Sheela Agrawal a 1999 graduate of Joseph Case High School in Swansea Ma. A two-time Boston Globe Female Athlete of the Year in cross country, Agrawal finished second in the state in her junior and senior cross country seasons. One might say, “oh she finished 2nd but when you find out she finished 2nd to Olympic silver medalist and recent winner of the New York marathon, that’s not so bad finishing 2nd. Agrawal twice qualified for the
prestigious Footlocker National Championships, finishing 22nd her first time and 11th in her senior year, earning All-American honors. As a Junior Agrawal won the New England Championships in the 2 Mile run clocking in at 10:39. As a senior, she won the prestigious Dartmouth Relays in the Mile. Her time of 4:59.4 was the fastest female indoor time in the country. Her time also qualified her for the Millrose Games in Madison Square Garden. Her accomplishments also include a second place finish in the Indoor National Championships in the mile. She also competed in the Outdoor national Championships and finished 2nd place in both the 1Mile and 2 Mile. By the time Sheela graduated she would hold the state record in the 1 mile with a time of 4:46.0 and the 2 mile with a time of 10:19.0
At the end of her stellar high school career, she earned a scholarship to Duke University where she would continue to perform at the highest level. At Duke, Sheela became the quintessential Student Athlete. A Duke publication stated the following in 2002:
Duke junior Sheela Agrawal was named to the 2002 Verizon Academic All-District III first team, as announced by Verizon and the College Sports Information Directors of America.
Agrawal, one of the Blue Devils' most decorated female runners ever, is a three-time All- American selection, earning cross country honors as a freshman and sophomore and indoor accolades as a sophomore. This season, she finished 16th in the 5,000-meters at the NCAA Indoor
Championships. Her top finishes came at the 2000 NCAA Cross Country Championships, where she was seventh, and at the 2001 NCAA Indoors, where she was ninth in the 3,000-meters.
The Swansea, Mass., native has a 3.710 grade point average as a biology major. Agrawal is a two-time All-East, three-time All-ACC and two-time ACC Academic Honor Roll selection.
As a freshman in 1999-2000, Agrawal was named the ACC's Rookie of the Year for Cross
Country and Indoor Track and Field. Her 1 mile PR at Duke was 4:40.0 and she held Duke Records in the indoor 3,000 at 9:23 and 5,000-meters at 16:29 and distance medley relay.
Also at Duke University, Sheela made the USA National Junior Cross-Country team that competed in the IAAF World Cross-Country Championships in Portugal. The team included two other former Massachusetts superstars in Shalane Flanagan and Julie Spolidoro.
Sheela said about those championships “that was a really humbling experience; the level of competition was unreal. I remember we started out of actual gates. The Kenyan junior national team was right next to Team USA and looked so calm and collected compared to us. Even more intimidating was that most of them were running barefoot. I think they outran all of us except
for Shalane.
When asked about her high school days she says,
“My closest friends to this day are all the gals I ran with in HS- All have been incredibly successful outside of running which is amazing to me. We encouraged and pushed each other to do our best in all aspects of our lives.
I am profoundly indebted to my coach and best friend Judi St. Hilaire who took me under her wing my junior and senior years. If it had not been for her, I probably would have exited the HS running scene altogether and never made it into my dream college.

After graduating from Duke University, Sheela earned a PHD from Ohio State University. She currently works as an environmental scientist who specializes in water and waste management treatment. She currently resides in University Heights, Ohio.

Said Ahmed Boston English H.S. 2001. No doubt one of the most accomplished middle distance/distance runners to come out of the city of Boston. Said is a four-time All-American, three-time SEC champion and a four-time All-SEC selection while at the University of Arkansas. In 2006, Ahmed found his rhythm in the 1,500 meters/mile, ending the season ranked #4 in the U.S. by Track & Field News. The highlight of his season was a new 1,500m personal best of 3:35.94 set in Stockholm on July 25. Please welcome Said Ahmed to the MSTCA Athlete Hall of Fame.

Andy Alsup a 1997 graduate of Haverhill H.S. and a 2002 graduate of
Northeastern University. His accomplishments are outstanding.

According to his high school coach, Mike Maguire, “Andy was and still is a humble, hard working and loyal person. He is, “one of the finest people I’ve ever had the pleasure of coaching and working with”

Andy givesmuch of the credit to his early success to his unofficial coach, his dad Glen, to his freshman coach and current friend and mentor Mike Maguire and to his coach from grades 10-12 Dawn Caputo, whose knowledge and passion for the sport were next level. Andy is the son of twolife-time teachers.

