Coaches Hall of Fame

Coach Michael Budd was inducted into the Massachusetts State Track Coaches Association (MSTCA) on Sept. 11. Although Budd has an impressive coach...

Derek Ellis has been voted into the Massachusetts State Track Coaches Association Hall of Fame. Ellis, who currently coaches girls track at Attleb...

Scott says that “ He has always been fortunate to have been in the right place at the right time, and with the right people.” In the late 70’s ...

Introduced to track and field by Brother J.A. Barry as a sophomore at Catholic Memorial H.S., John was a member of just the 2nd graduating class fr...

Greg Zopatti, of Pembroke High School, is a 2020 inductee into the Mass. State Track Coaches Association. Having begun his coaching career at Pembr...

Brian Crossman started his coaching career at Acton-Boxborough Regional High School in the spring of 2006. Under his direction, the high school in...

Winner of this year’s special election requested by the Executive Board of previous runner-up candidates, coach McKenney-Finn joins The Hall. Coac...

Steven Kyajohnian, known as “Coach K” , was a graduate of Lunenburg HS in 1974. After serving in the military and graduating from Bridgewater Sta...

My high school motto was, “not for school but for life.” I have used coaching as an opportunity to teach students that preparation is important. ...

Haverhill High School cross-country coach Michael Maguire marks his 30th year leading brown and gold athletes this month, but that’s not the only i...

This year’s inducted in the Veteran’s Division comes to us from Holliston High School, where he coached for forty two seasons. Coach Ryan from ...

Veteran Beverly High girls track coach Dave Jellerson, who has guided the Panther girls to numerous unbeaten seasons and league titles, is one of t...

Gerry began his coaching career in spring of 1973 at St. John’s (S) assisting his high school coach Brother Joseph Fintan Curran. That fall, he too...

Matt ran for and started his coaches career under Ross Newcomb at Burlington High, where he still remains today. Coach Carr credits Ross and J...

A Marshfield High School graduate and former record holder there in the two mile, Ed began his storied coaching career at his alma mater in 19...

Phil is a proud graduate of Xaverian Brothers High School, where he is a member of their Hall of Fame, and began his lengthy coaching career ther...

The long time North Quincy coach sports an impressive array of credentials for the city of Quincy. A NQHS graduate himself, where he captained the...

This year’s honoree in the popular Veteran’s Division is a Wayland High School legend. Beginning in the early 1970’s as a physical education t...

This year’s CMASS-WMASS recipient is our 2018 longest tenured coach. Dan started his sterling career back in 1970 as an assistant at Springfie...

One of Newburyport’s own, Foley has been coaching various NHS athletic teams for over three decades, having graduated as a Clipper in 1968. He’s b...

Chuck Martin has coached track and cross country at Norwell High School for over 20 years. For all of his accomplishments, Martin will be inducted...

Chris Woods will be inducted into the Massachuetts State Track Coaches Hall of Fame on Sunday afternoon, and the longtime Fitchburg High cross-coun...

Jim Erker says he’s happily retired, and is enjoying the relaxing life after some four decades of teaching and administration. The former Walpole H...

After more than 25 years of coaching in Berkshire County, Mount Greylock cross-country coach Larry Bell was inducted into the Massachusetts State T...

On several occasions, Ken Spellman read the names of the state’s Hall of Fame track and field coaches on a wall inside Boston’s Reggie Lewis Track ...

Joe Casey clearly remembers the meeting. It was exactly 40 years ago, in fact, in 1976. He had been a basketball coach since 1969 at Masconomet, a...

The late Brother Myles was a Malden Catholic icon who touched the lives of thousands of young men. Induced into the Malden Catholic High School Hal...

Peabody resident Fernando Braz has been elected to the Massachusetts State Track Coaches Association Hall of Fame. After many years as a competit...

Coach Babcock has had a storied career beginning at his alma mater, Saugus, in the mid 1980’s, where he was a five time Northeast Conference Co...

Fred Jewett is headed for the hall of fame, even though that has never been his goal. “I don’t coach to be in the hall of fame,” said Jewett, the h...

