ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. – Eight of the top athletes in St. Bonaventure's history are set for their enshrinement into the St. Bonaventure University Athletics Hall of Fame when the Class of 2023 is formally inducted this Saturday: Adrian Blaszczak, '06 (men's swimming), Tricia Cuti, '98 (women's swimming), Jessica Jenkins, '12 (women's basketball), Sam Maheu, '09 (men's soccer), Andrew Nicholson, '12 (men's basketball), Brian Pellegrini, '07 (baseball), Megan Van Tatenhove, '12 (women's basketball) and Cody Vincent, '08 (baseball). Also set for induction is former baseball head coach Larry Sudbrook who was selected a year ago and deferred his induction to this year.

This year's class will be formally inducted Saturday, June 17 as part of St. Bonaventure's Alumni Reunion Weekend. The induction ceremony is set for 10:30 a.m. in the Quick Center for the Arts. The Hall of Fame induction ceremony is free and open to all. To watch a live stream of the ceremony, click here.

The new inductees join 146 previous St. Bonaventure Athletics Hall of Fame honorees, continuing a tradition which dates to 1969 when the first class was honored. Induction into the Hall of Fame recognizes and honors those individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the intercollegiate program at St. Bonaventure University, and who have continued to demonstrate in their lives the values imparted by intercollegiate athletics.

The largest induction class in St. Bonaventure Athletics Hall of Fame history, this year's group makes up for lost time following the postponement of an induction class due to the pandemic.  

 

Adrian Blaszczak
During his four-year career with the Bonnies, Blaszczak was instrumental to some of the best teams in men's swim and dive program history.

He opened his career by being named the 2002-03 Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year in his first conference championship meet as the Bonnies finished second as a team, a finish they would repeat the next two seasons before getting to the top of the mountain during his senior year of 2005-06 with one of five Atlantic 10 championships in Bonnies men's swim and dive history.

At the 2004 championship meet, he was crowned the A-10's Most Outstanding Performer, making him one of only four Bonnies men's swimmers to ever achieve that feat. He won three gold medals that year as an individual performer, winning the A-10 title in the 100 and 200-breaststroke as well as the 200-IM.

During his career, he captured 15 gold medals at A-10 championships, three silver and two bronze as one of the most decorated swimmers in Bonnies history. He was an eight-time individual A-10 event champion.

A standout in the classroom, he was a three-time selection to the Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team.

Tricia Cuti
Cuti was central to the best run of success in Bonnies women's swim and dive history, serving as a key to the program's Atlantic 10 championship three-peat from 1996-98.

At her debut Atlantic 10 Championship meet in 1995, Cuti became the first A-10 Most Outstanding Rookie Performer in program history, an honor that today she shares only with two other Bonnies. She won gold twice that year with conference championship wins in both the 100 and 200-butterfly. For her efforts, she was named the 1995 St. Bonaventure Female Athlete of the Year. She also qualified for U.S. Senior Nationals, placing 17th in the 200-meter butterfly, and was a member of the 800-meter freestyle relay that placed eighth at U.S. Senior Nationals. 

A year later, she medaled in two individual events with a silver in the 200-fly and a bronze in the 100-fly as the Bonnies won the Atlantic 10 Championship for the first time.

Cuti helped the Bonnies repeat as champs her junior year, capturing gold in the 100 and 200-fly and silver in the 500-freestyle.

Cuti and her Bonnies teammates made it three straight conference crowns in 1998 as she won gold in the 200-fly and bronze in both the 100-fly and 500-free. Upon graduating, she held four school record times.

She was also a three-time selection to the Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team.

Jessica Jenkins
The most prolific three-point shooter in Atlantic 10 women's basketball history, Jenkins was one of the keys to the greatest run in the history of Bonnies women's basketball.

St. Bonaventure went 31-4 including a perfect 14-0 Atlantic 10 mark during Jenkins' senior year of 2011-12 and went on a magical run leading all the way to the only Sweet 16 appearance by Bonnies women's basketball.

Jenkins was a First Team All-A-10 pick that year and a Naismith National Player of the Year finalist, scoring nearly 14 points per contest while sinking 110 treys, most in school history. In an NCAA Tournament Second Round win over Marist, she delivered 22 points and hit six threes.

In 135 career games, she posted 1,441 points, a total that remains 10^th in school history. Her trademark was lights-out three-point shooting as she drained 338 career triples, good for not only the top of the board in Bonnies history but also for an A-10 all-time record that still stands today.

