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Dave Hermie MacNeill Athletics Main Site University of Prince Edward Island UPEI Home Future Students Current Students Alumni & Friends Parents & Family Staff & Faculty Contacts SuckerfishHome Campus Recreation & Club Sports Athletics Facilities Schedule & Scores Athlete of the Week Contact Us Partnerships Box Office Recruitment Panther Sport TeamsMens Soccer Womens Soccer Womens Rugby Field Hockey Mens Basketball Womens Basketball Mens Hockey Womens Hockey Swimming Dave Hermie MacNeillMain NavigationAthletics Headlines UPEI Athletes Only Sports Centre Programs Sports Centre Hours Fitness and Wellness UPEI Sports Hall of Fame Summer Camps Student Athletic Council 2003Inductee UPEI 19841987In the late 1960s Dave MacNeill came from Saint John NB to Charlottetown to play basketball for St Dunstans However Hermie as he is known to the older crowd did not receive his greatest accolades as a player He would make his impressive mark 15 years later as the coach of the UPEI Womens Basketball team In 197879 his first year of coaching he was named AUS Coach of the Year The following year he coached the women to a 142 record and first place in the NBPEI division of the AUS before losing to Dalhousie in the playoff semifinals From 1980 to 1983 MacNeill took a break from University coaching but returned in the fall of 1983 to begin what many consider the most successful stretch of coaching ever at UPEI Over the next 10 years he would coach four AUS Championship teams including three in a row from 1986 to 1989 He lost another championship by one point MacNeill was named AUS Coach of the Year five more times and coached 26 players to AUS AllConference honours including Tracy MacEachern (also inducted this year) and Paula Edwards (a CIS AllCanadian and 2001 UPEI Sport Hall of Fame inductee) The high point of MacNeills coaching career came in 198889 when he coached UPEI to a silver medal at the CIS losing to the undefeated Calgary Dinos in the championship game That performance by the coach and the team showed that a small school such as UPEI could be a force in womens basketball MacNeill took a year off in 199091 to work with the host committee of the 1991 Canada Games held in PEI The following year he returned to lead his team to a 106 record and a berth in the nationals as UPEI hosted the CIS womens tournament In 199293 UPEI under MacNeills leadership once again captured the AUS title and represented the Conference in Victoria MacNeill retired from University coaching in 1993 but has remained in coaching at the high school level He is the Facility Manager for the House of Sport in Charlottetown and is Acting Executive Director for Sport PEI He and his wife Maureen live in Charlottetown They have four adult children UPEI Hall Of Fame Inductees2008Dick Tingley Dr William Bil...