VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Photo Credit: Norwich Athletic Communications

Ice Hockey

Burlington

Inducted in 2025

The state’s top high school player in 1999, Lou DiMasi III went on to a standout career at Norwich, twice earning first team D3 first team all-American honors, and went to play four seasons of professional hockey.

A standout defenseman, DiMasi was a league all-star or all-state in each of his four years at Burlington High, named Burlington Free Press Mr. Hockey in 1999. That season he led the Seahorses to the D1 boy’s state title. 

After a post-grad season at Northwood where was a hockey captain, he went on to Norwich playing 115 games over four seasons graduating in 2004. He was one of the team’s captains in 2002-03 and 2003-04, helping lead the Cadets to the 2003 NCAA D3 title. Both years he was named a first team All-American by the ACHA. In his four years on the blueline he tallied 80 points with 59 assists. Three times his Cadets won the ECAC East conference title advancing each time to the NCAAs.

He went on to play professionally for two seasons in the ECHL and the SPHL in the U.S., and three years as a pro in Europe.  He came back and coached the Seahorses for six seasons. Since then, he has coached and been an administrator in the Burlington Amateur Hockey Association revitalizing BAHA boy’s and girl’s hockey in Chittenden County. 

One of the founders, he has been an integral part of the successful Pond Hockey Classic on Malletts Bay, an outdorr tournament that brings up to 150 teams annually to Chittenden County.

Among his many awards, DiMasi was given at graduation Burlington High’s prestigious Bill Hackett Award for sportsmanship, character and athletic leadership and at Northwood, he won the Charlie Holt Award for senior leadership.

DiMasi was named to the Norwich Athletic Hall of Fame in 2014 a year after the school inducted his 2003 national championship team. His father Lou DiMasi, the legendary Saint Michael’s men’s hockey coach, also was a standout at Norwich and also is in its athletic hall of fame, inducted in 1986.

He earned his master’s degree at Saint Michael’s in 2011 where he was for seven years (2008-2015) the Purple Knights golf coach. He became the SMC Assistant Director of Student Activities Recreation and Fitness in 2023.