Feb. 11, 2009

DAYTON, Ohio - The University of Dayton Athletic Hall of Fame will grow by three on Saturday, Feb. 14, when the 2009 Hall of Fame class is introduced at halftime of the Dayton-Richmond men's basketball game. The 2009 Hall of Fame class will bring the total membership in UD's Hall of Fame to 153.

The newly inducted members are men's basketball player Kevin Conrad (1979-83), rower Bernadette Marten Teeley (2000) and football quarterback Dan Sharley (1987-90).

Kevin Conrad ‘83–Basketball–1979-1983
Regarded as one of the toughest players ever to wear the Red and Blue, Kevin Conrad played in 106 games in his career. Of all of those 106, long-time members of the Flyer Faithful remember one performance by Conrad more than any other. That’s the game when he played 62 out of a possible 65 minutes in leading UD to a five-overtime, 79-77 win over Providence.

Conrad is 42nd in career scoring at UD (983 points, 9.3 average), but is fifth among point guards. He is also fifth in career assists (498) and fourth in career average (4.70). He had two of the top three seasons in Flyer assists per game - 6.30 in 1981-82 and 6.17 in 1980-81 while guiding the Flyers to back-to-back NIT appearances.

Three Dayton guards accumulated 1,000 points and 500 assists in their careers, and Conrad likely fell one game short of becoming the fourth.

The scrappy floor leader from Glen Ellyn, Ill. recorded a then school-record 14 assists in three different games in his career. His 14 assists are still just one shy of the UD single-game record. He is one of five Flyer point guards to lead UD in assists in three different seasons. A hard-nosed defender, he is also 10th in career steals at UD (122).

DAN SHARLEY '91--Football--1987-1990
The starting quarterback on the University of Dayton's 1989 NCAA Division III national championship team, Dan Sharley was a Flyer passer ahead of his time. UD won a national championship in 1980 with a powerful running game, but Sharley brought a strong and accurate right arm to campus in time for UD's second championship run at the end of the decade.

After lettering as a backup in 1988, and leading the Flyers to a playoff-clinching win as a sophomore, Sharley took over as UD's starting quarterback and led his team to a 13-0-1 record and its second national title. Sharley completed 100-of-166 passes (.602) for 1,206 yards and six TDs in 1989.

As a senior, Sharley was selected as a team co-captain and guided UD back to the playoffs. As the Dayton starting QB in 1989 and 1990, he presided over the longest winning streak in Flyer football history, 22 games. The Flyers won the final 11 games of 1989 to storm to the national championship, and the first 11 of the 1990 season.

Under the pressure of defending a championship and keeping the streak alive, is when Sharley's star shone the brightest. As a senior, he led NCAA Division III in passing efficiency, setting the Dayton records for completion percentage in a game (minimum 20 attempts, 18-of-22, .818) in the season opener at John Carroll and in a season (.627, 121-193). He was also the first Dayton football player to compile over 300 yards in total offense in a game (326 vs. Ferrum).

As the Flyer offense has evolved in the pass-first, ask-questions-later offense it is today, all but the single-game completion percentage record have been broken. The Nashville, Tenn. native is currently second in career completion percentage (.618, 247-400), fourth in career completions (247), fifth in passing yardage (3,229) and sixth in total offense (3,636).

Sharley was a member of four NCAA playoff teams that had a combined record of 44-6-1, and had a record of 25-1-1 with him as a starter. After his playing days were over, Sharley earned an NCAA post-graduate scholarship.

BERNADETTE MARTEN TEELEY--Rowing--2000
Every school in every sport has someone who is the best who ever competed in their respective sport. Some are fortunate enough to have a transcendent athlete who makes an impact far beyond their own campus. But the story of rower Bernadette Marten Teeley is rarer still, because she was the best in school history before her sport had a history (a varsity history, anyway) at the University of Dayton.

Marten rowed four years at UD, but because her first three seasons with the Dayton rowing team that was a club sport, she competed as a varsity athlete for just one season as a Flyer. Since it was an emerging sport, the Flyer rowers were able to represent UD at the conference and national level. A two-time Collegiate Rowing Coaches Association All-American, Marten led UD to a third-place finish in the Atlantic 10 in 2000.

After graduation from UD, the Fortville, Ind. native went to graduate school at the University of Michigan and rowed her final varsity season there. While at Michigan, she helped the Wolverines to a third-place team finish at the NCAA championships. She completed her graduate degree in only one year and joined the U.S. National Team. Marten was a member of the U.S. Women's Eight boat that won the gold medal at the 2002 FISA World Rowing Championships in Spain.

Not only a leader in her sport, Marten was the first of 11 University of Dayton student-athletes named an Atlantic 10 Student-Athlete of the Year in their respective sport, and she was named the overall A-10 Student-Athlete of the Year in 2000.