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.

Alexys Vazquez, sitting in the back seat of the family car, often was on her phone in search of an open fitness center basketball court, so later she could shoot some three-pointers, while older brother Kyle played baseball.