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One more deserving honour in a magnificent coaching career
Stan Marchut to be inducted into Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame
COURTESY OF SHAWN CAYLEY
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Despite having retired from the coaching ranks a couple of seasons ago, Stan Marchut has one more honour to add to his resume.
The coaching legend will be inducted into the Oshawa Sports Hall of Fame next week (Wed. May. 26) during its 25th anniversary celebration, alongside lacrosse player and builder Barb Boyes, hockey player Jeff Daniels, baseball builder Jim Lutton and Jean Pratt, a golfer going in as both player and builder.
The honouring of Marchut, who will be inducted as a multi-sport builder, is well deserved.
His foray into coaching began many moons ago while serving as head of the physical education department at Oshawa's Eastdale Collegiate. There, Marchut headed up football, basketball and volleyball programs, securing several LOSSA championships along the way.
It was his time, though, at Durham College with the women's volleyball program, that Marchut made the greatest impact.
Stan the man, simply put, was one of the best from the time he started in 1984-85 to his retirement following the 2007-08 season.
Marchut's win/loss record was a mind-boggling 357-137, giving him the highest win total in the history of women's volleyball at the Canadian Colleges Athletic Association level.
As the win total suggests, Marchut enjoyed success early and often on the sidelines at Durham. In his first year, the club won the Ontario Colleges Athletic Association Division II championship and followed that up with a Division I title a year later. With that came a trip to the CCAA national championships in Burnaby, B.C. where the Lords brought home a bronze.
Among Marchut's many other accomplishments are winning 13 regional championships, 11 provincial medals, including four gold with the most recent coming in 2002, and a streak of making the provincial championships in each of his final 17 seasons.
In fact, only once over the course of his career at Durham did Marchut's team fail to reach the OCAA championships.
And of course you can't forget the seven OCAA Coach of the Year awards or the CCAA Career Coaching Excellence award, which, when he won it, made him only the third Ontario coach to ever receive the honour.
Oh, and there were also his inductions into both the Durham College Sports Hall of Fame in 2001 and the OCAA Hall of Fame in 2009.
Now it's only fitting that one more Hall of Fame will recognize all he has achieved.
Shawn Cayley's column runs every other week. Follow Shawn on Twitter at http://twitter.com/scnewsdurham and find us on Facebook at http://facebook.com/sportsnewsdurham
