The Swampscott High School Athletic Hall of Fame Committee will celebrate its 2025 inductees at a banquet on September 11 at 6 p.m. at Tedesco Country Club.
The Swampscott High School Hall of Fame Class of 2025 are:
- The 2006 boys’ cross country team
The boys’ team was both the Division 4 Eastern Massachusetts and Division 2 All-State champion. A sign reading “Home of the 2006 Division 4 EMass and Division 2 All-State Boys Cross Country Champions” was dedicated to the team at the entrance to Humphrey Street in 2007. Chris Heller, Sam Rakoc and Steve Bennett were consistently among the top three finishers for the team, and others like Dan Rakoc, James Keeter, Andrew Keeter, Dan Kramer, Alex Panka, Billy Duff, Wes Geraci, Steve Herbert, John Popeo, Dean Pasciuto, Austin Powell and Kurt Yeager ensured the team’s success.
- Lindsay Walsh, class of 2010 cross country, indoor track and outdoor track and field
Walsh earned varsity letters all four years in both cross country and track at Swampscott High School. She was the captain of both the cross country and track teams her junior and senior years. In all four years, she won the Team Superstar Award in cross country and was an eight–time Northeast Conference Champion for both cross country and track as well as four-time Massachusetts Divisional State Champion in both sports.
- Arthur O’Neil, posthumously, girls’ soccer coach 1987-1989, girls’ basketball assistant coach 1990-2023
O’Neil died in 2024 at the age of 78. He was born in Winthrop and moved to Swampscott with his wife Dolly in 1974. He coached his children in baseball, soccer and basketball. He coached varsity soccer at Swampscott High School while his daughter played and then went on to coach Swampscott girls’ basketball for 30 more years. He was known as a positive, encouraging presence for both his children and the teams he coached.
- Brendan Garner, class of 2007 football, basketball, baseball
Garner, a consistent honor roll student, received both the Quinn Student-Athlete Award and the Bertrand G. Roger Leadership Award in his senior year. He was a two-time NEC All-star. He went on to play both baseball and football at Bowdoin College. In 2010, he had three doubles and three runs scored, tying the school record for doubles in a game held by three others.
- John Beaulieu, class of 2008 soccer, basketball, baseball
Beaulieu served as one of three basketball captains during the 2007–08 season.Swampscott finished in second in the Northeastern Conference South that season, behind Marblehead. Following his time at Swampscott, shooting guard Beaulieu completed a post-graduate season at the Taft School and then committed to Kenyon College.
- Romilly Emmons, class of 1979 golf
Emmons played golf for Swampscott between 1976 and 1979 and was captain for three years. He captured 70 of a possible 72 points for the team, with an individual record of 34 wins, one loss and one tie over his four years. He came in second place in the State Scholastic Championship in 1978, and in the same year Emmons also was a Boston Globe Scholastic Player of the Year.
- Walter Costello, class of 1964 football, basketball, outdoor track and field
Costello earned nine varsity letters. He was the back for the football team, where he was also the leading scorer on the undefeated 1963 Northeastern Conference and Eastern Massachusetts Class B Championship team. Costello was named to the Greater Lynn All Stars following this senior season. In track, Costello was a sprinter, hurdler and long jumper. He was the team co-captain and team MVP his senior year.
- Jeff January, class of 1990 football, basketball, baseball
He was a captain of the football team while also playing basketball and baseball. January, a first baseman and catcher, batted .420 with eight home runs and 32 RBIs in his senior year. He signed to play at the University of South Florida, as then-coach Eddie Cardieri was looking to amp up his offense, according to the Tampa Bay Times. He also played at UMass Amherst.
- Elizabeth Moran, class of 2004 basketball, tennis
Moran played for all four years of her high school career on the basketball and varsity tennis teams. In basketball, she scored 1,032 points and had over 1,000 rebounds. Moran averaged more than ten points per game as well as ten rebounds, earning her the title of a “double, double player.” She was one of the best three point shooters in the North Shore. Moran was the captain for both basketball and tennis teams, and in tennis she played No. 1 singles her sophomore, junior and senior years.
- Kara Gilberg Teplow, class of 2010 basketball, tennis
Gilberg Teplow was a starter on the 2009 Division 3 State Championship girls’ basketball team. She was a guard for the basketball team.
- Matthew Mahoney, class of 2014 cross country, indoor track, outdoor track and field
Mahoney ran for Swampscott High School and was the 2014 Massachusetts Indoor State Champion in the two-mile. He was also the 2014 Massachusetts Outdoor State runner-up in the two-mile, and he finished in fifth in the 5,000 meters at New Balance Outdoor Nationals. The Boston Globe had named him an All-Scholastic. Mahoney went on to run at Brown University, where he finished his senior year by placing twelfth in the 10,000 meters at the Ivy League Championships with a 30:52.49 time.
- Peter Hale, class of 2015 cross country, indoor track, outdoor track and field
Hale won both indoor and outdoor national titles in his senior year. That year, he won the Eastern Massachusetts State Title in Division 5 in cross country. He was also the runner-up at the All-State meet for the 2-mile. Hale went onto Williams College and was named to the First Team All-NESCAC team in his junior year.
Tickets are $75 per person and can be purchased by emailing Scott Faulkner at scott@groomco.com
