indiana Pacers, and went on to enjoy a 12-year NBA career. In 1996, Magarity guided the Red Foxes to a 22-win season and a berth in the Postseason NIT for the first time in their history. Marist moved to the MAAC on Magarity's watch for the 1997-98 season, and he guided the team to a share of its first regular-season conference title in 2001-02. A highly respected coach by his peers and foes, Magarity was a three-time conference Coach of the Year, and a three-time NABC District Coach of the Year. He was awarded the Mike Cohen "Good Guy" award by the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association in 1988.
 
Danielle (Galarneau) Donohue (1987-91)
Danielle Donohue, known as Danielle Galarneau in her playing days, was a stalwart in the frontcourt for the Marist women's basketball program in the late 1980s and early 1990s. A 6-foot-1 native of Troy, New York, Galarneau was a four-year starter whose statistics improved every season. This culminated in a senior season in which she averaged 15.9 points and 8.9 rebounds per game. Galarneau played in 106 career games, with 90 starts. She scored 1,141 points in her collegiate career, a total which ranked second in program history at the time of her graduation, and is 17^th all-time through this past season. She hauled in 833 career rebounds, the most in program history at the end of her playing career, and a mark which is currently in fourth place at Marist. On Feb. 23, 1991, Galarneau set a program record which remains intact today when she drained 15 free throws in a contest at LIU.
 
This is the ninth induction class for the MAAC Honor Roll. Here are Marist's yearly inductees:
 
2011-12 – Rik Smits '88, Alisa Kresge ''07
2012-13 – Fred Weiss '66, Rachele Fitz '10
2013-14 – Mike Hart '75, Julianne Viani '09
2014-15 – Jared Jordan '07, Corielle Yarde '12
2015-16 – Steve Smith '83, Ursula Winter '85
2016-17 – Alan Tomidy '96, Stacey (Dengler) Girard '96
2017-18 – Ron Petro, Erica (Allenspach) Woytek '11
2018-19 – Sean Kennedy '02, Kristin Keller Greiner '05
2019-20 – Dave Magarity, Danielle (Galarneau) Donohue '91
 
The Marist men's and women's basketball teams both begin their seasons on Friday, Nov. 8. The men open at VMI, while the women will play at Boston University. This season's home openers will take place on Tuesday, Nov. 12 for the men (vs. Hartford), and Wednesday, Nov. 13 for the women (vs. Albany).