Conroy has been selected for induction into the International Scholar-Athlete Hall of Fame, located on the campus of the University of Rhode Island and administered by the Institute for International Sport.
His selection was based on his passion for and accomplishments in basketball and for “his extraordinary ability to use your experience as a player in high school and The Citadel to produce what we at the Institute feel is one of the finest sports books ever written, MY LOSING SEASON.”
Other inductees include Bill Bradley, the late Arthur Ashe, Us Supreme Court Justice (Ret) Byron White, Sir Roger Bannister, Johann Olav-Koss, the late Paul Robeson, among others.
The induction ceremony will be sometime during the week of June 21-28 2003. Rudolf Guiliani will deliver the Keynote Address opening games in which 1500 scholar athletes and scholar artists from all fifty states will participate.
The founder of the awards, Dan Doyle, recently completed a lecture tour as part of NCAA Foundation and during the tour he consistently referred to Pat’s book as “the most meaningful sports book I have ever read.”