As mentioned earlier, Andy earned a combined football and track scholarship to Northeastern. Managing your academic and athletic time as a division 1 collegiate athlete is difficult enough, but to compete in three seasons, as Andy did, is truly an outstanding
accomplishment.

One of Andy’s most memorable accomplishments was when he helped his
team win their conference championship by winning the 200m, 400m, 4x100 and 4x400 relays. According to his college coach Sherman Hart, “Andy is my team’s captain. He is my team’s leader and he is my teams’ heart and soul”.

Andy returned to Haverhill High School as a guidance counselor and track coach and was instrumental in the success of the sprinters and
jumpers.

He now watches his children, Lia (a senior at Pentucket Regional High School), and Drew (a sophomore at Central Catholic High School), as they compete in their contests with his wife and high school sweetheart Kate.

Stetson Arnold is a 1974 graduate of Southwick High School way out there in the other half of Massachusetts. Before we begin Stetson’s accolades I have to mention two events in his high school career that we as athletes and more specifically as runners could only dream of. The first is one that all athletes would wish would happened to them in their young athletic career: in the December 1973 issue of Sports Illustrated, if you have that issue at home, you can see Stetson in the “Faces in the Crowd” the write up said: “Stetson Arnold, a senior at Southwick High School, capped a cross-country season in which he was unbeaten by winning the state championship for the second time; Arnold set a new record over the 2.85-mile course, finishing with a time of 14:31. The second event is one that many high school distance runners could only dream of. Can you imagine being a high school athlete being recruited by the University of Oregon in the early 1970’s. They fly you in and bring you to see their track. On the track is this runner from Coos Bay Oregon, yes non other than Steve Prefontaine. Stetson and Steve start talking, go for a six-mile run, Pre gives Arnold a ride in his MG, they go to a store where Stetson buys a peer of Nike’s just like the kind Pre wears. If you get a chance you will have to ask Stetson about that one.
According to Dick Atkinson, his high school coach, Stetson is the best runner to come out of western Massachusetts ever. He became the first runner from the region to capture back-to-back Western Massachusetts and All State Cross Country Championships doing so in 1972 and 1973. This was done when there was only one division at the All State Meet. While running Cross Country at Southwick Stetson ran a total of 37 races and won 33 of them. In the process he set 24 course records. At the New England Cross country meet his junior year he finished 3rd, however he did so after he fell down and rolled off the tee on the golf course in Maine. Stetson was undefeated during his senior year.
When the Cross Country Season was over, Stetson continued to train throughout the winter months in preperation for the Spring Season. While on the track, Stetson ran 29 races. He won all but 3 of them. His numbers might seem to be a little low here, but that was because he broke his leg in his sophomore year and severely sprained an ankle as a senior losing about 5 weeks of training. He won the Western Mass 2-mile as a junior with at time of 9:09.8 and went on to win the New England’s with a time of 9:17.4. He repeated as the Mass champ with a time of 9:20. Stetson still holds the Western Mass Track and Field Championship Meet record in the 2 mile with a time of 9:09.8.
As a result of Stetson’s stellar high school career, he earned a scholarship to Providence College. There, his talents would continue to grow. His outstanding rookie season would include a 4th place finish at the New England Championship, one in which he helped his teammates win the team title. His 4th place finishing time of 23:46 was the 6th fastest time ever on the Franklin Park Course. On the track that same rookie year Stetson ran an incredible mile on the Bowdoin College track with a time of 4:07.6. He also ran the New England College 3-mile race at Umass, finishing 2nd in 13:46.
As a sophomore Stetson earned his first NCAA All American Award. On November 24, 1975 on a difficult Penn State course he finished the 6-mile race with a time of 29:28 finishing as the 17 American and helping his P.C. Friars to a 3rd place finish.
Stetson transferred to Umass for his Junior and Senior years. In 1977, he led the University of Massachusetts to the IC4A Cross Country Championship at the famed Van Cortland Park in New York with a 5th place time of 24:23 on the 5-mile course. Stetson would go on to earn his second All-American award at the NCAA finals.

