Three to be inducted
into UMPI Athletic Hall of Fame
The University of Maine at Presque Isle’s Athletic Hall of Fame will grow by three Saturday as Erica (McGary) Tweedie (Class of 2004), Shawn Windle (Class of 1996) and Larry Worcester (Class of 1988) are set to be inducted.
Tickets to the induction banquet and ceremony, which begins at 5:30 p.m. and takes place at the Campus Center, are $15. Contact Connie Levesque at the UMPI athletic office at 768-9506 for more information.
Bios of the three inductees are as follows:
Erica (McGary) Tweedie
Tweedie finished a brilliant basketball career with the Owls as the team’s all-time leading scorer with 1,256 points. 
She starred as a freshman, being named MVP of the Star City Tournament and averaging 11 points and six rebounds per contest during the season. She progressed throughout her career and as a senior averaged 16 ppg and 10 rebounds per game.
Tweedie was named conference “player of the week” on six occasions during her career and as a senior was first-team all-conference and second-team all-state. Following her final season, she was also named team MVP and the university’s female athlete of the year.
“Erica was dominant and a go-to player down the stretch in games,” said her coach, Alan Gordon. “In fact, we ran the same play for four years when we need a score at the end of games and I don’t remember her not scoring or getting to the free throw line and not missing a free throw.
The coach called her a “knockdown shooter” from 15 feet in and said that her versatility made her a match-up problem for opponents.
“If teams put a guard on her, we’d post her up and if they put a post on her, we’d bring her out to the perimeter,” Gordon said. “She could score from anywhere.”
Her teammates describe Tweedie as a player who had a true passion for the game who gave nothing less than her best every day.
She is employed by MSAD 29 in Houlton, her hometown, as a teacher. She has coached girls basketball, softball and soccer in the district. She currently is the girls’ JV coach at Houlton High School.
Tweedie resides in Houlton with her husband, Tim, and their two children, Jay and Ty.
Shawn Windle
Windle’s career as a student-athlete at UM-Presque Isle was short-lived, yet he would go on to have arguably the biggest impact on sports at the highest collegiate and professional level than any other student to walk through Wieden Hall. 
At UMPI, he found a way to combine his love for sports with a fulfilling career. Windle was known as a great teammate who was always concerned about helping make the team better, and brought that trait into athletic training as well as strength and conditioning.
“There is nothing superficial, nor is there any hidden motivation in Shawn’s demeanor and because of this, people trust and believe in him,” said former Owl basketball coach Karl Henrikson. “Through UMPI, he had matured, found his passion as an athletic trainer and began to chart his professional course without hesitation.
“I have no doubt that the respect he has now earned from the players he trains and from the peers he interacts with is not solely derived from his skills and knowledge, but through his sincerity and understanding of ‘team.’”
The Auburn native is now in his seventh year as strength and conditioning coach of the NBA’s Indiana Pacers.
Windle was recently named “strength and conditioning coach of the year” by the National Basketball Strength and Conditioning Association, of which he serves as president.
He now resides in Westfield, Ind. with his wife, Stacee, and their children, Elijah, Gabrielle and Brady.
Larry Worcester
Worcester was a standout basketball player for the Owls in the mid- to late-1980s, and then went on to become a successful high school coach of the sport for a number of years. 
Worcester was a three-year starter and two-time team MVP. He was an all-conference selection and was a Maine small college senior all-star in 1988. He became the university’s eighth 1,000-point scorer and finished with 1,159 points. Worcester led the state in both free throw percentage (90.6%) and three-point percentage (57.7%) during the 1987-88 campaign.
Serving as co-captain both his junior and senior season, Worcester was renowned for his leadership skills, as stated by a former teammate and another member of the UMPI Athletic Hall of Fame, Terry Cummings.
“I was an incoming freshman and was quite nervous and overwhelmed at first, however, one guy who made my transition much easier was Larry,” Cummings said. “He welcomed me and [fellow freshman] Maurice Ware as teammates and helped us develop our game and never looked down on us.”
Cummings remembers Worcester’s shooting exploits in one weekend in particular. He scored 26 points on seven three-pointers in a Saturday game and then poured in 32, with another seven threes, on Sunday.
“I could not have asked for a better teammate,” Cummings said.
Worcester coached boys and girls varsity basketball at Easton, Narraguagus and Washburn, with his teams making the tournament 14 of his 17 years at the helm. He was named coach of the year on four occasions.
He also coached soccer for 16 years, volleyball for 13 and baseball and softball for two.
He has served as a physical education instructor, assistant principal, athletic director and principal during his many years in education. Currently, he is the superintendent of schools for SAD 24 in Van Buren and officiates soccer and basketball, which he has done for more than 20 years.
He and his wife, Kim, reside in Washburn with their children, Mitchell and Mackenzie.
