Sports:

• Football
• Basketball
• Track

Bill Cawley participated in football, basketball, and track and wrote for the Brown and White newspaper and the yearbook while a student at SHS, but is best remembered as a reporter for the Westerly Sun. He began his career in 1935, covering Connecticut news and sports, later becoming sports editor; after his retirement in 1982, he continued writing a column focusing on local sports. He was a founder of Words Unlimited, Rhode Island’s state organization of sports media, and is a member of the University of Rhode Island Hall of Fame.

Sports:

• Field Hockey
• Basketball
• Golf

Dora Clark participated in field hockey, basketball, and golf at SHS. She earned All-Eastern Connecticut Conference honors twice in field hockey and was second-team All-State as a junior, and played on four ECC champion teams. She is only one of six girls in SHS history who has scored over 1,000 points as a member of the basketball team; she earned AllECC honors twice and was a member of the 1992-1993 ECC champion and Class M finalist and the 1993-1994 ECC and Class M championship team. She played basketball at Sacred Heart University for four years, graduating in 2000. She also holds a master’s degree in Health Sciences from Duke University.

Sports:

• Basketball
• Track

Ed Harrison participated in basketball and track at SHS, and was a member of state championship teams in both sports. As a sophomore, he set a record in the high jump at the Eastern Connecticut Conference track meet and won that event at the state meet, with SHS placing second in Class B, and the Eastern Seaboard Invitational, setting a meet record. As a junior he set a school record in the broad jump, and won the high jump at the Connecticut Relays, the Eastern Seaboard Invitational, the Brown University Interscholastic Meet, and the Eastern Sectional Indoor Track & Field Meet, where he also placed third in the broad jump; SHS was Class B champion that year. As a senior, he was the ECC and State Class B champion in both events and also placed third in the 220 with SHS again earning runner-up status. At the University of Connecticut he lettered in soccer for two years and track for three; he was co-captain of the track team in 1961 and earned All-Yankee Conference honors. After graduating from UConn, he served in the United States Army and then entered teaching, retiring from the Stonington Public Schools in 1995.

Sports:

• Cross Country
• Basketball
• Track

Jack Morrison participated in cross-country, basketball, and track at SHS and earned All-Eastern Connecticut Conference honors in all three sports. He earned All-ECC three times in basketball and was named first team All-State as a senior, serving as captain as SHS was undefeated in the regular season and won the ECC championship. He was twice AllECC in track and placed second in the half-mile at the 1970 state meet. He won the 880 at the ECC meet, setting a conference record, and SHS was co-champion of the ECC that year with a 9-0 record. He graduated from the University of Maine and played basketball there for three seasons.

Sports:

• Football
• Basketball
• Baseball

James Cavanaugh played football, basketball, and baseball at SHS, and he was a member of state championship teams in football and basketball in his senior year. He earned All-Eastern Connecticut Conference honors in baseball as a junior and was named All-ECC in basketball as a junior and senior. He was a basketball captain in his senior year, and also earned second-team All-State recognition. He played basketball at the University of Rhode Island and graduated in 1960. He also earned a master’s degree from the University of New Haven and served as the business manager for the Stonington Public Schools for ten years. He coached youth basketball and was involved in American Legion baseball for many years, and has served on numerous town committees.

Sports:

• Basketball
• Softball

Janis Ingham participated in basketball and softball at SHS and later coached SHS to numerous conference and state honors. She played basketball for three years, serving as captain in her senior year, and participated in SHS’s first two seasons of softball. After graduating from Springfield College, she returned to Stonington and began teaching in the Stonington Public Schools. She served as head coach of track for one season and as assistant for four seasons, with SHS winning ECC titles four of those five seasons. She coached field hockey for thirteen seasons, winning nine ECC titles and reached the state championship game three times, winning the Class M title in 1987. She has received numerous conference and state awards for her coaching and teaching and was the Stonington Public Schools Teacher of the Year in 1999.

Sports:

• Field Hockey
• Basketball
• Track

Kathryn Tabor Lyon participated in field hockey, basketball, and track at SHS. A member of four Eastern Connecticut Conference championship teams in field hockey, she was named All-ECC three times and also received second-team and honorable mention All-State recognition. As a member of the basketball team, she played on the 1992-1993 ECC champion and Class M finalist and the 1993-1994 ECC champion and Class M champion; she was twice named All-ECC and as a senior was named third-team All-State. She holds school records in the heptathlon, 400m, and 4x400m, and was All-ECC and All-State in her sophomore, junior, and senior seasons. She was ECC champion in the 4x400m as a sophomore, in the long jump and 400m as a junior, and high jump and 300m hurdles as a senior. She was Class M champion in the long jump as a sophomore, and in high jump and 300m hurdles as a senior. She received the Athletic Achievement Cup in 1996 and went on to play field hockey at the University of Connecticut. She coached field hockey at Eastern Connecticut State University and currently teaches and coaches at Ledyard High School.

Sports:

• Football
• Basketball
• Baseball
• Track

Matthew Latham participated in football, basketball, baseball, and track at SHS. He was quarterback for the football team for three seasons and also played three seasons of varsity basketball, serving as co-captain in his senior year and earning All-ECC and honorable mention All-State honors in both sports. He also earned All-ECC honors in track, placing second in the javelin at the conference meet in 1981. At the University of Connecticut, he was a three-year starter at safety and was ranked nationally in both interceptions and punt returns during his senior season, during which he served as a team captain. He earned All-Yankee Conference and All-East Coast Athletic Conference honors and holds the UConn record for team interceptions. In 1998 he was named to UConn’s All-Time Football Team, which recognized the top 44 players in school history. After graduation, he played in preseason National Football League games with both the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers.

Sports:

• Football
• Basketball
• Cross Country
• Baseball

Robert McCaffrey participated in football, cross-country, basketball, baseball, and track at SHS, earning a total of 13 letters. In 1926, he placed first in the Eastern Connecticut-Western Rhode Island Conference 440-yard race and was a member of the championship relay team as SHS won the conference championship. He was also basketball captain and president of the S Club in his senior year. He attended the University of Connecticut and graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy, where he played varsity football and basketball for four years, serving as football captain for the 1931 season. He graduated from CGA in 1933 and had a distinguished career in the Coast Guard. He later worked on the Apollo program for North American Aviation.

Sports:

• Football
• Basketball
• Baseball

Robert Shea participated in football, basketball, and baseball at SHS, and was a member of the 1939 Class B championship football team. As a senior, he led SHS to a 16-3 record in basketball, a school best at the time, and earned all-conference honors in baseball. A member of the University of Rhode Island Hall of Fame, he played basketball and was a co-captain in his senior season, when he led URI to the finals of the National Invitational Tournament. He played in the first season of the National Basketball Association for the Providence Steamrollers and scored the first-ever basket against the Boston Celtics. He received a master’s degree in history from URI and was a long-time history teacher and department chair at SHS, retiring in 1984.