Westfield State Athletics

Six former Westfield State standouts, including track and cross country star Tom Maher, will be inducted into the college’s Athletics Hall of Fame during the 2009 Alumni Weekend.

The 14th annual inductions will be held Friday evening, Oct. 23, in Scanlon Banquet Hall on the Westfield campus. Once inducted there will be 99 distinguished Owls in the hall.

Greg Gauvin (‘96) is the all-time leading scorer in Westfield State basketball history; Andrea Bertini (’96) earned national acclaim for her 3-point shooting and led the women’s basketball team to four straight postseason appearances; Maher (’92) and Linda (Phillips) O’Brien (’92) were both standouts in cross country and track and field; Carlos Canino (’88) was a football all-conference defensive back and punt returner; and Bob Pepka was an All-New England volleyball player.

For ticket information, contact 413-572-5433.

For additional information on each inductee, click on the Hall of Fame link under Athletic Dept. on the main page.

Track and field standout Jovaney Toledo was one of five Westfield State College students among the honorees at the Massachusetts Hall of Black Achievement (HOBA) annual awards ceremony recently held at Bridgewater State College.

Since 1998 Westfield State student-athletes have attended the NCAA National Student-Athlete Development Conference. This year two Owls, Mike Chapin and Ian Wilson, have been chosen for the conference, which will take place May 24-27 in Orlando, Fla., at the Walt Disney World Coronado Spring Resort.

The primary purpose of the conference is leadership development.

“The goal is to understand their own leadership traits, figure out their strong traits, and try to work on their weaker ones,” said Nancy Bals, Westfield State associate athletics director.

Andrea Wasuk (basketball) and Phil Gingras (cross country/track) were
named the Westfield State 2009 female and male scholar-athletes of the 
year for having the highest cumulative grade point averages of the Westfield
senior student-athletes. Making the presentation at the college's varsity
sports banquet is Dr. Diana Schwartz, left, Westfield State's NCAA faculty
athletics representative.