1. Last week, the Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference announced it's 2021 Hall of Fame Class which includes Massachusetts Maritime Academy Athletics legendary coach and administrator Bob Corradi.

Bob Corradi gave 43 years of service to the Massachusetts Maritime Academy and 26 years as Director of Athletics. A Bourne native and a current resident of Sandwich, Corradi served in a number of different administrative capacities at Massachusetts Maritime prior to assuming the role of Director of Athletics in September 1989. He directly oversaw the growth and development of a program that has nearly doubled from eight sports when he assumed his duties to its current 15 varsity sports. Corradi also oversaw the construction of a new turf athletic stadium, Clean Harbors Stadium, while helping to implement new construction and upgrades to existing athletics facilities on and off campus, including the Clean Harbors Athletic Center, baseball's Commodore Hendy Field, softball's Alison Rollins Field and the Keith Hartford Sailing Center on Herring Pond which houses our crew and sailing programs. During Corradi's tenure as Athletics Director, the amount of student-athletes participating in intercollegiate athletics at the Academy has tripled, and nearly 45 percent of all student-athletes that participated in at least one sport achieved a minimum 3.00 GPA during Bob's tenure as AS; another example of his commitment to the mission of Massachusetts Maritime and NCAA Division III.

Corradi began his career at Massachusetts Maritime as the Academy's first Head Baseball Coach in 1973. He amassed 579 victories in 43 seasons on the diamond while earning the nod as Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference Coach of the Year on four occasions, the last coming in his final season in 2015. Also in 2015, Corradi was named as the 2015 ECAC Division III New England Co-Coach of the Year. He guided the Buccaneers to both the MASCAC and ECAC titles during a 1982 season that saw Massachusetts Maritime win a school record 28 games. In the fall Corradi served as Assistant Football Coach for 38 seasons under Head Coaches Don Ruggeri, Joe Domingos and Jeremy Cameron, as he helped lead the Buccaneers to a pair of New England Football Conference championships in 1977 and again in 1983.

Coach Corradi's commitment and dedication to Buccaneer athletics is unmatched. To this day he continues to support the efforts of all of the Buccaneer athletic programs and the department as a whole whenever and however he can. 

The inductees will be recognized at a formal MASCAC Hall of Fame induction which will be coupled with a MASCAC athletic championship or event at the site in which the individual competed or was housed during the 2021-22 year.