Eleven former Marian Colts and Fillies will be inducted into the Marian Catholic High School Hall of Fame at a dinner program to be held on Sunday, Oct. 23, at Capriotti’s banquet hall, Tresckow.

The school’s HOF was started in 2004 in the 50th anniversary year of Marian. Its committee has held induction ceremonies every two years since 2004, with the exception of 2020 due to COVID. Inductees must have been graduated from Marian for 20 years in order to be eligible for consideration for enshrinement.

The dinner is open to the public. Persons interested in attending can email Suzy Connely at cconn@ptd.net for ticket and event information.

To be inducted as members of the Class of 2022 are:

George ‘Vince’ Boyle Jr.

A 1962 graduate of Marian, George “Vince” Boyle Jr. was chosen to be the first athlete to receive the Tamaqua Jaycees’ Most Valuable Player Award in the Colts’ basketball program.

Considered to be a “little guy” at 5’6”, Boyle was labeled “outstanding” by legendary Coach Hugh “Wink” Gallagher, and played a leading role in the Blue and Gold winning the Anthracite Catholic League title.

On the gridiron, he was the workhorse of the Colts’ backfield. The “scatback” consistently led the Colt gridders’ ground game, prompting one area sportswriter to note “Vince carries the weight of the Colts’ attack squarely on his shoulders,” at times surpassing the 100-yards rushing level and averaging as many as 8 yards per carry.

Boyle’s performances earned him First Team honors in the ACL as well as a spot on the All-Conference Team.

In addition to his football and basketball heroics, he was a starter on the Colt baseball team.

After his graduation, Boyle enlisted in the U.S. Army, where he served for three years, attaining the rank of buck sergeant.

He is married to the former Kathryn Semko of Tamaqua. They are the parents of five sons and three daughters.

Stan Dakosty Jr.

A 2001 graduate of Marian, Stan Dakosty Jr. was a district champion in three sports during his career, including prominent roles he played as the quarterback and defensive back on his dad’s championship teams of 1998 and 2000.

In both of those years, he called the plays as the Colts advanced to the PIAA Eastern Championship games before bowing to eventually state champion Mt. Carmel.

With a 25-6 record as the starting QB, he passed for 3,738 career yards and had 4,475 total career yards. As a senior, he was named All County as a QB and d-back, first team quarterback for the Pottsville Republican, Standard Speaker and Times News, All Anthracite Defensive Back of the Year, Blue Ridge Cable TV and Times News Player of the Year and Standard Speaker Offensive Player of the Year.

Dakosty was named to the third team All State list, was selected to play in the East-West All Star Game and was a Wendy’s High School Heisman Award nominee.

Possessing tremendous speed, it showed up in his freshman and sophomore years when he won the bronze and silver medals, respectively, in District 11 400 meter runs. He became a gold medal winner in the 400 in both his junior and senior years, during which time he set a school record, then placed fourth in the PIAA State Meet. He was also a district medalist in the high jump as a freshman.

On the basketball court, Dakosty was a member of the Colts’ 1998 District 11 title team and played in the county all star game as a senior.

Dakosty received a full scholarship to attend and play for Colgate University, where he currently serves as the head coach of the Red Raiders.

He and his wife, Jess, reside in Earlville, New York, with their three children, Stanley III, 9, Nora, 7, and Tommy, 5.

Albert Donadi

Albert Donadi, a 2001 graduate of Marian, was a star athlete in three sports – football, baseball and track – gaining eight letters as a varsity starter in which he won an individual championships and played important roles in several Colt team championships.

On the gridiron is where Donadi gained the most prominence as a running back on the District 11 championship teams of 1998 and 2000, including his banner year as a senior when he rushed for 1,562 yards on 254 carries and scored 28 touchdowns.

That year, he helped the Colts advance to the Eastern Final before bowing to state champion Mt. Carmel, despite his amassing 224 yards on the ground against the Tornadoes. Also along the way, Albert had a career high 226 yards rushing against Delone Catholic.

During his senior season, Donadi was named Athlete of the Week twice, by the Times News and Eyewatch News 13. After the postseason, he was selected to play in the Schuylkill County and the first-ever PA East-West All Star games, where he won Most Valuable Player awards in each of them.

Donadi currently ranks eighth on Marian’s all-time leading rushers with 2,252 yards.

He attended Gannon University on a football scholarship and started as its tailback for four campaigns.

On the track, Donadi was a speedster, winning the 2001 District 11 gold medal in the 100-meter dash, and also finishing in sixth place in the 2000 PIAA Championships.

As a member of the Colts’ baseball team, Donadi helped it win the 1999 Schuylkill League Division championship and the 2001 Schuylkill League Division and District 11 championships, after which time the Colts advanced to the state quarterfinals. He was named Eyewatch News 13 Player of the Week that season, when he was also 20 for 20 in stolen base attempts, and also belted a grand slam home run against Weatherly that season.

Donadi was named a Senior Achievement Award winner in the three sports before graduating.

Angela (Mazur) Ferree

She was one of the first in a long list of Times News Volleyball Players of the Year, gaining the honor in her senior campaign of 1999, and 2000 Marian graduate Angela (Mazur) Ferree played an exceptional role in helping to build the Fillies’ program to prominence.