This year’s CMASS-WMASS honoree enters The Hall from tiny Hopedale High School… but Coach Drugan has built a big time program there. Born and rais...

Bob Smith has coached the Frontier Regional School girls’ track & field team since the spring of 1980. In that time, he has been at the helm for e...

The Massachusetts State Track Coaches Association announced yesterday that longtime Newburyport High School cross-country head coach Don Hennigar w...

This year’s Veteran’s Division inductee spent his entire educational and coaching career at his beloved Revere High School. Frank began his coac...

“Coach D” has coached at Somerville High for the past thirty one years including 24 years as head outdoor coach and 17 as indoor head. During thi...

It would be an understatement to say that Joe Cantillon is a modest coach. On the field, he watches the girls track team as they race by on the pa...

When Roger Fuller received the message from the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association, the now-retired Methuen High track coach of 46 ...

Jaquith (nicknamed Jake) began coaching at Wachusett in the winter of 1974, serving as an assistant boys’ track coach under the legendary Fred Warr...

Nominated by fellow Hall of Famer and Hockomock League rival Dwight Estey, Julie has an unparalleled record at Mansfield. Her career actually sta...

Getting his start at Boston Latin School, Mr. Glennon coached some of the most successful teams in the DCL during his brief stint there. But it was...

While Mark Thornhill’s heart condition has kept him off the track for more than three decades, he’s stayed close enough to it to continue to have a...

His numbers and accomplishments are off the charts, but for Tewksbury resident Phil Maia, what he has done for thousands of Lowell High student-ath...

With more than half of the states athletes coming from the eastern part of the state, Dr. Rasool might not be well known to everyone, but his teams...

Francois Joseph knew he had a daunting task ahead of him when he took over a Waltham High girls track program with little sense of its own history ...

Our CMASS-WMASS Hall recipient this year began his track career at Wachusett Regional High where he captained all three teams in 1967-68. Afte...

Current and past students cheered on Mohawk Trail’s longtime track coach Joe Chadwick Friday, as he was honored as a sports leader with the most wi...

Thirty years at Wachusett Regional have made Brian a CMA legend for the Mountaineers, and earned him the distinction of the induction into the Hall...

Needham resident John Normant, boys indoor and outdoor track coach at Boston College High School, was inducted into the MSTCA Coaches Hall of Fame ...

Coach Rose enters the Hall as one of the greatest girls distance coaches in Massachusetts history. From 1981 to 1989, his incredible energy, enthus...

This WMASS icon enters the Hall after a distinguished career that began in 1969. Bob’s journey to the MSTCA elite has included administrative posit...

Coach Comeau becomes the latest addition to the MSTCA Hall of a long line of Andover High School greats. A former Andover standout himself, Peter h...

Hard to believe, but Coach Snyder has led track teams in Wisconsin and Massachusetts for forty-six years! Beloved by the Milton school community, p...

A proud graduate of Catholic Memorial High and Boston College, Paul took over the Franklin program in 1984 and has accomplished an impressive c...

Born in Dorchester and later relocated to Natick, the home for Redman, Steve continued his education at UMASS, when they were also known as the R...

One of the area’s most respected track coaches will be getting a long-deserved honor this week as Nashoba Regional High’s Don Gribbons will be indu...

When it came to running in the 1980s, they were the heart and “sole” of cross country in the Mayflower League. The heart was a coach named Dennis T...

A 25 plus year veteran, Coach Kates has become a beloved figure at Notre Dame Academy of Hingham for the past 13 years. With an emphasis on sport...

Dan Lengieza (a.k.a. “Coach Rudi”) is an alum of the former St. Jerome High School in Holyoke where he ran track. After graduating in 1959, served ...

The commuter railroad tracks between Gloucester and Rockport and the trails through Ravenswood Park, Dogtown Common, and Oak Grove Cemetery were Da...

Bill “Kaner” Kane Holyoke High School Cross-Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track Coach Born and raised in the Elmwood section of Holyoke, Bill “Kaner...

