Loyola Athletics Announces Hall of Fame Class of 2026

Cormier was a three-time all-conference guard for the Greyhounds and helped lead the team to the 2012 NCAA Championships after winning the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Championship. The Baltimore-area native finished his career ranked seventh in career points and currently stands ninth in school history with 1,659 in 117 games. Cormier earned All-MAAC Second Team honors in 2011-12, was a first-team honoree in 2012-13 and then earned All-Patriot League Third Team recognition in 2013-14, despite missing the second half of conference play with an injury in the Greyhounds’ first year in the conference. He led Loyola in scoring (16.4 points per game) in 2012-13 and was ranked 13th in NCAA Division I, and tops in the Patriot League, in points per game (21.2) through the end of his final season at Loyola. Cormier continued his career at the professional level in Europe and the United States after graduation.

Fletcher was a three-time All-American for the men’s lacrosse team, garnering first-team recognition in both 2013 and 2014, as one of the top cover defenders of his era in the sport. He was a key part of a defensive unit that held Notre Dame and Maryland to just eight goals over two games on Championship Weekend in 2012 as the Greyhounds won their first NCAA Men’s Lacrosse title. Fletcher was the 2014 USILA William C. Schmeisser Defensive Player of the Year and is one of only two men’s lacrosse players at the school to win a positional award. He was a Tewaaraton Award finalist and the Patriot League Defensive Player of the Year in 2014 while also excelling in the classroom. Fletcher was named the Patriot League Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men’s lacrosse and later for all male student-athletes in the conference, and he is also the only Loyola student-athlete to be named to the NCAA Today’s Top 10 at the end of 2014. He was the third pick of the 2014 Major League Lacrosse draft and played several professional seasons in both the MLL and the Premier Lacrosse League (PLL). He was the first Loyola men’s player to compete for the U.S. National Team and was a member of the 2018 Gold Medal-winning squad at the World Championships.

Janasek graduated from Loyola as the winningest player at No. 1 singles in Loyola women’s tennis history, capturing 76 victories on the top line of the order between 2008 and 2012. She played at No. 1 all four years of her career and accumulated the second-most victories regardless of position at Loyola, going 76-25 over her 101 matches. Janasek also finished with 65 career doubles victories at No. 1, the most at that spot in school history. She was the 2009 MAAC Rookie of the Year and the following year was named the MAAC Most Valuable Player. Janasek earned All-MAAC postseason honors three times, picking up first-team recognition in 2009-10. She was also an eight-time Dean’s List honoree and four-time Academic All-MAAC player.

Malone displays a line in his bio that no other Loyola graduate does: NBA World Championship Coach. The 1994 graduate of Loyola–who scored 383 points and had 282 assists in 108 career games as a point guard from 1989-93–entered the coaching ranks at the high school level in his final year on the Evergreen campus before taking a job at then-NCAA Division II school Oakland University. Malone nearly went into the law enforcement field before accepting a job offer as an assistant at Providence College in 1995. He would assist the Friars and later at the University of Virginia and Manhattan College before taking his first NBA assistant coaching position with the New York Knicks in 2001. He spent the next 11 seasons on the bench with the Knicks (2001-05), Cleveland Cavaliers (2005-10), New Orleans Hornets (2010-11) and Golden State Warriors (2011-13) before being named head coach of the Sacramento Kings in 2013. He spent parts of two seasons with the Kings (2013-14) and then became head coach of the Denver Nuggets in 2015, where he had an 865-327 record and led the Nuggets to the 2023 NBA Championship. 

McKenzie became just the second player in Loyola women’s basketball history to earn All-MAAC First Team honors in three straight seasons during a career she fashioned as an explosive scorer who also was an outstanding rebounding guard. She graduated in 2012 with 1,398 total points, then ranked No. 4 in school history (currently sixth), while she also corralled 722 rebounds over the course of her time at the school, good for seventh in 2012 (now ninth). McKenzie led Loyola to the 2010-11 MAAC Championship Game as a junior when she averaged 14.3 points and 7.4 rebounds per game. She concluded her career averaging 14.1 points and 7.3 rebounds per game and is currently ranked fourth in both categories. She continued her playing career professionally in countries such as Finland, Greece, Portugal and Spain following graduation, and she has also played for the Guyanese National Team.

A three-time MAAC Defensive Player of the Year, McVea captained Loyola to three-straight NCAA College Cup appearances from 2007-09 during a time when Loyola went 55-24-6 on the pitch. He became just the second player in program history to earn NSCAA All-America First Team honors at the Division I level and the third overall when he was honored following the 2008 season. He was a four-year starter at center back for the Greyhounds, anchoring a defense that led the nation in shutouts in 2007 (17) and was 10th in 2008 (12). McVea was a finalist for the 2009 Lowe’s Senior CLASS Award and a member of the 2009 Hermann Trophy Watch List. After graduation, McVea played professionally in Europe and the United States before moving into the coaching ranks; he is now the head coach at Old Dominion University.

