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Paul Dee - Director of Athletics; Paul Dee has served as Director of Athletics since June of 1993. Prior to his appointment, Dee had served the University as the Vice President and General Counsel beginning in 1981. During his tenure as Director of Athletics, Dee has focused the efforts of the Athletic Department on four major points of emphasis: 1) the success of its programs; 2) the development of its student-athletes, both athletically and academically; 3) the quality of life of its staff; 4) improvement of facilities. The department has achieved success in each of these areas. Click here to see full bio. |
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Gino Torretta - Football; Gino Torretta capped an illustrious collegiate career by bringing the prestigious Heisman Trophy award back to the Coral Gables campus in 1992.
Named the 58th winner of the Heisman, Torretta was the 47th senior and 19th quarterback to win. Entering the 2002 season, Torretta still ranked as Miami's all-time leader with 7,690 passing yards, 555 completions and 7,722 yards in total offense. He also had 123 consecutive pass attempts without an interception.
Torretta's story has many parallels to the saga of Miami's first Heisman winner, Vinny Testaverde. Like Testaverde, Torretta was a superior athlete who had to wait his turn as the Miami quarterback rotation worked it out. Like Testaverde, Torretta made the most of his opportunity to star during his junior season and set up a Heisman run with a spectacular junior season.
But Torretta took Testaverde's model for success to another level by racking up 11 school records. Click here to see full bio...
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Jeannie Hebert-Truax - Women's Basketball; Jeannie Hebert was arguably one of the best basketball players ever to play at Miami by the time her four-year career in Coral Gables ended in 1992. During Hebert's collegiate career that spanned from 1988-92, the Alaska native and guard etched her name each season further into the Miami record book culminating in the program's most successful "dream season" in 1991-92.
An impact player, Hebert started in all 119 games she appeared in college. The career total is the second-most starts all-time by a Hurricane, behind the 120 by Loretta Harvey, and the fourth-most games played. For her career, Hebert ranks second in assists (694), third all-time in scoring (1,766 points), third in free throws made (437), third in free throws attempted (583), fourth in steals (237), fourth in free throw percentage (.750), fifth in field goals made (652), fifth in field goals attempted (1,492) and eighth in scoring average (14.8 ppg).
Additionally, Hebert's 221 assists as a senior in 1991-92 were the most during a single-season at Miami. She also notched 189 assists, No. 4 in a single-season, as a junior in 1990-91 and 147, No. 10, as a freshman in 1988-89. She had 137 assists during her sophomore season in 1989-90.
Hebert played at Miami during a crucial time in the program's development under new head coach Ferne Labati. The tandem were together as Miami moved from the New South Women's Athletic Conference to the BIG EAST by her final season. Click here to see full bio... |
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Jorge Fabregas - Baseball; Jorge Fabregas was one of the feared hitters in Ron Fraser's Hurricane attack for three seasons from 1989-91. By the time he was a junior, Fabregas was a legitimate candidate for the Dick Howser, Bob Smith and USA Baseball Golden Spikes awards.
Fabregas, who played third base and catcher, was a supplemental first round draft pick of the California Angels in 1991. During his three-year career, the Miami, Florida resident hit .331 with 120 runs scored, 201 hits, 329 total bases, 50 doubles, nine triples, 20 home runs, 139 RBI and six stolen bases. His 50 career doubles still ranks eighth on the UM career list.
Among Fabregas' accolades was a spot on the 1990 USA National Team coached by current UM head coach Jim Morris. Fabregas, who walked on to the team, batted .444 against International competition, including teams from Holland, Korea and Canada. Morris and Fabregas would go on to earn a Bronze Medal at the Goodwill Games with their win over Canada.
Fabregas was also named to The Sporting News Second-Team All-America list as a third baseman in 1990, his first full season at the position. That 1990 season also saw Fabregas get selected the Arnold Novins Most Popular Award, as voted on by the fans. During his final season in 1991, Fabregas hit .315 in his final season with 49 runs scored, 74 hits, 60 RBI, 20 doubles, one triple and nine home runs. Click here to see full bio... |
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Kevin Fagan - Football; Kevin Fagan's five-year career at Miami spanned from 1981 when he the University as a 200-pound linebacker/defensive end on the J.V. squad to finishing his collegiate career in 1985 as perhaps the toughest defensive players ever come out of Coral Gables Fagan, who lettered from 1983-85 and grew to approximately 260 pounds, won a national title with the team in his first season as a starter in 1983 and would go on to assist UM in getting to New Year's Day bowl games in 1984 and 1985, as well. A fourth-round pick by San Francisco in 1986, Fagan would go on to play eight seasons with the 49ers until his retirement in 1993. Fagan's 49ers would also win back-to-back World titles in Super Bowls XXIII and XXIV.
