SP ORTS TALK
Andover Athletics Hall of
Honor
To date, the Andover Athletics Hall of Honor has recognized 74 individual members and two teams.
Bethany Versoy
The eighth annual Andover Athletics Hall of Honor induction ceremony was held on June 13, 2015. Mike Moonves ’62 and Meredith Hudson Johnston ’01, cochairs of the Alumni Council’s Athletics Committee, welcomed the large audience of family, friends, and former teammates and introduced the inductees, who shared anecdotes and memories of their time at the Academy and insights into their life and career choices. Head of School John Palfrey provided closing remarks. This year’s inductees are, from left, Cory Schneider ’04, Todd Harris ’95, Momo Akade ’00, Ford Fraker ’67, Hee-Jin Chang ’05, and Ed Quattlebaum ’60. Ted Thorndike ’70 was honored posthumously. Nominations for 2016 can be submitted at www.andover.edu/alumni/hallof honor.
Aimionoizomo O. Akade ’00
Hee-Jin Chang ’05
Ford M. Fraker ’67
An outstanding member of the girls’ varsity basketball and outdoor track teams all four years, Momo Akade was captain of both teams when they won New England championships her senior year. In 1999, she set the PA girls’ outdoor track record for the 200-meter event (25.6 seconds), a straightaway record that still holds today. After earning a BA degree at Yale, where she studied architecture and history, Akade taught history and coached basketball and track at Choate Rosemary Hall and the DwightEnglewood School, served as dean of students at Prep for Prep, and earned an MEd degree from the Learning, Design, and Technology Program at Stanford University. Her background in teaching and technology came together when she founded GigaBryte, which uses wearable technology to introduce children to programming. Akade is an alumna of Silicon Valley startup accelerator programs Imagine K12 and StartX.
While on the PA swim team, Hee-Jin Chang achieved All-American status in seven events and helped lead the team to its fourth straight New England championship. She holds the New England Prep record in the 50-yard freestyle and school records for the 50and 100-yard freestyle events (23.19 and 50.57 seconds, respectively). After PA, Chang became a varsity swimmer at the University of Texas. In 2008, she competed in the Summer Olympics in Beijing for her native country, South Korea (she also competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics). During her senior year, she won a Big 12 championship title in the 50-yard freestyle and broke the Big 12 record. Chang graduated from UT in 2009 with a BA degree and earned an MA degree in public policy from Georgetown. Currently she is completing law school at the University of Houston while working at Foster LLP, a firm specializing in immigration law.
Along with playing on Andover’s legendary 1967 hockey team, Ford Fraker lettered in football, baseball, and soccer, and as a senior was captain of the varsity baseball team and a member of All-Prep Hockey. He was awarded the Schubert Key, Yale Bowl, and Aurelian Honor Society Prize at Commencement. Fraker played hockey for Harvard before graduating in 1971 with a BA degree. After holding banking and finance positions at various organizations with connections to the Middle East, he founded consultancy firm Fraker & Co. and cofounded investment banking firm Trinity Group Limited. In 2007, President George W. Bush ’64 appointed Fraker U.S. ambassador to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Fraker’s current positions include senior advisor for the Middle East for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, president of the Middle East Policy Council, and vice chairman of the board of trustees of International College.
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Andover | Fall 2015