Ron was a 1982 graduate, who was a three sport athlete (baseball, football and basketball) and lettered many times over during his years at WHS. He led the football team to a co-championship title in the CVC by defeating Newington 21-7. Their overall record was 7 wins and 3 losses, the second best record ever achieved by the Football team prior to 1982. If not for a heartbreaking 14-13 loss under the lights at Xavier, the Warriors would have qualified for a State Championship title. He was selected All-State in his senior year and All-CVC football in his junior and senior years as running back and safety.

Ron helped pace the 1981-1982 basketball team, which placed 3rd in the CVC and qualified for CIAC state tournament for the 4th year in a row.

Ron's real passion was baseball, where he was selected to All Conference in both his junior and senior years, being selected All-CVC as junior and senior, and All District in his senior year as a catcher.

Ron went on to graduate from Norfolk State University in Virginia in 1997, where he was awarded All-Virginia Catcher and All-MEAC (Mid Eastern Athletic Conference) in his junior year of college. Ron was professionally drafted by the New York Mets organization.

Ron still resides in Windsor and actively supports WHS football through volunteering, and has coached many teams over the years of raising his own family including travel basketball, Windsor Giants Football, and Windsor American Little League baseball. Ron's two sons (Ronald Douglas (RD) and Pierre) have also been fortunate to be successful in athletics in high school and college. His family also includes two brothers Maurice Dougie (posthumously) and parents that have always encouraged him to excel. Ron currently works at Sovereign Bank in Windsor as a Branch Manager.

Lou Allen graduated from Windsor High School in 1970. He was one of the best athletes to ever wear a Windsor uniform, participating in football, basketball and track. He was a three-year letter winner in all three. As a football player, Lou was a four-time "Player of the Week" as selected by the former Hartford Times, was selected to the All-Central Valley Conference team, the all Greater Hartford area team, and as a senior, was an Honorable Mention All-American. He was a dominant performer in track, as he was selected to both the All-Central Valley Conference and All-State track teams in the 100-yard dash, 200-yard dash and the long jump.

Following his Windsor High School career, Lou went on to play at UConn. He was a three-year varsity letter winner there and in 1973 was the leading rusher and scorer. Lou also lettered in both indoor and outdoor track and as a student, Lou was a UConn Football Scholar. Following graduation from UConn in 1974, Lou entered the education field, where he has had a distinguished career. He began his career at St. Thomas More Prep School. At St. Thomas he served as an Assistant Headmaster, Dean of Students, Athletic Director, Summer School Director and Teacher. He coached various sports, serving as the Head Football, Track and Varsity Hockey Coach, while also assisting with Varsity Crew.

From St. Thomas More, he served as an administrator at Norwich Free Academy, principal of New London High School, Director of Operations and Personnel for the New London Board of Education and is currently the Director of the Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut. Lou received his Master's Degree from Eastern Connecticut State University in 1984 and his Sixth Year Certificate in Educational Administration and Supervision from Southern Connecticut State University in 1988.

Rose is a 1986 graduate of Windsor High School. She arrived in a town where she didn't know anyone. She worried for about 5 minutes and then started making friends through sports. Rose's exposure to sport in Windsor began when met two great men who guided her; Bill Walsh and Bobby Knight who asked her to come down to St. Gabriel's School for a pick-up basketball scrimmage. After that scrimmage game she knew she was going on to do some amazing things in sport.

Here are a few of those accomplishments:

• 3 Season athlete: Soccer, Basketball and Track & Field
• Goalkeeper for the Class L State Championship Team
• Currently holds Class "L" Outdoor Track & Field Shot Put Record
• Currently holds the Randy Smith Journal Inquirer Greater Manchester Track & Field Invitational Meet record for the Shot Put
• Placed 4th in the Shot put at Golden West Meet
• Junior Olympics (broke the previous heptathlon record by 143 points)
• American East Conference Indoor Shot Put champion 1993 - 95, Outdoor champion in 1996.

All these accomplishments could never of been achieved without some very special people in her life. Her parents, her sister Jocelyn Knight, Ganesha Knight, Anna Hall, Coaches Charles Vola, Phil Mielcarz, Frans Krot, John Barresi, Keith McDermott, Sherman Hart and Butch Braswell.

Sheila is a 1980 graduate of Windsor High School, a versatile athlete who earned varsity letters in field hockey, basketball and softball in each year of her high school career, culminating by being awarded the Windsor Cup and her selection as Class of 1980 Female Athlete of the Year. She also captained the three sports and earned All-Conference honors in each. In her junior year of basketball, Sheila was the first Windsor female athlete selected to the New Haven Register All-State second team. In her senior year, Sheila was selected as a first team New Haven Register All-State and was one of fifty women in the country selected as a PREP-All America Girl Athlete by the National High School Coaches Association.

In her junior year, her field hockey team won Windsor's first-ever State Championship and in her senior year, the girls' basketball team was the runner-up in the State Finals in an overtime contest.

Sheila received a four-year scholarship to attend the University of Vermont where she captained the basketball team during her sophomore, junior and senior years. At UVM, she earned a B.S. degree in education and took pleasure in volunteering for the International Olympics.

Sheila is a special education teacher at the CREC River Street School in Windsor. In addition to teaching children with special needs, Sheila was a Connecticut Board Certified Basketball Official and officiated high school basketball games throughout the Greater Hartford Area. Currently, Sheila coaches the River Street School Unified Sports Basketball Team. Unified Sports is a partnership between Special Olympics and the CT Association of Schools. In

2006, Sheila was an award recipient recognized by CAS-CIAC as a "Friend of Unified Sports." Sheila is a Unified Sports League Commissioner for the CCC Basketball Program. Sheila resides in Windsor with her son Drew.

