Granby Coach Elected to CT Field Hockey Hall of Fame

GRANBY, CT — A former field hockey standout from Granby Memorial High School who has gone on to lead the Bears to six state championships as a coach will join eight other honorees as members of the Class of 2018 of the Connecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame.

Sandy Wickman Mason, who played under legendary head coach Dot Johnson at Granby before excelling as a player at Connecticut College, is being inducted as a high school coach. Since taking over as head coach in 2003, Mason has directed the Bears to six Class S state titles, including a three-year run from 2009 to 2011. In 2012, she received the Connecticut High School Coaches Association Coach of the Year Award and the Doc McInerney Coach of the Year Award from the Connecticut Sports Writers' Alliance.

Other honorees are:

• Lisa (Scavotto) Capogna, Enfield High School, high school player
• Heather (Waters) Casinghino, Nonnewaug High School, high school player
• Jennifer (Martha) McCallum, Cheshire High School, high school player
• Sharon Eifes Lawrence, Canton/Boston University, college player
• Cheri (Herr) Schulz, UConn, college coach
• Paul Caddy, UConn, college coach
• Nelle Jennings Andrews, Farmington High School, honorary
• Dani Brown, Norwalk, umpire

Tickets to the Hall of Fame dinner, which takes place Sunday, Sept. 16 at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington, are available by contacting Terri Ziemnicki at hockeycoachtaz@cox.net.

File photo credit: Tim Jensen

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