During the 1959 Indoor Track season, John was the State Class C 300 Yard Champion, as well as the anchor leg on the winning Relay team. During the spring season, John was the Class C State Champion in the 220 Yard dash In his Senior year, John set a new Class C Record in the 300 Yard run with a time of 32.6, and once again anchored his team to another relay title. John had personal best times of 9.7 in the 100 Yard Dash, 21.3 in the 220, 48.5 in the 440 yard run. After high School, John attended Boston College on a Football scholarship. John Barrett won many State Class Titles, he was a New England Champion, and a national champion. Let’s please welcome John Barrett St. John’s Prep 1960 to the MSTCA Athlete Hall of Fame

Darlene is one of the best if not THE best Massachusetts High School middle
distance/distance runners ever… period. Darlene is one of the best if not THE
best Massachusetts collegiate middle distance/distance runners ever… period.
Darlene is one of the best if not THE best Massachusetts middle distance/
distance runners ever… period. These statements are extremely difficult to dispute. In addition to her phenomenal resume, she is also one of the pioneers of
women’s middle distance/distance running coming out of the 1970’s when
women were just beginning to be allowed to run races over ½ mile. She along
with the likes of Lynn Jennings, Judi St. Hilaire, and Lesley and Lisa Welch put
Massachusetts on the world stage running map.
While in high school her resume is quite impressive. She was the U.S.
Junior Olympic Mile champion, the U.S. Junior 800m champ, U.S. Junior
1500m champion, the U.S. Olympic Committee Sports Festival 1500m champ
and selected as the Most Outstanding Runner at the United States v. West Germany Junior Meet. She also competed in a meet in the old Soviet Union. Her
PR’s in high school were, 2:04.6 800m, 4:19.6 1500m and 4:41.9 in the mile.
At Harvard University she was the National Collegiate Champ indoors
in the 800m, a National Collegiate Champ in the indoor mile, she set the National Collegiate mile record in 1980. She was the Ivy League Champion in both
Cross and Track. She was a multiple All-American and never lost a meet on the
famed Harvard indoor track. In 1998 Darlene was inducted into the Harvard
Varsity Club Hall of Fame. Her PR’s in college were 2:05.75 for 800m, 4:14.0
for 1500m and 4:32.30 in the mile.
After college Darlene was the U.S. Indoor Mile Champion in 1983 and
1987. She was a Bronze medalist in the 1500m at the 1985 World University
Games. She was a U.S. Olympic Trials finalist in 1984 which were held in Los
Angeles. Her 4:07.42 was just 3 seconds off making the Olympic games that
year. At the 1987 WORLD Indoor Championships, she finished 7th with a time
of 4:13.57 also held in Indianapolis. Darlene ran 15:53 to set the US women’s
5k road race record. Her final personal best performances are very compelling:
2:02.93 for 800m, 4:04.81 for 1500m, 4:30.12 in the mile and 15:53 in 5k.

Jim became the New England AAU Open 60-yard
dash champion running a quick 6.6 seconds at the Fargo Building in Boston. For placing 1st at that meet, he
was awarded the Ed Sanders Memorial Trophy. At the
State Meet Jim’s senior year he won and tied the state
record in the 300-yard run with a time of 33.0 seconds.
In March of his senior year he led his Somerville High
track squad to a team championship at the Bowdoin
Interscholastic Track Meet. Jim won three events, in
the 50-yard dash, the 300-yard dash and the broad
jump. At the National Track and Field Championships
held in Madison Square Garden, he would finish 5th in
the nation. By the time Jim graduated, he had become
one of Somerville’s most decorated athletes. His accomplishments included the Boston Athletic Associations 50-yard title, the indoor All-State 50-yard champ,
the outdoor state champ in the 100-yard dash, the indoor New England champ in the 40-yard dash, a 3x
Champion New England 100 yard champ, the New
England and AAU 60-yard champion the Greater Boston 100 and 220 yard dash Champion.
At Villanova University his main events were the 220
and 440. In one particular 4x220 relay it was said by a
local newspaper that “Excellent baton passing and
blistering 220's by Blackburn and Collymore were the
features”. The highlight of that 1959 season came
when Jim Blackburn along with Joe Manion, Charlie
Stead, and Ed Collymore were crowned the Penn Relays Mile Relay Champions, running a blistering
3:11.80, which is still the Villanova school record. Not
bad for a kid from Philly, two kids from Boston and
the quiet kid from Somerville Mass.

