Plymouth State University

ED ASHNAULT ('60): A native of North Conway, N.H., Ashnault played one year of soccer and three years of baseball for PTC. He excelled as a left-handed pitcher from 1957-59, but also started at first base and outfield and sported a career batting average of over .300. He once pitched 15 innings against Salem State, allowing two hits and striking out 17.

Ashnault went on to a coaching career that spanned the next 14 years. He was an assistant football coach and head basketball coach at Wilton (Conn.) High School from 1960-64, guiding the hoop team to a record of 70-13, including 38 consecutive victories. He moved to the collegiate level in 1964, coaching football, basketball and baseball at Dickinson University (Pa.) from 1964-67, coaching basketball at Colgate University from 1967-72, and coaching basketball at The University of William and Mary from 1972-74. He led Colgate to three straight winning seasons, including its first winning season in 10 years in 1969-70.

Perhaps Ashnault's biggest accomplishments came in ski racing, in which he competed for several decades. He captured downhill and slalom championships at Kennett High School in 1952, and continued racing as an adult, competing in the finals of the NASTAR Championship in Colorado at age 47. He was also on the American Ski Patrol in the Bavarian Alps while in the U.S. Army in the 1950s, and was a member of the U.S. Olympic Training Team in 1960.