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- ↑ Staples High School: 50th Celebration
- ↑ UConn Media Guide
- ↑ "Pan-American Games 1975 (Mexico) - Match Details". RSSSF . Retrieved 2020-04-26.
- ↑ Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame Archived 2009-10-01 at the Wayback Machine