Our next inductee is a 1947 graduate of Hingham High School. Unfortunately for us however Cliff Blair is unable to join us here today. He lives in Florida and for the last 8 years has been suffering with Parkinsons disease. I think a lot of his personality and humility can be seen in a note he wrote to me saying, “Thank you very much for your  thoughtfulness and interest.  I am amazed people still remember me.  My son Brian was only 4 when  I was inducted into the BU Hall of Fame and of course too young to remember.  His wife Debbie is a lovely woman, CEO of a major HMO with over 8oo employees.  Quite a gal.  They get along better than any couple I know.” Cliff is obviously very proud of his son and daughter-in-law and sounds like a very nice person.
What an athlete Cliff Blair must have been. His career really exploded after high school but the story of how he got to B.U. Is very interesting. Cliff was mainly a shot putter while at Hingham H.S. He didn't think he was going anywhere until coach Doug Raymond at BU brought Cliff in for a look/see. On the recruiting trip, Coach Raymond showed him a new event called the discus, and after a brief lesson, Cliff was throwing further than the other athletes already at BU. This meeting with Coach Raymond and the introduction to the discus led to Cliff's claim to fame “The hammer.”
His induction into the B.U. Hall of Fame discribed his career very well. So I quote form that induction ceremony, “Cliff Blair was the first collegian to ever throw the 16-lb hammer more than 200 feet. He would later set a world record in the event and may have added Olympic gold to his resume, if not for a last minute decision. Blair, a journalism major at BU's School of Public Communications, earned a berth on the U.S. Olympic team that competed in Melbourne, Australia in the summer of 1956. Just months earlier, on July 4, 1956, performing at an AAU meet, he set a world record in the hammer throw, his toss of 216'4.75” besting his own national mark of 211'3” and the world mark of 216'1/2” held by Russian Mikhail Krivonosov.
Leading up to the Olympic Games and while at the Olympic venue, Blair was filing reports on the Olympics for the Boston Globe that year. Although he was not being paid for his reporting and there was no rule barring athletes from writing newspaper articles, Blair's coach decided it was not in the Olympic Spirit and dropped him from the team the day before the Hammer was to be contested. Blair was far from dejected. “Earning that spot on our Olympic team was the greatest thrill of my athletic career. I would loved to have participated. I guess I just wasn't enough of a politician.
If you can just bear with me, I'd like to read part of the article that is an example of what he wrote to the Globe. He was writing to Jerry Nason. I also love this article because it gives us mere mortals a true feeling of what it was like to be an Olympic athlete at the time.

Fernando is a 1980 graduate of Peabody High school. Fernando is also one of only a few individuals who will now be in both the Athletes Hall of Fame and the MSTCA Coaches Hall of Fame.
While at Peabody Fernando took the Greater Boston League by storm running for coach George Smyrnios. He still holds the Massachusetts all-time high school record in the 5000 meter (14:52), which he set in 1980. Braz was a high school All American in both cross country and track, winning a dozen individual state titles, and incredibly, along with his teammate and fellow MSTCA Hall of Famer, Lesley Welch, was the first ever in the state to take back-to-back cross country All State crowns. He finished 15th at the Kinney (now Footlocker) Cross Country Nationals in 1980, and 10 years later was inducted into the Peabody Hall of Fame. His high school PR’s are quite impressive. 800m 1:57, 1-mile in 4:21.1, 2-mile in 9:15.6, the aforementioned 14:52 in the 5k and an impressive 10k in 30:42.
When asked about his time at Peabody High School Fernando mentions the opportunity to be coached by George Smyrnios, the relationship with his teammates including Lesley and Lisa Welch (both MSTCA Hall of Famers) but most importantly, having his brother Helder as a teammate his senior year.
After high school Fernando earned an athletic scholarship to Boston College, where he continued his unbelievable career. In 1981 and 1982 he became the first Eagle to qualify for the NCAA national championships as an individual. The 82 season was one for the ages as he became the Big East indoor and outdoor 5K champion, the indoor New England 5K and the outdoor 10K crowns. In 1984 he helped lead the BC cross country team to an 11th place NCAA finish. Braz was a 6X Big East All Conference selection, was named All-New England 12 times, and was a three-time cross country MVP for the Eagles. In 2001 he was inducted into the Boston College Varsity Club Athletic Hall of Fame. Fernando said he is grateful for his time at BC, especially the coaching of Jack MacDonald and being a part of the first and only Men’s XC team to qualify for the NCAA Championships and the lifelong friendships he formed.
After graduating from Boston College he turned pro to run for Nike Boston and was a two-time qualifier for the Olympic Marathon Trials. His lifetime best performances include: a 13:59 for the 5K, 29:02 for the 10K, he ran 10 miles in 48:36, a half marathon in 1:06.1 and a full 26.2 miles in 2:18.26.
In addition to his current coaching at Peabody H.S. he is the president and head coach of “Going The Distance” an organization that coaches not only track athletes but people from other sports looking to improve their speed and stamina. Jay Smith, who was the throwing coach for the Tanners says of Fernando, "…. Fernando cares about the whole person first, and that he's never afraid to hold everybody — himself first, the staff, and the kids — to the highest levels of personal accountability, responsibility and effort, ….He achieves this with real humility. He is equal parts coach, wizard, psychologist, comedian, taskmaster and motivator."
Fernando currently lives in Peabody with his wife Pamela and has 2 children Shane and Ella. He is a teacher and coaches the boys and girls XC/Track Coach at Peabody High School.

