Last summer at a Vermont Basketball Coaches Association meeting, Champlain Valley Union girls coach Ute Otley suggested the VBCA create a scholarship in the name of Eric Ward, the beloved former coach at Thetford Academy who died after a battle with.
In his 14 years coaching varsity girls basketball at Thetford Academy, Eric Ward received only one technical foul and he did it on purpose.“He told the girls, if you do this, I’ll get a technical,” Pam Robinson, Ward’s younger sister, said. “I can’t.