Former two-sport standout Erin Hanson Sigmon ’08 and coaching legends Page Moir and Finn Pincus have been named to the Roanoke College Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2018.
The trio will be honored on Friday as part of Roanoke’s Alumni Weekend festivities. The ceremony will start at 7 pm in the Cregger Center arena and the public is invited.
Hanson Sigmon played soccer and basketball for the Maroons from 2004 to 2008. On the court, she was a four-time All-ODAC selection, including three consecutive spots on the first-team to close her career. She was named the 2005 ODAC Rookie of the Year and the 2007 ODAC Player of the Year.
Following the conclusion of her final two seasons, Erin was named to the D3hoops.com All-South Region team. She finished as the fourth-leading scorer in program history with 1,448 points.
On the soccer field, Hanson Sigmon was a standout goalkeeper for the Maroons. In 2007, she helped RC to a program-best 18 wins and an ODAC runner-up finish, and helped RC earn its first NCAA Tournament win. She finished with 157 career saves, which was seventh most in program history at that time. Hanson Sigmon was also named Roanoke College’s Female Athlete of the Year following her junior and senior years.
During his tenure in Salem, Moir led the Maroons to 428 wins, which is tops among Old Dominion Athletic Conference (ODAC) coaches. Moir’s teams won three ODAC Championships, made six trips to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament and had five seasons with 20 or more wins.
Moir was honored by his peers as the ODAC Coach of the Year in 1994 and in 2016, when he led RC to its best season since 2008-09 with 19 wins, and both regional and national rankings during the year. In addition, D3hoops.com named Moir the 2016 South Region Coach of the Year.
Of the four-year players to pass through the RC program, the graduation rate over the past 27 years is 100 percent, with 34 players going on to graduate school, two on to law school and six others to medical school.
A fixture in the basketball community, Moir was appointed to the National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) Board of Directors in 2002, becoming one of just two Division III coaches on the board. Moir was elected president of the NABC and served from 2014-15 in that role.
Under the direction of Pincus, Roanoke won 22 ODAC titles, which includes two men’s and one women’s ODAC Cross Country titles, eight Women’s Indoor Track & Field ODAC titles and 11 Women’s Outdoor Track & Field ODAC Championships. In addition, he has mentored two individual NCAA national champions.
Pincus coached 13 individuals to 37 All-American honors in track and field, and three in cross country. Thirty-eight RC cross country individuals earned 63 All Southeast Region honors, while 10 individuals competed at the NCAA Championships a total of 15 times.
In the spring of 2001, Roanoke Hall of Famer Casey Smith ’01 won the NCAA National Championship in the outdoor 10,000 meters. Under Pincus’ guidance, Smith earned five All-American certificates in track, including two national runner-up places in the 10,000m (2000), and 5,000m (2001 indoors). Smith also earned All-American honors in cross country on two occasions.
Pincus coached his second national champion, Robin Yerkes ’10, to a victory in the 400 meters at the 2009 NCAA Division III Indoor Championships. Pincus had 10 NCAA national runner-ups, including Smith (twice), Yerkes (four times) and Carmen Graves ’13 in the 800-meters indoors in 2013. The list also includes Roanoke’s 4×100 relay team in 2007 and 2008, and the 2015 4×400 relay squad.
In addition, Pincus had 25 men’s cross country runners named to the ODAC’s First-Team All-Conference squad, while 27 women have garnered that same honor. Pincus mentored four ODAC Runners of Year on the men’s side and Smith, who won the honor twice on the women’s side.
Pincus earned his share of accolades while at Roanoke. His latest accomplishment was being named ODAC Women’s Outdoor Coach of the Year in 2016. He earned the same award for indoor and outdoor track in 2013. He also was honored as the NCAA Southeast Region Women’s Coach of the Year for Indoor Track in 2007 and 2008. He won ODAC Coach of the Year honors between cross country and track a combined 21 times.