The Charles H. Bassett Youth Foundation has honored three Owego Free Academy (OFA) student athletes for their outstanding contributions to high school lacrosse and the community. Abigail Higgins, Brittany Hathaway, and Matthew Maslin were recognized in an informal ceremony on Tuesday afternoon at OFA.
The three were given the 2017 Bassett-Hall “Lacrosse Plus” Award, which recognizes student-athletes for achievements in the girls’ and boys’ lacrosse programs, as well as volunteer community service activities.
The award accompanies a gift of $250, given in honor of Robert Clarke Bassett, a former lacrosse player at Fayetteville-Manlius High School, Deerfield Academy and Dartmouth College, and his high school coach and social studies teacher, Thomas Wright Hall, a former lacrosse player at Cortland State University.
Hall founded the Fayetteville-Manlius High School lacrosse program in 1964. He is enshrined in the Central New York Athletic Hall of Fame, the High School Lacrosse Hall of Fame and is one of the founders of scholastic lacrosse in New York state and nationally.
Along with Bob Bassett and OFA boys’ lacrosse coach Andy Race and girls’ lacrosse coach Jason Westervelt, Tom Hall attended the ceremony and congratulated the students for their excellence in lacrosse, service leadership to others and positive character development.
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