Maine Basketball Passage of Popularity relays its Course of 2023
he Maine Basketball Passage of Popularity presented its Course of 2023 Tuesday. The induction course includes 17 participants, along with 6 individuals as well as 2 teams to the hallway’s Legends of the Leisure course.
The induction event will be held Aug. 20 on the Cross Insurance policy insurance coverage Heart in Bangor. The Course of 2023 includes:
Margie Arnold: A 1,000-point marker at Waterville Senior citizen Excessive within the very early Nineteen Eighties, Arnold executed collegiately on the University of New Hampshire.
Joanna Brown: In 1998, Brown expanded to come to be the 4th ladies’s basketball individual on the University of Southern Maine to gain Ladies’s Basketball Trains Association Department III All-American honors. Brown was the ECAC Department III Individual of the twelve month in 1998, as well as led the Huskies to 4 successive trips to the NCAA occasion.
Paul Burnell: A standout at South Rose city, Burnell led the Purple Troubles to back-to-back Course A state titles in 1979 as well as 1980. Burnell executed professors basketball at Bentley as well as USM, as well as has actually struggled as an umpire for two decades.
Warren Caruso: The kids’s basketball train at Husson University considering that 1999, Caruso has actually led the Eagles to 14 convention champions. He has an occupation record of 525-249 as well as is the winningest train in North Atlantic Convention historic past.
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Larry Gardner: A 1972 grad of Ft Fairfield Excessive, Gardner is the winningest train at college historic past, leading the kids’ as well as girls’ basketball teams at Ft Fairfield to a combined 425 success. Gardner trained the Ft Fairfield girls to the state title in 2010.
Scott Graffam: A grad of Medomak Valley Excessive, Graffam has 413 sway his 39-year training occupation at Scarborough, Medomak Valley as well as Oxford Hills.
Todd Hanson: As an individual, Hanson assisted lead Waterville to the 1985 Course A state title. After a participating in occupation on the University of Maine, Hanson trained the kids’ basketball team at Brunswick for 25 years, effective 309 computer game as well as the 2002 Course A state title.
Randy Harris: In 39 years instructing at Lee Academy, his university, Harris has 411 success. His Pandas obtained the 2011 Course C kids’ basketball state title.
Jeff Hudson: In 28 years instructing girls’ basketball at Sedimentary rock as well as Presque Island, Hudson obtained 436 computer game. His Wildcats obtained state titles in 2006, 2012 as well as 2013.
Mike McDevitt: As an individual at St. Joseph’s Institution, McDevitt racked up 1,381 aspects as well as got hold of 674 rebounds. In added than thirty years as a college train, the here and now St. Joe’s ladies’s train has a paper of 602-210, as well as is amongst the lots of prime 10 in success by dynamic trains.
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Mike Murphy: A standout individual at Cheverus, Murphy had actually trained highschool basketball for 40 years. Murphy invested 26 years at Westbrook as well as the last 14 at Deering, effective 339 computer game.
Jamie Russell: In 38 years of training each kids’ as well as girls’ basketball, Russell has actually accumulated 422 success at Piscataquis, Penobscot Valley as well as Central. He has actually composed 2 publications on the historic past of highschool basketball in Maine.
Jonathan Stovall: A 1985 grad of Cheverus, Stovall executed 2 periods at Penn as well as one at Boston Institution, earlier than a career-ending damage.
Brud Stover: A 1953 grad of Morse, Stover took place to star at Bowdoin, the area he expanded to come to be the key Polar Bear to acquire 1,000 occupation aspects. Stover finished his occupation with 1,144, participating in within whereby freshers weren’t permitted to use the university level.
Christina Robust: The Miss Maine Basketball champion as an elderly at Georges Valley in 1990, Robust was the 1990 Press Herald Professional Athlete of the twelve month. Durable took place to play professors basketball on the University of Maine.
Angie Suffridge: A 1987 grad of York, Suffridge took place to dip into Central Connecticut, the area she finished her occupation nine perpetuity with heaven Devils in helps.
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Al Veneziano: Ladies’ basketball train at Madison considering that 1987, Veneziano has 405 success as well as 4 local champions. In 2019, Madison’s gym was relabelled in Veneziano’s honor.
Furthermore selected for induction are 6 individuals as well as 2 teams within the Legends of the Leisure course:
Byron Bean: In 14 years as girls’ basketball train at Livermore Falls, Bean went 179-25, effective 7 Hill Valley Convention titles, 2 Western Maine champions as well as the 1976 Course B state champion.
Jack Cashman: The starting papa of the semi-pro team, Jack’s 5, Cashman was a distinct participant of the UMaine booster subscription. Cashman was an authorities in Maine, Massachusetts as well as New Hampshire, as well as assisted create young people basketball in Previous City within the Fifties.
Billing Fiske: After a standout participating in occupation at Schenck, Fiske racked up 1,250 aspects at Southern Connecticut State, As co-head train at West Virginia for 3 periods within the Nineteen Eighties, Fiske led the Mountaineers to a 49-39 record.
Jim Graffam: Graffam’s 40-year occupation in basketball includes jobs as an assistant train at St. Joe’s as well as head train at Westbrook Institution. Graffam was called Maine’s college train of the twelve month two times.