The most decorated swimmer of Loyola’s history in the MAAC, Morris was a three-time MAAC Most Outstanding Male Swimmer in 2010, 2011 and 2012. He won 14 titles during that time and held multiple conference records, a pair that still stand today. Morris graduated from Loyola as the program’s record-holder in six individual events—500 freestyle, 1,000 freestyle, 1,650 freestyle, 100 backstroke, 200 backstroke and 400 individual medley—and was on two record-holding relay teams—400 freestyle and 800 freestyle. His MAAC records in the 400 individual medley and 1,650 freestyle still stand today. Morris was the first Loyola swimmer, male or female, to achieve an NCAA B standard qualifying time. He competed at a pair of United States Olympic Trials, swimming at the meets in both 2008 and 2012, and he was 15th in the 1,500 freestyle at the 2009 FINA World Championships in Italy. Since graduation, Morris has stayed connected to club and collegiate swimming and is an assistant coach at UMBC.

Rovegno fashioned a running career at Loyola during which she established herself as one of the best distance athletes in the MAAC between 2003-08. She competed in both cross country and track and field for the Greyhounds, and to date, she holds four program records—5,000-meter cross country, indoor 3,000-meter, outdoor 1,500-meter and outdoor 5,000-meter. Rovegno won the 2008 MAAC indoor mile title and was second in the indoor 3,000 meters. She took second in the MAAC Cross Country Championships in 2004, was third in 2005 and fourth at the races in 2003 and 2006. Rovegno also raced to an 11th-place finish at the 2005 NCAA East Regional, earning NCAA All-Region honors. 

Russell’s story at Loyola started in the first game of his 1960 freshman season when he stepped onto the field against perennial power Washington & Lee and made 24 saves in goal to help Loyola produce a 7-7 tie against the Generals in the days before sudden-death overtime. An ensuing newspaper headline referred to him as a “Diamond in the Rough,” giving birth to his nickname of “Diamond.” Russell would later set a school single-game record with 26 saves against Hofstra, a record that stood for more than 20 years. After graduation, he became a long-distance runner and became head coach of the Loyola cross country team in 1973, leading the Greyhounds to five-straight winning seasons. He would go on to coach tennis, as well, in the 1970s, helping Loyola to a pair of runner-up finishes at the Mason-Dixon Conference Championships, and he joined the men’s lacrosse coaching staff in the mid-1970s, helping usher in the scholarship era of the sport at Loyola. Russell graduated from the University of Baltimore School of Law after Loyola and became a member of the State of Maryland Bar. He was an assistant attorney general for the state, an assistant public defender in Baltimore County, an adjunct faculty member at both Loyola and Towson University, and in 1991, he was named a Maryland District Court Judge, serving the citizens of the state for 21 years on the bench.

Loyola women’s soccer’s all-time leading scorer, Schiro finished her career with 52 goals, 19 assists and 119 points as a four-year starter. Thirteen years after her graduation, she still has 16 more goals and 26 more points than any other player in Greyhounds history. She was a three-time MAAC Offensive Player of the Year, becoming the first women’s soccer player in conference history to win an individual award three times in a row. Schiro led the team to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances in 2009 and 2012 and helped the Greyhounds to a 44-32-7 record over four years. She was a MAAC All-Rookie Team honoree in 2009 and then earned All-MAAC First Team recognition the next three years. She was an NSCAA All-Northeast Region Third Team honoree as a senior in 2012, and she also excelled in the classroom during her time at Loyola. Schiro, who won the school’s Lagna Award as the top female senior student-athlete in 2012-13, was named to the CoSIDA Academic All-America First Team, as well as to the NSCAA University Division I Scholar All-America Team in 2012. Schiro graduated from dental school at the University of North Carolina and is an orthodontist in Colorado.

Corb graduated from Loyola as the Greyhounds’ all-time leader in kills and was the second player in the volleyball program’s history to record 1,000 kills and 1,000 digs in a career. She had 300 or more kills in all four of her seasons (2002-06) at the school, putting away 400 or more in each of her last three. Corb led the Greyhounds in kills as a sophomore, junior and senior and during the 2005 campaign set the school’s all-time record for kills. She is a member of the Connecticut Volleyball Hall of Fame and the Bunnell High School Athletics Hall of Fame.

The Loyola men’s lacrosse team started the 2012 season unranked, but where it finished was what mattered. The Greyhounds set a school record for wins, going 18-1 during the year and culminating with the NCAA Division I Men’s Lacrosse Championship. The national title was the second in any sport and any division for the school and the first at the Division I level. Loyola also became the smallest school by enrollment to win an NCAA Men’s Lacrosse Championship after defeating Maryland, 9-3, in the title game. The team, led by Head Coach Charley Toomey, ’90, who was named to the Loyola Athletics Hall of Fame in 2020, went undefeated in the year’s first 13 games, winning the ECAC Lacrosse League regular-season and tournament titles, and the Greyhounds were tabbed the No. 1 seed in the national tournament. A win over Canisius College in the first round set up the third meeting of the year with the University of Denver in the quarterfinals, and the Greyhounds came out victorious, 10-9. From there, the season moved to NCAA Championship Weekend at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, where Loyola defeated the University of Notre Dame, 7-5, to advance to the title game for the first time since 1990. There, Loyola stifled the Terrapins, holding them scoreless for the last 40 minutes, 40 seconds of the game, in a 9-3 victory that brought the trophy to Baltimore. Eric Lusby was named the NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player after setting a then-championships record with 17 goals in four games. Toomey was named the USILA National Coach of the Year, Mike Sawyer was a Tewaaraton Award finalist, and he was one of seven USILA All-Americans—Reid Acton, Davis Butts, Fletcher, Josh Hawkins, Lusby, Scott Ratliff and Sawyer.