Marty McMahon is a 1981 graduate of Windsor High School. Before arriving at WHS, he was an active member of the Windsor Water Rats. While at Windsor High, he was a member of both the Track & Field Team and a captain of the Cross Country Team. In his junior year WHS fielded its first swim team. Marty was a co-captain of this first team along with Bob Hepler. During its first two years the team was populated with mostly novice swimmers. Its record for these first two years was 2 wins and 24 losses. The team laid the groundwork for more successful future teams. During these first two years, Marty won almost all of his individual races. His senior year, he represented the team (alone) at the Class LL State Championships and Windsor came in 6th in the team competition based on Marty's performance. Marty left WHS holding 8 of the 9 individual records. (He never had a chance during the high school season to swim the 9th event - but broke that record a week after the season in a meet).

Marty continued his education at Villanova University playing three years on the Division I Water Polo Team. His senior year of college he trained for an attempt to swim the English Channel. On August 28, 1985 Marty became the first Connecticut resident to swim the English Channel in a time of 11 hours 14 minutes and 21 seconds. Four years later at the age of 26 he swam around the island of Manhattan (28 miles). He continued to do shorter swims through the years including Candlewood Lake (10 miles), Chesapeake Bay (4.4 miles), Little Red Lighthouse -Hudson River (6.2 miles) and Alcatraz (1.5 miles).

In 2009 at the age of 46, Marty swam across Long Island Sound (16 miles). During a 2011 attempt at Catalina Island (20 miles), Marty was able to raise over $8,000 for autism. Marty is a financial advisor with Edward Jones in Windsor. He makes his home in Simsbury with his wife Liza (Gustafson) McMahon (WHS Class of 83) and their two children.

Paul was a life-long Windsor resident. He was a son to Gloria and Rudy, a husband to Sue, a father to Todd, Meghan, and Josh, a brother to Bob and Charlie, a friend to many of us, and a coach and mentor to literally hundreds of children. Paul graduated from Windsor High School in 1965. He was selected to the All-Conference Soccer Team as a Goalie in 1964 and 1965.

Paul was a dedicated, long time Volunteer in several Youth Sports Programs in the Town of Windsor for over 22 years. His Leadership both as an Administrator and Coach has had a lasting effect on all the adults and youths that came in contact with him. Paul was a person who touched many of our lives and who is fondly remembered by many of us. Paul's dedication to Windsor Youth Sports was unsurpassed. He coached more than 60 teams in Baseball, Soccer, and Basketball. His "resume" includes:

• Little League Coach
• Youth Soccer Coach
• Little League All Star Coach
• Youth Travel Soccer Coach
• Jaycee Courant Baseball Coach
• Youth Basketball Coach
• American Legion Baseball Coach
• Youth Travel Basketball Coach
• President & Founder of the Windsor Instructional Basketball League
• Board of Directors of the Windsor Travel Soccer Club

After his untimely death in 1996, Paul received the Windsor Rotary Club's "Paul Harris Award", given to "Windsor's Man of Year." Also, the Windsor Travel Soccer League honored Paul by naming its' Columbus Day Soccer Tournament "The Paul Cody Columbus Day Soccer Tournament."

Ken Smith began coaching at Windsor High School during the 1989-90 Season. He is still presently coaching the Windsor Warriors Boys Basketball team. His coaching record to this point is 468 wins and 114 losses. During this time he has won 3 State Championship titles (Class LL) , 1 Finalist, 17 CCC West\ North League Titles, and 8 CCC Conference Championships.

• Coaching awards that he has received are: Referees Sportsmanship Award
• Greater Hartford Hoop Group Club Educator of the Year
• Windsor "Bridges" Award Winner
• Windsor High School Citizen of the Year Award
• Connecticut High School Coaches Association Coach of the Year
• Conn High School Coaches Association Basketball All-Star Selection Committee
• Former Vice President Connecticut Black Coaches Association CIAC Boys Basketball Committee I CCC Coaches Liaison Member of the New England Coaches Hall of Fame
• Director of the Windsor Police Athletic League for Basketball
• Lectured and taught at numerous basketball camps, and clinics across the country
• Pioneer in starting A.A.U. boys basketball in the State of Connecticut

Ken is a retired correction officer of 27 years and presently employed by Windsor Board of Education as security for Windsor High School.

Ken has been happily married to his lovely bride Patricia for 30 years and she has blessed him with 3 children; 2 sons Tylon and Keyon, as well as their lovely daughter Rajiah.

1978 was not expected to be a great year for the Windsor field hockey team. There were a lot of changes. Some very good players were returning, but there were significant holes to fill. Some of those holes would be filled by first year players. Their experienced goalie wanted to play on the forward line so a rookie was put in the cage. She was probably the shortest player to ever put on the pads. This group was destined to become a team. It took some time for them to put it all together. After six games, their record was 2-2-2 but they were beginning to look like a team. Their rallying cry became "The new sea­son begins today." They never lost or tied another game finishing the season at 14-2-2. There truly was no "I" in their TEAM. The leading scorer was able to set a record because of many great assists. The goalie had an incredible string of saves and shutouts, but many shutouts were saved by the defensive players in front of her.

They followed a unique path through the state tournament. This included the famous goalie switch to beat Simsbury and the "approved" wearing of an ice hockey helmet by a field player to protect facial stitches. The championship game included debates with the trainer over which injured players could stay in the game. They really were held together with tape and stitches.

This team truly was the greatest field hockey team ever to play at Windsor High School.