For the third year in a row, the Montville High School athletic department is seeking nominations for people or teams to join its hall of fame.

The hall of fame already includes school sports legends like four-year All State cross country runner Kim Hawkes Weidman, former physical education teacher and football coach Bill Lamphere, Montville football star and former San Francisco 49ers player Doug DuBose and the entire 1977 girls’ softball team, which won the school’s first Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference state championship.

An eight-person committee will be accepting nominations for the 2017 awards ceremony via a form on the athletic department’s website until March 13. Athletic Department director Phil Orbe said the hall of fame was created in 2015 to honor the accomplishments of former MHS athletes both on and off the field.

“Their achievements in high school, both athletically and academically, do come into play, as does what they did post-high school,” Orbe said.

The list of athletes inducted in 2015 and 2016 featured some legends in Montville athletics. The 2015 inductees included Lamphere and Paul Wrighter, which a summary on the athletic department’s website called the “the founding fathers of the Montville High School athletic program.”

Lindsey Castano, who led the Montville girl’s basketball team to the ECC Finals in 2003, captained the softball team to the 2003 ECC Medium Division Championship and went on to play softball for Southern Connecticut State University, was also inducted in 2015. Orbe said any and all suggestions for 2017 inductees are welcome.

Nominees this year must have graduated from MHS in 2006 or earlier. They should be people who current MHS students and athletes can look up to, Orbe said.

“The purpose of it is a recognition of...a history of great athletic traditions,” he said. “It certainly is something for the current athletes to aspire towards.”

Nominations can be submitted through the district’s website at montvilleschools.org. For more information email MHSHOF@montvilleschools.org.

“The more information we have the better,” Orbe said.

The inductees will be chosen by a committee and honored at a banquet sponsored by the Mohegan Tribe at the Mohegan Sun casino on May 19.

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