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Arthur “Avoid” Hanson: As train at Foxcroft Academy, Hanson led the Ponies to an uhe Maine Basketball Passage of Popularity presented its Course of 2023 Tuesday. The induction course includes 17 participants, along with 6 individuals as well as 2 teams to the hallway’s Legends of the Leisure course.
The induction event will be held Aug. 20 on the Cross Insurance policy insurance coverage Heart in Bangor. The Course of 2023 includes:
Margie Arnold: A 1,000-point marker at Waterville Senior citizen Excessive within the very early Nineteen Eighties, Arnold executed collegiately on the University of New Hampshire.
Joanna Brown: In 1998, Brown expanded to come to be the 4th ladies’s basketball individual on the University of Southern Maine to gain Ladies’s Basketball Trains Association Department III All-American honors. Brown was the ECAC Department III Individual of the twelve month in 1998, as well as led the Huskies to 4 successive trips to the NCAA occasion.
Paul Burnell: A standout at South Rose city, Burnell led the Purple Troubles to back-to-back Course A state titles in 1979 as well as 1980. Burnell executed professors basketball at Bentley as well as USM, as well as has actually struggled as an umpire for two decades.
Warren Caruso: The kids’s basketball train at Husson University considering that 1999, Caruso has actually led the Eagles to 14 convention champions. He has an occupation record of 525-249 as well as is the winningest train in North Atlantic Convention historic past.
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Larry Gardner: A 1972 grad of Ft Fairfield Excessive, Gardner is the winningest train at college historic past, leading the kids’ as well as girls’ basketball teams at Ft Fairfield to a combined 425 success. Gardner trained the Ft Fairfield girls to the state title in 2010.
Scott Graffam: A grad of Medomak Valley Excessive, Graffam has 413 sway his 39-year training occupation at Scarborough, Medomak Valley as well as Oxford Hills.
Todd Hanson: As an individual, Hanson assisted lead Waterville to the 1985 Course A state title. After a participating in occupation on the University of Maine, Hanson trained the kids’ basketball team at Brunswick for 25 years, effective 309 computer game as well as the 2002 Course A state title.
Randy Harris: In 39 years instructing at Lee Academy, his university, Harris has 411 success. His Pandas obtained the 2011 Course C kids’ basketball state title.
Jeff Hudson: In 28 years instructing girls’ basketball at Sedimentary rock as well as Presque Island, Hudson obtained 436 computer game. His Wildcats obtained state titles in 2006, 2012 as well as 2013.
Mike McDevitt: As an individual at St. Joseph’s Institution, McDevitt racked up 1,381 aspects as well as got hold of 674 rebounds. In added than thirty years as a college train, the here and now St. Joe’s ladies’s train has a paper of 602-210, as well as is amongst the lots of prime 10 in success by dynamic trains.
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Mike Murphy: A standout individual at Cheverus, Murphy had actually trained highschool basketball for 40 years. Murphy invested 26 years at Westbrook as well as the last 14 at Deering, effective 339 computer game.
Jamie Russell: In 38 years of training each kids’ as well as girls’ basketball, Russell has actually accumulated 422 success at Piscataquis, Penobscot Valley as well as Central. He has actually composed 2 publications on the historic past of highschool basketball in Maine.
Jonathan Stovall: A 1985 grad of Cheverus, Stovall executed 2 periods at Penn as well as one at Boston Institution, earlier than a career-ending damage.
Brud Stover: A 1953 grad of Morse, Stover took place to star at Bowdoin, the area he expanded to come to be the key Polar Bear to acquire 1,000 occupation aspects. Stover finished his occupation with 1,144, participating in within whereby freshers weren’t permitted to use the university level.
Christina Robust: The Miss Maine Basketball champion as an elderly at Georges Valley in 1990, Robust was the 1990 Press Herald Professional Athlete of the twelve month. Durable took place to play professors basketball on the University of Maine.
Angie Suffridge: A 1987 grad of York, Suffridge took place to dip into Central Connecticut, the area she finished her occupation nine perpetuity with heaven Devils in helps.
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Al Veneziano: Ladies’ basketball train at Madison considering that 1987, Veneziano has 405 success as well as 4 local champions. In 2019, Madison’s gym was relabelled in Veneziano’s honor.
Furthermore selected for induction are 6 individuals as well as 2 teams within the Legends of the Leisure course:
Byron Bean: In 14 years as girls’ basketball train at Livermore Falls, Bean went 179-25, effective 7 Hill Valley Convention titles, 2 Western Maine champions as well as the 1976 Course B state champion.
Jack Cashman: The starting papa of the semi-pro team, Jack’s 5, Cashman was a distinct participant of the UMaine booster subscription. Cashman was an authorities in Maine, Massachusetts as well as New Hampshire, as well as assisted create young people basketball in Previous City within the Fifties.
Billing Fiske: After a standout participating in occupation at Schenck, Fiske racked up 1,250 aspects at Southern Connecticut State, As co-head train at West Virginia for 3 periods within the Nineteen Eighties, Fiske led the Mountaineers to a 49-39 record.
Jim Graffam: Graffam’s 40-year occupation in basketball includes jobs as an assistant train at St. Joe’s as well as head train at Westbrook Institution. Graffam was called Maine’s college train of the twelve month two times.
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Arthur “Avoid” Hanson: As train at Foxcroft Academy, Hanson led the Ponies to an u