She was also named to the All State Team in 1999, as well as being a District 11 First Team all star, Schuylkill League Most Valuable Player and Co-MPV of the Pottsville Republican’s All Area Volleyball Team.

A three-year starter, she lettered for four years, during which time the Fillies were district runners-up in ’96, ’97 and ’98.

The following year, she helped the Fillies win their first-ever District 11 gold medal and the only one in AA, then advancing to the Elite Eight of the state. During that campaign, she and her teammates established a school record 26 wins, during which time she averaged 10 kills and 20 digs per game.

She finished her career with 512 kills and 795 digs, records that held up for 10 years, and numbers that rank her sixth in school history. She also had 157 aces in her career.

In 1998, she received an award for Excellence for Most Digs in a season (311).

She was a three-year member of the Fillies’ softball team, starting and lettering as a junior and senior.

She received a scholarship to attend Millersville University, graduating with a degree in business management, and currently is a group rental manager for Enterprise Rent-A-Car, overseeing 25 locations and 300 employees.

Tom Hydro

A three-year football letterman for the Marian Colts, Tom Hydro was among those who helped the Blue and Gold win the 1985 District 11 Class A championship with an 11-1 record.

An offensive guard and defensive end, he amassed 86 tackles (44 unassisted and 42 assisted) in a season in which he collected numerous postseason honors, including First Team on the All-Hazleton and Schuylkill County Football Coaches’ Association ballots, and second team All Anthracite. In Marian’s first-ever defeat of Pottsville, he earned the Times News Defensive Player of the Week honors.

The previous year, as a junior, he was named to the second team on both offense and defense by the coaches’ association.

Hydro graduated in 1986 from Marian, for whom he was the Scholar-Athlete, president of the National Honor Society and a member of the Spanish Honor Society.

He earned a scholarship to play for Lehigh University, where he started his senior year and led the Engineers in tackles with 107.

After graduating from Lehigh in 1991, Hydro started working for the Hydro Group, a water well-drilling-water treatment-specialty drilling company in Bridgewater, New Jersey, eventually becoming its district and subsequently regional manager covering several states in the northeast.

Jim Magda

Twice named All State for the punishing-style defense he played, Jim Magda helped the Marian Colts win the 1993 District 11 championship. A 1995 graduate, he was named to Associated Press’ 1993 (Third Team) and 1994 (Second Team) All State selections as a dominant lineman.

Co-captain of the ’94 Colts, Magda joined his teammates in getting named to the Colts’ 3-W Club for three consecutive winning campaigns. His laurels were many, including being named Times News Player of the Week as a junior, and being a member of the 8-0-1 freshman team of 1990.

Magda received a full athletic scholarship to attend Hofstra University, where he established himself as a premier collegiate football player. He initially started as a freshman on the offensive line, but moved to the other side of the ball the following year, going on to start 3 seasons in which Hofstra made three NCAA playoff appearances, and was ranked fifth nationally after winning the Division 1-AA Lambert Cup championship in 1999.

Magda led the team in sacks in 1997 and 1999, and was the top tackler overall in 1999 with 34 solo takedowns and 58 assists.

His 1999 season saw him attain numerous citations, including being named a First Team All American by three organizations, Walter Camp, Sports Network and the Football Gazette. Magda was a second team All American on the AP list, and was also a finalist for the Buck Buchanan Award that goes to the NCAA’s best defensive player in Division 1-AA.

Before his Hofstra career ended, Magda was an ECAC first team all star; 1-AA Independents First Team member; named 1-AA Independents’ MVP; three times won the 1-AA Independents’ Player of the Week honors; and earned the Iron Mike Trophy that goes to the Hofstra football team’s Most Valuable Player.

Jeff Markosky

Before he graduated in 1990 from Marian, Jeff Markosky recorded some of the most impressive numbers ever on Colt baseball teams, breaking school records for the most innings pitched, the most wins and the most complete games.

Markosky played four years (1987-1990) for the Colts who had a collective record of 55-17 during that span.

His pitching won-loss record in that span was 21-6, and he whiffed an impressive 249 opponents during that time.

Markosky was a prolific hitter too, maintaining an overall batting average of .417 with 78 hits, 54 RBI, 15 doubles and 7 home runs.

In his senior year, he was perfect in four starts on the hill, with a 1.45 earned run average, fanning 38 and walking just 13. At the plate, Markosky hit .533, leading the Colts in hits (24), doubles (8) and home runs (5).

In his 9-2 senior as a junior in 1989, Markosky was equally impressive, with a 1.53 ERA, 112 Ks and issuing just 30 free passes. That campaign, he hit a team high .473, with 27 hits, 14 RBI, 3 doubles and 2 home runs. Opponents walked him a team-high 18 times, and he went on to steal nine bases.

He attended St. Andrew’s University in Laurinburg, North Carolina, where he graduated cum laude, but not before being a three-year captain for its Knights’ baseball team, where he held school records for the most innings pitched, wins and complete game shutouts.

In 1993-94, Markosky was named an Academic All American.

