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From left: Tom Finney, baseball;
Dylan Lewis, men’s soccer;
Sanja Radenkovic, women’s basketball;
Bino Campanini,
men’s soccer; President Catanese |
Four former student-athletes
made up the Florida Tech Hall of Fame Class
of 2005, joining the 33 previously inducted
members. The new honorees represent three
different sports and two different decades,
and include two teammates from a National
Championship team. The 2005 inductees are
Bino Campanini (men’s soccer, 1986-–1989),
Tom Finney (baseball, 1988–1991),
Dylan Lewis (men’s soccer, 1988–1991)
and Sanja Radenkovic (women’s basketball,
1994–1998).
Florida Tech Sports Hall
of Fame election is conducted every two
years. The Florida
Tech Sports Hall of Fame was founded
to honor those individuals who have made
outstanding
contributions to Florida Tech Athletics.
Its purpose is to perpetuate the memory
of those athletes who have brought distinction,
honor and excellence to Florida Tech
in athletics.
In the Florida Tech men’s
soccer program, Bino Campanini is one
of the most
memorable athletes to adorn the crimson
and gray. He is ranked among the top
10 all-time players in the Panther record
book. A native of Jersey in the Channel
Islands of Great Britain, Campanini
arrived in the United States in the fall
of 1986
with the help of head coach Rick Stottler
and assistant coach Giles Malone, who
became
accustomed to recruiting overseas,
especially in the United Kingdom.
During
his playing tenure, Campanini
helped lead his team to three consecutive
NCAA
postseason appearances and two Sunshine
State Championships (SSC) in 1988
and 1989. He also took All-SSC honors in
three seasons.
Campanini was also the only Panther
to win national championships as
both
a
coach and player. After finishing
his eligibility,
he stayed on for three seasons as
an assistant coach with Florida Tech winning
the national
championship once again in 1991.
In 2005, Campanini was
appointed to the Florida Tech board
of trustees and the Florida
Tech College of Business Board
of Overseers.
Campanini is the CEO of Stottler,
Stagg & Associates
Architects Engineers Planners, Inc.
He and his wife Trish have three
children, Isabella, 11; Luca, 7;
and Carlo, 5, and
they reside in Merritt Island,
Fla.
Tom Finney is one of the
best hurlers to have worn the crimson
and gray
for Florida
Tech. Finney started his career
with the Panthers in 1988 under
the tutelage
of
head coach Les Hall. Finney was
a local stand-out pitching recruit
from Merritt
Island.
For his career, he accumulated
352 strikeouts, appearing in
70 games
with 39 starting
nods. Finney managed a 3.46
ERA with a winning record of 29-17,
closing
25 games
over four years as a Panther.
For this, he holds the single
season
strikeout
record, single season win-loss
record, career strike-out
record and career win-loss
record for Tech. In the SSC, he ranks
fifth all
time in
strikeouts and 10th in career
wins.
Finney is one of only
two Panthers who were named to the Sunshine
State Conference
Silver Anniversary team in
2002. After his collegiate
career,
he signed as
a free agent with the New
York Mets organization and played for one
season.
Finney is currently an
English teacher at his alma mater,
Merritt Island
High School, and has coached
golf, tennis
and baseball for the Mustangs.
He and his wife
DeeDee reside in Rockledge,
Fla.
The only Florida Tech
men’s soccer
player to have his number
retired (3) is Dylan Lewis. He was also
the only Panther
player to contribute
on the field to Florida Tech’s
1988 and 1991 NCAA Division II national
championship
teams.
Originally from
Wales, he literally went in
with a
title and out
with a title.
Florida Tech claimed
the Sunshine State
Conference championship each year
Lewis was on the team
from
1988–’91.
He garnered All-American
honors in 1991, All-South
Region accolades in
1991, All-State FISCA
honors in 1990-–’91
and All-SSC recognition
in 1989–’91.
He graduated with honors
in applied mathematics
in 1991
and went
on to play professionally
for the Orlando Lions.
Lewis was a member
of the 2003
SSC Silver
Anniversary men’s
soccer team and was
recently inducted
into SSC Hall of
Fame, class
of 2005–’06.
He is now teaching
and coaching soccer
in Vero Beach where
his family resides.
Dylan and his wife
Meeghan have three
sons, Jyoti, 7, and
twins Owen and Bryn,
3.
In 1994, head coach
John Reynolds recruited
an
overseas basketball
player from
Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
Sanja Radenkovic
was a member
of the 1993 Yugoslavia
Junior National
Team. She is described
as one of
the finest players
in the history
of the Florida Tech
women’s basketball
program. Radenkovic
had the ability
to make everyone
around
her better on the
court.
For her career
she totaled 2,136
points
and 20.5
points per game
average. Radenkovic
still reigns
as the all-time leading
scorer for both
Florida Tech
and the Sunshine
State Conference.
She is first
at Florida
Tech and
second
in the conference
for
career field
goals made, second at
Tech and fifth
in the SSC for
career free throws
made,
and
second
at Florida Tech
and ninth
in the SSC for
career rebounds.
Radenkovic
finished her
four years
at Florida
Tech making
the dean’s
list every
semester and
graduating
with honors
in business
administration.
From 2001–2004
she served
as the activities
coordinator
at
Ritz Carlton
Hotel, Palm
Beach, Florida,
and was named
Employee of
the
Year in 2003–2004.
She transferred
last year and
became the
spa concierge
at
The Ritz Carlton
on South
Beach in Miami.
She is currently
working for
the Ritz Carlton
in Colorado.
Christa
Parulis-Kaye
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