PROVIDENCE, R.I. – The Johnson & Wales (RI) University Athletic Hall of Fame inducted five former standout student-athletes Saturday night, October 7 at the Rhode Island Room:
Quarry Greenaway,
Bryan Lenhardt,
O'Kyle Corridon,
Raquel Pederzani, and
Lydia Knapp. Additionally, the 2015-16 men's basketball team was enshrined.
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Greenaway – who is currently playing overseas and was not in attendance – was inducted by JWU men's basketball coach
Jamie Benton. A three-time Great Northeast Athletic Conference (GNAC) First Team selection who ranks as the second-leading scorer in Wildcat history with 2,304 points, Greenaway was named GNAC Player of the Year as a senior in 2015-16 and later received D3hoops.com All-America First Team accolades. Earlier this year, he was inducted into the GNAC Hall of Fame.
Knapp is the women's lacrosse program's all-time leading scorer with 329 points, finishing her career with 227 goals and 102 assists – both of which were program-records at the time. She was named the GNAC Rookie of the Year in 2014 before earning Player of the Year honors the following season. Knapp was inducted by former JWU women's lacrosse coach Caitlin Hansen, who was unable to attend but sent along a video praising Knapp for helping building the program into a perennial winner.
Lenhardt was a three-time all-conference and two-time All-America selection (2008-09) who finished sixth in the nation twice for head coach
Lonnie Morris, who inducted him. Lenhardt is also a member of the 40-win club, a feat he accomplished in 2009.
Corridon still holds the men's soccer record for game-winning goals (13) and graduated with 77 points (29 goals, 19 assists). He helped the Wildcats capture a pair of GNAC Championships in 2013 and 2014, when he was named GNAC Offensive Player of the Year. Corridon was inducted by his former and current JWU head coach David Kulik.
Known affectionately as 'Rocky,' Pederzani was a three-time GNAC First Team selection in women's basketball and the program's all-time leader in points (1,383), assists (439), steals (214), three-pointers (194), and free throw pct. (79.9 pct.). In lacrosse, she was a four-time All-GNAC honoree, garnering Second Team honors in 2015 & 2016 before snaring First Team accolades in 2017 & 2018. The 2018 GNAC Woman of the Year, Pederzani was inducted by former JWU women's basketball coach Corey Boilard.
The 2015-16 edition of the JWU men's basketball program won a program-record 28 games and became the first program at JWU to advance to the Sweet 16 of the NCAA Division III Tournament. The Wildcats – who defeated Albertus Magnus in the GNAC Championship game before knocking off Trinity (CT) and Fitchburg State in the NCAA Tournament – cracked the D3hoops.com Top 25 for the first time in program history, climbing to as high as No. 12. Benton took home GNAC Coach of the Year honors while Greenaway was tabbed GNAC Player of the Year and Robert Lewis was named GNAC Defensive Player of the Year.
