WILLIMANTIC, Conn. – One of only two players to record more than 700 rebounds and 100 three-point field goals in the 51-year history of the Eastern Connecticut State University women's basketball program, Sandra A. (Mosley) Scavello is the fourth announced member of the Eastern Athletics Alumni Hall of Fame Class of 2022.
 
A 5-foot-10 inch forward from Goshen and four-time All-Stater at Wamogo Regional, Scavello started 96 of the 116 games in which she appeared between 2002 and 2007, returning as a four-year starter after tearing her ACL after the sixth game of her freshman season in 2002-03. Scavello was named to the All-Little East Conference team in each of those four full seasons, earning first-team honors in each of her last three years.
 
The 28^th induction ceremony and social Saturday, Oct. 15 at the campus' Student Center Café and Betty R. Tipton Room. The social begins at 3:30 p.m., with the induction ceremony to follow at 5 p.m. Tickets for the induction ceremony and social are priced at $50 each and can be reserved by contacting committee chair Scott Smith at 860-465-4326 or at smithsc@easternct.edu.
 
Previously-announced 2022 Alumni Hall of Fame inductees are former Little East Conference soccer Player-of-the-Year Pamela Neff Schreibman (1997-2000) of Thompson, former three-time baseball All-America and two-time national Player-of-the-Year Shawn Gilblair '09 of Windham and right-handed pitcher Adam Czerwinski'03, a 21-game winner and member of the 2002 NCAA Division III national baseball championship team.
 
Including Scavello's injury-abbreviated first season, the Warriors posted three 20-win seasons and were 107-39 overall between 2002 and 2007 -- including 49-21 in the Little East --  and qualified for one NCAA and one ECAC Division III tournament. The team finished lower than second only once in the LEC regular season and reached the LEC tournament championship game twice. In Scavello's first season, Eastern won a record (which still stands) 28 games and as an at-large entry in the NCAA tournament, won five straight games before losing by a bucket in the national championship game at Terre Haute, IN.
 
Upon returning from the season-ending knee injury, Scavello started all 31 games in 2003-04, averaging 12.6 points and 5.3 rebound and helping the program to a fourth straight 20-win season (25-6), an 11-3 record in the LEC, and a berth in the program's last ECAC tournament, where it reached the championship game. On the first weekend of that season, Scavello averaged 24.5 points and 6.5 rebounds, shooting 22-of-31 from the floor and leading the team to the championship of the Eastern Tip-Off Tournament for the second straight year. She was named to the all-tournament for the first of four straight years, capped by her selection as tournament MVP as a senior in 2006-07 on another tournament title team.
 
"I was completely devastated when I tore my ACL," Scavello recalls. "The next 12 months would be some of my hardest with the surgery and the months and months of physical therapy. But the support that I received from my coaches, teammates and the athletic staff was just incredible. At that point, I knew that I had picked the right college, because with that encouragement, I knew that they would never let me fail." 
 
In her career, the versatile Scavello scored 1,535 points (13.2 ppg.) and grabbed 706 rebounds (6.1 rpg.) and landed 101 three-point field goals. She left the program ranked second all-time in points only behind four-time All-America and two-year teammate Allison Coleman, and sixth in rebounds and three-point field goals. Fifteen years after leaving the program, she is still ranks among the all-time Top 10 in eight major career categories, and remained in the Top 10 in rebounds until 2020.
 
"The thing that stands out to me the most about Sandy is that she played with such heart, toughness, composure, and consistency", praised head coach Denise Bierly. "She worked very hard, was extremely coachable, was a pressure player, and was a winner in every sense of the word,"
With Coleman gone after the 2003-04 season, Scavello became the main target of opponents, and, despite the extra attention, she flourished. She led the team in scoring in both seasons and in rebounding as a senior captain (she was .1 percentage points off the pace of rebounding leader Katie Kline as a junior). In that junior season of 2005-06, Scavello scored over 300 points for the third straight year, and teaming with six-foot-one inch Ashley McFetridge – a future All-America and 2017 Alumni Hall of Famer --  as a senior in 2006-07 posted career and team-highs in scoring (16.6), points (431), rebounding (8.4) total rebounds (2019), and minutes (854) as the only player to start all 26 games.
 
As a senior, Mosley scored in double figures in 19 of the team's first 20 games (scoring nine points in the other) and closed out her career on Seniors' Day with a career-high total of 30 points on 12-of-19 shooting in a 15-point LEC win over Plymouth State University at Geissler Gym. She also pulled down double-digit rebounds for the eighth time that year, finishing with 12.
 
Scavello becomes the fifth player under current 28-year head coach Bierly to gain Alumni Hall of Fame induction. In addition to McFetridge, previous inductees included Coleman (2013), Jennifer Zabek (2015), and Darcy Mund (2016).
 
Scavello holds a B.A. Degree in Sociology and Applied Social Relations from Eastern and is employed as a sales representative at Liberty Mutual Insurance. Sandy has three children and resides with husband Rob in Pawcatuck.