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Congratulations to Gary Leonard '80 who was inducted into the Queen City Hall of Fame in Manchester, New Hampshire. Leonard graduated from West High School in 1976, where he played four years of football, was team captain, and was an All-State selection as a senior. He also wrestled for four years and played basketball for three. At Colby he was a starter and letter winner for four years in football. After graduating he began coached wrestling and football from 1980 to 2002. In his spare time he coaches Little League baseball and football in Bedford and CYO basketball. Brian McDormand '77, who last winter coached the first-year Lee Academy postgraduate men's basketball team, is Mattanawcook Academy's new girls head coach in Lincoln, Maine. McDormand is a 1973 graduate of Lynn (Mass.) English High School and played basketball for Colby. He went on to coach at several high schools in and around Lynn. One career highlight came in 2004 when he was named the Boston Globe Division 3 coach of the year after leading the Lynnfield High girls basketball team to a 20-5 record and a berth in the state championship game. McDormand compiled a 70-19 record in four years at Lynnfield, and was named Cape Ann League coach of the year in 2003. After retiring from a 25-year career with Hansen Engineering and Machinery Inc. in Danvers, Mass., a subsidiary of General Electric, McDormand and his wife moved to Lowell, Maine, where they lived for the past year. Mattanawcook finished the 2005-06 season with a 13-5 record, good for eighth place in Eastern Maine Class B. Pete Morelli '02 and Ted Farwell '05 are the first Colby men's rowers to earn a place on the U.S. National Rowing Team. Morelli and Farwell were both off to compete at the 2006 FISA World Rowing Championships in Eton, England, on August 20-27. Farwell and Morelli were both captains at Colby. The pair also both rowed for the Mules at the Henley Royal Regatta in England. Colby had its best finish ever, placing 31st in the nation among NCAA Division III athletics programs in the 2005-06 U.S. Sports Academy Director's Cup. The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA), the U.S. Sports Academy, and USA Today awards the Director's Cup. Points are accorded based on finishes in the NCAA tournaments. Women's cross country, volleyball, women's alpine skiing, women's swimming, men's swimming, women's indoor track and field, men's indoor track and field, women's lacrosse, and men's outdoor track and field scored points for Colby in the final standings. The Mules finished with 372.5 points. The Director's Cup was started for Division III athletics programs in 1995-96. The best previous finish for Colby was 34th in 2004-05. Eight of the 11 New England Small College Athletic Conference (NESCAC) colleges and universities are in the top 50. |
