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St. Stephen High School Girls' Basketball Team1932
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In addition to her role as coach, Dot garnered trophies for her talents as a tennis player and golfer as well as acting as an honourary umpire for a 1932 exhibition baseball game between St. Stephen's championship baseball team, the Kiwanis and the New York Bloomer Girls. In light of her athletic achievements, Dorothy Norwood Brockway has to be considered one of New Brunswick's outstanding female athletes as well as a bona fide hometown sports hero.29
St. Stephen High School Girls' Basketball Team1939
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St. Stephen High School girls' basketball team 1938 - 1939In 1938 - 1939, St. Stephen High School produced another Maritime Championship girls' basketball team, this time under the coaching leadership of Gordon Coffey. Coffey had already made his name known in the border communities as the dashing centre fielder, from 1930 to 1939, of the town's provincial and maritime championship baseball team.
The 1938-1939 team played against much larger schools where facilities and student bodies held greater prospects than St. Stephen could rely upon. They ran the team on a shoe-string budget, with the girls canvassing local merchants and holding fund-raising dances on Friday evenings after the games.
Despite these difficulties, or maybe because of them, the team had been undefeated in the two previous seasons (1936-37 and 1937-38) and if an interscholastic title had been offered, it would have belonged to them. In the 1938-39 provincial championships, they swept away their competition from Fredericton and Moncton, often netting twice as many baskets as the opposing team. In the Maritime finals, against Yarmouth, the St. Stephen girls took the championship title in two home-games: 55 to 14 and 41 to 20.
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1939 Champion High Girls Guests of Rotarians4 May 1939
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The town celebrated the victory with a gala dinner at the Rotary Club. Team members were awarded individual engraved gifts, honoured with speeches and described as a worthy compliment to St. Stephen's baseball excellence. It was unanimously agreed by a grateful community that these girls were "one of the finest teams the school has ever produced, comparing favorably with those championship squads that used to put St. Stephen on the basketball map when Dot Norwood was their coach." Saint Croix Courier, 1939.33
Duncan McGeachy1970
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Duncan W. McGeachyDuncan's first contact with basketball was as a player for the St. Stephen High School team in 1942. After graduation, he moved to Wolfville, Nova Scotia where he coached the high school boys' basketball team while attending classes at Acadia University.
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St. Stephen High School Varsity Boys' Basketball Team1952
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He returned to St. Stephen in 1951 and, in addition to teaching, began a successful coaching career. In 1952 he coached the Class "M" Boys who took the Provincial Championship. In 1957 the Juvenile Boys were Provincial and Maritime Champions while that same year the Class "M" Girls were champions of their division.37
St. Stephen High School Girls' Basketball Team1963
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Under his direction, the Class "L" girls were champions from 1956 to 1963 inclusive.39
Duncan McGeachy receiving Basketball NB Merit Award1982
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While in Nova Scotia in 1950, Duncan began officiating games, up to the intercollegiate level. He also became involved with the New Brunswick Association of Approved Basketball Officials. In addition to coaching and refereeing, during the 1950s and 1960s, McGeachy was very active in the NB Amateur Basketball Association in various capacities, including holding the office of President.In 1982, he was honoured by Basketball NB with a Special Merit Award for his years of outstanding service to the game of basketball in New Brunswick.
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