When an umpire was giving sophomore pitcher Sean Johnston a hard time, Veleas said, “Stop yelling at my player,” Johnston recalled.

Tony Legnani learned about Bob Johnson from newspaper clippings his mother had sent him, while he was on active duty in Okinawa.

After playing youth soccer for several years, Catherine Voelpel was hesitant to take up a new sport, running.

Amy Bordonaro Collins is a two-fer, a double-dose of athletic and academic excellence.

Jason Pires says Brittany Labbadia is on his “Mount Rushmore” of softball players he has coached at Berlin High School.

Berlin High School girls golf coach Jim Barnes looked out from the boisterous bus as it approached the Timberlin Golf Course clubhouse, after the team had won its first CIAC state championship in 2011.

Early in the 1999 baseball season the team was demolishing the opposition.

Adela Sarra McLaughlin's advocacy for girls' athletics was laudatory throughout her almost 40 years as an educator, coach and athletic administrator in the Berlin school system.

Aldo Zovich was a freshman at Berlin High School in 1976 when he went out for the first wrestling team in school history.

Anthony Marzi was an established pitcher on the UConn baseball team in 2013.