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WILLMINGTON, DELAWARE, RESIDENT DANIELLE YEARICK INDUCTED INTO MANHATTAN COLLEGE’S ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME

RIVERDALE, N.Y. – Danielle Yearick ’94, a resident of Wilmington, Delaware, and Manhattan College alumna, has been inducted into the College’s Athletic Hall of Fame. The 26th annual event, sponsored by the Manhattan College Alumni Society, was held Dec. 4, 2004 in Smith Auditorium at the college campus.

Yearick made her mark on the softball team as a freshman. In her first year, Yearick broke several College records when she hit three homeruns in one game and had nine RBIs (Runs Batted In), also in one game. She ended the year with 70 RBIs. She later went on to break her own record with 162 RBIs and broke two other Manhattan College records with 22 homeruns and 99 walks.

As an outstanding athlete and excellent student, Yearick was honored numerous times for both her athletic and academic achievements. She was named three times to both the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) All-Metro Softball Team and the All-MAAC Academic Team. She is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and other academic honor societies. In her senior year as co-captain, Yearick appeared in Sports Illustrated’s “Faces in the Crowd” section – one of only two Jaspers to ever receive this award. Yearick was the first Lady Jasper named as a GTE National Academic All-American, an honor she received twice. She was also the first woman at Manhattan College to receive a National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) post-graduate Division I $5,000 scholarship.

After graduation, Yearick went on to Villa Nova Law School. She is currently partner for law firm, Tybout, Redfearn, Pell in Pennsylvania.

Manhattan College was founded in 1853 upon the Lasallian heritage of excellence in teaching, inspired by St. John Baptist de La Salle. Located in the Riverdale section of the Bronx, Manhattan College is an independent, Catholic, coeducational institution of higher learning offering more than 40 major programs of study in the areas of arts, business, education, engineering and science. For more information about the College, visit www.manhattan.edu.

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