Honor Roll to Cap a Record-Setting Career

Warren's Patricia Edelman had a remarkable collegiate basketball career at Loyola University—between 1991-1995, she racked up 2,467 points, a record at Loyola and the most by any women's basketball player in the state of Maryland.

She still holds claim to 16 school records, covering everything from blocked shots (157) to free throws (664) to points in a single season (757). While at Loyola, Edelman was tapped for the All-MAAC First Team three times, and was named the 1992 MAAC Rookie of the Year. 

On Friday, her career record will be enshrined at The MAAC Experience, a special exhibit at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass., as a member of the inaugural MAAC Honor Roll. The honor roll includes two outstanding players from each of the conference's schools, one from the men's program and one from the women's.

Edelman said she is looking forward to Friday's awards dinner for the honor roll inductees, as well as the Loyola Greyhounds matchup against Niagara for the MAAC championship quarterfinal that follows the banquet.

"This should be a good time," she said. "It will be fun to see my old teammates and friends."

Edelman hasn't been resting on her past accomplishments—she's been a coach for the Warren Youth Basketball Association, coaching third- and fourth-grade boys teams, and helps with clinics and training events for youth basketball programs in the area. For five years, she was the head girls basketball coach at Millburn, but is now focused on her work as a personal trainer, specializing in speed and agility training.

She has also kept in touch with her alma mater, including a visit to a game several years ago, when Loyola was playing Georgetown and she was invited to speak to the players before the game.

"Boy, if I could be in their shoes again—I'd do it in a second," she said. "They don't know how lucky they are."