Jack McDonald and Kim Misiaszek Named 2019 Quinnipiac University MAAC Basketball Honor Roll Inductees
EDISON, N.J. – The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) has announced Jack McDonald and Kim Misiaszek of Quinnipiac University will be inducted into the 2019 MAAC Honor Roll. Honorees will be enshrined in “The MAAC Experience” exhibit at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame on Saturday, Sept. 14.
Each member institution of the MAAC honors one male and one female from its basketball “family” as part of the 2019 induction class. A dinner event takes place Saturday, Sept. 14 at the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame Court of Dreams to recognize the Honor Roll inductees.
Each honoree will also be profiled in the game program for the 2020 MAAC Basketball Championships and will be featured in a video display at “The MAAC Experience.”
Jack McDonald
McDonald elevated Quinnipiac to Division I in 1998, a move that triggered several landmark milestones. The hockey program, based in part on construction of the new facility, was admitted to the ECAC in 2006, allowing it to compete against top academic and hockey schools. In December 2012, it accepted an invitation to join the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference in all other sports.
McDonald also brokered television, radio and Internet packages for the Bobcats, including competitions seen on NESN, ESPN3 and ESPNU. The Bobcats won 33 conference championships and made 21 NCAA Championship appearances during McDonald's tenure as AD, including the men's ice hockey team reaching the Frozen Four and National Championship Game in 2013.
A former NACDA Executive Committee member, McDonald was inducted into the NACDA Hall of Fame this summer and honored as an Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year in 2013-14. He served as DI-AAA ADA President in 2008-09 and received the Association's Gary Cunningham Lifetime Achievement Award in 2015.
After his retirement from Quinnipiac, McDonald became associate vice president and director of athletics at the University of New England (UNE), where he eventually became vice president of student engagement and director of athletics before he retired from UNE in 2017.
Jack McDonald grew up in Braintree, Ma and attended and ran track & field at Archbishop Williams ('69) and was also a life-long summer resident and now lives permanently in Ocean Bluff/Marshfield, Ma.
Kim Misiaszek ‘01
Kim Misiaszek, a 2012 inductee to the Quinnipiac Athletics Hall of Fame, was the second player in Quinnipiac women’s basketball history to earn All-Northeast Conference honors, landing on the Second Team for the 2000–01 season. The career leader in blocked shots when her career ended, she swatted 149 shots in 82 games for a 1.8 per game average. One of two players in Quinnipiac history and the only one at the Division I level to lead the program in rebounding in each of her four years, she currently ranks sixth with 827 rebounds while also ranking ninth all time with 1,417 points. One of the most important players in school history, she helped facilitate the transition from a struggling Division 2 doormat into a viable Division 1 winner. She was a force on both ends of the court and an excellent student in the classroom.
| 2019 MAAC Basketball Honor Roll Class (to date) |
| Institution |
Name |
| Fairfield |
Troy Bradford |
| Fairfield |
Christine Fryer-Paprocky |
| Manhattan |
Tim Cain |
| Manhattan |
Sandy Gordon |
| Monmouth |
Marques Alston |
| Monmouth |
Jewonda Bright Jenkins |
| Quinnipiac |
Jack McDonald |
| Quinnipiac |
Kim Misiaszek |
| Saint Peter’s |
Jasper Walker |
| Saint Peter’s |
Stephanie DeWolfe |
About the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference:
With 11 institutions strongly bound by the sound principles of quality and integrity in academics and excellence in athletics, the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) is in its 39
th year of competition during the 2019-20 academic year. Current conference members include: Canisius College, Fairfield University, Iona College, Manhattan College, Marist College, Monmouth University, Niagara University, Quinnipiac University, Rider University, Saint Peter’s University, and Siena College.