Eastern Connecticut State University

The athletic contributions of Robin R. Gaby to two distinctly different sports helped maintain the success of one intercollegiate program while providing the groundwork for the rapid rise of a second. In her 81-game basketball career, the 6-foot-1 inch Hebron native scored 1,114 points (currently sixth all-time), grabbed 933 rebounds and blocked 101 shots as the centerpiece of three post-season tournament qualifiers (including the 1989 ECAC tournament champion). As a senior, Gaby was voted the program’s first WBCA Division III All-America and today remains the program’s only such first-team selection. In addition to All-America laurels, Gaby was named ECAC New England Division III and little East Conference Rookie-of-the-Year in 1988 and was twice named first-team all-New England by both the ECAC and New England Women’s Basketball Association (NEWBA). As both a junior and senior, she was voted first team all-conference. The third player in program history to score as many as 1,000 points, Gaby remains the only individual to reach that plateau in less four seasons. A letterwinner on the first women’s soccer team in 1986, Gaby went on to amass a program-record 30 assists in a 55-match career as a four-year letterwinner and three-time team captain. Her contributions played no small role in the program qualifying for a post-season tournament (ECAC) in only its third intercollegiate season in 1988, or for following that up one year later with its first NCAA tournament appearance.