MAAC Honor Roll Inductees - Quinnipiac
MAAC Sports
EDISON, N.J. - On November 1, the MAAC will recognize 23 significant men's and women's basketball players at the fourth annual Honor Roll Dinner at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Two former student-athletes from each institution will be enshrined in The MAAC Experience, the league's exhibit at the Hall of Fame. Bios for each honoree will be featured on MAACSports.com as we count down to the private event.
Billy Mecca – Quinnipiac Universirty
A member of Quinnipiac's athletic department since 1978, Bill Mecca is in his 12th year as Senior Associate Athletic Director. In his present role, Mecca is responsible for all internal operations of the department, including supervision of scheduling, facilities, game officials, game operations and sports medicine. A 1978 graduate of Niagara University, Mecca earned a bachelors degree in business administration while playing four years of basketball under long time Utah Jazz president Frank Layden. Mecca has fulfilled a variety of roles in his tenure at Quinnipiac. For his continued success as a leader in the department of athletics, Mecca was inducted into the Quinnipiac Hall of Fame in 2009. From 1978-91, he was an assistant men's basketball coach, head men's tennis coach, and assistant director of athletics under the legendary Burt Kahn. In 1991, Mecca was named head men's basketball coach and served five seasons before being promoted to his current role. In his spare time, Mecca provides radio and television color analysis for the Quinnipiac men's and women's basketball games, as well as the sideline report for men's ice hockey, on AM 1220 WQUN, WCTX-TV and NESN. In 2009, Mecca began a new venture with Quinnipiac as the co-host of the Emmy Nominated "Bobcats Unleashed in HD".
Tricia Fabbri – Quinnipiac University
The all-time winningest coach in Quinnipiac women’s basketball history, Tricia Fabbri recently completed her 19th season on the Bobcats’ sideline. In 2013-14, the program’s first season in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), Fabbri guided the Bobcats to a 21-13 record and a trip to the championship game of the MAAC Tournament. Quinnipiac earned an at-large bid to the WNIT which marked the program’s third straight national postseason tournament appearance. In 2012-13, Quinnipiac’s final season in the Northeast Conference (NEC), Fabbri and the Bobcats completed one of the most decorated seasons in program history. Quinnipiac went 30-3 and won the NEC Championship to earn a trip to its first ever NCAA Tournament. Fabbri was named the 2013 NEC Coach of the Year by her peers – for a third time in her career – and also accepted the Sterling House “Spirit Award” at the annual celebrity breakfast in Stratford, Conn. As a player, Fabbri was named to the MAAC 25th Anniversary Team and was inducted into the Fairfield University Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998. In 2002, she was also inducted into the Connecticut Women's Basketball Hall of Fame and the Delran (N.J.) High School Athletic Hall of Fame before being inducted into the Albert Carino Basketball Club of South Jersey Hall of Fame in 2006. That year, she also received the St. Clare Award at the 22nd Annual Franciscan Sports Banquet. Fabbri has amassed a 294-256 (.535) record during her time in Hamden, serving as the most by any women’s basketball coach in Quinnipiac history.