When you’ve been coaching for as long as Lou Ruggiero has, the ebb and flow of running a cross-country program becomes second nature. This year is ...

The high school track world lost a giant of a man last spring and tonight we honor Coach O’Sullivan by enshrining him in the MSTCA Hall of Fame. ...

When you all talk about commitment, you talk about Vin Catano. He has served as Catholic Memorial’s head coach of cross country, indoor and outdoor...

This year’s Veteran’s Committee recipient is a true pillar in MSTCA history. An early Executive Board member in the Association, Dick actually star...

This year’s medalist in coaching experience has had a sparkling thirty-three year career beginning at his alma mater, Norwood High in 1974. Afte...

This year’s CMASS-WMASS recipient had an illustrious career as a cross country and track coach spanning from 1974-2005, with a brief respite in 19...

Mike’s career at Hopkinton could be regarded as a small school dynasty. The twenty-seven year veteran has built a powerhouse program, highli...

This year’s Veteran’s category inductee is a thirty-eight year teaching veteran who has retired, but his passion for education has returned him to ...

Ernie Goff started his coaching career at Chicopee High School as an assistant Coach from 1969-1974. He returned in 1981 to be head coach for the n...

Bob L'Homme has been the Cross Country and Track coach at Bishop Feehan High School in Attleboro, MA since 1984. He has coached 2 All Americans, in...

Coach Estey enters the Hall with a familiar formula- graduate from high school, then return to oversee a dynamic track program. An accomplished ath...

George McCabe has left quite a legacy at East Bridgewater High. On Sept. 12, the school board voted to name the track facility at the new junior/se...

Charles Leverone nearly became a farmer. Luckily for the many lives he touched in his education and coaching career, he changed his path midway th...

Art Iworsley’s smile was simply infectious. It didn’t matter if you wore the Blue and Gold of Andover High, the school he proudly coached at for m...

Coach Kevin Black has controlled all aspects of Whitman-Hanson boys cross country and track, and a very well spent 31 years it has been. With Black...

As Boston prepared for a second year of court-ordered busing in 1975, Doris Davis of Roslindale High School’s biracial council praised headmaster D...

Peter Conway was for 36 years Greenfield High School boys’ track and field coach. During that devoted, start-studded career, though, the man was ha...

(1971-2008) McCarthy & Parker Junior High Schools Teacher (Mathematics), Chelmsford High School Teacher (Mathematics; Coaching Assistant & Head Coa...

The 1972 Lady Bulldogs’ track team made it look easy in winning 11 of 12 dual meets to rank second only to the team that topped them (Falmouth) in ...

There are only so many dual meets in a high school season. Over the years, however, they have a way of adding up. Acton-Boxborough girls track co...

A 1974 UMass Dartmouth graduate when the university was known as Southeastern Massachusetts University, Gardiner is a member of the Massachusetts T...

HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS: Cross-Country, indoor track, outdoor track. In the latter two sports, Monz did mostly the mile and two-mile. PROUDEST HIGH SCH...

Coach O'Connor coached for 31 years at Woburn Memorial High School. Prior, he was Head Coach of Cross Country, Indoor, and Outdoor Track at Algonqu...

Bob MAGUIRE has tremendous success as a cross country, indoor and outdoor coach at the Cambridge Rindge and Latin School. His teams won numerous l...

“Winnie” MacDonald graduated AHS in 1954, but couldn’t stay away. Winnie is entering the Hall of Fame for his stellar service to AHS as track coac...

Ray Carey will go to the outdoor nations in North Carolina to watch his star athlete Joe Luongo compete in the 800 meters. Then, his spectacular 3...

Frank McCarthy stands at the top of the list when it comes to so many years of tremendous success as coach of cross country, indoor and outdoor tr...

Frank started the track program from day one, and started the cross-country program after pushing for 13 years to incorporate the program into the ...

Ralph Wolfendale was preparing for his senior season with the basketball team at Lawrence High in 1986 when head track coach Ernie Perry called him...

Coach Joe Sousa can best be described as a pioneer in the development of girls track in Cambridge and in the state of Massachusetts. In 1973, when ...

