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On the sports
staff at The Providence Journal for the past 18
years, Carolyn Thornton has covered everything
from high school and collegiate sports to all of
New England major professional sports teams.
She has had the opportunity to follow Rhode
Island top athletes as they competed in three
Olympic Games the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta,
the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan and the
2000 Summer Games in Sydney, Australia. She also
covered the New England Patriots victory over the
Carolina Panthers at Super Bowl XXXVIII, the 33rd
annual Ryder Cup and more than a dozen Boston
Marathons.
After a five-year stint as the Celtics beat
writer, Thornton has returned to covering high
school sports for the Journal. She also maintains
both a running blog and a high school blog on
projo.com and writes a Sports Parenting series,
which addresses the many issues and challenges
faced by families with children involved in youth
athletics.
In April,
she will be honored by the Rhode Island
Interscholastic Athletic Administrators
Association with the group's 2007 Media Award.
A three-sport athlete, including an All-Stater
in softball, at Johnston High School and a
three-time All-Ivy centerfielder at Brown
University, Thornton continues to play for a
nationally-ranked slow-pitch womens softball team
and is a member of the USSSA New England Softball
Hall of Fame.
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Martin Tighe
is a dean at Attleboro High School.
Since high school, Coach Tighe
has endeavored to
explore his own physical limits, while experiencing some
of the most beautiful and dangerous places on earth.
In 1985 Coach Tighe visited
Nepal and over a three
month period of time scaled some of the more
difficult peaks in the Himalayan region of Everest
National Park. Three
years later, fulfilling another
dream, Coach Tighe reached the highest peak of
the
Atlas Mountains in Morocco. In addition he has
kayaked the white waters
of Europe and North
America, raced in numerous marathons in
Holland, Germany
and England, and
continues to successfully compete in marathons
in and
around New England.
Coach Tighe was on
the starting line for an extreme
running adventure on April 17th, 2003. It was the Global Expedition Inc.
world’s first competitive marathon race at the
Geographic North Pole. Not only was Martin on of the first people to run
this race, Martin is the first person in the world to win it this extreme
race.
Martins' is always challenging himself. He will enter the
Guinness Book of World Records by breaking the mark for miles run on a
treadmill in 12 hours. Go the distance took place on April 29-30, 2005.
Martin broke not one but four records that day all while teaching his
students a
valuable lesson. For more information on Martin Tighe's adventures click
here and enjoy.
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Possessing a
deep love of photography that was sparked by his
dad at a very early age, Bruce spent countless
hours in a dark room as a youngster, processing
film and developing his craft long before the art
of digital photography came into being. He now
uses that skill to give back to his community.
Bruce is one
of the founders and creators of ``Friends of AHS
Track,'' an organization and Web site dedicated
to High School athletics - especially
the track and cross-country teams. Although both
of his sons, who were the reason Bruce first
became involved back in 2001, have since graduated, Bruce continues to donate his
services and is currently helping the AHS football
team launch a new Web site, as well.
He also has a
special place in his heart for the Boy Scouts of
America, an organization he became involved with
in 1991 as a scout leader.
Bruce has
produced shows highlighting the great work of the
scouting program on doubleacs TV15, a local cable
access TV station, where he also works from time
to time as a member of the sound and camera crew
and is currently producing a new inspirational
program called ``Go The Distance TV.''
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An artist and
self-described ``technology geek,'' Keith has been
shooting, editing, producing and directing local
television and documentaries in the New England
Area for more than 15 years.
He is involved
with doubleacs TV15, a local cable access TV
station where he currently directs many of the
shows, which includes everything from live and
recorded studio work to on-location shoots,
including numerous high school sporting events.
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