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19 named to WRHS Athletic Hall of Fame.


Byline: Sandy Meindersma

HOLDEN - The Wachusett Regional High School Wachusett Regional High School (abbv. WRHS) is located in Holden, Massachusetts and services the Wachusett Regional School District founded in 1955. The WRSD comprises Holden, Paxton, Princeton, Rutland, and Sterling.  Athletic Hall of Fame inducted 19 former athletes, coaches and friends to its already impressive list of alumni at ceremonies June 19 and 20.

The inductees include 15 student athletes: Kerry Hagglund Berry (1993 - Field Hockey field hockey: see hockey, field.
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, Basketball and Track), Daryle Corriveau (1989 - Basketball and Baseball), Shayne Jolie Duggan (1990 - Field Hockey and Track), Jay Gallant (1991 - Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track), and Mary Gibney (1992 - Soccer, Basketball and Softball).

Paul Goewey (1980 - Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track), Ted Hale (1987 - Football, Indoor and Outdoor Track), Thomas Kerxhalli (1978 - Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track), Katie LaVigne (1991 - Tennis and Field Hockey), and Cheryl Odoardi (1989 - Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track), were honored.

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 (1988 - Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track, Cross Country Skiing), Kristen Ratliff (1991 - Track, Basketball and Soccer), Stephanie Bunker Shepard (1991 - Field Hockey, Indoor and Outdoor Track), Jennifer Smith Solin (1991 - Soccer and Basketball), and Sue Reidl Williams (1987 - Cross Country, Indoor and Outdoor Track) were also inducted.

This year's inductees continued their athletic pursuits in college and in other arenas.

LaVigne's tennis jersey was retired after she was the two-time state champion; Shepard captained her college field hockey team before coaching at Framingham State for five years, where she was named MASCAC MASCAC Massachusetts State College Athletic Conference (also seen as MSCAC)  Coach of the Year.

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 and shot put; Solin played on men's teams in Ecuador and women's teams in Peru; Williams coaches indoor track for Notre Dame Academy Notre Dame Academy may refer to:
  • Notre Dame Academy (Hingham, Massachusetts) in Hingham, Massachusetts
  • Notre Dame Academy (Worcester, Massachusetts) in Worcester, Massachusetts
  • Notre Dame Academy (Dayton, Ohio) in Dayton, Ohio, closed in 1927
 and is head coach for the Rutland Track Club. Goewey set numerous records for Appalachian State University History
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 as he led the team to three conference championships.

Longtime coaches Denise Aldrich and Richard "Skip" Knight were inducted, and Howard Greis and Dan Reynolds were each presented with the Mountaineer Award, which recognizes members of the community for their longtime support of athletics at the high school.

Induction Committee member and former principal Harold Lane said that the Hall of Fame got its start in the mid-1980s, and the first class of inductees was honored in 1985.

Mr. Lane said the basic requirements for admittance Admittance

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 to the Hall of Fame are that the athlete must have been out of school at least 15 years but no more than 30. He or she had to have been both a superior athlete and a good student.

"We also want them to be solid citizens," Mr. Lane said.

There have been eight other induction ceremonies, and a total of 76 former student athletes have been honored for their achievements.

This year's group of honorees is larger than usual because the last induction was in 2002, because of the construction project.

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CUTLINE: (1) On June 19, Wachusett Regional High School's Athletic Hall of Fame inducted several of its newest members. Among those in attendance were, front row, Denise Aldrich, Shayne Jolie Duggan, Robert Parks, Tom Kerxhalli, Cheryl Odoardi, Gabrielle Williams, Sue Reidl Williams and Amy Crockett; back row, Howard Greis Rich Lewis Brian Wallace, Ted Hale, Larry Jaquith, Daryle Corriveau and Duane Corriveau. (2) Honorees at the June 20 recognition event were Rich Lewis, Richard "Skip" Knight, Dan Reynolds, Kristin Ratliff, Kate LaVigne, Denise Aldrich, Kerry Hagglund Berry, Stephanie Bunker Shepard, Mary Gibney, Jen Smith, Joan Lawson, Jay Gallant and Brian Wallace.
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