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LOCK HAVEN, Pa. – Slippery Rock University landed six former student-athletes on the "Made in the PSAC" list released by the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference Wednesday in celebration of its 75th anniversary.
 
The PSAC will release lists of 75 honorees each Wednesday in the month of September as a kickoff to celebrating the 75th year of the conference. The first list, announced today, is the "Made in the PSAC" list, which celebrates 75 former student-athletes that went on to influential careers.  
 
Future lists will include the "75 Greatest Female Athletes" being released Sept. 10, the "75 Greatest Male Athletes" being released Sept. 17 and "75 Distinguished Keystones" being released on Sept. 24. The Keystones list will recognize individuals who have been historically influential in the PSAC, whether it be staff, administrators or coaches.
 
Slippery Rock placed six former student-athletes on the Made in the PSAC list with all six of them going on to influential careers in athletics after departing The Rock. The list of honorees includes golfer Janet Anderson, track & field standout Cheryl Bailey, football All-American Jerry Bejbl, gymnast Sarah Patterson, women's basketball player C. Vivian Stringer and softball player and current director of athletics, Roberta Page.
 
Brief bios for each of The Rock's honorees can be found below.
 
JANET ANDERSON
• Sport: Golf
• Years at SRU: 1975-77
• Accomplishments: Anderson played tennis and lacrosse during her college days, but her best sport was golf, which she had to play with the men's team. She left SRU early to focus on a golf career and made it to the LPGA Tour in 1978, where she was named Golf Digest's Rookie of the Year. She had nine top 10 finishes in 1981 before breaking through with her first victory when she shocked the field to win the 1982 U.S. Women's Open, becoming one of 13 LPGA members to have the Open stand as their first win. Anderson would play on the tour until 1997 before retiring to a career as a head golf pro in the Phoenix area.  She tallied 99 career top 25 finishes and won more than $650,000 in prize money on the LPGA Tour.
 
CHERYL BAILEY
• Sport: Track & Field
• Years at SRU: 1973-77
• Accomplishments: Standout track & field athlete at SRU that went on to a storied career as an athletics administrator. Bailey served as the athletics director for women's sports at Denison from 1983-90 before moving to the University of Wisconsin, where she was a member of the senior management team from 1990-2005, including a three-year stint as the senior associate athletic director for sports administration. She left college athletics to become the general manager for the U.S. Women's National Team, a role she served in from 2007-11. During her tenure, she helped guide the U.S. soccer team to a gold medal in the 2008 Olympics, a silver in the 2011 World Cup and a bronze in the 2007 World Cup. After her time with the USWNT, Bailey became a founder of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), where she also served as the league's executive director from 2012-15. She was inducted into the University of Wisconsin Hall of Fame in 2022.
 
JERRY BEJBL
• Sport: Football
• Years at SRU: 1959-63
• Accomplishments: Bejbl is one the three retired numbers in the history of Slippery Rock football. An All-American in 1962 and the MVP of the 1962 PSAC championship team, Bejbl played on SRU teams that won two conference titles. After graduation, Bejbl became a successful businessman, launching the Armoloy Corporation and serving as the owner for 40 years. Armoloy, a metal coating company, now operates 16 franchise locations in seven different countrie. Bejbl also served as the president of the SRU Alumni Association and became the largest individual financial donor in Slippery Rock Athletics history with lifetime contributions to SRU totaling more than $1 million. His generosity funded the creation and equipment for the Bejbl Weightroom at SRU, which is named in his honor.
 
ROBERTA PAGE
• Sports: Softball, Basketball
• Years at SRU: 1984-88
• Accomplishments: Page became the first female in SRU history to be named the permanent full-time athletic director when she returned to her alma mater in 2021 after serving as the director of championships and alliances at the NCAA office from 2009-21. Page also served as the director of athletics at fellow PSAC institution Shippensburg from 2003-09. She played four years of softball and one season of basketball at The Rock, graduating in 1988 before going on to earn a doctorate in educational leadership from Duquesne University. Page has led two different PSAC institutions to the Dixon Trophy as the league's best athletic department and has overseen four total Dixon Trophy wins, including the 2023-24 victory for Slippery Rock. In four years serving as the athletic director at SRU, Page has overseen dramatic transformations to the campuses athletic facilities, including the complete renovation of Kasnevich Field, one of the finest Division II softball facilities in the country.
 
SARAH PATTERSON
• Sport: Gymnastics
• Years at SRU: 1874-78
• Accomplishments: Patterson is one of the most successful collegiate gymnastics coaches of all-time and served 36 years as the head coach at the University of Alabama. She announced in 2014 that she was stepping down from the only job she had ever known after leading Alabama to 1,006 career wins, six NCAA Division I team titles, 29 regional titles and 32 consecutive appearances in the NCAA National Championships. She coached her teams to eight SEC titles and led a total of 25 individual athletes to a national title. Patterson's student-athletes were honored with 11 SEC postgraduate scholarships, five NCAA Elite 89 awards and 275 SEC Academic Honor Roll selections. She coached a total of 302 All-Americans and 189 Scholastic All-Americans during her career and her teams qualified for the national meet 32 straight years from 1983-2014.

C. VIVIAN STRINGER
• Sport: Basketball
• Years at SRU: 1967-70
• Accomplishments: Stringer is one of the truly legendary names in the history of women's basketball in the United States. She spent 50 years as a collegiate head coach, where she amassed 1,055 wins, four NCAA Final Four appearances and 28 berths in the NCAA Tournament. She was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009 and the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in 2001. She began her storied career in the PSAC, where she played at Slippery Rock before becoming a coach at Cheyney from 1972-83. While at Cheyney, she led the Wolves to an NCAA Division I Final Four run and an appearance in the first women's national championship game in 1982. Stringer went on to coach at Iowa, leading the Hawkeyes to the 1993 Final Four. She made her biggest mark at Rutgers University, where the home court is named in her honor after she spent 27 seasons leading the Scarlet Knights. She took Rutgers to two Final Fours and also helped the U.S. win a gold medal while serving as an assistant coach at the 2004 Olympic Games. Stringer had a Child Development Center at the Nike World Headquarters dedicated in her name in 2008. She named one of the wings in the center "The Rock" in recognition of her time at SRU.




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