Ed Gastonguay served 39 years in the Fitchburg Public School system as an English teacher and a Guidance counselor during which he coached track (i...

Larry Klimas was the Indoor and Outdoor Track coach at methuen High School for 20 Years. When he took over the program in the 1970's , the school s...

Former Weymouth High and Weymouth South boys track coach Ed Meehan always believed In the “we” approach of coaching his sport for nearly six decade...

For Dick Ponte, it was all about give and take. As an athlete at New Bedford High school he gave his all in taking his football, basketball and tr...

First coach of girls cross-country and girls track, 1974-2003. Track record, 290-24, including 1975 state championship; cross-country record, 272-5...

Bob Littlefield coached the Girls Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field for 18years at Norwell High School. During those years, the girls Outdoor Trac...

Coach Kevin Maloney’s coaching career at Blackstone-Milliville Regional spanned 42 years beginning with the 1974-75 school year and ending in the 2...

When he was enshrined into the Wilmington High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 1991, the opening sentence of his biography read “Frank Kelley is th...

Former Brockton High and Bridgewater State coach Ed Delgado, who was also an assistant at other schools, had a memorable career, coaching at Brockt...

Coach, 1971-1998 John Carroll has been a driving force in girls cross country and track and field since he began coaching in 1971. He established...

First athletic director, football coach and track coach at Nashoba. Five undefeated football seasons, one 27-game winning streak and a 81-18-4 over...

Undoubtedly, some of the few hundred attendees at Attleboro High School's Tozier-Cassidy Field were moved to tears. Lou Gazzola, a fellow teacher a...

A US Army veteran, Mr. Duncan’s career as a Weston High School industrial arts and electronics teacher spanned decades. The Weston cross country a...

Jim was a graduate of Weymouth High School, Huntington Prep and Boston College. He taught fifth grade in the Scituate Public Schools for 32 years a...

Legendary Coach DiComandrea, otherwise known as Coach "Deke", Coached Cross-Country and Track and Field for 47 years. His accomplishments include o...

Coach Richard “Dick” Atkinson is not just a legend at Southwick-Tolland Regional High School – he is among the most influential and beloved figures...

While at Billerica, he initiated a Cross-Country and Track Program in the fall of 1959 and coached cross-country for 25 years. In those 25 years, h...

“Coach O.” is a name synonymous with Haverhill athletics. He distinguished himself as an athlete, coach and athletic director in a lifetime associa...

Footrick, a 1932 Springfield College graduate, coached cross country, indoor and outdoor track and field at UMass from 1954-1968 where he also serv...

Alan Carlson, whose name is attached to the football field and track complex at D-Y, was a standout runner at Braintree High School and graduated f...

As a high school track star, Al Porter was regarded as the state’s best miler. From 1950 through 1953 no schoolboy distance runner was better than ...

Dudley O’Leary, a past president of MTFOA and long-time coach of Weymouth High School/ As a valued official for many years, Mr. O’Leary would go ...

A famous athlete himself, Mike Haggerty lettered in baseball, football, and track at both Lowell High School and Boston College. However, it was as...

Bob Mac (as he was affectionately known) is recognized as the heart and soul of high school track for the past 45 years. During a teaching career t...

During those thirty-seven years as head coach of football and track he left an indelible legacy for the town of Andover. He guided the football te...

A 1939 graduate of Drury H.S. where he was a three-letter athlete. After graduating from Norwich University in 1944, he served in the Army Air Corp...

But those who follow Watertown High athletics might immediately bring another sort of dominance to mind. For 1948 to 1960 marked Watertown’s owners...

Born in Finland in 1927, Erkki Koutonen came to Fitchburg at the age of 11 and eventually left a lasting impression on the area as a 1948 U.S. Olym...

Imagine being appointed to a head coaching position in a high school but without a schedule, a conference to compete against our facilities to ...

O'Connor, who died on Feb. 6, 1995 at age 90, was the biggest little man (5 feet-2) in the history of Concord and Carlisle sports. For 56 years, he...