Our next group of inductees will be the MSTCA’s first relay team to be inducted into the Hall of Fame. Without a doubt, they could all be inducted individually, but TOGETHER as a team, Dennis Doucette, Jim MacKinnon, Paul Neves and Mike Sullivan, were unstoppable as they set a National High School Record that stood for 18 years, and for the last 35 years still hold the Massachusetts and New England High School record. Needless to say, this team of four were instrumental in leading the Brockton High School Boxers to both the Indoor and Outdoor Class A and All State Team Championship.
Dennis Doucette was the glue that held the team together. He had high school PR’s of 49.9 in the 440 and 22.5 in the 220. He would go on to the University of Southern California where he would run a 48.0 400 meters. After USC, Dennis went to the University Of San Diego School Of Law and earn his JD in 1986. He is presently a partner at the Law firm of Procopio and Cory in San Diego. Dennis recalls this story, “The announcement came over the loud speaker at the Leverone Field House at Dartmouth College, that the Brockton team of Doucette, Sullivan, Neves and MacKinnon have just set a National High School record in the 4x440 relay.” The team, coached by Ed Delgado, were elated and we actually all saw a seldom seen emotion on Coach D’s face, a small smile. (However, remember, in 1979 there were no cell phones or internet. Instant information was not available) it was a good old fashion telephone call later that revealed the night before, a newer, faster National record had been set by Fairmont Heights High School in Washington D.C. running a few tenths of a second faster than us. Coach D was not to be outdone. He found us another meet two weeks later on the Gordan Track at Harvard University. This meet was the New England Association A.A.U. Indoor Track and Field Championships on January 28, 1979. It would be here, 3:17.8 seconds after the gun went off that a new National High School Record was set. One that would stand for 18 years. Jim MacKinnon lead off with a 50.3, Paul Neves would run 49.2. Dennis Doucette would run 50.4 and Mike Sullivan anchored with a 47.9. What a Team. What an Effort!! Coach D’s smile came back to his face. 
At Brockton, Jim MacKinnon would run PR’s of 48.8 in the 440, 1:56 in the 880 and 1:12.3 in the 600 yards. He was the 600 yard champion his senior year helping the Boxers to the team title, and finished 3rd at the Eastern States at Princeton. In his senior year spring track, Jim would finsish 3rd at the All State meet in the 800 behind Neves the eventual winner. He would go on to study nursing at Northeastern University where he would run 1:10.6 in the 600 and 1:50.4 in the 800. He is still on NU’s 4x800 school record relay team running 7:29.1 and on their 4x400 school record relay team with a time of 3:12.79. Jim is now the head of Infections disease at St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Brighton.  
Paul Neves while at Brockton had an outstanding career. After a stint on the freshman football team, Coach Delgado asked him, “Why would you want to play football? In three years, you could be part of a relay team that breaks the 4x440 relay record” After that statement, Paul had no choice, but to dedicate himself to 3 seasons of running. I’m personally wondering, did Coach Delgado mean he could be part of a school record, state record, a New England record team, or did he realize that early that he would have a National record team? Paul’s accomplishments in high school were pretty good, 48.8 440, 1:50.2 880, 2:15.5 1000 yards, 4:29 mile. He was the Class A, All State and New England Champion in the 1000 yards. Paul would go on in the spring to win the All State 800 meters and finish 6th in the long jump with a leap of 21’1”. After high school, Paul went to The Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he would continue to shine. While at MIT he would run PR’s of 2:09 in the 1000 yards and run 1:49.22 in the 800. That time is still the 7th fastest time ever run by a Division III athlete. He was a Division III All American1980, 81 and 82. And still holds the MIT school record in the 800. After college Paul would end up running 1:47 for 800meters and a 4:03 mile.
Paul is currently a Software/Business Development Consultant and lives in Southern California. 
The Anchor of the team was Michael Sullivan. Mike’s PR’s at Brockton are to say the least, quite impressive. 30.9 for 300 yards, which earned him a state title indoors, 9.5 for 100 yards, 21.8 for 200 meters and he would set a state record of 47.6 his senior year and a state Championship. That performance earned him an invitation to the prestigious Golden West Invitational in California. It was there that Mike Sullivan became the only high schooler from our state to break 47 seconds. That day he ran his personal best time of 46.9. These performances earned Mike an athletic scholarship to Arizona State University. There he would end up running 45.0 for 400 meters and was part of a relay team that was a 2x Pac 10 champion and a 2x Division I All American. In 1981 his team ran 3:04.19. 
Mike has never stopped competing. He currently holds the masters age 50-54 Indoor World record in the 400 meters running 52.44 and ran the anchor leg on the masters’ 50-54 outdoor 4x400 relay World Record team during the World Championships in 2011 in Sacramento. At that same meet he was the Masters World champion in the 200 and 400 in 2011. 
Mike is currently in his 27th year of teaching physical education and coaching in a junior high school. As a high school teacher and coach myself, I give him all the credit in the world to work with junior high kids.
I asked each one of these athletes if they had any one in their athletic career that had an impact on them. All four of them said the same thing, #1 was Coach Ed Delgado and #2 they all said, each other. They were not just great teammates they were even Greater Friends.

