•  Teacher * Coach * Athlete *

As a senior at Coventry High School in 1961, Carolyn Lukowicz was the female recipient of the Babe Ruth Sportsmanship Award, was named Most Athletic Girl, and was a member of the Rhode Island Honor Society.

Carolyn began playing softball in the Coventry Girls’ Softball League on the Coventry Kats and the Butcher Boy Girls.  She also played with the Local 57 Oilerettes in Providence and with Conimicut in the 1960s. Later she played in the Atlantic Coast League with the Waltham Drifters in Waltham, Massachusetts, a team that placed 5th out of 18 teams in the 1972 National Majors Women’s Softball Tournament in Tucson, Arizona.

In addition to softball, Carolyn played field hockey as a member of Northeast One Team participating in the National Field Hockey Tournament held in St. Louis, Missouri (1961) and New Jersey (1968).  She also competed against the Canadian National Team at the World’s Fair in Montreal, Canada in 1967 for the same team. Selected to the Boston Field Hockey First Team in the 1960s-early 1970s, Carolyn played against touring teams from New Zealand and Great Britain/Ireland.

Carolyn entered a career as a Massachusetts Physical Education and/or Health Educator on the elementary, middle, and high school levels and served in this position for thirty years. An advocate of girls’ and women’s sports through her career, Carolyn served as a varsity high school coach, an official on the high school and collegiate levels, and the director of the MIAA state high school softball tournament.

Carolyn received many honors for her amazing work including induction into the Boston University Athletic Hall of Fame (1990), the Northeast New Agenda Hall of Fame (1990), and the Massachusetts High School Softball Coaches Association Hall of Fame (1994).

Carolyn is thankful for endless support for her in all her endeavors given by her family, outstanding teachers and coaches, skilled teammates and great friends.