Athletics Names Newest Hall of Famers

The Athletic Hall of Fame will induct Coach Dana Hall, the 2002 Final Four women’s lacrosse team she coached, and several individual athletes in February.
Basketball standouts Patricia Long ’84 and Justin Baker ’07, baseball All American Eric Fitzgerald ’08, and tennis All American Kevin Loden ’03 round out the 24th Hall of Fame class.
Long was a women’s basketball superstar, becoming the first player to record 1,000 career points and 1,000 career rebounds. Baker finished in the top five in program history in points, assists, and rebounds.
Fitzgerald still holds UMW’s career records for hits, doubles, runs scored, and runs batted in. Loden helped men’s tennis evolve into a national power in the early 2000s, including the program’s first appearance in the Elite Eight.
Hall led the field hockey and lacrosse programs for more than two decades. Her field hockey teams achieved 277 wins from 1990-2010, and the 1993 team advanced to the national championship game. In lacrosse, Hall’s teams recorded 248 wins and made back-to-back Final Four appearances in 2001 and 2002. Hall is UMW Athletics’ senior women’s administrator and associate athletic director.
The 2002 women’s lacrosse team overcame a slow start to advance all the way to the Final Four. The team featured five All-Americans.