During her Bonaventure career, the Bonnies won at least 21 games every season and reached the national postseason each year with at least one win in all of those appearances. In 2009, Bona went to the third round of the WNIT including a 10-point effort from Jenkins in a second round win at Wisconsin. The following year, as a sophomore, she tallied 18.0 ppg in two WNIT games, including 22 points in a win over Robert Morris. As a junior, she registered another 20-point postseason effort with that total in a win over Lehigh.

In the classroom, she also earned Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team accolades.

After a pro playing career, she returned to Bonaventure as an assistant coach where she helped lead the Bonnies to another NCAA Tournament appearance, and win, during the 2015-16 season as SBU defeated Oklahoma State on the way to the Round of 32. She then moved into coaching where she first served on staff at St. Bonaventure before moving to Providence and now Akron.

Sam Maheu
A three-time All-Atlantic 10 performer, Maheu is one of just two St. Bonaventure athletes to be named Atlantic 10 Men's Soccer Offensive Player of the Year, taking those honors in 2009.

His senior season was one of the best in program history for any player as he led the Atlantic 10 in points (31) while striking for 12 goals. That year, he was key to snapping a decade-long postseason drought for the program by helping spark 10 victories and an A-10 Tournament appearance. In addition to A-10 Offensive Player of the Year honors, he was crowned an All-Region selection by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America and was also selected to the TopDrawerSoccer.com Team of the Year representing the nation's best players that season. 

When he graduated, he did so with 60 career points, a total that stands sixth in Bonnies history. His 23 total goals over four seasons rank seventh in the program record books while his 14 assists stand sixth.

Maheu also led the team in scoring during his junior season of 2008 when he was named A-10 Honorable Mention. As a freshman in 2006, he earned a spot on the A-10 All-Rookie Team. In the classroom, he was an Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team honoree.

Andrew Nicholson
Perhaps the best player to wear the Bonnies uniform in the modern era, Nicholson played an immense role in returning St. Bonaventure men's basketball to national relevance.

The 6-foot-9 forward from Ontario finished his career ranking second in school history for points with 2,103. His four-year career would culminate in the program's first-ever Atlantic 10 Championship in 2012 and his selection in the first round of the NBA Draft that summer.

He made an immediate impact, earning A-10 Rookie of the Year superlatives after leading all freshmen nationwide in field goal percentage (.602) and blocks (81) during 2008-09. His six Rookie of the Week honors that season remain a program record.

A four-time All-Conference pick, he averaged 18.5 points and 8.4 rebounds with 63 blocks on the way to A-10 Player of the Year and All-American Honorable Mention distinction as a senior. In so doing, he became just the second Bonaventure men's basketball player to take home both Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year and Player of the Year during his career. He also became the first player in A-10 history to be named the conference Player of the Week four straight times, scoring at least 19 points in each of his final 12 games.

Nicholson cemented his spot in Bona lore with his 26-point, 14-rebound, eight-block effort in the 2012 A-10 Championship Game to capture Most Outstanding Player honors as the Bonnies cut the nets following their victory over Xavier in Atlantic City.

One of five players to surpass 2,000 points in school history, he continues to rank near the top of many career categories in the program record book including made free throws (456, second), field goal percentage (.575, third) and rebounds (887, fifth). In the 11 years since his graduation, no other Bona's player has recorded 20 points and 20 rebounds in the same game since he did so as a senior vs. Duquesne. 

He has enjoyed a pro career now spanning over a decade, including time with three NBA teams.

Today, his No. 44 jersey is in the Reilly Center rafters along with the greats of Bonnies Basketball history.
 

Brian Pellegrini
The greatest power hitter in Bonnies baseball history, Pellegrini has his name at or near the top of just about every offensive category of the program record book - and several pitching categories as well. 

He is the Bonnies' all-time record-holder in hits (262), doubles (60), home runs (48), RBIs (201), and runs scored (181) with some of those totals standing far above any other player in program history. His home run total is 17 more than any other Bonaventure player while his final RBI number ranks 43 tallies above second.

Not just a statistical superstar, Pellegrini helped guide the Bonnies to the top of the Atlantic 10 with three trips to the conference tournament during his career.

He was in the middle of the lineup for Bona's only Atlantic 10 championship in 2004 when he was named the A-10 Tournament's Most Outstanding Player as a freshman after recording 10 RBIs along with a win and two saves in four games on the mound. He was named to the Louisville Slugger Freshman All-America Team that year, serving as a two-way player when he hit .316 with seven bombs and 33 RBIs and also posted a 2.25 ERA and four wins on the hill. His nine saves in 2004 remain Bona's single season standard for a closer and he's second in the Bonnies record books with 16 total saves for his career. His 1.98 ERA in 2005 also slots third in single season history.

