DETROIT (12/16/2016) -- The highest accolade the University of Detroit Mercy can bestow on a student-athlete, staff or team is induction into the Titan Hall Of Fame and today, six individuals and a team will receive the honor as the Department of Athletics announced its 2017 Hall Of Fame Class.

Hall of Fame weekend is set for Jan. 28-29 with the formal induction ceremony taking place on Jan. 28 with all of them honored during halftime of the men's game against Green Bay on Jan. 29. 

The class will include standout student-athletes in Teresa Emery (Softball), Tony Kaseta (Baseball), Shireese Statin (Track & Field), Jack Szczepaniuk (Track & Field) and Mark Sommerfeld (Golf), former women's basketball coach and women's athletic coordinator Susan Kruszewski and the 2004 Detroit Mercy women's soccer team.

Emery was a three-time First Team MCC honoree and the MCC Player of the Year in 1991. She was part of some of the best teams in school history as the Titans won the MCC Championship in 1989 and 1992 and posted a school record for wins with 39 in 1991. 

In the circle, she ranks first in school history in innings pitched (685), wins (74) and appearances (129) and is second in ERA (1.32). As a senior, she led the MCC with 16 wins and a 0.48 ERA.

Szczepaniuk was an 11-time Horizon League champion winning conference titles in five different events (200m, 400m, 800m, 4x100, 4x400) and leaving the University with five school records. He was the MCC Outstanding Runner Performer at the 2000 indoor conference championships and was then the Outstanding Running Newcomer of the Year at the outdoor meet. 

He also qualified for the NCAA Outdoor NCAA Regionals in the 800m on two occasions taking 10th in 2004 with a time of 1:49.77, a school record that still stands today. He was part of a team that won a share of the indoor conference championship in 2000 and the outright league title in outdoors in 2003. 

Kaseta was the ace of the Titan pitching staff during his time and holds the school record with 25 total wins. He ranks fourth in strikeouts in school history with 218. As a sophomore, he was 9-3 with a 2.29 ERA allowing just 65 hits with 62 strikeouts in 74.1 innings. As a senior, he was perfect going 7-0 on the mound and whiffing 59 batters in 56 innings, helping the Titans to a school record 36 victories. 

Statin was a two-time MCC Outstanding Performer in 1999 and 2000 and the Indoor Outstanding performer in 1999. She was undefeated in league competition in the 60-meters, 100m and 200m during her career and also owns the school record in all three of those events and is on the all-time 4x100-meter relay squad. 

She helped the team win the Horizon League indoor championship in 1998 and 1999 as well as the outdoor championships in 1999 and 2000. 

Sommerfeld is arguably one of the best golfers in school history as he was a four-time All-Horizon League honoree, including the conference's Newcomer of the Year as a freshman and the Player of the Year as a sophomore, junior and senior. He is second all-time in career average (73.56) and holds three of the top single-season averages in Titan history, including first with a 72.33 as a senior. 

He was part of two Horizon League Championship teams and NCAA Regional participants as the Titans won the 2005 and 2007 HL titles during his time.  

Kruszewski was an intricate part of the start of women's basketball and women's athletics at the University of Detroit. She served as head coach for three seasons (1977-80) of the women's basketball team and was the first coach in softball history as well as the cheerleading coach. 

She totaled a 70-15 record as the women's basketball head coach, including the top two single-season records in school history going 27-4 in 1978-79 and 25-8 in 1979-80. The team won the State Large College Tournament in 1979 and 1980 and earned a berth to the AIAW National Tournament. She also received the United Way Torch Drive's Sportswomen of the Year in 1979. 

The 2004 women's soccer team set new heights on the playing field going 14-8-1, including 6-1 in the Horizon League and winning the conference tournament. The team posted some big wins on the season, including a 13-0 drubbing of Cleveland State, but it was in the postseason where the Titans made history. 

Detroit Mercy edged Youngstown State in overtime in the first round of the HL Championship and then blanked its next two opponents, Green Bay (3-0) and Milwaukee (1-0) to win the first tournament title in school history. The squad received its first bid to the NCAA Tournament and quickly provided one of the year's best upsets knocking off Michigan, 3-2, in the first round.

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