Waterford — People who (constantly) do for others get bashful sometimes when the spotlight is turned on them, perhaps making this not one of Jody Nazarchyk’s favorite things to read ever.

Sorry, Jody.

She does too much to let this occasion pass without ballyhoo, hullabaloo and any other “ooo” you’d care to mention.

Nazarchyk, a near 50-year resident of Waterford, a woman who has been a declarative voice for kids in town, will be part of the latest class inducted into the Waterford Sports Hall of Fame. Congrats to the committee for — once again — not merely hitting all the right notes with the inductees, but for hitting one into what Dennis Eckersley would call the upper tank on Nazarchyk.

Nazarchyk is best known as a 25-year member of the Board of Education, or perhaps the friendly face in the concession stand at all the high school games.

She’s also taught CCD at St. Paul’s, served on the Southwest Elementary and Clark Lane PTOs, the School Building Committee, Youth Service Board, Parents’ Liaison Council, Waterford Week Committee and Friendship School Governing Board. She’s been a Little League coach and member of the booster club. There’s more but my fingers are tired from typing everything.

And yet Nazarchyk told Hall of Fame committee member Jim Cavalieri, the man becoming the town’s unofficial sports historian, that she didn’t think she deserved any of this.

“I said, ‘Jody, you’re a slam dunk,’” Cavalieri said last week.

Indeed. My favorite Jody story came from 2012 when dimmer bulbs in town threatened to cut freshman sports at the high school.

Nazarchyk, unaware if she had enough support from her colleagues at a Board meeting, made the motion to preserve freshman sports during budget discussions. She didn't have time to dissect the moment because she was immersed in it, instead exploring her Tom Cruise Moment. Nazarchyk mimicked Cruise’s timeless line from Risky Business: “Sometimes, you just gotta say what the (heck).”

Maybe she waved the banner for sports because she played them as a kid (as did her children) and coached them as an adult. Maybe because she still volunteers her time at the concession stand during Waterford games.

"Sports are part of the high school experience, like drama or music," Nazarchyk said. "Children need something to do."

And yet in so many towns, the unwritten code goes like this: Children need something to do, so long as my taxes don't go up.

Question: What if Nazarchyk never said a word? Forget that varsity sports wouldn't get their feeder programs. An appreciable number of kids in town would have been denied a chance to make new friends on the various freshman teams and invest themselves into their school early.

Nazarchyk’s motion was approved. Good thing. Since 2012, the freshman sports Nazarchyk saved have contributed to state championships in six different sports in six years at Waterford High.

Nazarchyk has aw-shucksed her way to helping thousands of kids with the unspoken genius of constant effort. She illustrates that everyone's quality of life increases, even if by a mere blip, when people in town are daring enough to be daring enough to connect others to a Greater Good.

Can’t wait to be there Nov. 23 at Great Neck Country Club to honor her and the night’s other winners: Marc Benvenuti (swimming, 1991); Sam Cheung (basketball, 1997); Kerrianne Dugan Jensen (basketball, 2007); Bob Eldridge (baseball/football, 1966); Bob Kelley (coached cross country and track); Rick McGuire (football, basketball, baseball, 1971); Melvin Twitty (football, baseball, 1970); Greg Sweeney (basketball, 1971) and the 1968 baseball team, the late great Gerry Rousseau’s first championship team.

Notez bien: This is not a slight to the other honorees. All well-deserving. But Jody Nazarchyk is still bleeding Lancer Blue long after her kids have graduated. Still serving the kids and the town. Still schlepping to the concession stand on cold winter nights when she could be home by the fire doing what all good residents in this corner of the world do now: watching the games live on theday.com.

Instead, she’s still a union rep for kids all these years later.

Tickets are $40 and are available at the high school and Filomenas. Cocktail hour at 6 and hors d’oeuvres/carving stations at 7 (no formal dinner). It’s a night for all who have an affinity for Waterford to enjoy.

And to salute a wonderful class, led by a woman who personifies all that’s good about the 06385.

This is the opinion of Day sports columnist Mike DiMauro