He graduated cum laude from Widener University School of Law in 1998, passed the PA Bar Examination that year and opened his own practice in Mahanoy City in 2000.

Markosky resides in Ringtown with his wife of 22 years, Christine, and their two sons, Anthony and Jeffrey.

Erin (Brady) Miles

She scored an amazing 2,089 points for the Marian Fillies before graduating in 1999 with enough honors and awards to fill a trophy case.

Erin (Brady) Miles’ career saw her lead coach Paul Brutto’s team into the 1997 state championship game, and she went on to win area and regional scoring titles in a career in which she joined three other Fillies (Diane Decker, Sue Shimkus and Ann Marie Kosciolek) in the 2,000-point club.

She was a First Team All State selection in her senior year, when she was the school’s Scholar-Athlete, and was named Player of the Year by the Morning Call and Reading Eagle.

Erin ‘s 31.8 points per game average made her the PIAA Eastern Region scoring champion, after which time she was selected to play in the PA/MD Roundball Classic.

She moved on to American University on a full scholarship and transferred to St. Joseph’s University, where she scored 1,000 points. She later played professional basketball in Ireland and Australia.

On the Fillies’ track team, she won Schuylkill League gold medals as a senior in the 100, 200 and 400 meter runs, setting a school record in the latter, and won the 200 and 400 meter runs in the District 11 meet, then finished fifth and seventh, respectively, in the PIAA State Championships in the 200 and 400 meter runs.

She currently works as an executive assistant to the CEO of DMI, an IT services company, and lives in Baltimore with her husband and two daughters, JJ and Aislin.

James Ryan

James “Jamie” Ryan was so good on the football field in a Blue and Gold uniform that his talent eventually made it to the starting lineup at the notorious University of Notre Dame.

A 2002 graduate of Marian, Ryan received over 100 Division 1 scholarship offers after his two-time All State selection.

With over 250 career tackles and over 30 sacks, he not only gained All State laurels as a junior and senior, but he was named three times to the All Star teams of the Times News, Pottsville Republican and Standard Speaker. Playing on both sides of the ball, Ryan was among those responsible for the powerful Colt running attacks in which Albert Donadi became a 1,000-yard rusher.

He played for the Fighting Irish in South Bend from 2002-2006, and was a two-year letter award winner.

On the track team, Ryan was the 2000 Schuylkill League shot put champion, having lettered in that sport for three years.

He is employed as a large enterprise account director for LinkedIn, residing outside Detroit, Michigan. He is the father of four children, a six-year-old son, boy and girl twins five years of age, and a two-year-old daughter.

Maria (Poluka) Serina

A 1999 graduate of Marian, Maria (Poluka) Serina set records in career kills, blocks and digs as a member of the Fillies’ highly-successful volleyball team.

She was a principal player on the 1996 and 1998 Schuylkill League Division 11 championship teams, the 1996 and 1998 Schuylkill League runner-up teams and the 1995 and 1998 District 11 runner-up teams.

Captain of the squad as a junior and senior, she was named East Division Player of the Year, Schuylkill League Most Valuable Player, Times News Player of the Year and as a First Team selection in both the All Schuylkill and All District 11 teams.

She was also the Times News Player of the Year as a junior in 1997, when she was also named to the first team all star squads of the league and district.

Maria moved on to Muhlenberg College, where she helped the women’s net team win the co-championship of the Centennial Conference in 2001, and was named to the conference All Academic/Athletic Team both years.

She set records at Muhlenberg for career digs, season digs and match digs.

A highly-successful volleyball coach, including being Coach of the Year three times at Nativity with an overall record of 184-30, Maria became Marian’s head coach in 2001, leading the team to the Elite Eight with an 18-3 record.

Mary Theresa (Horvat) Vermillion

A four-year starter on the Marian Fillies’ volleyball teams, Mary Theresa (Horvat) Vermillion is among those responsible for having established that program as one of the elite net programs in all of Pennsylvania.

A 2002 graduate, she was named All State as a junior and senior, as well as being the Times News Volleyball Player of the Year in those two campaigns.

She started for the Fillies as a freshman in 1998, and then for three consecutive years helped the Fillies win championships in both the Schuylkill League and District 11. They advanced to the quarterfinals when she was a sophomore; elite eight as a junior and were state semifinalists in her senior year. Overall, she had 473 career blocks and 754 career kills.

Mary received a scholarship to play volleyball at Gannon University in Erie, where she played from 2002-2005.

In addition to her outstanding court play, she was a four-time District 11 champion in track and field. As a junior, she won the district gold medal in the shot put (36’1-1/2”), discus (99’11”) and javelin (110’9”), and was named a first team selection in the shot put and discus by the Pottsville Republican.

In her senior year, Mary won the district shot put gold medal with a heave of 36’10”, set the school record in the javelin with a throw of 120’11” and has a season’s best discus toss of 103’9”.

Mary extended her volleyball expertise as an assistant coach at Eastern High School in Voorhees, New Jersey in 2006, head coach at Jim Thorpe in 2008, and then heading up the Our Lady of the Angels Academy program, Lansford, in 2011.