Southern Connecticut State University Athletics

Marnie S. Dacko, ’78, was an outstanding basketball center and softball pitcher for the Owls. She led the basketball team in scoring and rebounding, and appeared with the Owls in four straight AIAW national championships and scored more than 1,000 career points. Dacko went on to serve as an assistant coach at the University of Wisconsin, St. John’s University and Northwestern University. She was named head coach at Cornell University in 1996 and won Ivy League Coach of the Year honors in her first season. She was inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Basketball Hall of Fame in 1990.