Manhattanville Athletics Hall of Fame
Arguably one of the most popular and well-known figures around Manhattanville College for the last four decades, Dante Pacicca has maintained a presence on campus as one of the Athletic Department's most important figures during his time as a member of the College's Physical Plant.
A staple at home athletics events, Pacicca has been an invaluable member of the Manhattanville family whose exceptional grounds work continually made it possible for Valiant teams to play when no other programs in the area were able to do so. Pacicca has been a contributor to athletics literally from the ground up, having built the fields for the college's first outdoor athletics programs in the mid-1970s, and since then has been charged with maintaining the soccer, field hockey, baseball and softball surfaces at Manhattanville.
One of the college's longest-tenured employees and a living historian of Manhattanville student-athletes and coaches, Pacicca has been honored four times (1986, 1999, 2009, 2014) with the Valiant Plaque, which is given to an administrator/staff member or friend who has demonstrated outstanding service to the Athletic Department. His contributions have helped to continually give the Valiants a distinct home-field advantage.
