Maritime Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2026 Revealed

THROGGS NECK, NY – Four student-athletes and one coach have been chosen because the Maritime College Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2026.  The induction ceremony will happen on Thursday, Oct. 22 as part of Homecoming Weekend.

This yr’s honorees are:

• Larry Calame ’80 (Football & Wrestling)
• Roy Larson (Swimming & Diving Coach)
• Rick McClain ’13 (Football)
• Brian McLaughlin ’17 (Baseball)
• Dave Starck ’90 (Sailing)

Calame, who handed away earlier this yr, was each a soccer participant and wrestler throughout his time on Fort Schuyler.  As a operating again, he led the Privateers in speeding yards throughout each the 1979 and 1980 seasons.  A two-time staff MVP and all-conference performer, he set quite a few program speeding data.  Calame was additionally an All-American in wrestling.  He later had a 40-year profession within the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, retiring in 2023.

Larson started working at Maritime in 1964 and was the founding coach of the varsity swimming & diving staff.  He would proceed in that function till 1999.  Larson was acknowledged because the Metropolitan Coach of the Year in 1975 after main the Privateers to first place as a staff on the Metropolitan Championships.  After he retired from teaching, Larson remained a member of the Maritime College school till 2002, when he was acknowledged as “Professor Emeritus.”  Larson died in 2025 and shall be honored posthumously.

McClain was a member of the 2010 Privateer soccer staff that made historical past by going undefeated within the common season and incomes a range to the NCAA Tournament.  He was a First Team All-ECFC choice as a defensive lineman that season, then was named Honorable Mention All-ECFC in 2011.  In addition, McClain earned a spot on the Allstate Good Works Team.

McLaughlin turned the Maritime baseball program’s first-ever All-American in 2017.  That season, he led the Privateers to the Skyline convention championship and was honored because the Skyline Player of the Year, ABCA Regional Player of the Year and ECAC Metro Player of the Year.  A four-time All-Skyline performer, McLaughlin remains to be third on Maritime’s all-time RBI checklist with 112.

Starck earned three consecutive All-America choices from 1988-90.  During his senior yr, he led his boat to victory on the Collegiate National Match Racing Championships and fifth place on the open dinghy National Championships.  As a staff, the Privateers had been ranked third nationally that season.  Starck would go on to a distinguished post-graduate crusing profession, successful a number of nationwide and worldwide regattas and capturing a silver medal representing the United States within the Lightning class on the 2007 Pan American Games.

Details relating to the induction ceremony, together with when tickets can be found for buy, shall be introduced quickly.