Prior to joining the Canisius women’s basketball program for the 1977-78 season, Patricia Aronson averaged 30 points per game in her senior year at Angelica Central School in Angelica, N.Y., highlighted by a 56-point performance that set the Allegany (N.Y.) County scoring record at the time.
 
Luckily for the Golden Griffins, she continued to be a prolific scorer when she arrived at Canisius.
 
Aronson averaged 14.8 points per game over 83 career contests in Blue and Gold, and on Jan. 27, 1981, she became the first player in Canisius women’s basketball history to reach the famed 1,000-point milestone in a road game at Colgate. Her 14.8 points per game scoring average ranks fourth-best in school history to date, and in 1993, she became the first former member of the Canisius women’s basketball program and just the fifth former female student-athlete to be enshrined into the Canisius Sports Hall of Fame.
 
In her first season on Main Street, Aronson led Canisius with her 16.2 points per game, which ranks as the second-highest freshmen year scoring average in program history. She followed her stellar rookie campaign with 15.6 points per game in 1978-79. During that season, she scored in double-figures 14 times in 21 games as the Blue and Gold won a then school-record 15 games and advanced to the EAIAW Tournament in Rochester, N.Y. The 1979-80 season saw her rank second on the team in scoring average at 13.9 points per game while shooting a career-best .518 from the field, as Canisius earned a berth in the NYSAIAW Division II Tournament for the first time in program history. In her senior campaign, Aronson led the Blue and Gold in scoring average with 13.0 points per game as the team posted a 13-11 record and garnered a second-straight trip to the NYSAIAW Division II Tournament.
 
As of the end of the 2018-19 season, Aronson ranks 13th in program history with her 1,226 career points, and her 35 points scored against Rochester in 1978-79 is tied for the sixth-most points scored by a Canisius women’s player in a game at the Koessler Athletic Center.  
 
Aronson, who earned her degree in physical education with a concentration in athletic training from Canisius in 1981, went on to receive her master’s degree in sports medicine from the University of Virginia in 1982. In 2005, she earned her PhD in kinesiology from UVA. A member of the Virginia Athletic Trainers’ Association, the Mid-Athletic Trainers’ Association and the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Halls of Fame, she is currently a professor of athletic training at the University of Lynchburg.