For 30 years, Daley served in training and leadership of women’s lacrosse officials at the Local, District, and National levels, while also being one of the top officials on the field. During her career, she worked 18 NCAA championship and semifinal games, and also served as the lead official for many league championship games.
Upon taking the stage, Daley used her newfound powers as a Hall of Famer to playfully absolve fellow inductees Resch and Levy for any instances when they may have crossed the line of good decorum in their coaching antics.
“You are forgiven,” Daley said, good-naturedly. She added, “I loved the game, and I loved every game I reffed. Just being part of a great team on the field, as we were as players, really appealed to me throughout my career.”
A lifetime New Yorker, Stone has over three decades of service in leadership roles to support women’s lacrosse. She is past president of both the USWLA High School Coaches and the Midwest Schoolgirls Lacrosse Association, as well as former chair for girls’ lacrosse in New York’s Empire State Games. On the international level, Stone has served as the women’s competition chair for five FIL/WL World Championships.
“There are incredible people involved with the sport, and it’s those people that keep you involved,” Stone said during an emotional acceptance speech. “The friends I have made through the sport of lacrosse are lifetime friends.”
Similar to Stone, Snider has been equally committed to growing boys’ lacrosse in the Pacific Northwest. He is a founding member of Washington High School Boys' Lacrosse Association and served on its leadership board for 14 years. He also helped to launch two other youth lacrosse organizations, as well as the Washington Chapter of USA Lacrosse.
“It’s gone just like a lightning bolt, it’s so fast,” Snider said. “Forty years has gone bye and I still feel as fresh as ever. It all just comes back to the sport itself. It gave me so much joy and I have just wanted to pass that along.”
As the former president and CEO of USA Lacrosse, serving from the organization's inception in 1998 until his retirement in 2021, perhaps nobody has been more influential in the growth of the sport than Stenersen. He began his leadership as executive director of The Lacrosse Foundation in 1984, then played a key role in creating a unified national structure for lacrosse, ultimately resulting in the merger of eight national organizations to form USA Lacrosse.
As acknowledgment of his deep contributions to the sport, Stenersen received two standing ovations from the packed house.
“There were so many people whose vision, encouragement, and support made it all worthwhile,” Stenersen said. “No accomplishment that is, in some way, connected to me, was made solely because of me. It was due to these wonderful people who cared so deeply and selflessly about the future of the sport.”
The National Lacrosse Hall of Fame, a program of USA Lacrosse, was established in 1957 to honor men and women who by their deeds as players, coaches, officials and/or contributors, and by the example of their lives, personify the great contribution of lacrosse to our way of life. Since its inception, over 450 lacrosse greats have been recognized in the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame & Museum, which is located at USA Lacrosse Headquarters in Sparks, Maryland.