An inadvertent elbow opened a gash above Kaitlyn Bovee's left eye in a 2010 Class L basketball quarterfinal. "She was patched on the sideline and returned to play," coach Sheila McCabe-King said. "She never let her teammates down."

Katelyn Zarotney enjoyed volleyball, but her favorite sport was basketball.  She excelled in this roundball sport, in which she ranks first in Berlin history in career field goals (488), rebounds (829) and blocks (113) and second in scored points (1,267).

Kory Kevorkian graduated from Berlin High School in 2001 where he played 3 sports. He played baseball in his Freshman and Sophomore years, track and field his Junior and Senior years, and football all four years.

Larry Barber needed only a few strides from his front yard on Patterson Way to reach the north end zone of the original Berlin High School football field.

Max DeLorenzo is the greatest rusher in Berlin High School history. Current and future Redcoats will chase No. 44’s 5,040 career yards.

Here's a few things Nikki Kureczka couldn't get around to doing; wash dishes, mow the lawn, change a tire. That's because she was doing everything else.

Rex Smith taught math and coached tennis at Berlin High for 38 years. He directed state tournaments for the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference for over 25 years.

Freshman Ryan DiPietro homered on the first pitch he saw as a varsity player in a Class L second-round game at Zipadelli Field. 

The most difficult opponents for players on the 2000 and '01 Berlin boys golf teams were usually themselves.

Scott Trevethan's favorite tennis player was Andre Agassi because he was the same age, of similar size and, most importantly, his resolve was unwavering.

Cliff Landry was a proud contributor to on and off the athletic field.  He was the first person Al Pelligrinelli, the winningest football coach in school history, cited in an interview with The Hartford Courant about the line of Berlin coaches he had tried to follow with distinction.

After Robert Facey Jr. was notified of his 2022 Hall of Fame induction, he said: "It's so humbling if I made a little contribution to Berlin football and an honor to be in such prestigious company."

The arena never mattered to Daniel Klotz, who said, “I was very competitive to be on top, whatever pond I was put into.”  Most times, his times were the best. 

When Berlin High School baseball coach Leo Veleas was looking for an assistant coach in 1990, Frank Naples just showed up. “I didn’t know he wanted to be a coach,“ Veleas said. “I just knew him as an athlete.”

Jim Barnes had just retired from his position with an insurance corporation in 2009 during his daughter Erica’s senior season with the Berlin High School girls golf team.

A driving range, which was located less than a mile from Julia Kemmling’s home, is an abandoned grassy field adjoining an industrial park on the Berlin Turnpike today. Though the range has vanished, memories remain.

Competitors in the 55-meters race in the 2006 Class M state indoor meet in New Haven were getting settled in their starting blocks. That’s when Berlin High School sophomore Jaime Rasmussen Flotre found herself next to defending champion senior Sashuana Stewart of Weaver High-Hartford.

These 14–15-year-olds were prodigies of the first order. “It started when we were in Little League,” Kyle Cooney said. “We grew up together and were known as the ‘Dirty Dozen.’ ”

Kyle Vazquez didn’t just play on Berlin High School’s Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference championship baseball and basketball teams; he shined in the preeminent contests of those seasons.

Those 1947-48 Berlin High School football teams looked like all other football teams of the era: leather helmets, no faceguards, almost no passing plays and wool jerseys. It was Wing-T and Single-Wing for offense and quick, bulldog lines.