American Olympic sprinter in 1896, and the very first-ever Olympic champion in a sprint event. He was an Olympic “Gold” medalist in the 100 (12 seconds) and 400 (54.2 seconds) meter events of the 1896 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece, the first Olympiad of the modern era (first place finishers received a silver medal in the 1896 Olympics, second place a bronze medal, and third received no formal recognition). Burke was one of fourteen men comprising the US team, and one of nine members of the team who were associated with the Boston Athletic Club. Burke was from the West end of Boston; his father was an undertaker at Saint Joseph’s Church. Burke was a track star at English High School, where he set a schoolboy 600-yard dash that stood for many years

As a 4ft11, 75 pound Freshman from Randolph High School, Leanne Burke burst onto the High School Cross-Country scene in 1987 with an impressive third place finish in the Eastern Massachusetts Division 1 Championships. A week later, the tiny Freshman finished an impressive 6th place at the MIAA All State Championships. This earned her a spot on the Boston Globe All Scholastic team.

As a Sophomore in Cross-Country Burke continued to improve, as she won some memorable battles with Wouburn’s Diane Connolly nipping her twice at the finish line. After edging Connolly out for the Eastern Massachusetts Division 1 title, Leanne Burke was starting to be known throughout the State as having one of the most fierce “Finishing Kick’s” around.

As a Junior, Burke began to dominate the High School Cross-Country scene. She went undeated in Massachusett and she won her first All State Cross-Country title. She finished 3rd at the Kinney Northeast Regionals in New York City, she would later finish 23rd at the National Championships a few years later.

She dominated Massachusetts Cross-Country again as Senior. Winning her second All State Cross-Country title and again qualified for the Kinney National Championships. This time she finished 4th place which landed her as a First Team All American.

To this day, Leanne is one of only five MIAA Cross-Country runners to finish in the Top 5 at the Footlocker / Kinney Cross Country National Championships.

Her Track credentials were just as strong as her Cross-Country accomplishments. She is a 5 time Massachusetts High School 1 Mile State Champion, winning three Indoor titles and two Outdoor titles. She also won the Massachusetts State Championshionship in the 800M run.

She also excelled on the Track in both Regional and National competition. She won the Keebler International Games in the Mile run as well as the New York Games in the 800M run, and the Eastern Indoor Championships in the 100 Yard Run.

Her personal best times on the track were :
800: 2:08.68, Mile run 4:52.95, and 10:43 for the Two Mile.

Other Accomplishments Include

She was a 9 x Boston Globe All Scholastic, four of which she was named “Athlete of the Year”
She was also named New England High School Runner of the Year.

Her Guidance Councelor John Donovan once said “ What amazes me is this Peanut-size person is such a Giant Killer. Leanne may be small in Stature but she has the heart of a Lion and runs like the wind”

In the classrom, her academic resume was just as strong as her athletic one. At Randolph High School she was #1 in her Class, carried a 4.0 GPA and scored 700 on her Mathmetics Level 2 Achievment tests.

She went on to attend Providence College where she was a 2 x time NCAA Cross Country Qualifier. She earned All American status as a member of the 4x800M Relay Team.

Fowler began her illustrious career as a champion shot putter at Northeastern University, where she was a nine-time All-American. Her career as a student-athlete peaked when she won the 1982 AIAW (the NCAA's predecessor) National Outdoor title. Fowler remains the record holder in the shot put at Northeastern with a mark of 53-11.

During her collegiate career at Northeastern, Fowler was named an alternate in the shot put on the 1980 United States Olympic team. She competed internationally for the United States at the 1981 World University Games in Romania and at the 1981 Pan Pacific Games in New Zealand.

The Brookline, Mass., native earned a bachelor's degree in physical education from Northeastern in 1983.

Lance Campbell was a 1987 graduate from Cambridge R&L where he competed in nine seasons of Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track at CRLS. During those nine seasons, CRLS boys' Cross Country and track had an unprecedented run, winning multiple league, divisional and all-state championships. Lance was an integral member of twenty championship teams while competing for CRLS.

