Vermont Sports Hall of Fame announces 2017 inductees

(AP) — Olympians, coaches, star football and hockey players, a champion boxer, and a sportswriter are the newest members of the Vermont Sports Hall of Fame.

Known as the father of Nordic skiing in the United States, Caldwell competed and coached at the national and international level for nearly 50 years including skiing in the 1952 Olympics in Oslo, Norway, according to the Hall of Fame.

Cieplicki was a standout basketball player at St. Michael's College and became one of the top high school coaches in Vermont at Rice Memorial High School from 1960 to 1978, according to the Hall of Fame.

The Hall of Fame says he spent his teenage years running the back roads of Grand Isle and South Hero, Vermont, going on to win the Boston Marathon seven times, first in 1911.

Foote spent nearly 40 years as a coach and administrator at Middlebury College, leading the women's lacrosse team to 14 straight NCAA Division III final fours and five NCAA titles.

Gaudreau was a star hockey and soccer player for North Country Union High School in Newport and Norwich University.

Lenes, of Shelburne, is the David K. Hakins Inductee for his contributions as a business leader in exceptional promotion and development of sports, athletics and recreation in Vermont, the Hall of Fame said.

Lenes was a mountain guide and ski instructor in Austria before moving to Vermont in 1968, where he later established Climb High in Shelburne, a company that promoted mountain and rock climbing and other outdoor pursuits.

Markey was a standout athlete in the late 1940s at St. Michael's College, where he went on to serve as a coach in the 1960s and 1970s and the school's athletic director until 1997, according to the Hall of Fame.

Riley became the second American woman to win an Olympic medal in alpine skiing.