 Our seventh inductee is Dan Vallez. Dan was a three-year member of the Men's Lacrosse team and totaled 84 goals and 68 assists for 152 points in 38 games. He ranks 10th in career assists and 11th in career points and as a junior, totaled 36 goals and 24 assists. No one outworked Dan Vallez on the practice field. He never took 30 seconds off. And it wasn't because he was a perfectionist, it was because he was determined to be as good as he could possibly be and also work on the things that would make the team better. Dan was another quiet leader. He wasn't a raw, raw guy, but he took everything so seriously that people around him didn't dare not to be serious and work hard with him. And so his entire focus of his commitment to the game, his desire to be the best he could be and his team to be the best he could be because he really was all about the team. That made everybody really stand up and pay attention. Well Dan, first of all, is just a truly great lacrosse player. I think it speaks volumes that he's got, he stands 11th on the total points list still when we played less games. We did schedule some pretty good teams in there and we never made a term it. We had one ECAC Championship game, so that was one extra game at the end of the season. And he's 10th on the assists list, all-time assists list. Those things are pretty remarkable achievements for that early era of the game. And again, Dan drew the toughest defenseman in every matchup and I think that speaks volumes about his abilities as an attackman. And as I mentioned, his leadership skills and his key contributions as a leader I think all speak volumes about him. Dan's commitment to being the best that he could possibly be was something that everybody noticed and it rubbed off on and I think that made him a great teammate. So Dan was not only just a great player, he was a great teammate. And his commitment to the sport and to the team was an enormous influence on how well we did in those days in that early era of lacrosse at Stevens. From the class of 2003, it is my honor to welcome Dan Velez into the Dick Watts Athletics Hall of Fame. Let me say first that I am extremely honored and excited and a little nervous as well. But this has really been great. The video this evening, the whole day, everyone did an excellent job and it's really amazing. When I got the call, similar type of thought, I think Coach Brett said we're transitional or setting the foundation of the teams and so forth for all the great things that you've accomplished here since then. And when I think back on it and back to those teams, I don't think we really had those types of thoughts and minds. We weren't really thinking about what it was going to look like today. We just wanted to get out on the field and play lacrosse because we liked it. We enjoyed it. We wanted to win. We wanted to compete. We learned how to lose. A lot of those lessons that you get through the years. And I was very fortunate through the years to have a lot of great coaches. Most of them on the field. My parents off the field through or at every game. And then at Stevenson, we had Coach Chadwick but also Coach Skip and Coach Whit brought a tremendous amount of experience since Steve was talking about it earlier. The tradition and the work ethic that they brought and they instilled in our team was amazing. And what they brought was we all wanted to work harder and do better. And a lot of times that meant a lot of that was on our team on the lacrosse field. But it was also building a program. You probably heard back then if you were listening we want to be a real program, right? You probably heard that more than once. And I think we vocalized that a few times probably to Brett and probably more than once especially I think towards the end of the senior year there was the long stretch of rain and we didn't have a field to play on and we were kind of doing this running around Baltimore County trying to find a lacrosse field to play on. But I would say it's probably safe to say on behalf of all of those people all the great teammates I had and people that were part of that organization that everything that we were asking for to be delivered as part of a program you guys have certainly succeeded on and done a really great job more than we could ever imagine. So for that I'm really proud to be an alumni proud to be part of this inductee class with all these great inductees and part of this community. So thank you for that very much and I guess the I want to end I guess thank you with my parents very much for everything you've done through the years through my earliest days been a great supporter gave me nothing but confidence on the lacrosse field and through life and thank you to my wife Deanna my children Lily and Grady and Colin at home Deanna you are my rock and Lily and Grady I look forward to seeing everything you know all of your accomplishments and the hard work and the lessons that you'll learn and really appreciate it very honored and thank you.