PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — They are undoubtedly the most talented father-daughter combination to play basketball at Presque Isle High School, and this Saturday afternoon in Worcester, Mass., both will be recognized for their brilliant careers as inductees into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame.
Steve Condon
(Contributed photo)
Steve Condon will also be inducted into the Maine Basketball Hall of Fame during a ceremony slated for Aug. 23 in Bangor. But this Saturday will be an especially memorable one for the Condon family. The two were notified in June of the honorSteve Condon and his daughter, Kim Condon-Lane, are going into the shrine together, both as part of the hall’s high school category. The Condons are also members of the Presque Isle High School Athletic Hall of Fame, with Kim elected to the inaugural class and her father part of the second class.
“It really doesn’t get any more exciting than to be able to go into a hall of fame with one of your children,” said Steve Condon in a phone interview Monday night. “It’s definitely a really fun time for us right now.”
The resumes for each are impressive. Steve Condon was a brilliant player for the Wildcats, graduating in 1971 after being named a two-time Bangor Daily News All-Maine selection and the state’s Gatorade Player of the Year his senior year, as well as garnering All-American honors. His team captured an Eastern Maine title his final season, falling short in the state game to South Portland.
He went on to play two years at Leicester Junior College in Mass. before taking his talents to Div. I University of Maine, where he started for two years, averaged double figures in points both years and served as captain his senior season. He established a school-record for single-game field goal percentage by making 18 of 20 field goal attempts in the Black Bears’ upset over nationally-ranked Virginia Commonwealth University. He was a two-time All-Yankee Conference selection, making the first team as a senior.
Steve Condon is a regional sales representative for the Bangor-based Dennis Food Service. He and his wife, Becky, reside in Presque Isle.
Kim Condon-Lane
(Staff photo/Kevin Sjoberg)
Kim Condon-Lane wrapped up a stellar career with a dream season as a senior for the Wildcats in 1997. Presque Isle captured the Class A state title and she still holds the ‘A’ record for points in a state championship game with 41. She was also voted Miss Maine Basketball and like her father was named the state’s Gatorade Player of the Year.
She was a Bangor Daily News All-State player and is one of the Wildcats’ few 1,000-point career scorers. Condon-Lane went on to play at Colby College and scored 1,000 points before injuries ended her playing career midway through her junior year. She still is among the college’s all-time leading scorers.
Condon-Lane currently resides in Richmond with her husband, Mike, and their two young children. She served as a lobbyist for several years before attending and graduating from Parson School of Design in New York City in 2012. She currently works as a designer out of her home.
They will be inducted along with another former Aroostook County great — Peter S. Kelley, who starred at Caribou from 1955-1958.
Also going in as part of the high school category from Maine will be Toby Martin, a 2005 graduate of Maranacook School of Readfield; Elwood “Bimbo” Pinkham, a 1973 graduate of Sumner Memorial High School in East Sullivan; and Tim Ziko, a 1977 graduate of Rumford High School (now Mountain Valley).
