VERMONT SPORTS HALL OF FAME

Photo Credit- UNH Athletic Comm

Bristol

Ice Hockey/Multi-Sport

Inducted 2020

A pioneer in the then-young sport of women’s ice hockey, Carol Weston went from rural Vermont to star for the top Division I college hockey program of the mid-80s after a tremendous multi-sport high school career. She later became the first Vermonter to become a head coach at a NCAA Division I ice hockey program and still is part of the game as one of its top officials in the state. Weston is the first women’s hockey player to be inducted into the VSHOF.

A graduate of Mount Abraham Union High, Weston went on to skate for the University of New Hampshire from 1987-91 as a four-year regular in defense. She played in 88 games for the Wildcats in the ECAC, the top collegiate conference in that era (before their was both Olympic women’s hockey and an NCAA women’s tournament), tallying 20 goals and 47 assists, then third in UNH history for defenders. Her 67 points when she graduated were the sixth most for blue liners, and still rank in the program’s top 10. She helped lead UNH to back-to-back ECAC titles as a junior (20-3-1) and a senior, not losing a game in 1990-91 going 19-0-3.  

After a year as an assistant at Middlebury and six as an assistant at Cornell, Weston became the head coach of the Big Red for four seasons from 1998 to 2002, the first Vermonter to be a head coach at the Division i level.

She moved back to Vermont and became a hockey official at the collegiate level, officiating in D-1 Hockey East and ECAC games, and currently is one of the top officials in Vermont high school hockey at the boys and girl’s levels.

Weston also was a tremendous all-around athlete at Mount Abe starring for the boys soccer team as one the team’s top scorers, and was a three-event state champion in the discus, shot put and javelin, twice winning the New England discus title. In 1985, she was named to the high school soccer all-New England and all-American teams (honored on girl’s teams), playing for Vermont in the Twin State Girl’s Soccer Classic.

She also played soccer at UNH and was a standout thrower on the track teams. She was a three-time New England champion in the discus and twice in the javelin.  She set the UNH discus record of 144 ft, 7 inches in 1989, a mark that stood for 26 years. 

Weston was inducted into the UNH Athletic Hall of Fame in 2003 for hockey and track and field.