A four-time Atlantic 10 All-Conference selection and two-time A-10 Player of the Year, he was selected to the American Baseball Coaches Association All-Region team for the first of three straight seasons as a sophomore in 2005 when he hit .376 with 11 home runs.

His Bonnies reached the Atlantic 10 Championship Game again in 2006 when he captured A-10 Player of the Year accolades for the first time, becoming the first player in program history to win that award. As a senior, he repeated as the league's top player after hitting .391 and swatting a program-record 17 home runs with 59 RBIs. He became Bona's first Louisville Slugger All-American that year with an .833 slugging percentage, also getting on base at a .498 clip.  He fittingly finished his career with a three-run homer in his final collegiate at-bat.

Pellegrini became the highest MLB Draft pick in program history to that point when he was selected in the 12th round of the 2007 Draft by the Houston Astros.

 

Megan Van Tatenhove
A do-it-all star whose blue-collar playing style exemplified some of the best Bonnies teams in school history, Van Tatenhove finds her name written throughout the program record books.

She became just the ninth member of the school's 1,000-point, 500-rebound club and finished her career with 1,453 points to stand seventh in school history. The Bonnies forward also remains ninth all-time in rebounding with 624 boards, sixth in career field goal percentage (48.2 percent) as well as eighth in field goals (555), blocks (60), and double-figure scoring efforts (76).

During her career, the Bonnies won 98 games as she and Jenkins helped lead four straight national postseason appearances including the 2012 Sweet 16 run when the team finished with a school record 31 wins. As part of 10 career national postseason tournament games (NCAA, WNIT) she averaged 9.3 points per contest. In that time, St. Bonaventure also posted a winning percentage against Atlantic 10 foes of better than 73 percent.

She poured in 18 points in Bona's first-ever NCAA Tournament win, a 2012 First Round triumph over Florida Gulf Coast to start a Cinderella sprint to the only Sweet 16 appearance in program history.

Van Tatenhove received First Team All-A-10 accolades as a senior, averaging 13.0 points and six rebounds, a year after Second Team honors when she posted 14.5 ppg, 5.6 rpg. She was also Honorable Mention All-Conference (11.5 ppg, 4.1 rpg) as a sophomore. She was a two-time A-10 All-Academic Team pick as well, hinting at her future career as an academic coordinator which she currently serves as at Bowling Green, leading BGSU student-athletes.
 

Cody Vincent
Vincent was one of the Atlantic 10's top pitchers during a time when the Bonnies enjoyed some of their greatest success in program history.

A mainstay on the hill for the Brown and White from 2005-08, Vincent is tied for the school record for career wins (23) and complete games (16) with fellow Hall of Fame member Kyle Johnson, '03. Along with those totals, he also checks in as the school record-holder for innings pitched (367.1), and strikeouts (227), third in starts (45) and appearances (70) as well as seventh in career ERA (4.07).

An All-Conference selection as a senior in 2008, the honor came long overdue for a do-it-all performer on the mound. He became an ace for the team as a sophomore, keying a Bona run to the A-10 Championship Game as he had a sparkling 2.58 ERA including a 2.06 ERA in A-10 play.

His workhorse career left him ranking first, second and fourth in single-season innings pitched by a Bonnie including two seasons where he crossed the 100-innings mark highlighted by a program record 105.2 innings of work as a junior in 2007. Over his four seasons, his 367 innings on the hill are 78 more frames than any other pitcher in program history.

The team's top A-10 starter, he also worked high-leverage innings out of the bullpen when needed, standing seventh in school history for saves.
 

Larry Sudbrook
Sudbrook led the Bonnies to 725 victories in 36 seasons at the helm, the most wins by any Atlantic 10 baseball coach in conference history. His 321 conference triumphs stand among the all-time Atlantic 10 leaders as well. His win totals also easily represent the most victories by any coach in the history of St. Bonaventure Athletics.

A three-time Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year (2000, 2006, 2017), Sudbrook's athletes consistently found success both on and off the field. His players earned All-Conference accolades 44 times while on 43 occasions, Bona's players received A-10 Academic All-Conference selections. He was inducted into the New York State Baseball Hall of Fame in 2015.

Sudbrook's squads won 20 or more games in 22 of his seasons while capturing two Atlantic 10 divisional crowns and reaching the A-10 Championship Tournament nine times. One of his crowning achievements came in 2004 when Sudbrook guided the Bonnies to their only baseball Atlantic 10 championship in school history on the way to a spot in the NCAA Tournament.

Between 1993 and 2013, the Bonnies won at least 17 games every year with an average of nearly 24 wins per season. He retired following the 2021 season and was elected to the St. Bonaventure Athletics Hall of Fame that year, foregoing his formal induction to this year.