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/senior high in honor of McCabe, the boys’ track and cross-country coach at East Bridgewater since 1973. The ribbon cutting is scheduled for Nov. 29. “It’s an unbelievable honor. I never expected it and to have this happen now when I’m still coaching is very special,’’ said McCabe. “It’s also a tribute to the thousands of athletes and eight assistant coaches who were with me all these years.’’ His accomplishments include two all-state cross-country championships and a total of eight Division 4 state titles in indoor and outdoor track and cross-country. A 2004 inductee to the Massachusetts State Track Coaches Hall of Fame, McCabe was also the Globe’s Cross Country Coach of the Year in 2001 and 2002 and Indoor Track Coach of the Year in 2009. McCabe, who coached all four of his sons at the high school — Shawn, Brian, Kevin, and Jeremy — thanked his wife of 45 years, Cheryl, for “being like a second assistant coach for me, always keeping me in line.’’ Their daughter, Shannon, was scorekeeper and manager for the Viking boys’ track teams. Her children, Megan and Mac, are track and cross-country athletes at the high school. A runner at East Bridgewater High (class of 1965), Mc- Cabe retired as social studies department chairman at the high school in 2005. He currently serves as chairman of the School Committee and with the town’s School Building Committee and Capital Needs Committee. In their endorsement letter, Lorraine Sullivan and Maureen Hanratty, parents of track athletes from the class of 2011, said that McCabe takes pride in every effort put forward by his athletes, “whether they break a record or barely break a sweat.’’
Inducted: 2004