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Avon’s Caroline Schaefer, played four years at Colgate University. (Bob Cornell photo courtesy Colgate University)
AVON, August 14, 2024 – Avon High graduate Caroline Schaefer will be inducted into the Connecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame at the organization’s 24th annual induction ceremony on Sunday, Sept. 8, at the Aqua Turf Club in Southington at 3 p.m.
Schaefer is one of three players being inducted for their play at the high school level.
She was a standout player at Avon from 2010-13, helping the Falcons win three consecutive North Central Connecticut Conference (NCCC) championships and advance twice to the Class M semifinals. She scored 19 goals in her scholastic career, including 10 goals as a sophomore in 2010.
She was an All-NCCC and All-State player in her junior and senior year along with being named to Southern New England regional team honors from the National Field Hockey Coaches Association (NFHCA) in her final two seasons at Avon.
After graduating from Avon in 2014, she played field hockey at the Division I level for four years at Colgate University where she was named team captain as a senior. She was a three-time NFHCA national Academic Squad selection and made the Patriot League Academic Honor Roll and the Raider Academic Honor Roll in each of four years at Colgate. She scored two goals and had six assists as a midfielder for Colgate.
She graduated from Colgate in 2018 and currently lives in New York City.
Avon’s Caroline Schaefer plays defense in a 2013 game under the lights at Avon High.
Previous Avon High players in the Hall of Fame include Kristen Weldon (college player at New Hampshire), Tara Morris (high school player) and Kelly McCollum (high school player). Former Avon High coach Bonnie Tyler is a member of the Hall of Fame along with current Avon High coach Terri Ziemnicki.
For reservations, please email Terri Ziemnicki at HockeyCoachTAZ @cox.net or call at 860-212-2299. Deadline to reserve your ticket is Thursday, Aug. 29. Tickets are $65 each.
Established in 1999, the Connecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame recognizes those who have contributed to the enhancement of field hockey in the state through participation, support, service or achievement.
Connecticut Field Hockey Hall of Fame
2024 induction class
College player
Kirsten Kilburn, Mount Holyoke College (North Branford)
Courtney Watts Russo, Rhode Island (Cheshire)
Umpire (officials)
Deb Stolle, Wallingford
High school coach
Kyle Seaburg, Norwalk High
High school player
Caroline Schaefer, Avon
Leah Helm, Haddam-Killingworth
Nancy Shepard Gatta, Old Saybrook
Honorary
Dawn O’Neil, Willington, long-time director of the CIAC field hockey tournament and head coach at E.O. Smith, Somers (1980-95) and Hall (2002-04).
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The Colonial-style main residence, built in 2009, measures 5,534 square feet, with six bedrooms, four full bathrooms, and one half bathroom. The home features expansive windows looking out to the water, as well as built-ins.
Outside, there’s space to relax with a pool, spa, and circular outdoor kitchen.
The guest house measures 3,583 square feet, with three bedrooms and three bathrooms. The third and final property, a one-bedroom carriage house measuring 942 square feet, sits farther away from the first two, near a sandy beach and dock.
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HARTFORD, Conn. – Matt Corey and Dr. Michael Goldstein won Republican nominations in Connecticut’s primary elections Tuesday, according to the Associated Press.
Corey, a Connecticut entrepreneur who has unsuccessfully run for Congress multiple times, won the Republican nomination to take on Democratic U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy.
Corey, a supporter of former President Donald Trump, defeated Gerry Smith, the top elected official in the small town of Beacon Falls, in the Republican primary.
Corey thanked Connecticut Republicans in a post Tuesday night on the social platform X, adding: “I am deeply honored by the trust you have placed on me.”
He was the party’s nominee against Murphy before, losing by 20 points in 2018. But he recently told WTNH-TV that he believes this year is different.
“It’s the economy. If you look at what’s happening around the state, the affordability, the open borders, the crime,” Corey said previously. “There’s no peace around the world right now. We’re on the verge of World War III with this president.”
Connecticut voters have not elected a Republican to the Senate since the late Lowell P. Weicker in 1982.
Murphy has a huge fundraising advantage: As of June 30, he had $9.7 million in cash on hand for the general election, according to federal election records, compared with $32,000 for Corey as of July 24.
Corey served in the Navy from 1982 to 1987 and was deployed to Beruit in 1983. A small businessman, he owned a window cleaning business for high-rise buildings in the state for more than 30 years. He also owned a pub in Hartford and now owns and operates a pub at a golf course in East Hartford.
Corey, who has also run multiple times and lost in the Hartford area’s heavily Democratic 1st Congressional District, has accused Murphy of not doing enough for his constituents.
The primary came as candidates in the state’s most competitive congressional race were already set: a rematch between Rep. Jahana Hayes, a Democrat seeking a fourth term, and Republican George Logan, a former state senator.
Logan, who lost to Hayes in 2022 by about 2,000 votes from a quarter of a million cast, was nominated by party leaders and didn’t need to compete in a primary this year.
Also Tuesday, Goldstein, an ophthalmologist and lawyer, won the Republican nomination in Connecticut’s 4th Congressional District.
Goldstein, who is from Greenwich and lost a primary in the same district two years ago, defeated Bob MacGuffie, a leader in the state’s tea party movement.
Goldstein will now challenge Democratic U.S. Rep. Jim Himes, who is seeking his ninth term, in November.
Goldstein says he will use his background as a physician to help reduce medical costs. He has also pledged to better secure the border, restore energy independence, improve the economy, protect parental rights and fight antisemitism.
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