2016’s Hall of Fame Inductees

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The 1996 field hockey team made the program’s only appearance in the NCAA Tournament and finished the season 15-4.

Gloria Evans Dillenbeck Dodd ’47 went undefeated in tennis and badminton and was a multiple Middle States Intercollegiate Champion in tennis. She later became a global ambassador for platform tennis.

Swimmer Jackie Heineman Gidas ’76 was the first female student-athlete in Swarthmore history to earn All-American status.

Jokotade Agunloye Greenberg ’01, one of Swarthmore’s most decorated distance runners, earned All- American honors in the 5,000- and 10,000-meter runs her senior year.

In a program that boasts 90 All- Americans and over a century of competition, men’s lacrosse player Joe Valis ’83 was Swarthmore’s most prolific goal-scorer.

Alan Valentine ’21 won a gold medal as a player-coach for U.S. rugby at the 1924 Olympics. He went on to be the youngest president in University of Rochester history and led the Marshall Plan for postwar economic recovery in the Netherlands. Photo courtesy of the University of Rochester Department of Rare Books, Special Collections, and Preservation.

This year’s honorees enter the Garnet Athletics Hall of Fame Oct. 28 during Garnet Weekend.

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