2008 Hall of Fame and Awards Dinner
April 18th, 2008

We had the largest turn out in years.  We had more than 86 attendees.  It was great to see many of the past club members and especially great to see the scholarship athletes and their families.  You might have seen the story in the Lowell Sun (click here). 

 But if you missed it – Here are the awards:

The scholarship athletes are:                    

Chris Brown of Chelmsford	David Hausherr of North Middlesex		Alyssa Pisarik of Chelmsford
Jeff Veiga of Lowell		Kate Warwick of Acton-Boxboro

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2007 Runner of the Year

 
Benjamin Ndaya

2007 Volunteer of the Year

Jessica Costa

2008 Hall of Fame Inductees

Dan Wasileuskas, Gerard Ottaviano, Peg Donovan

It was a great evening- with great stories from coach George Davis (for Peg), Dave Camire (for Dan and Gerard), Tom Carroll (for Dan) and Jack Pierce (for Gerard). 

We started with dinner.  While we were eating we presented our 2007 GLRR Year in Review Slide Show.  You can see the slide show and get the individual pictures here.

We started with the Scholarships -

Chris Brown of Chelmsford High School Chris was captain of the Fall Cross Country team, the Winter indoor Track Team and the Spring Outdoor Track Team. He was MVP for all three teams He was selected as a Lowell Sun All-star, and selected for the Globe and the Herald All-Scholastic teams. Chris was the Class A Mass indoor mile champion He also excelled academically as an Honor Roll student in the top 12% of his class He will be running next year at Brandeis University, where he will be majoring in Physics.

David Hausherr of North Middlesex High School Four year member of the varsity XC, Indoor Track and Outdoor track teams 10 time Midland Wachusett league champion 5 time Central Mass District Champion 7 time Lowell Sun All Star 2 time Runner of the Year for cross country multiple time team captain and MVP for track and cross country Division 2 2mile Indoor Champion this past winter 7th at the all state cross country championship meet David has 1:59 800, 4:28 mile, 9:27 2 mile and a 15:56 5K David will be running next year at La Salle University

Alyssa Pisarik of Chelmsford High School Four year member of the varsity XC, Indoor Track and Outdoor track teams Lowell Sun XC All-Star in 05, 06 and 07 Lowell Sun Indoor All-Star on 08 Part of the indoor 4x800 school record holding team Part of the indoor 4X800 MVC champions MVP of the outdoor track, XC and indoor track teams MVC 2-mile champion for 07 outdoor and 08 indoor Div 1 2-mile indoor 08 champion in 11:13 School record holder for 2-miles in 11:11 CHS National Honor Society junior and senior year Treasurer of Spanish Honor Society Assistant Production Editor-in-Chief of The Lion yearbook

Jeff Veiga of Lowell High School Jeff has been a multiple sport participant in soccer, tennis, cross country and track Varsity indoor track for 3 years MVC all conference in XC and indoor track Team MVP in XC Lowell Sun All-star XC and indoor track Globe XC All star 5th in the 2-mile at Div 1 Championship 10th in the 2-mile at the All-State Championship 16th at Div 1 XC Championship Active in more than just sports, Jeff is a member of the International Language Club, the Science Club, DECA and he’s the PR officer for the Portuguese Speakers Club. Like David, if your run Baystate, Jeff has probably handed you a cup of water or Gatorade at mile 2. As a recipient of the John and Abigail Adams scholarship, Jeff will be running at ULowell next year.

Kate Warwick of Acton/Boxboro High School Four years of XC, indoor and outdoor track Three time Duel meet all star team Four time Lowell Sun All-Star for XC, indoor and outdoor track Holds the Acton/Boxboro school record in the 2 mile at 11:21 Kate is a consistent honor roll student She will be running for either Brandies or Bates next fall.

They took time to pose with Glenn Stewart, President of GLRR:

It was then onto the Awards for Volunteer of the Year and Runner of the Year:

Of course the big stars of the night were our hall of fame inductees.

Our Master of Ceremonies was our good friend and Hall of Famer - Jack Pierce

Leading off was Peg Donovan.  She was introduced by her GLRR coach George Davis.

Next up was Dan Wasileuskas

Dan was introdcued and roasted by Hall of Famers Dave Camire and Tom Carroll.

In the cleanup slot was Gerard Ottaviano

Gerard was introduced by ??, Dave Camire and Jack Pierce.

As is tradition (now) at these meetings - we gathered the Hall of Famers for group picture:

Tom Carroll, John Barbour, Gerard Ottaviano, Phil Riley, Peg Donovan, Jack Pierce, Dan Wasileuskas, Colin Gould, Jean Boswell, Dave Camire, Jimmy Shelton.

We capped the evening by taking a picture of everyone.  This is displayed below.  Below the picture is is a list of everyone I can identify in the picture.  If you can help click here to send me mail.

Front left to right: Anh Lewin's Kids?
2nd Row: Benjamin Ndaya, Lynda Merrill, Anh Lewin, Cathy O'Donnell, Jessica Costa, Tom Peters, Jeff Veiga
3rd Row: Peter Molloy, Amy Molloy, MaryBeth McKinney, a gap, Bethany Lindst, Andrea Shelton, Jimmy Shelton, Glenn Stewart, Mark Coddaire, Tom Carroll
4th Row: Alyssa Pisarik, Krista Byam, Peg Donovan, Nick Mullen, Jonathan Mackenzie, Dan Wasileuskas, Tom Amiro, Colin Gould, Mark Blaisdell, Steve Kanaracus
Last Row: Gerard's Wife (help), Gerard Ottaviano, John Barbour, Jean Boswell, Dennis Price, Andy Chandonnet, Paul Kelly, John Morrison, Chip Mann, Phil Riley, Matt Lewin, Jim Stronach, Nancy Stronach, Jack Pierce, Dave Camire,

And as I said at the meeting - we'd not be here at all if not for the early club members.  In that regard - here is a an club picture from September 1985.  Click on the picture for a hi-res version.

If you can put names to the faces, and/or you can shed light on the circumstances of this picture - click this link to send me mail