ANNVILLE, Pa. --- Former Moravian College softball pitcher Meagan Hennessy '06 has been selected as part of the tenth class to be inducted into the Middle Atlantic Conference Hall of Fame that has been announced by the MAC office over the last three weeks.
Hennessy led Moravian to four-straight Commonwealth Conference titles and earned Commonwealth Conference Championship Most Valuable Player honors in 2005 and 2006. Hennessy was a four-time Commonwealth Conference Pitcher of the Year (2003-06) and was named Commonwealth Conference Rookie of the Year in 2003. She was also a four-time All-Commonwealth Conference First-Team pitcher. In 2004, Hennessy led the Greyhounds to the NCAA Division III Championship Game and was named to the Championship All-Tournament Team. She led Moravian to the NCAA tournament all four seasons. Hennessy was named to the NFCA All-East Region First Team four times, and NFCA All-American in 2004 (First Team) and 2005 (Second Team).
Hennessy finished her career with her name throughout the NCAA Division III record books as she ranked in the top 15 at graduation in shutouts with 53, complete games with 105, strikeouts with 876, wins with 92, innings pitched with 819 2/3, games started with 114, games with 129 and ERA at 0.91. She also had 11 saves, six no-hitters and 233 assists in her career. She set a total of 13 school records. Hennessy was inducted into the Moravian College Athletics Hall of Fame in 2016.
Moravian plans to honor Hennessey with her MAC Hall of Fame award during the upcoming year. More information on the presentation will be announced at a later date.
The MAC of which Moravian was a member from 1945 until 2007 established a Hall of Fame as part of the celebration of its 100th anniversary in 2012-13. Moravian's Rocco Calvo and Harvey "Gil" Gillespie were two of a 36-member inaugural class selected in 2011-12 from current and former MAC member institutions while Kathy Beck DeKorte '92 was honored in 2013-14, Doug Pollard was selected in 2014-15, Heather Bortz '05 was picked in 2015-16 and Christina Scherwin '05 and Heidi Wolfsberger Peoples '02 were honored in 2016-17. Emily Shertzer '02 was selected in 2017-18 while Scot Dapp was honored in 2018-19 and Sean Keville '96 was selected last spring. All 11 of the Greyhounds' MAC Hall of Fame selections are also members of Moravian's Athletic Hall of Fame.
Follow the MAC Class of 2021 Hall of Fame announcements at https://gomacsports.com/news/2021/5/19/general-mac-hall-of-fame-class-of-2021-announcements.aspx through June 4 (Monday-Friday).
