Athletics Hall Of Fame Class Of 2010 Announced
Elms College athletics director Louise McCleary recently announced that Kelly Maloney-Staples ’92, Chris Papsin ’05, and Kyle Seyboth ’05 will be formally inducted as the Athletics Hall of Fame Class of 2010 on October 1 on the Elms College campus.
Maloney-Staples was a two-sport athlete, competing in both field
hockey (four seasons) and softball (three seasons). As a field
hockey player, Maloney-Staples helped the 1989 team claim the first
Massachusetts Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
(MAIAW) championship in any sport in Elms College’s athletic
department history. She is the program’s all-time leader in
assists (21), is third all-time in points (67), is fifth all-time
on the Blazers’ career goals list with 23 and was a team
captain her junior and senior years. On the softball diamond,
Maloney-Staples is the program’s all-time leader in home runs
(14) and remains the only player in team history to hit more than
10 home runs. She also ranks fourth on the program’s all-time
batting average list with a .436 clip (52 for 119) and is tied for
sixth all-time in triples with five.
Papsin was also a two-sport athlete during his time at Elms,
competing all four seasons in both swimming and cross country. In
the pool, Papsin earned two of the program’s three New
England Intercollegiate Swimming and Diving Association (NEISDA)
titles, claiming top honors in the 1650-yard freestyle in 2003 and
the 1000-yard freestyle in 2005. He owns four school records in
yards: 200-yard freestyle, 400/500-yard freestyle, and
800/1000-yard freestyle each set in 2005; and the 1500/165
0-yard freestyle set in 2004. He also holds three school records
in short-course meters: 400-meter freestyle and 200-meter
individual medley each established in 2005; and the 800-meter
freestyle set in 2004. Until the 2009-10 season, Papsin also held
the 100-meter individual medley record which he set in 2005. On the
cross country trails, he finished fourth overall at the 2002 North
Atlantic Conference (NAC) Championship meet, placed seventh overall
at the Blazers Classic in 2003, and came in sixth overall at the
Blazers Invitational in 2004. Papsin was also the athletic
department’s Leary Award winner his senior year in 2005.
Seyboth, the men’s basketball program’s second
all-time leading scorer with 1,175 career points, helped the team
to its first-ever Division III NCAA Tournament appearance and
first-ever North Atlantic Conference (NAC) Championship during the
2004-05 season. Seyboth, who played all four seasons with the
Blazers, is listed 20th in the NCAA Division III Top 25
in three-point field goals made in a season (125 in 29 games in
2005) and currently ranks first on Elms’ career three-point
field goals made list (305), fourth on the Blazers’ career
field goals made list (393), and fifth on the program’s
all-time games played list (109). Seyboth was a First Team All-NAC
selection in 2004-05 and was an Honorable Mention All-NAC selection
in 2003-04. Seyboth was the athletic department’s Froehlich
Award winner his senior year in 2005.