VESTAL, N.Y. - Binghamton head baseball coach Tim Sinicki was enshrined into the Greater Binghamton Sports Hall of Fame, joining an elite group of inductees with local ties who have made a significant impact in the world of sports. Sinicki and 10 other individuals were honored at the 7th Annual Induction Dinner, held Monday night at the DoubleTree by Hilton. 

The event featured guest speaker and former NBA great, Walt "Clyde" Frazier. 

"The greatest thanks I can possibly give is to my family," Sinicki said in his acceptance speech. "I've been influenced and coached by many great people at the youth, scholastic and collegiate level, but my greatest coaches were my parents Barb and Steve, who are no longer with us in person but are in my thoughts every day. The support I receive from my sister Tracy and her family, my brother Chris and his family, along with my aunts, uncles, cousins and other relatives means the world to me. And my final - and certainly biggest thank yous go to my oldest daughter Allison, my son Tanner, my youngest daughter Ashley and my wife of nearly 29 years, Tina. Being the family of a coach means that dad misses a lot of holidays, birthdays and special events. While I worked hard to try to get to as many as possible, it was Tina who never missed and somehow kept the whole family together strong and moving forward." 

In his 30th year as head coach, Sinicki is the longest-tenured coach in Binghamton University history. He owns the ninth-longest tenure at one school among any current NCAA Division I baseball coaches and has consistently positioned the Bearcats among the elite teams in the America East and the Northeast. 

Sinicki's Bearcats have won three of the last seven America East championships and have a combined 10 conference regular season and tournament titles in the last 14 years - the most of any program in the America East. In addition, the program has produced nine MLB draft picks in the last 10 years. His teams advanced to NCAA Regionals in 2009, 2013, 2014 and 2016. Sinicki has been named the America East Coach of the Year six times (2005, 2007, 2009, 2010, 2016, 2017) and has more than 625 career wins under his belt.

A native of nearby Johnson City, Sinicki began as a three-sport high school standout at Johnson City High and was inducted into that school's Hall of Fame in 2010. He lettered in baseball, football and basketball, steering the baseball team to a pair of divisional titles and the football program to sectional titles and top-10 state rankings in each of his final two seasons. Sinicki began his collegiate playing career as a freshman all-conference pitcher at Binghamton University in 1985. One year later, he was named to the All-Region III team while pitching at nearby Broome Community College, where he was tabbed by the Pittsburgh Pirates in the Major League Baseball amateur draft.

He finished his playing career at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, N.C., where the Catamounts captured back-to-back Southern Conference titles and competed in the NCAA Division I Championship both seasons. In two seasons, Sinicki compiled 15 wins, including a team-leading nine as a senior.

He graduated from Western Carolina in 1988 with a bachelor's degree in business administration.