Phillylacrosse.com, Posted 4/24/22 – From Press Release
The Delaware County Athletes Hall of Fame will induct four lacrosse legends tonight for its 2022 class, tonight at its 82nd Annual Awards Dinner at the Concordville Inn.
To be honored among the class of 16 are lacrosse standout Kyle Sweeney; Field hockey/lacrosse players Beth Potter-Bryan and Cara Ariza Cook; and coach (including lacrosse) Barbara Cunningham Hutchinson; as well as soccer coach Wayne McKinney, basketball coach Skip Werley, basketball executives Jerry Crawford and Joe Crawford, baseball players TJ Chism and Mike Costanzo; basketball players Wilbur Kirkland, Jill McConne, Chrissy Donohue Dugan and Alicia Dever; softball player Jill Lewis Ward; hockey player Gina Kearns McLaughlin.
*Sweeney was a Springfield lacrosse All-Delco and a three-time All-American at Georgetown University. He retired from Major League Lacrosse in 2017, playing as the leader in the league’s all-time games, winning three championships with the Philadelphia Barrages and a fourth at Boston. The seven-time MLL All-Star won two international medals with the US
*Potter-Bryan, a 1994 graduate of Ridley High and a lacrosse All-Delco, was a two-time high school All-American. She was a four-year starter at the University of Virginia, where she won national championships and a pair of ACC crowns. As well as a field hockey and basketball player at Ridley, she returned to her alma mater as a coach for 10 successful seasons. She is a member of the Ridley Old Timers Hall of Fame and the Pennsylvania Athletes Hall of Fame.
*Three-time field hockey All-Delco at Penn Wood and twice lacrosse All-Delco, Ariza Cook played both games in Virginia. (She was the Daily Times Player of the Year in both 1993–94.) She made the field hockey Final Four with the Cavaliers and won two lacrosse national titles as a three-time All-American. She played for the US from 1997–04, earning two World Cup medals. She was elected to the US Lacrosse Hall of Fame in 2019.
*Cunningham Hutchinson played field hockey, basketball and lacrosse at Penncrest, then Harcum Junior College and Glassboro State (where she’s an athletics hall of famer in all three sports). She became a member of the U.S. lacrosse touring team in 1975 and won that year’s Outstanding College Athlete of America award. She continued playing into the 1980s and served as a coach in a bevy of sports, as well as a college and high school official in several sports, until 2015.
