Eric Miceli was involed with a great deal of firsts for the Felician baseball program.
Miceli transferred to Felician from the County College of Morris, and played for the Golden Falcons’ first two baseball teams, in 2000 and 2001. Led by Coach Ed Ward and with Miceli in the middle of the lineup, Felician qualifed for the CACC playoffs each season.
In 2000, Miceli, a third baseman/designated hitter, compiled a .363 batting average and collected 17 doubles, two triples, and seven home runs. In only 36 games, he drove in 52 runs. He was selected to the All-Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference team and the NAIA All-Region First Team, the initial Golden Falcon to capture either honor in the sport of baseball. He was later named an NAIA Honorable Mention All-American.
Miceli was again an All-CACC honoree in 2001 after hitting .419 -- still the the fifth-best single-season batting average in program annals. Nearly 20 years after his Felician graduation, he still sits second on the school career lists for both batting average (.391) and slugging percentage (.630). He was the first member of the Golden Falcons’ 100-hit club, finishing 102 for 261.
Miceli joins baseball student-athletes Mike Rooth, Frank Quintana and Dennis Hulse in the Felician Athletics Hall of Fame, along with fellow 2021 inductee Mickey Zudonyi.
Miceli spent five years of his childhood in Ormond Beach, Fla. Prior to his junior year of high school, he returned to his native New Jersey and graudated from Lakeland Regional High. He owns a B.S. degree in business adminstration from Felician, and works in business development for the healthcare data science company Iqvia. Miceli also coaches travel baseball with the New Jersey Axeman program.
Miceli’s wife, the former Katie Quigley, was a standout softball pitcher at Felician and was recenly chosen as one of Top 25 softball players of the Golden Falcons’ first 25 years. They reside in Riverdale with their sons Ryan, Luke and Colton.
