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Vermont Sports Hall Of Fame
The Vermont Sports Hall of Fame is an athletics hall of fame in the U.S. state of Vermont. Above all, induction "is for accomplishments in sports and recreation that generate a great source of pride to the state." Launched as a project in 2011, the Hall of Fame inducted its inaugural class on November 17, 2012. Inductees include multiple Olympic athletes and medalists, professional sports hall of fame inductees, and historical contributors from the state of Vermont or one of its colleges and universities. Inductees Class of 2012 *Larry Benoit, outdoors *Jen Carlson, soccer * Ray Collins, baseball *Larry Gardner, baseball *Albert Gutterson, track & field * Bill Koch, Nordic skiing *Andrea Mead Lawrence, alpine skiing *John LeClair, ice hockey * Nicole Levesque Andres, basketball * Bob Yates, football *Tony Adams, contributor - media *Jake Burton Carpenter, contributor - snowboarding *Ken Squier, contributor - auto racing and media Class of 2013 * Charles Adams, historical pioneer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to the north. Admitted to the union in 1791 as the 14th state, it is the only state in New England not bordered by the Atlantic Ocean. According to the 2020 U.S. census, the state has a population of 643,503, ranking it the second least-populated in the U.S. after Wyoming. It is also the nation's sixth-smallest state in area. The state's capital Montpelier is the least-populous state capital in the U.S., while its most-populous city, Burlington, is the least-populous to be a state's largest. For some 12,000 years, indigenous peoples have inhabited this area. The competitive tribes of the Algonquian-speaking Abenaki and Iroquoian-speaking Mohawk were active in the area at the time of European encounter. During the 17th century, French colonis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Kidd
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Jim McCaffrey (basketball)
James McCaffrey is a former basketball player who played collegiately at Holy Cross and was a 6th round selection in the 1986 NBA draft. A native of Rutland, Vermont, he was named one of Sports Illustrated's Greatest Sports Figures from the State of Vermont. High school career A prolific scorer at Rutland High School, McCaffrey scored 1,111 points in two varsity seasons, and guided the Red Raiders to back-to-back state title game appearances at Patrick Gym. McCaffrey scored 55 points in single game in 1981, which is fifth all-time in Vermont state high school boys basketball history. He also set a single-game state tournament scoring record with a 48-point performance and earned all-state honors after averaging 30 points per game. College career McCaffrey spend the first two seasons of his college career at in-state institution St. Michael's College where he led the team in scoring for two seasons, including 21 points per game his second year. McCaffrey transferred to Holy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack Leggett
Jack Leggett (born March 5, 1954) is a retired American head college baseball coach. He was recently the head coach of the Clemson Tigers baseball, Clemson Tigers from 1994 to 2015. Under Leggett, the Tigers reached the College World Series six times. As of the end of the 2012 NCAA Division I baseball season, 2012 season, he had a career record of 1,224–694–1, with seven conference tournament titles and 23 NCAA Tournament appearances. He was named Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Coach of the year in 1994, 1995 and 2006. In 1994, his team won 57 games, a record for the second most single-season wins in ACC history (behind the record 60 wins set by the 1991 Clemson team). Coaching career Leggett served as head coach for five years at Vermont Catamounts baseball, Vermont and nine years at Western Carolina Catamounts baseball, Western Carolina. He became the head coach at Vermont prior to the 1978 season. After coaching the Vermont club baseball team in 1977, Leggett had ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carl Christensen (soccer)
Carl Christensen (born July 5, 1956 in Jackson, Michigan) is a retired American soccer defender who played in the North American Soccer League and Major Indoor Soccer League. Player Christensen graduated from Essex High School in Vermont. He then attended the University of Vermont, where he was a 1976 First Team All American soccer player. He was inducted into the University of Vermont Athletic Hall of Fame in 1988. In 1978, he signed with the Dallas Tornado of the North American Soccer League. He played no games for them before being traded to the San Jose Earthquakes where he finished the season, then played the 1979 season. In the fall of 1979, Christensen signed with the Wichita Wings of the Major Indoor Soccer League. Coach Christensen served as an assistant coach to the University of Vermont soccer team in 1981 and 1982. In 1983, he became the head coach of the Tufts University soccer team. He coached the team for seven seasons and compiled a 97–28–5 record. A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Long Trail
The Long Trail is a hiking trail located in Vermont, running the length of the state. It is the oldest long-distance trail in the United States, constructed between 1910 and 1930 by the Green Mountain Club. The club remains the primary organization responsible for the trail, and is recognized by the state legislature as "the founder, sponsor, defender, and protector" of the Long Trail System. History The Long Trail was conceived in 1909 by James P. Taylor who was at the time the assistant headmaster of Vermont Academy in Saxtons River, Vermont. Taylor lobbied other Vermont residents who shared his dream of a mission to "make the Vermont mountains play a larger part in the life of the people by protecting and maintaining the Long Trail system and fostering, through education, the stewardship of Vermont's hiking trails and mountains". In 1910, work began on the construction of America's first long-distance hiking path. The GMC completed the Long Trail in 1930. Geography The Lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Judi St
