The Maine Sports Legends Honors and Selection Committee has chosen two local student-athletes as recipients of $1,000 awards in the names of Maryann and James Beaudry.
Caribou High School students Karyn King and Spencer McElwain are this year’s award winners. The two were also among the eight from throughout the state to win regional honors and $500 awards.
King was a three-sport athlete at CHS (cross country, basketball and track and field) and captained all three sports. She was named a Penobscot Valley Conference and Big East Conference scholar athlete and was named to the McDonald’s All-Academic Basketball Team.
She ranked second in her class of 107 students and received the 2007 Principal’s Leadership Award and the Society of Young Women Engineers Award. She was also a member of the school’s marching, jazz and concert bands. King is a member of Holy Rosary Youth Ministry, is an altar server and was a member of the reaccreditation committee for CHS.
McElwain participated in cross country, nordic skiing, track and field and tennis at Caribou HS, serving as captain of the cross country and track and field teams. He ranked third in the class and received the Rotary Youth Merit and the PVC and MIAAA Scholar Athletes awards. He also played in the school band.
He is an Eagle Scout, volunteered at a local food pantry and is a member of the Holy Rosary Youth Ministry.
Funds for the Maine Sports Legends’ Beaudry award are provided by Tom Pecora, who serves as men’s basketball coach at Hofstra University.
James Beaudry is one of the founding members of Maine Sports Legends. He was director of athletics at St. Francis College (now the University of New England) for 21 years and coached five sports.
Maryann, his daughter, was an outstanding athlete at Biddeford High School and Adelphi University. She went on to play in the New York City Professional Women’s League, which was sponsored by the National Football League. In 1992, Maryann and her mother, Joan, were killed in an automobile accident.
At the Oct. 12 banquet in Waterville, where the awards were presented, WAGM-TV sports director Rene Cloukey and former Katahdin and Central Aroostook boys’ basketball coach Bill McAvoy were among those inducted into the Maine Sports Legends Hall of Honors, while Perley Dean and Lawrence “Locky” Gardner were inducted posthumously.
