{"id":3546,"date":"2016-02-20T06:39:59","date_gmt":"2016-02-20T11:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.hulettsonlakegeorge.com\/?p=3546"},"modified":"2016-02-20T06:39:59","modified_gmt":"2016-02-20T11:39:59","slug":"huletts-landings-connection-to-different-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3546","title":{"rendered":"Huletts Landing&#8217;s Connection to Different Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While so many of us are fans of some team or sport, I wanted to try and put as many connections that Huletts Landing has to individuals, teams or sports that might be of interest. While I can&#8217;t say that these are all of them, I wanted to try and start compiling a list. So here&#8217;s to sports in our community:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/2016A_Colligan_Silver.jpg\"><br \/>\n<em>Aileen Colligan holds her Silver Medal in Figure Skating from the 2016 Empire State Games.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Empire State Games<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Aileen Colligan, daughter of John and Beth Colligan of Huletts Landing, recently won a Silver Medal in Figure Skating at the 2016 Empire State Games in Lake Placid. This follows her <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3237\" target=\"_blank\">Gold Medal from the 2015 Winter Games<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>Princeton University Football<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Brett Stewart, son of Jeff and Pam Stewart of Huletts Landing, just finished his freshmen year playing defensive back for the Princeton Tiger\u2019s football team. Stewart\u2019s grandfather played football in the NFL for the Chicago Bears. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goprincetontigers.com\/ViewArticle.dbml?ATCLID=210239313&#038;DB_OEM_ID=10600\" target=\"_blank\">Read Brett\u2019s Princeton football profile here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>George Washington University Basketball<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Mike Lonergan, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/1072\" target=\"_blankk\">who I interviewed when he was the head coach of the men&#8217;s basketball team at the University of Vermont,<\/a> is now the head coach at George Washington University, where his team is fighting for an NCAA berth. Mike and his family are frequent visitors to Huletts Landing. <a href=\"http:\/\/washington.cbslocal.com\/2016\/02\/10\/lonergan-kicked-out\/\" target=\"_blank\">Recently, he recounted for a DC Radio station, the hilarious story of when he was asked to leave his daughter&#8217;s JV basketball game.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Historical<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympic Games<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/2465#more-2465\" target=\"_blank\">Russ Considine, who grew up in Huletts, and who continues to visit,<\/a> took many award-winning photographs at the 1980 Lake Placid Winter Olympics. His blog account of the famous games can be found at: <a href=\"http:\/\/rustyconsidine.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/rustyconsidine.blogspot.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The following video by Yahoo Sports, contains many of his award-winning photos of speed-skater Eric Heiden who won 5 gold medals at the 1980 games. (It contains a short 15 second advertisement at the beginning.)<\/p>\n<p><iframe width='480' height='270' scrolling='no' frameborder='0' src='http:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/video\/memorable-moments-eric-heiden-greatest-043211437.html?format=embed' allowfullscreen='true' mozallowfullscreen='true' webkitallowfullscreen='true' allowtransparency='true'><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Former MLB Baseball Player &#8211; Ebba St. Claire<\/em><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/pictures\/ebba_stclaire.jpeg\"><\/p>\n<p>Former Major League Baseball Player, Ebba St. Claire, and his wife Maxine ran the Soda Fountain during the 1970&#8217;s while their son Shane constructed some docks in Huletts Landing. Randy St. Claire, one of their other sons, has had a long career in Major League Baseball, first as a pitcher for the Montreal Expos and later as a pitching coach. Most recently, he served as the pitching coach for the Miami Marlins last year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Former NFL Quarterback &#8211; Ken O&#8217;Brien<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Finally, I have been told, that former NY Jets starting quarterback, Ken O&#8217;Brien, who was born in Rockville Centre, once visited the Casino when he stopped by Huletts. He evidently posed for some pictures &#8211; which if anyone has &#8211; I will gladly post. Is this enough to make any Patriot&#8217;s fan switch their allegiance to the Jets?? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While so many of us are fans of some team or sport, I wanted to try and put as many connections that Huletts Landing has to individuals, teams or sports that might be of interest. While I can&#8217;t say that these are all of them, I wanted to try and start compiling a list. So &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/archives\/3546\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Huletts Landing&#8217;s Connection to Different Sports&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adirondacks","category-casino-fun","category-the-landing"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hulettscurrent.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}