No team in Massachusetts high school history had ever completed " the Triple Crown"- that is winning the state class and all-state championships in cross country, indoor and outdoor track. In 1987 that was accomplished for the 1st time in Mass. history by CRLS. Lance Campbell ran on all three of those teams.

He was named to three Boston Globe and Boston Herald All- Scholastic teams. In his senior year he was the all-state champion in the 1000 yd. run indoors with a time of 2:16.60 and in outdoor the 880 yd. champion with a time of 1:53.50. He also ran on the undefeated state and all state mile relay championship teams. He culminated his exceptional high school career when he won the New England High School Championships and set a CRLS, Mass. high school and NE record! His time of 1:51.2 is the all-time Cambridge record and is still among the best ever run in Mass.

After graduating Cambridge R&L Lance continued his cross country and track career at Westfield State University where the middle-distance standout earned two All-America honors, 14 All New England certificates, four Massachusetts State Conference championships, and was a six-time national qualifier in the 800 meter run.

Mary, whom the national press called “Little Medford Miss” and “Uncle Sam’s Sweetheart”, qualified for the U.S. Olympic team in the 4x100 relay and it was off to Los Angeles for the start of the 1932 Summer Olympics.

At the Olympics, Mary was selected to run the leadoff leg of the relay and the Americans captured the gold medal and in the process set a new world record (46.9). Canada finished second and Great Britain third.

Mary was so popular with her teammates that she was chosen to stand on the victory podium and receive the gold medal before over 100,000 cheering fans.

Maurica Carlucci began her climb to the top of Massachusetts Track and Field in the winter of 1994 as an 8th grader. That spring she qualified to compete at the National Championships in Raleigh, North Carolina. It would be the starting point of an outstanding middle distance career at Franklin High School. Maurica won individual championships at the Divisional and State Meets in the 600, 800 and 1000 meter races. Maurica had a passion for relay running. She was a member of two 4x800 relay teams that competed in the Championship of America Event at the Penn Relays. She had a quest to be a member of the first Massachusetts high school 4x400 relay team to break the 4 minute barrier indoors. In her senior year she was so determined to break 4:00 minutes she made 8 paper tabs reading “3:59” and taped them on the heels of the each of her teammates’ shoes. It worked!! The Franklin foursome ran 3:58.8 winning the 4x400 at the 1998 Indoor New Englands, setting a meet record. Later that year the Franklin relay team went on to run 3:54.30 during the spring outdoor season. The Boston Globe named Maurica Carlucci the 1998 Indoor Track and Field Athlete of the Year. After graduating from Franklin High School, Maurica had an outstanding career at Stanford University. Maurica coached an NCAA National Champion Cross Country Team at Oregon University and is currently coaching at the University of Washington in Seattle.

A product of Seekonk High School, Chakouian was a junior national champion in both the shot put and discus in 2001, as well as being elected team captain of the USA vs. Great Britain Junior World Tour. In 2006, Chakouian placed 5th at the USATF Outdoor Championships, as his throw was the 17th farthest throw in the world for the year.

Chakouian has competed in numerous international competitions, finishing in 5th place at the Jr. World Championships (Santiago, Chile) in 2000, placing 1st at the Jr. Pan Am Games (Sante Fe, Argentina) in 2001, while being ranked no. 6 all-time on the Jr. World Shot Put List.

A 1995 graduate of Pittsfield High School where she never lost a race in Maassachusetts; running everything from the 400, 800, mile, and 2 mile. She won the 3000m at the Penn Relays running a time of 9:37.51, and In her senior, she was also the National High School Mile Champion running a 4:45.48. In Cross Country she was state champion in both 1992 and 1994. In 1994, Cobb also won the Foot Locker Eastern United States Cross Country Championship and placed third in the national championship later that year. Cobb set a state record in the mile during her senior season when she ran a 4:41 to win the Western Massachusetts title. Later that year she was named the Gatorade National Player of the Year in track and field. Mary Cobb went on to become a six-time All-American at Stanford and competed in the 1500m at the 2000 Olympic trials.

Pending

Our next inductee is Scott Cody along with Jamalh, a 1988 graduate of Cambridge Rindge and Latin school, Scott was also a 1992 graduate of Providence College where he earned his degree in Health and Physical Education. He has dedicated his life to his Alma mater as he currently
teaches and coaches at Cambridge Rindge and Latin for the past 27 years.

Great minds think alike and so, like Jamalh, some of Scott’s cherished memories from high school are his fellowHall of Famers, his coaches, Frank McCarthy and Bob Maguire. According to Coach McCarthy,

“Scott was a determined, focused and resilient runner. Regardless of the settings, he took each race like it was his last. His work ethic, drive, team first and vision served as an excellent role model for his younger teammates.

