Dick Metcalf

Dick Metcalf ‘63

Football, Basketball, Baseball

A three-sport standout and the Outstanding Senior Athlete Award winner for the class of 1963, Dick Metcalf was a record-setting quarterback for the football team and a standout in both basketball and baseball as well. His contributions to St. Lawrence and its athletic program continued well after his graduation as he served his alma mater as a coach, administrator and faculty member during a 40-year career.

A key athlete on freshman teams in his first year at St. Lawrence, he quickly established himself as a varsity standout as a sophomore. He quarterbacked the football team to its best record in a decade in the 1961 season, setting 11 passing records at that time and also rushed for 110 yards. He held the record for career completions after his three seasons of varsity football.

A three-year starter at forward in basketball, he was the team’s Most Improved Player as a sophomore, averaging 12.4 points per game. He set a single game rebound record with 25 against Alfred as a junior and averaged 13 points and 11 rebounds per game and averaged 12 points per game as a senior. He was a co-captain in basketball as both a junior and senior.

A catcher in baseball, Dick hit over .300 and led the team in runs driven in and hits as a junior and was again among the r.b.i. leaders in his senior season.

He coached freshman football, basketball and baseball teams at St. Lawrence following his graduation and took a brief four-year hiatus from Canton to earn his doctorate at the University of West Virginia. Upon his return to St. Lawrence, he worked in a variety of areas including admissions, advising and as a professor in the Department of Sport and Leisure Studies. He served as department chair for many years and also was an assistant coach in football, basketball and softball during his tenure.

Jerry Metcalf

Jerry Metcalf ‘67
Football, Basketball, Baseball

The Outstanding Senior Athlete Award winner for the class of 1967, Jerry Metcalf followed in the footsteps of his brother Dick and lettered and excelled in three sports through a four-year varsity career.

Jerry had an excellent freshman season in basketball, averaging nine points and 12 rebounds per game and also had solid rookie campaigns in football and baseball. He was the leading hitter on the baseball team with a .370 average as a sophomore and hit over .315 as a junior as the team’s centerfielder.

A second team all conference selection in basketball after a junior season in which he led the team in assists with 108, he was co-captain in basketball as a senior. He earned All league honors in football and basketball as a senior and was an ECAC All

Star in football, establishing a career record in passing yards and touchdowns. He was MVP of the basketball and baseball teams and also captained the football team. He earned ECAC Player of the Week Awards in both football and basketball and still holds the St. Lawrence record for the longest punt with an 85-yard kick against Alfred in 1965.

Following his graduation from St. Lawrence he went into high school coaching and became one of the most successful coaches in upstate New York. He coached basketball at Carthage High School for 26 seasons, compiling a 370-159 record which includes nine Frontier League regular season titles and eight playoff championships. He is a member of the Section III Basketball Coaches Hall of Fame and earned the New York State Coaches Association Honor Award as well as several Frontier League Coach of the Year Awards. He also coached golf, football and track at Carthage in addition to teaching physical education.

Christina Petritz MacInnes

Christina Petritz MacInnes
Tennis, Skiing  

Chris Petritz MacInnes was one of the outstanding slalom and giant slalom skiers of the 1960s for the St. Lawrence women’s ski team and also played tennis and was a member of the Outing Club.

She was captain of the women’s ski team as a senior and had several top five finishes including a silver medal in the Middlebury Carnival. While she spent her junior year studying abroad, she was consistently among the St. Lawrence leaders in both slalom and giant slalom as a freshman and sophomore.

A German major who spent her junior year in Vienna, her love for skiing turned into a career as she has been president of Crystal Properties, Inc. which operates the award-winning Crystal Mountain Ski Resort in Michigan. She has also served as chairperson of the Paul Oliver Memorial Hospital, chair of the Michigan State Chamber of Commerce and Traverse Area Chamber of Commerce and is a commissioner of the Michigan Travel Commission. She also is President of the Benzie County Economic Development Corporation, Director and a member of the Executive Committee of Munson Healthcare, Inc., and is a member of the Governor’s Council of Economic Advisors and the Governor’s Land use Leadership Council. She has received the Athena Award for business leadership and has been named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International.

Rinna Carroll Jackson ‘90
Field Hockey, Ice Hockey, Lacrosse

An All America field hockey player Rinna Carroll Jackson is among the all-time scoring leaders in field hockey and ice hockey and was a member of the women’s lacrosse team.

She led the 1989 field hockey team to a record 13-win season and the NCAA semifinals and also helped the 1987 team earn an NCAA bid. She played on teams which won 40 games during her career and was a perennial all conference and all state selection. Rinna holds the Saint career and single season records for game winning goals with 15 and eight respectively and set the record for goals in a season with 16 in her junior year She finished her field hockey career with 48 goals and 21 assists for 117 points, third on the all-time SLU list.

She also had three outstanding seasons in ice hockey and scored 24 goals and had 16 assists in her junior year for 40 points to lead the team. She scored 99 career points in ice hockey with 63 goals and 36 assists in three seasons and helped the team match the record for wins in a season in her rookie season.

