The Maine Sports Hall of Fame announced Monday that 10 prominent state sports figures will be inducted during a Sept. 21 ceremony at the Gracie Theater on the Husson University campus in Bangor.
The list includes Bryant Barr, who averaged 25.5 points per game as a Falmouth High senior in 2006, was named Mr. Maine Basketball and went on to room with Stephen Curry at Davidson; Clara Brown of Cumberland, a para-cyclist who has three world titles and has competed in two Paralympics, finishing fourth in Tokyo and third in Paris; Warren Caruso, the Husson men’s basketball coach who has close to 600 victories and 16 national tournament appearances; Jamie Cook, a three-sport star at Kennebunk who won two national high school championships in six track and field events; Dajuan Eubanks, the Maine Celtics franchise president since 2014 and a team executive since its inception in 2009.
Plus: Kelly Bowman Flagg, the mother of the Flagg basketball family who scored 1,200 points at Nokomis High and helped UMaine beat Stanford in the NCAA tourney; Lynn Hersey, who played basketball for Dexter High and was the Division III coach of the year the last two seasons at Smith College; Jesse Labreck, who won five events at the American East meet in 2010 after a standout career at Messalonskee High; Larry Mahoney, a six-time Sportswriter of the Year with the Bangor Daily News; and Danny Paul, a Portland native who won road races in at least 50 Maine communities over three decades.
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