Andover Athletics Hall of Honor Inductee Class of 2009 Daniel G. Bolduc 1972 While at Andover, Danny Bolduc played soccer, ice hockey, and baseball, but as a Maine native, his first love was ice hockey. Making the varsity team as a freshman, he graduated from Andover in 1972 as the all-time leading scorer in hockey. He continued to play hockey at Harvard University, playing for the school team for three years before going on to join the U.S. National Team and scoring 39 goals and 70 points in 54 games. The highlight of his hockey career came in 1976 when he played for the United States at the Winter Olympics in Innsbruck. Bolduc’s impressive play with the U.S. National Team earned him a free-agent contract from the World Hockey Association’s New England Whalers following the Olympics. Bolduc played three years for the Whalers, a precursor to his eventual jump to the NHL. The Detroit Red Wings signed Bolduc in 1978, and he played the better part of two seasons with the team. In 102 NHL contests, Bolduc scored 22 goals and 41 points. After his athletic career, Bolduc acquired a small, floundering insurance agency and built it into a multimillion-dollar business.
Frank “Deke” DiClemente From 1935 to 1975, Deke DiClemente was a beloved teacher, coach, and mentor at Phillips Academy. After graduating from Springfield College in 1935, DiClemente joined Andover that same year as an instructor in biology and chemistry and as an assistant in the physical education department. Over the next 40 years, he coached soccer, basketball, and baseball at the varsity levels. In addition to his varsity-level coaching, DiClemente was one of the key leaders who helped shape the nature of health and physical education at Andover. Most notably, he helped build an athletic curriculum that placed a greater emphasis on physical fitness and body conditioning. It was a program that could be tailored to the strengths and needs of every individual student-athlete, regardless of age or ability. As part of this new curriculum, DiClemente developed a competitive intramural team sports program that mixed players of all ages on club teams, thereby eliminating the atmosphere of cutthroat competition that arose from the previous intramural system that pitted older classes against younger ones. In 1954, DiClemente also co-organized the Andover Press Club, a student-run organization that supplied
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