WEST CHESTER, PA – West Chester University and the Athletics Department announced the newest class of the WCU Athletics Hall of Fame, which is to be inducted on Saturday, April 6, 2024.
 
This year's hall of fame ceremony will take place at The WCU Foundation on Carter Drive in West Chester. Individuals interested in attending the WCU Athletics Hall of Fame induction ceremony can do so by clicking the WCU Athletics Hall of Fame online registration form. Cocktails begin at 6 p.m. with an array of savory hors d'oeuvres served throughout the evening. The event will begin around 7 p.m.

The class includes five national champions, an 11-time All-American and perhaps one of the best infielders in the baseball program's history. Brynn Adams Gallagher ('12), Katy Crouse Brumbach ('10), Kathy Krannebitter ('82), Michele LeFevre Doyle ('81), Kelsi Lykens ('14), Kenneth McCormick ('12) and Nick Spisak ('10) all join the WCU Athletics Hall of Fame as members of the Class of 2024.

All seven individual inductees brings the West Chester University Athletics Hall of Fame total number of honorees to 533. The Killinger Foundation held its annual Football Hall of Fame banquet in November where former gridiron stars Ryan Devlin ('08), Lonnie Duckett ('73), Emil H. Messikomer III, Al-Hajj Shabazz ('14) and Rondell White ('13) were honored. The Messikomer Foundation Men's Basketball Hall of Fame inducted Cory Blake ('15) this past October.

The West Chester University Athletics Hall of Fame was created in 2000 when three of the five existing halls of fame (Baseball, Wrestling, Women's Athletics) were merged under one umbrella. The Killinger Foundation (Football) and Messikomer Foundation (Men's Basketball) still operate separately, but inductees into those halls of fame are included in the WCU Athletics Hall of Fame.
 
The introduction of the Class of 2024 marks the end of a lengthy selection process that began immediately after the Class of 2023 was inducted last January. A six-member selection committee representing athletic administrators, current head coaches and former West Chester University athletes began the process of developing a workable list from the hundreds of athletes nominated. Only athletes that graduated from WCU are considered and only those 10 years removed from their playing days were eligible.
 
In addition, the selection committee followed a charter, established to support the West Chester University Athletics Hall of Fame that profiled a myriad of strict eligibility requirements for former athletes, coaches and administrators to be considered. "Primary" consideration for election to the WCU Athletics Hall of Fame was granted to accomplishments during an individual's tenure as an athlete, coach or administrator while at West Chester University. Honors attained or accomplishments that pre- or post-dated a candidate's time at West Chester University were granted "secondary" consideration.
 
Once the selection committee comprised its recommended list, the names were forwarded to the Director of Athletics, Terry Beattie, for his review and official ratification.

Here is your WCU Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2024:

KATY CROUSE BRUMBACH
Women's Lacrosse
Class of 2010
 
A two-time, first-team All-American, Katy Crouse led West Chester University to the 2008 NCAA Division II National Championship title. She was a first-team consensus All-American on defense for that 2008 national championship team and an All-ECAC performer as well. For her efforts that year, Crouse was named the IWLCA Division II Defensive Player of the Year. The three-time All-PSAC pick was named to the 2008 All-Tournament Team. She led West Chester to the national title game in three of her four years on South Campus. The Golden Rams won the PSAC Championship twice during her college career. She still holds four school records on the career and season levels. Her 212 career ground balls is the measuring stick in that category while her 167 caused turnovers in a career is tops at WCU. She caused a school-record 60 turnovers in 2010 and scooped up a school-best 78 ground balls that year. During her college career, Crouse was named the lacrosse team's defender of the year three times and its Athlete of the Year her senior season in 2010 when she was also a team captain.
 
West Chester racked up an overall record of 72-8 in four seasons. The Golden Rams did not lose a conference match during Crouse's playing career – going 48-0 against PSAC East competition from 2007 to 2010.
 

MICHELE LEFEVRE DOYLE
Women's Lacrosse, Field Hockey
Class of 1981
 
A member of West Chester's 1979 U.S. Women's Lacrosse Coaches Association (USWLCA) National Championship squad, Michele LeFevre Doyle carved out a very impressive playing career, both during and after college, as well as a storied ledger in coaching, administration and mentoring youth in field hockey, basketball and lacrosse. A graduate of Unionville High School, she was the only freshman to start every lacrosse game her first spring. Doyle and her teammates authored a 35-14 record during her four years on the lacrosse pitch. In addition to her national title at West Chester, she went on to play for Team USA and help her country win a Best of 5 series in 1981, and the Gold Medal at the first World Cup in England in 1982, with a 10-7 overtime triumph over Australia in the championship game.
 
During her 32-year teaching career as a Health & Physical Educator at Penncrest High School, Doyle coached varsity field hockey and lacrosse, as well as freshman basketball, before being elevated to Athletic Director at the school. She served as the Central Athletic League's Girls Lacrosse Chairperson for 17 years and as a PIAA District I committee member for 14 seasons, then the chairperson for five years. She helped organize the first Keystone Games Lacrosse Tournament, serving as co-chair from 1997 to 2000. She owns membership in four halls of fame: U.S. Lacrosse Eastern PA Hall of Fame; U.S. Lacrosse National Hall of Fame; PA Sports Hall of Fame – Delaware County, and the Chester County Sports Hall of Fame).
 

