Senior Ed Hardman won the George B. Critchett '25 Service Award for the men's teams. Ed earned twelve total varsity letters in his time, four each for football, indoor track and field, and outdoor track and field. Here are my brief remarks from the ceremony:
Ed
is one of the more surprising athletes I’ve ever worked with. From the first time I met him as a skinny sprinter
from Chicago and he indicated that he also wanted to play football, to his willingness
to shift from a 100-meter specialist into a 400 meter runner, to his “bulking
up” to play linebacker, and finally to the mentorship role he played with our
younger sprinters on both the men’s and women’s teams this year, Ed has been
full of surprises. If you know him well
though, one thing that is not surprising is that he’s returning home to work as
a teacher at a brand new Kipp School in Chicago. They don’t know it yet, but those children have just won the lottery. They could not be
more fortunate than to have Ed Hardman as a teacher, mentor, and role model. It’s
been a pleasure Ed, every step along the way, congratulations and best of luck!
Ed was also featured in the senior edition of the Scarlet & Black newspaper. There is no online link, but you can read it below:
