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Barry University Athletics Announces The 9th Class of the Wall of Honor

12 student-athletes join the wall

9th Wall of Honor Class

Women's Tennis | 10/15/2021 10:35:00 AM

MIAMI SHORES, Fla.—Barry University Athletics announces the Ninth Class of the Wall of Honor, one of the Buccaneers’ most cherished athletic traditions, which will be officially inducted in a ceremony on November, 9, 2021.

The 12 student-athletes inducted represent the cream of the crop for Buccaneer Athletics. They totaled 29 All-America awards, 16 Scholar or Academic All-America awards, 11 Sunshine State Conference players of the year, two national players of the year, and one each of SSC Scholar-Athlete, NCAA Post-Graduate Scholarship winner and NCAA Woman of the Year finalist.

The Ninth Induction Class includes, in chronological order based on their degrees, Angie Williams, Andy Hylton, Pamela McDonald, Emelie Karlsson, Karla Bersano, Shyla Rider, Carlos Velez, Emanuel Fraitzl, Mark Anderson, Barbi Pocza, RemiJin Camping and Yunio Barrueta.

Angie Williams
Andy Hylton
Pamela McDonald
Emelie Karlsson

Women’s Basketball
BS, Criminology, 2000

Angie Williams, who holds Barry records for points (1,626), rebounds (923) and field goal percentage (55.9), led Barry to a 77-38 record during her four years. She was named All-America in 1998-99 by Division II Bulletin and to the 1996-97 D-II Bulletin All-Freshman Team. The SSC Freshman of the Year in 1996-97 and Player of the Year in 1998-99, she was a three-time All-SSC pick. The first freshman to ever lead the Bucs in scoring, she is one of only three players in school history to score 40 points in a game (40 vs. Florida Atlantic in 1998). She earned her master’s degree in administration of justice and security from the University of Phoenix in 2011. Williams currently works with Citigroup in Jacksonville, Fla., as a VP for Compliance Anti-Money Laundering Execution. 


 

Men’s Soccer
BS, Athletic Training, 2000

One of Barry’s leading scorers, Andy Hylton, switched to defense as a senior to earn an NSCAA All-America award. He finished with 28 goals, 14 assists, and 70 points. He also earned Verizon Academic All-America in 1999 and 2000 as he led the Bucs to the Final Four both years. He led the team to the national title game in 2000, a four-overtime classic against Cal State-Dominguez Hills. He was named 2000 SSC Player of the Year as a sweeper for a team that led the conference in defense. Finishing with a 3.556 GPA, he was the 2000-01 Barry Co-Male Athlete of the Year. He played three years of professional soccer in North Carolina and represented Great Britain at the World University Games in Beijing, China in 2001. Hylton went on to earn a master’s in physician assistant studies from the Medical University of South Carolina. He currently oversees the PA department for the largest orthopedic group in the country, OrthoCarolina. 

Women’s Soccer
BS, Physical Education, 2003

Pamela McDonald led the Bucs to four straight Sunshine State Conference titles from 1999-2002, not losing a single conference game. The Bucs also won the NCAA South Region titles in 1999 and 2000, advancing to the NCAA Final Four, which they hosted. McDonald scored 29 goals, including four game-winners, and added 39 assists, which was the school record upon her graduation. She currently ranks second all-time in assists, sixth in points (97) and 13th in goals. She was an NSCAA All-American in 2001 and 2002. She has continued to break records as a high school coach, winning seven district and two regional championships at Doral Academy. She was named the Miami Herald boys’ soccer coach of the year in Dade County in 2017 and 2021. She won the Florida 6A boys’ championship in 2021, becoming the first female head coach to win a boys’ title in any sport in state history. For her efforts, she was named National High School Coach of the Year by USA Today, across all high school sports.

Women’s Soccer
BS, Criminology, 2005

Emelie Karlsson, the only four-time Sunshine State Conference Offensive Player of the Year in league history, was also named Player of the Year three times. She currently ranks first in program and conference history with 75 goals, 25 game-winning goals and 199 points. She led the Bucs to SSC titles in 2002, 2003, and 2004, and an NCAA South Region title in 2003. She was named NSCAA All-American in 2002 and 2004, and was named the 2005-06 Barry Female Athlete of the Year. Karlson is currently on maternity leave from TUIfly Airlines, where she has worked for the last 14 years as a flight attendant.

Karla Bersano
Shyla Rider
Carlos Velez
Emanuel Fraitzl

Volleyball
BS, Sport Management, 2007

A two-time NCAA Division II National Champion, Karla Bersano led the Bucs to titles in both 2001 and 2004. An All-America by three different services in three seasons, she was named to the NCAA All-National Tournament Team twice (one of only two Bucs to do so). The 2001-02 Barry Female Athlete of the Year, she was named All-SSC and All-Region all three years of her career. She ranks in the Top 10 in Barry career history in eight categories including service aces, kills, and points. She also has eight Top 10 marks in single season records. A two-time NCAA Division II National Champion, Karla Bersano led the Bucs to titles in both 2001 and 2004. An All-America by three different services in three seasons, she was named to the NCAA All-National Tournament Team twice (one of only two Bucs to do so). The 2001-02 Barry Female Athlete of the Year, she was named All-SSC and All-Region all three years of her career. She ranks in the Top 10 in Barry career history in eight categories including service aces, kills, and points. She also has eight Top 10 marks in single season records. She played on the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) beach volleyball tour for a time and still plays in selected local events. Bersano currently works as the marketing director with Isaac Daniel Group, managing their sponsorship of events such as Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week (New York), Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week Swim (Miami), Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, BlockChainLive London, Money2020 Vegas, Celebrity Dodge Barrage in NYC and LAAD Defense and Security Conference in Rio, Brazil.

Softball
BS, Chemistry, 2009

A four-time NFCA Scholar All-American, Shyla Rider was a back-to-back Sunshine State Conference Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year in 2008 and 2009, one of only two women to win the award in consecutive years (Barry’s Greta Trotman 2005 and 2006). She was also named the South Region Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year by the D2 Conference Commissioner’s Association in 2008. A four-time All-SSC selection, Rider concluded her Barry softball career ranked among the school’s leaders in number of statistical categories.  She ranks first in hits (254), total bases (345), and doubles (51). She placed second all-time in runs (148), fourth in walks (77), seventh in on-base percentage (.427), ninth in RBI (115-from the leadoff spot). Rider earned her doctor of pharmacy in 2014 from Ohio State and is currently a board certified psychiatric pharmacist with Columbia VA Medical Center in South Carolina.

Men’s Golf
BS, Golf Management, 2010

A two-time All-American, Velez also earned two Golf Coaches Association of America Scholar All-America honors, three All-South Region and three All-Sunshine State Conference honors. As a freshman, he was part of the Bucs' first ever men's golf national championship. Velez won the 2010 Sunshine State Conference Tournament title and tied for second in the NCAA South/Southeast Super Regional. Velez had eight career rounds in the 60s, including five in his senior season. His 118 counting scores is a school record. His 365 birdies are third, and nine eagles are tied for fourth. He had a 73.75 career scoring average, which ranks 13th of all time. He had 45 career par-or-better rounds, which ranks sixth, and a 74.4 finish percentage, which ranks 11th. Velez played one season on the PGA Tour Latinoamerica and spent some time as a tour caddie on the PGA Tour. He has served as a golf pro at International Links Miami since 2012.

Men’s Tennis
BS, Finance, 2011

A two-time All-American, Fraitzl was named the 2009 Intercollegiate Tennis Association National Player to Watch, in addition to earning the same honor in the South Region. He was voted the Sunshine State Conference Freshman of the Year in 2008, and earned all-conference honors in all four years. His 62 singles victories are tied for sixth on the school’s all-time list, while his 76 doubles wins rank tied for fifth. The first men’s tennis player in school history to win the national team championship and the individual singles title in the same calendar year, he led the Bucs to their first-ever national championship in the spring of 2010, then captured the singles title in the fall. In the national championship match against Valdosta State, he rallied back from down 4-0 in the third set to beat Christian Hansen 5-7, 6-2, 6-4. He was an ITA Scholar All-American twice in his career. Fraitzl continues to play tennis with TC Großhesselohe Munich in the Bundesliga and is also a certified international tennis coach. He earned his master’s degree in Germany in management with a minor in marketing and currently works for ProSiebenSat.1, the biggest broadcaster in Germany since 2019.

