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Rik Smits '88 Returns for
Alumni Basketball Game
Rik Smits '88 (center) is flanked by opponents
George Siegrist '91 (left) and Athletics Director
Tim Murray in the alumni basketball game
January 4 at the McCann Center in Poughkeepsie.
Former National Basketball Association standout Rik
Smits '88 was one of a number of former Marist men's
basketball team members to return to campus January 4, 2003
for an alumni game in the McCann Center. Additional
graduates who took the court before an appreciative
audience included Danny Basile '97, J.T. Dolan '02,
Steve Eggink '84, Nick Mancuso '88,
John McDonough '88, Tim Murphy '87, Steve Paterno '91,
James Selby '88, George Siegrist '91, Rob Van Aernem '64
and Fred Weiss '66. Jim Norman '86, Mike Borrelli '66
and Tom Wade served as coaches, and Marist's Director
of Athletics Tim Murray and Associate Athletics
Director for External Affairs Colin Sullivan filled
out the two teams.
Earlier in the day, ESPN2 announcers interviewed Rik
Smits as they made their first visit to the McCann
Center for a nationwide broadcast of the Marist men's
basketball game against Manhattan College.
After the alumni game, Rik Smits gave autographs to
several hundred children who offered their programs,
their shoes and even their arms for him to sign. That
same day the Red Foxes had hosted NCAAŽ Basketball's
annual Take a Kid to the GameŽ program, in which
kids aged 18 and younger received a free ticket with
the purchase of a full-priced adult ticket to watch
the Red Foxes.
Poughkeepsie Journal coverage of Rik Smits' return to Marist
Left to right, front row: Athletics Director Tim Murray,
John McDonough '88, George Siegrist '91, Steve Paterno '91,
Rob Van Aernem '64, Mike Borrelli '66, honorary coach Tom
Wade, James Selby '88, Nick Mancuso '88, Associate Athletics
Director for External Affairs Colin Sullivan; back row: Rik
Smits '88, Tim Murphy '87, Steve Eggink '84, Fred Weiss '66,
Danny Basile '97, J.T. Dolan '02, honorary coach Jim Norman
'86 and his son, Sean Norman, Class of 2014.
College Remembers Communications Professor Emeritus Robert C. Norman
Popular Professor Bob Norman was the driving force
behind the founding of
Marist College's communications program. He taught
and mentored many alumni
successful in the field today.
"Radio Man Touched Many Lives,"
column by Larry Hughes, Poughkeepsie Journal,
December 17, 2002
read more...
2003 Marist Fund
"Embracing The Future"
The Hudson River Valley Institute
Bringing the history, culture and beauty of
America's first river to the nation and the world
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Reenactors at Fort Montgomery, New York
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Save the date!
Homecoming/Reunion Weekend 2003
Oct. 10, 11 and 12
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