Women's Basketball 7/9/2020 4:30:00 PM

MAAC 40th Year Celebration - Women's Basketball Team

The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) will be celebrating its 40th anniversary throughout the 2020-21 academic year, continuing its mission to provide student-athletes the opportunity to succeed in both academics and athletics.

As part of its 40-year celebration, the conference will highlight some of the best student-athletes in its four-decade history. MAAC women's basketball traces back to 1982, when Saint Peter's defeated Army at the Meadowlands Arena for the first conference championship. In 2005, Canisius won its only MAAC title to date with a 60-59 win over Marist – allowing the Golden Griffins to be the first Western New York Division I women's basketball program to earn a berth into the NCAA Women's Basketball Tournament.

The five former Griffs honored on the MAAC 40th Anniversary Team are Heather Fiore '97, Shauna (Geronzin) Green '02, Alisa Robinson, Jenel Stevens '04, MS '05, and Becky Zak '06.

Heather Fiore • 1993-97
Heather Fiore played in and started all 108 games during her time at Canisius from 1993-97. The 1993 MAAC Co-Rookie of the Year, she went on to earn All-MAAC First Team honors three times, capped by being named the MAAC Player of the Year following the 1996-97 campaign. When she graduated from Canisius in 1997, she was the program's all-time leading scorer with 1,949 points, which ranks eighth in MAAC history to this date. She also shares the MAAC's single-game scoring record with 46 points in a game, set against Saint Peter's on Jan. 19, 1997. Fiore was inducted into the Canisius Sports Hall of Fame in 2007.

Shauna (Geronzin) Green • 1998-02
A four-year letter winner, and one of two players in school history (men's or women's) to score more than 2,000 career points, Shauna (Geronzin) Green wore the Blue and Gold from 1998-02. One of 16 former women's basketball players in the Canisius Sports Hall of Fame, (Geronzin) Green scored 2,012 career points as a Griff and she also recorded 910 career boards, the most for any Canisius women's player in the program's Division I history. The 1999 MAAC Rookie of the Year, she was a four-time All-MAAC honoree, earning All-MAAC First Team honors three times. She is currently the head coach of the Dayton women's basketball program.

Alisa Robinson • 1988-90
Alisa Robinson played 54 games over two seasons from 1988-90, and she currently ranks 17th in school history with her 1,152 career points, good for an average of 21.3 points per contest. One of two players in school history with 40-or more points scored on multiple occasions, Robinson's 44-point effort at La Salle Feb. 27, 1990 stands as the fourth-best single-game scoring effort in MAAC women's basketball history. In the 1989-90 season, Canisius' first in the conference, she led the league in scoring average at 23.9 points per game. That season, Robinson scored 670 total points, the most for a Canisius women's player in the program's Division I history.

Jenel Stevens • 2000-04
One of the most decorated female student-athletes in Canisius history, Jenel Stevens earned four varsity letters for the Griffs from 2000-04. A three-time All-MAAC honoree and the program's second conference Player of the Year, Stevens ranks fourth in the school's record book with 1,590 career points and third with her 876 career rebounds. The first two-time Canisius Female Athlete of the Year, Stevens ranks in the top-10 of 10 different career statistical categories in the Canisius record book, and her 1,590 career points ranks among the top-40 in MAAC women's basketball history. After he playing career ended, she spent the 2004-05 season on head coach Terry Zeh's staff and was a part of Canisius' MAAC Tournament championship team, the first Division I women's basketball program in Western New York to advance to the NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Championship event. She was inducted into the Canisius Sports Hall of Fame in 2014.

Becky Zak • 2002-06
The only MAAC Tournament MVP in program history, Becky Zak played 11 games in Blue and Gold from 2002-06. After averaging just 2.6 points per game in her rookie season, Zak improved her scoring ability and averaged better than 11.0 points per game for the remainder of her career, ending her time on Main Street with 1,136 points, which ranks 19th in program history. A two-time All-MAAC First Team honoree and one of two players in program history to earn MAAC All-Tournament honors twice, she was the driving force behind the Griffs' 2005 MAAC Championship title run, capped with a 60-59 win over Marist to give the Griffs their first NCAA Division I Women's Basketball Tournament appearance. She was inducted into the Canisius Sports Hall of Fame in 2016.

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