Mark Anderson
Barbi Pocza
RemiJin Camping
Yunio Barrueta 2015-16 head

Men’s Soccer
BS, Criminology, 2012

The 2011 Daktronics Ron Lenz National Men’s Soccer Player of the Year and the 2011 CoSIDA Academic All-American of the Year, Mark Anderson is a two-time NCAA national statistical champion, having led the nation in assists as a freshman and goals as a senior. He was named Daktronics All-American in 2009, 2010 and 2011 and NSCAA All-American in 2009 and 2010. All-Sunshine State Conference in 2010 and 2011, he was the league’s Player and Offensive Player of the Year in 2011. He finished his career with 59 goals and 32 assists in 74 games, leaving him second in career goals and tied for first in assists. He played professionally in the North American Soccer League with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers and the Carolina Rail-Hawks and with Spennymoor Town in the English National League North, with whom he still continues his playing career. In addition, Anderson is employed with Northern Gas Networks since 2018.

Women’s Tennis
MBA, Business Administration, 2013

The 2011 National Player of the Year, Pocza led the Buccaneers to their first national championship. She was named the South Region Senior Player of the Year and Sunshine State Conference Player of the Year in 2011, and was a Top-30 finalist for the NCAA Woman of the Year. Pocza, a two-time All-American in singles and doubles in 2010 and 2011 as well as the SSC Player of the Year both seasons, became the first player in school history to go unbeaten in a season, while winning at least 15 singles matches. She earned the 2011 Sunshine State Conference Female Scholar-Athlete of the Year and was a CoSIDA Academic All-American as well that year. She won the South Region doubles championship in the fall of her senior year. Pocza currently works as a finance officer for the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, an intergovernmental economic organization with 38 member countries, founded to stimulate economic progress and world trade, located in Paris, France. 

Women’s Golf
BA, Photography/Music, 2013

RemiJin Camping was the Bucs’ first women’s golf All-American, exploding on the scene as a freshman in 2005, earning Sunshine State Conference and NGCA National Freshman of the Year honors. She also won the individual medal at the SSC Tournament that year, the first Buccaneer to do so. She went on to be a four-time All-SSC pick and NGCA All-America three times. She carded a career 76.71 stroke average (record at the time and currently fifth in program history) and an 83.2 finish percentage (defeated 83.2 percent of opponents; currently second in program history). She had two career wins, in 99 rounds, with 94 counting scores for a 97.9 percentage (second in program history). She was an NGCA Scholar All-American as a senior. Camping played a season on Duramed Futures Tour (now called the Symetra Tour) and advanced to the second round of the LPGA Qualifying School, before working as a private golf coach. She returned to Barry to complete two bachelor’s degrees in music and photography and will earn her MFA in photography this fall. She has worked in the Fine Arts Department at Barry since 2013 and received the Sister Jeanne O’Laughlin Administrative Assistant Award in 2017. She also runs her own creative business, Love Shine Studios, since 2014.

Men’s Basketball
BS, Criminology, 2016

Yunio Barrueta became the Bucs’ all-time leading scorer (1781) and rebounder (858), despite only playing three seasons. He earned All-America honors from six different presenters over his career, earning the most awards in program history. He was also an All-South Region pick all three years, a three-time all-conference selection, and two-time Barry Male Athlete of the Year (2015 & 2016). In three seasons in the league, he won a major award twice as 2013-14 SSC Newcomer of the Year and the 2015-16 conference Player of the Year. He holds school records for rebounding average (9.3) and ranks second in scoring average (19.4) for his career. He shot 49.8 percent from the field, including 41.1 percent from 3-point range and ranks seventh in blocked shots (83). He also owns school season records for points, scoring average, field goals, 3-pointers, defensive rebounds, games played and started. The only player to top 40 points in three different games, he also ranks in the top 10 for rebounds (18 – T-4th); steals (6 – T-3rd); 3-pointers made (10 – T-1st), field goals (17 – T-2nd). Barrueta has continued his career overseas, playing in Belgium, France, and Israel. 

The ninth class is the largest to be inducted since the inaugural class in 1996 and contains the most student athletes. The 1996 class featured 10 student-athletes, three meritorious service awards and three pioneer awards.