HARDWICK – The Spaulding alumni made it a three peat last week, holding off the Average Joes to win the Hazen Summer League Championship for a third straight year.
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Spaulding outlasted the Average Joes 80-75 in the championship game last Thursday night at the Cat Den to cap off an undefeated season. They are now one of only three teams to go unblemished in the Hazen Summer League since its inception nearly twenty years ago. Only Cobra Kai made up of Hazen Union coaches have more titles with five, including three straight undefeated seasons from 2010-13.
Hazen varsity boys head coach Aaron Hill and his program wrap up a busy summer with another worthy summer league champion, along with success of his varsity team at both the Profile Summer Showdown and Castleton Hoop Camp. Hill led the Wildcats to their fourth straight trip to the Division III state title game at the Barre Auditorium last winter and returns a young talented roster next season.
Late last month, Hill hosted close to 100 campers for a second straight year in the 24th iteration of his renowned Hazen Hoop Camp. Former Wildcat champion head coach Steve Pratt also returned to the community last week to host a two day skills camp at the Cat Den. Pratt led the Wildcats to the 1996 Division III state title with Hill as an assistant. He since founded Full Package Athletics out of Chicago where more than 80 total coaches and players have come through his program and ascended to NCAA Division I programs, the WNBA and NBA.