According to Coach Maguire, “Scott is every coach’s dream.
He might have been our best “dig down deep” competitor, and we did have a great many of them. His work ethic was unmatched and he relied on that strength in every big meet he ran.”

Those two coaches' accolades may have come from Scott’s philosophy of running which is, “I believed that running was about managing pain. I always thought I was willing to hurt more than my competitors. If I was hurting, I knew they were hurting, so I pushed the pace.” He is very
proud to have been an integral part of the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School’s Triple Crown, winning the All-State titles in Cross County, Indoor track and Spring Track during the 1986-1987
school year.

I’m not sure if any other team has ever done that. As mentioned earlier by his fellow inductee, his successful coaching career at his Alma Mater will assuredly get him into the MSTCA’s Coaching Hall of Fame as well.

Scott is very proud to have been the captain of thE Providence College Cross Country team that placed 3rd at the NCAA Division One Championships in 1992. That PC team also won 3 Big-East consecutive titles in 1990, 91, and 92. In addition to his coaching duties at Rindge he currently coaches alongside his fellow PC teammate Mark Carroll at the BAA

ive times between 1966 and 1972, Leon Coleman placed in the top six at the AAU Championship in the high hurdles, and in 1969, he tied [Willie Davenport] for first place. Coleman attended Winston-Salem State College, graduating in 1972. He went on to finish fourth place in the Olympican Games in Mexico City in 1964.

Collymore had an incredible track career at Rindge Tech where led his team to multiple championships. As a senior, he won the National high school 440-yard championship, and his mile relay team set a national record that stills stands as a school record. He went on to a brilliant track career at Villanova, and he is a member of its Hall of Fame. After Villanova, he continued his track career where he was member of the 1st USA vs. Russia team.

Our next inductee is Andrea Comeau Braham who is a 1996 graduate of Reading Memorial High School and a 2000 graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. As you will see in Andrea’s is one of the best all around athletes this state has ever seen. As a multi-eventer, she could do it all, run, jump and throw.

According to her bio from her induction into the Reading H.S. Hall of Fame, “From her sophomore year to her senior year, she never lost
a league running or hurdling event, winning or sharing the league MVP honors for both indoor and outdoor track for three consecutive years.

She was named the Daily Times Chronicle outstanding girls track performer for 5 of those 6 years.” In remembering her years at Reading,
she gives most of the credit to her coaches Ken Feit, Nancy Madden and John Barret She says,

“They were all so patient through the typical whining of high school girls and they taught her how to move and practice for every event.” She also recalls being at a two-day competition right here at Reggie Lewis and that her and her teammates were joking about how there were no
medals or trophies. Coach Feit told them what they were getting was the opportunity to compete. The next day her teammate brought a glass jar so they could capture that “Opportunity”. To this day Andrea keeps that jar full of “Opportunity”. What a great outlook on life. It’s pretty evident
that Andrea must have seized every one of those opportunities throughout her life.

According to the Boston Globe, “Comeau was the key ingredient in Reading’s charge to the EMass Class B title and its first All-State crown”. While at UMass Andrea recalls special friendships formed
with Melissa Ward, Vinnie Pullia and her coach Jim Giroux. She remembers her team winning the A-10’s by beating among the other A-10 teams, Virginia Tech at Virginia.

Andrea received her degree in education and has been teaching for the past 20 years in both England and Wakefield. She currently is a 3
rd grade teacher at Greenwood School in Wakefield. She resides in Swampscott with her husband Darren and her three children 14-year-old Ollie,11-year-old Violet and 8-year-old Theo.

Pam Connell Gess is a 1986 graduate of Norwell H.S. Pam Connell Gess was the premier runner and jumper in New England during her high school years. A five-time Boston Globe All-Scholastic student athlete, Pam was twice named as the Globe's Athlete of the Year. Pam set 16 Norwell High School records while a member of the Clipper Indoor and outdoor track teams, and won an unprecedented 14 All-State Championships, including gold medals in the 600-yard, long jump, triple jump, high jump, 300 meter hurdles, and the mile relay. Pam was a two-time national indoor champion in the pentathlon, and represented the United States at the World Junior Track and Field Championships in Athens, Greece. Pam still ranks #3 all time in the national high school pentathlon.
300 meter hurdles 43.00 still a new England record
200 @ 24.32
long jump @ 19'7”
400 IH @ 61.05,
100 meter hurdles @ 14.13,
High Jump @ 5'11.25”
Heptathlon with 5706 points
Pentathlon 3672 points