Judi is a name with multiple origins. It is a short form of the Hebrew name Judith. It is also an Arabic name referring to a mountain mentioned in the Quran. It may refer to: *Judi Andersen (born 1958), beauty pageant titleholder from Hawaii who won Miss USA 1978 * Judi Ann Mason (1955–2009), American television writer, producer and playwright *Judi Bari (1949–1997), American environmentalist and labor leader, feminist, principal organizer of ''Earth First'' *Judi Barrett (born in United Kingdom) is an author of several picture books *Judi Bowker (born 1954), English television and cinema actress *Judi Brown (born 1961), American athlete who competed mainly in the 400 metre hurdles *Judi Chamberlin (1944–2010), American activist, leader, organizer, public speaker and educator in the psychiatric survivors movement *Judi Connelli (born 1947), award-winning singer and actress *Judi Dench, CH, DBE, FRSA (born 1934), English film, stage and television actress * Judi Donaghy (born ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Johnson (pitcher)
Ernest Thorwald Johnson Sr. (June 16, 1924 – August 12, 2011) was an American professional baseball player and television sports color commentator. He played in Major League Baseball as a right-handed pitcher between and . He played the majority of his career with the Boston Braves and remained with the team when they became the Milwaukee Braves in . Johnson was a member of the world champion 1957 Milwaukee Braves. He played his final season with the Baltimore Orioles. After his playing career, he became a longtime television color commentator on the TBS television network. In 2001, Johnson was inducted into the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame. He is the father of Ernie Johnson Jr. Baseball career After serving three years in the U.S. Marine Corps, Johnson made his major league debut in relief on April 28, 1950, against the Philadelphia Phillies at Shibe Park. His first big league win was also in relief, coming against the New York Giants on June 30, 1950, at the Polo Grounds ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Jacobs (basketball)
George W. "Doc" Jacobs (February 23, 1900 – May 19, 1968) was an American coach and athletic director. He served as the third head men's basketball coach at Villanova University from 1929 to 1936. A three-sport star in football, basketball and baseball at Villanova in the mid-1920s, Jacobs later became the school's baseball coach from 1933 to 1943, with a Villanova won-loss record of 106–37. After World War II in 1947, Jacobs moved to the Burlington, Vermont suburb of Winooski, where he became the athletic director at Saint Michael's College, serving in that and other athletic capacities until his death in 1968. Jacobs served as the school's baseball coach from 1948 through 1956, but it was as the school's basketball coach in the 1950s and early 1960s that he established St. Michael's NCAA Division II program, winning 159 games over a 12-year span and going to the NCAA National Division II tournament in Evansville, Indiana Indiana () is a U.S. state in the Midwestern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ted Hoehn
Edward Hoehn is an American former tennis player. Hoehn was raised in Hanover, New Hampshire, and won state high school championships for singles and doubles in both 1957 and 1958. He played collegiate tennis for the University of North Carolina, where he was team captain for two years and twice won the ACC doubles championships. In the 1960s he featured in the singles main draw of the US Championships/Open five times. A resident of Vermont Vermont () is a state in the northeast New England region of the United States. Vermont is bordered by the states of Massachusetts to the south, New Hampshire to the east, and New York to the west, and the Canadian province of Quebec to ... since 1968, Hoehn runs the Windridge Tennis & Sports Camps. He is a member of the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame (2014) and New England Hall of Fame (1992). References External links * * Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American male tennis players North Carolina T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marilyn Cochran
Marilyn Cochran Brown (born February 5, 1950) is a former FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup Alpine skiing, alpine ski racer from the United States. The eldest of four siblings of the "Skiing Cochrans" family of Richmond, Vermont, she became the first American to win a discipline championship in the FIS Alpine Ski World Cup, World Cup, triumphing in 1969 Alpine Skiing World Cup#Women.27s Giant Slalom Results, giant slalom at age 19 in 1969 Alpine Skiing World Cup, 1969. The next year, she won a bronze medal in the Alpine skiing combined, combined at the FIS Alpine World Ski Championships 1970, World Championships. Racing career Born in Burlington, Vermont, Cochran and her younger sister Barbara Cochran, Barbara (b. 1951) joined the United States Ski Team, U.S. Ski Team in 1967. She made her World Cup debut at age 18 in March 1968 Alpine Skiing World Cup, 1968, a month after the Alpine skiing at the 1968 Winter Olympics, Winter Olympics, with a pair of top ten finishes at the sea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Cochran (skier)
Robert Bruce "Bob" Cochran, M.D. (born December 11, 1951) is a former World Cup alpine ski racer from the United States. Born in Claremont, New Hampshire, Cochran was a member of the Skiing Cochrans family of Richmond, Vermont. He had one World Cup victory, four podiums, and 21 top ten finishes. His best finish in the World Cup season standings was in 1973: eighth overall and ninth in slalom. Cochran also won the combined event at Kitzbühel, Austria, the first win in that event by an American, although not an official World Cup race at the time. His sole World Cup win was in giant slalom, which he considered his weakest event. That win was the first by an American male in a World Cup giant slalom. It was Cochran's only top ten result in giant slalom, his other twenty were evenly split between downhill and slalom. At the 1972 Winter Olympics in Japan, Cochran finished eighth in the downhill and 17th in the giant slalom, but fell in the slalom. At the World Championships, he p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