BRYNN ADAMS GALLAGHER
Field Hockey
Class of 2012
 
A first-team All-American and NCAA Division II Defensive Athlete of the Year, Brynn Adams helped lead West Chester University to the 2011 NCAA Division II National Championship. She scored 10 goals and posted 26 points during the Golden Rams' run to the title their first season at Division II. Overall, she scored 14 goals and registered 37 points with five game-winning goals and seven defensive saves. She spent three of her four college seasons competing at the Division I level with Louisville and West Chester, before her senior season. She was named the WCU Female Athlete of the Year in 2012 for her efforts in bringing a national title back to West Chester University. She appeared in 69 college field hockey games, starting 58 of those contests. Her four defensive saves in 2011 ranks second in a single season at WCU.
 
 
KATHY KRANNEBITTER
Field Hockey, Women's Lacrosse
Class of 1982
 
A two-time national champion as a student-athlete, the school's all-time winningest field hockey head coach and an eight-time conference champion as the institution's women's lacrosse head coach, Kathy Krannebitter left an indelible mark on her alma mater over a 30-year period before her retirement in 2010. Krannebitter was a starter on the 1978 AIAW National Championship field hockey team fall semester of her freshman year, before helping the 1979 women's lacrosse team to the USWLCA National Championship that following spring. She was a four-year starter for the Golden Rams and a member of two West Chester field hockey squads which qualified for the AIAW National Tournament, and she was a part of 67 combined wins across both sports during her four-year college playing career.
 
However, it was as a coach at West Chester University that Krannebitter rewrote the record books and produced some of the most talented and decorated Golden Rams in school history. In 26 years at the helm of West Chester's Division I field hockey program from 1986 to 2010, Krannebitter etched out 225 wins, made nine postseason appearances, including two NCAA Division I nods, and captured a pair of Atlantic 10 regular-season championships. She mentored one A-10 player of the year and five A-10 All-Rookie team members. She also coached 25 All Mid-East Region selections and another 24 All-Atlantic 10 picks. On the lacrosse pitch, Krannebitter won 91 games in 12 years as head coach from 1986 to 1997. She won eight PSAC titles and mentored 21 All-PSAC players. She put up an astounding record of 33-1 against PSAC competition over that period of time – a .971 winning percentage in conference play.
 

KELSI LYKENS
Field Hockey
Class of 2014
 
A two-time national champion and two-time, first team All-American, Kelsi Lykens helped lead West Chester University to back-to-back NCAA Division II national titles in 2011 and 2012. She was the Division II Honda Award recipient in the sport of field hockey in 2013 as well as the conference player of the year. In 81 career games, she scored 33 goals and posted 95 points. Those goals ranks seventh all-time at WCU during the Division II era and her point total ranks sixth all-time over that same span. The two-time, first team All-PSAC selection dominated the middle of the field in the conference during her four years at West Chester.

Since her graduation 10 years ago, Lykens has carved out a very successful college coaching career and is currently the head coach at Division I Lehigh University. She also spent six seasons at the University of New Haven building that program from the ground up from 2017 to 2022. New Haven won a combined 19 games over her last two seasons and reached the Northeast-10 Conference Tournament on each occasion. Lykens won the NFHCA President's Award in 2012. She mentored 14 all-conference selections during her time at New Haven.
 

KENNETH McCORMICK
Men's Swimming
Class of 2012
 
Kenny McCormick, a five-time All-American and 19-time All-Conference honoree, was the anchor of West Chester's three PSAC Championships from 2009 to 2011. He was a two-time Swimmer of the Meet at the PSAC Championships and a two-time Swimmer of the Year in the conference. He won 15 PSAC titles during his three years on campus. He won seven individual crowns and another eight as a member of a relay. Twice, he helped West Chester's men's program finish among the Top 10 at the NCAA Division II Swimming & Diving Championships with a 10th-place showing in 2009 and a ninth-place finish in 2010. He qualified for nationals all three seasons at West Chester and set two conference records in his final two years at the school. The three-year letterwinner was twice named WCU Male Athlete of the Year for his exploits in the pool. A local product from Henderson High School in West Chester, he starred in both the butterfly and the individual medley for the Golden Rams.
 

NICK SPISAK
Baseball
Class of 2010
 
Nick Spisak was a four-time All-PSAC selection at shortstop and two-time All-Atlantic Region pick while also winning a regional gold glove award during his four-year tenure at West Chester University. He helped the Golden Rams to a pair of Eastern Division titles, an overall conference title and a regional crown in 2009 that came with it a trip to the NCAA Division II National Championships in Cary, N.C. He still holds seven school records on the career, season and game levels, including most home runs in a single innings (2). He still ranks among the Top 5 all-time in PSAC history in five career categories and three single-season categories. He banged out 294 hits in 841 at bats and scored 230 runs. He hit .350 in his college career. Those hits ranks second all-time at WCU and both the at bats and runs scored are not only WCU records, but PSAC career marks as well. Academically, he was a two-time All-Atlantic Region selection and the PSAC Spring Top 10 honoree. He also took home WCU Male Scholar-Athlete of the Year three times. In 2007, he was named the PSAC Eastern Division Rookie of the Year, and in 2009, was named All-ECAC as well.