To this day, Fagan may arguably still be the toughest Hurricane ever. His school-record bench press of 560 pounds still stands, 17 years later. He also boasted a 600-pound squat while earning the program's Weight Room awards in each season. In 1981, Fagan was a 200-pound tight end from Lake Worth's John I. Leonard High School. He would go on to progress through J.V. practice season in 1981 onto the defensive scout team in 1982.Click here to see full bio... |
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Melvin Bratton - Football; Melvin Bratton had a standout career at the University of Miami during his five seasons in Coral Gables. As a runningback and fullback, Bratton ran his way into the UM record books as well as leading the team to the 1987 national championship over Oklahoma in the 1988 Orange Bowl Classic.
Bratton first came to Miami in 1983 from nearby Northwestern High School and was a key member of the Hurricanes' scout team that assisted the varsity into winning the schools' first national title later that year over Nebraska in the 1984 Orange Bowl Classic.
His career accomplishments can still be found in the football record book with his 32 career touchdowns tying for third all-time, and his 26 rushing touchdowns fourth-most. Click here to see full bio... |
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Leon Searcy - Football; Leon Searcy spent five seasons as an offensive tackle at the University of Miami, lettering from 1988-91. By the time his collegiate career concluded Searcy was a No. 1 draft pick by the Pittsburgh Steelers - 11th overall.
Among the most impressive feats recorded by Searcy was the fact that he started every game his final three seasons. He also didn't start playing football until his final year of high school at Maynard Evans in Orlando.
Searcy first began as a scout squad offensive line on the 1987 national championship team, gaining valuable experience facing All-Americans and future NFLers Daniel Stubbs and Bill Hawkins on a daily basis. He spent his first season playing with the varsity squad in 1988 as a reserve offensive tackle seeing action late in games. In his first year starting, as a sophomore in 1989, Searcy was a key figure in helping the UM offense average 144 yards rushing and 309 yards passing per game. Click here to see full bio...
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Lin Dunn - Women's Basketball Lin Dunn served as Head Coach of the Women's Basketball program from 1978-87, where she accumulated a 149-119 record with the Hurricanes.
During her nine seasons in Coral Gables, Dunn guided the Hurricanes to their first-ever ranking in the Associated Press Top 20 in 1985 and to its first Florida State Championship in 1981. She was the 1981 Florida Coach of the Year and served with the 1986 United States Women's Basketball Team in 1986.
Dunn served as President of the Women's Basketball Coaches Association in 1984-85. Click here to see full bio... |
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Greg Mark - Football From 1986-89, Greg Mark anchored one of the most punishing defensive lines in University of Miami football history, as well as in college football.
Along with Mark, the fabled 1989 defensive line also included Russell Maryland, Cortez Kennedy, Willis Peguese, Jimmie Jones Shane Curry and Eric Miller.
Mark's 1989 defense was considered the best in school history. The defense led the nation in scoring defense (9.3 points per game) and total defense (216.5 yards per game). The unit also finished the year ranked No. 2 in the NCAA in rushing defense (69.1 yards per game) and No. 4 in passing defense (147.4 yards per game). Mark was the defensive lines' best in 1989 registering 15.5 sacks on the year, behind the team's school-record 52.
Mark's five-year career at Miami culminated with First-Team All-America honors by Kodak and the Associated Press in 1989, as well as a semifinalist nod for the prestigious Lombardi Award. Click here to see full bio... |
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Lenny Layland - Diving Lenny Layland was a seven-time All-American diver for the University of Miami during his collegiate career, which spanned from 1980-84. Layland competed at UM his first three seasons from 1980-82, before redshirting the 1983 season to train for the Olympics. He would then return to Miami in 1984 to complete his collegiate career.
He originally came to Coral Gables as a heralded diver from Mission Viejo, California and the Mission Viejo Nadadores Dive Team. Also a member of the United States National Team, Layland was able to win the 1978 Junior Olympics three-meter and age group one-meter titles. He also won the 1979 Senior Outdoor Nationals prior to his arrival at Miami. During his freshman season in 1980, Layland would finish sixth in the NCAA three-meter springboard, while earning his first All-American honors.
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