Athletics Hall of Fame

2019

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Angela Norsworthy-Hartman

Norsworthy-Hartman played varsity soccer, basketball and softball all four years at Presque Isle High School before graduating in 2007. She was an All-Aroostook player her junior and senior years in all three sports.

She made the Maine Soccer Coaches all-state team as a senior and made the all-Penobscot Valley Conference first team her final two seasons. She finished her soccer career with 33 goals and 17 assists.

In basketball, Norsworthy-Hartman made the Big East Conference first team as a senior after making the second team her junior year. Also during her senior season, she was named Big East Conference Player of the Year and was a McDonald’s Class A/B Senior All-Star and was a Miss Basketball finalist. She averaged 20.1 points and 6.1 rebounds her senior year.

Norsworthy-Hartman went on to play basketball collegiately at Husson University for one year before transferring to the University of Maine at Fort Kent, where she played four years of soccer and was named to the NAIA All-Conference team her first year. Her team won USCAA national championships twice and went 70-8-1 overall during her time there.

She also played on the Bengals’ basketball team for three seasons. UMFK won Sunrise Conference titles and made it to the NAIA national tournament two of those years. Norsworthy-Hartman is a registered nurse clinical supervisor in the OB/GYN and Midwifery office at The Aroostook Medical Center. She and her husband, Carson, reside in Presque Isle, and they have two daughters – Norah and  Quinn.

Tim Olore

Tim Olore

Olore, who graduated in 1979, played two years of varsity basketball and was an outstanding baseball player for the Wildcats, playing all four years. He was an All-Aroostook pitcher for three years and finished his career with 274 strikeouts. Olore was the All-Aroostook MVP as a sophomore, team MVP as a senior and was the recipient of the Jim Dyer Award as the outstanding player in Aroostook County his senior season. 

He went on to star in baseball at the University of Maine at Presque Isle, making the All-District first team. He was inducted into the university’s athletic hall of fame in 2009. He played semi-professional baseball for the Presque Isle Sonics and the Woodstock Shiretowners.

Olore went on to coach the Wildcats’ varsity baseball team for 28 years. He was a three-time Big East Conference Coach of the Year and his teams won 266 games and qualified for the playoffs 23 times. Presque Isle was the Class A Eastern Maine runner-up in 1991. 

Under his leadership, the Wildcats captured five conference championships. He coached 79 conference all-stars and two Maine Mr. Baseball finalists.

He is an eighth-grade social studies/English teacher at Presque Isle Middle School and is an umpire with the Northern Maine Baseball Umpires Association. 

Olore has coached basketball in the SAD 1 system for 33 years, 28 with the eighth-grade basketball team at Presque Isle Middle School and five with the JV boys’ basketball team at PIHS. He and his wife, Carole, reside in Presque Isle during the school year and Florida in the summer.

2018

L –R: Angela Pulcifir Fleming, Todd Gammon, Paula Burnett representing Clarence Burnett

L –R: Angela Pulcifir Fleming, Todd Gammon, Paula Burnett representing Clarence Burnett

Angela Pulcifur

Angela Pulcifur

Pulcifur Fleming was a standout track and field performer for the Wildcats who won the state championship in the javelin as a senior with a school-record throw of 116 feet, 1-1/2 inches. She also placed fifth in the discus and graduated as the school record holder in that event.  Fleming was also an all-conference soccer and basketball player at Presque Isle and was part of a state championship team in basketball as a senior.  She went on to attend Colorado State University, where she lettered in track and field for two years and ranked among the top 20 all-time in the javelin before transferring to the University of Maine.  She set a UMaine record in the 4-kilogram hammer throw (158 feet, 9 inches), while placing third at the 2001 New England championships. Fleming also was the 2001 America East Conference runner- up in that event and seventh in the javelin, and lettered for two years in both indoor and outdoor track. She subsequently spent five years in the Army and today is a registered nurse with Aroostook Home Health Services.

Clarence Burnett

Clarence Burnett

Burnett earned 14 varsity letters in football, basketball, baseball and track  for the Wildcats. He was a two-time All- County football player and in track set the County record for the 100-yard dash in 1931 as well as breaking the broad jump mark with a leap of 20 feet, 2 inches. He also played third base in baseball and hit better than .300.  In basketball, Burnett was an Eastern Maine all-tournament guard as a junior and senior and earned all-state honors his senior year. He was the Wildcats’ second-leading scorer as a sophomore and senior and teamed second-leading scorer as a sophomore and senior and teamed with Verdelle Clark in what was considered to be the best backcourt tandem ever to play at Presque Isle at the time. Burnett, who passed away in 1992, went on to work as a purchasing agent at Presque Isle Air Force Base and also served as a baseball umpire in the Maine-New Brunswick League.