Daryl Greene & Sheryl (Klick) Strobl Named 2017 Niagara University’s MAAC Basketball Honor Roll Inductees
EDISON, NJ – The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) has announced Niagara University’s institutional honorees to be inducted in the MAAC Honor Roll, in which honorees will be enshrined in “The MAAC Experience” exhibit at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, September 16.
Each member institution of the MAAC honors one male and one female from its basketball “family” as part of the 2017 induction class. A dinner event will be on Saturday, September 16 at the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame Court of Dreams to recognize the Honor Roll inductees.
Each honoree will be profiled in the game program for the 2018 MAAC Basketball Championships, and will also be featured in a video display at “The MAAC Experience.”
Daryl Greene ‘02
Daryl Greene, a 6-foot-1 guard from Largo, Md., finished his four-year run on Monteagle Ridge as one of the top guards in the program’s storied history. Greene finished his career ranking in the top-10 in scoring and is currently 15th all-time in scoring with 1,375 points. Greene also ranks 10th all-time in assists (377).
A 3-point specialist, Greene is fifth in program history with 209 3-pointers, while holding the record for most 3-pointers in a game by a junior (seven) and having the highest 3-point field goal percentage (.414) for a sophomore during the 1999-00 season.
From 1998-2002, he helped lead the program to 67 wins over those four years for Niagara’s best four-year win total since the 1968-72 campaigns. As a sophomore, Greene recorded 144 assists from the point guard spot, including dishing out 13 against Manhattan on Jan. 29, 2000 for the most by a sophomore in program history. In his junior season, he averaged a career-best 17.5 points per game, including a career-best 33 points in the MAAC Tournament semifinals against Siena.
After an injury-plagued junior season, Greene returned to his offensive form as a senior, hitting 81 three-pointers, which was then-second best in Niagara history. He earned First Team All-MAAC honors and his second selection to the MAAC All-Tournament Team. He helped Niagara to two tournament wins and its first MAAC Championship Final appearance in nine years.
Greene was inducted into the Niagara Athletics Hall of Fame in 2012.
Sheryl (Klick) Strobl ‘00
Sheryl (Klick) Strobl ranks in the top-10 in nine career categories, including second in assists (487) and steals (312), third in 3-pointers (223), sixth in free throws (305) and ninth in games played (112). Klick ranks eighth all-time in scoring with 1,402 points and averaged double-figures scoring in each season.
Klick, who was a two-time MAAC All-Academic Team recipient, was an instant contributor to the program beginning her freshman season. She was named to the MAAC All-Rookie Team and the MAAC All-Tournament Team as Niagara advanced to the program’s only MAAC Championship Final in 1997. She sunk a career-high 66 3-pointers, which are eighth most in a single season.
Her breakout season occurred during her junior season when she became the first player in program history to 100 points, 100 rebounds, 100 assists and 100 steals in a single season. She averaged a career-high 14.6 points per game, including netting a career-best 37 points against Rider on Jan. 3, 1999, which is fifth-most in program history. She set the program’s NCAA Division record with 12 assists against Iona on Feb. 14, 1999 and finished the season with 165 assists which are fourth-most in a single season. On the defensive side, she holds the single-season steals record with 109 and twice had games with nine steals, which are tied for second-most in program history. She was named to the All-MAAC First Team.
She concluded her career with another solid campaign as a senior en route to being named to the All-MAAC First Team. She averaged 13.1 points per game. Her total assists (148) rank fourth and her 3-point percentage (.434) is sixth and her total steals (79) rank seventh in a single season.
Klick, who was the first Purple Eagle to play professionally, was inducted into the Niagara Athletics Hall of Fame in 2006.
The 2017 MAAC Basketball Honor Roll Class (to date):
| MAAC Honoree |
Bob Belber |
| Canisius College |
Craig Wise |
| Canisius College |
Jenel Stevens |
| Fairfield University |
Mark Young |
| Fairfield University |
Dana (Pellegrino) Farinella |
| Iona College |
Damika Martinez |
| Iona College |
Tim Welsh |
| Manhattan College |
Larry Lembo |
| Manhattan College |
Donna Seybold |
| Marist College |
Ron Petro |
| Marist College |
Erica (Allenspach) Woytek |
| Monmouth University |
Blake Hamilton |
| Monmouth University |
Amanda Rosato |
| Niagara University |
Daryl Greene |
| Niagara University |
Sheryl (Klick) Strobl |