Anne Lindsay
Anne Lindsay
Anne won 12 varsity letters during her Falcon career as a student-athlete running cross country, playing basketball and competing on the track and field team. She won the State Open title in the discus for three consecutive seasons from 1973 through 1975, held the state record in the event for more than 20 years and finished fourth at the national AAU championships in 1975. Anne still holds the school record with a throw of 136 feet 8½ inches at the State Open in 1975.
She also played basketball at Avon and earned Class C All-State honors in 1975 after averaging 20 ppg, the first year that girls were recognized with All-State selections by the New Haven Register.
In college, she attended Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia, Canada, where she played varsity basketball for five years and was team MVP in 1978, 1979 and 1980. In 1980, she helped Dalhousie win the Atlantic University Sport championship against 11 other Canadian universities in the eastern portion of the country before finishing second in the CIAU national tournament, losing to the University of Victoria 64-59 in the finals. Anne was named to both the All-Tournament team and the first team All-Canadian squad.
After college, Anne coached women’s basketball at Kings College, Acadia University and Mt. Saint Vincents College, all in Nova Scotia. In 1991, she was named the Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association coach of the year at Mt. Saint Vincents. She was twice named the Atlantic Collegiate Athletic Association (ACAA) coach of the year.
Anne was inducted into the New England Basketball Hall of Fame in 2009, and continues to enjoy golf. She has won the women’s club championship at the Chester Golf Club in Chester, Nova Scotia several times and was the first women to be elected club president.