Rinna captained both the field hockey and ice hockey teams and was the winner of the Lisa Strozewski Award in field hockey.

A fine arts major, Rinna is a illustrator, graphic designer and muralist and directed the 51-artist S.E. Area ARTWalk in Portland, OR.

Bill Creasy

William N. “Bill” Creasy ’52
Sports Broadcasting 

            From his days on campus as a play-by-play announcer for KSLU through his legendary career in sports broadcasting, Bill Creasy has been in the middle of the action. From the Kentucky Derby to the Super Bowl, he has produced every type of international sports event in the second half of the 20 th century. After working for CBS and NBC, Creasy formed his own production company in 1970, working with such major media as Sports Illustrated and ESPN to bring athletic contests to television audiences.

            Creasy also began adding executive responsibilities to his portfolio.  In 1969, he became president of the Oakland Seals hockey team and Trans National Communications television, which bought the Boston Celtics.  In 1975, he was named executive director of the New York Racing Association; he also produced television features and films for the association and supervised the closed circuit system at Aqueduct, Belmont and Saratoga raceways.  In 1980, a relationship with ESPN began, and through the next 20 years, he served in consulting, producing or directing roles with the multimedia giant.  Through his consulting work Creasy offered his expertise to multinational corporations.

            Bill Creasy has remained a loyal and generous alumnus, serving a three-year term on the Alumni Council and assisting with reunion fundraising. His name has become synonymous with campus celebrations; in 2001, Creasy Commencement Commons was constructed as the site for Matriculation each fall and Commencement each spring.  Its elegant stone walls are a favorite location for outdoor classes.  In 2002 the University dedicated Creasy Way, the landscaping project that graces the areas between Park Street and Appleton Arena and transformed that area of campus to a centerpiece of pride.

Mary Beth Riley

Mary Beth Riley ‘85
Soccer, Ice Hockey  

An athlete who helped establish the women’s soccer program as a varsity team, Mary Beth Riley was also one of the most prolific scorers in the history of St. Lawrence women’s ice hockey in its early seasons.

M.B. was a standout in goal in women’s soccer and earned the Coaches Award as a senior as she helped the team to a 7-7-2 record against its most difficult schedule to that point in its history. The daughter of 1960 Gold Medal Olympic coach Jack Riley, who had a long and highly successful coaching career at the U.S. Military Academy and the sister of former Saint assistant coach and recent Army head coach Rob Riley, she went from stopping goals in soccer to scoring them in hockey and did it at a prolific rate.

She is the all-time scoring leader for the overall Saint women’s hockey program with 78 career goals, 115 career assists and 193 career points. She had the top three single season point totals in the program’s Division III history and the top three overall until the 2003-04 season as she scored 54 points as a senior, 53 as a junior and 52 as a sophomore. She established the overall record for goals in a game with five against Clarkson in 1984. She was the team’s Rookie of the Year in her first season of collegiate hockey with 16 goals and 18 assists for 34 points. She captained the hockey team as a junior and senior and was team MVP as a senior and played in the Senior All Star Game. She led her hockey teams to four straight winning seasons including a then-record 14-win season in 1983-84.

A Detective Sergeant in the MIT Police Department in Cambridge, MA at the time of her induction, Mary Beth has earned the Superlative and Distinguished Service Award among several commendations during her career.

Don Leet

Don Leet
Lacrosse and Football Coach  

The coach who put St. Lawrence lacrosse on the map and had a hand in some of the most successful football teams in Saint history, Don Leet was the United States Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association Man of the Year for 1997 and the 1979 NCAA Coach of the Year in 1979.

Don compiled 251 career victories in lacrosse and took his teams to eight NCAA tournaments, three in Division II-III and five in Division III. Six of those appearances came consecutively after the first in the 1978 season. His 1979 team was the last team to beat Hobart before it went on a run of 12 straight NCAA championships as the Saints upset the Statesmen 12-11 in Geneva before dropping a tight game at Division II Adelphi in the semifinals.

He became the third Division III coach in history to be the head coach of the North-South Game and served as an assistant coach in the North South Game and head coach of the 1997 Division III North South game. He received the Sportsman’s Award from the USILA Referees Association in 1992 and was named the Upstate New York Hall of Fame in 1993 in addition to winning state Coach of the Year honors during his career. He served on the NCAA lacrosse rules committee for eight years.

An innovative coach and teacher, he was a popular teacher in the Department of Sport and Leisure Studies as well as a successful coach. The best tribute to his coaching by a colleague is the statement “he coached people, not sports.”

A football, wrestling and lacrosse athlete at Adelphi, Don joined the St. Lawrence staff in 1968-69 and was defensive line coach in football and head lacrosse coach. He produced 35 All Americas in lacrosse during his career and also coached three All America linemen in football. He was defensive line coach for all three St. Lawrence football playoff teams including the 10-1 1982 team, just the second team in Saint history to record an unbeaten regular season.

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