Montpelier — The athletic directors for the 2012 Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl have been announced and together they bring many years of experience working with young people in football as well as with the Shrine Game.
Jim Taft, long-time, respected football coach at Windsor High School, will again serve as A.D. for the Vermont Shrine Team, a position he has held for the past five years, while Gary Mayo of Lebanon takes over as the NH Athletic Director.
Mayo was a member of the 2011 New Hampshire Shrine Coaching staff. Since 1999 he has served as Head Coach for the Lebanon Middle School and as a volunteer assistant for the high school team. Mayo also has had a long association with Special Olympics both in New Hampshire and nationally.
Earlier this year Mayo was honored with the James “Red” Hayes Award for Community Support of Athletics by the National Football Foundation, NH Chapter. He is a 1977 graduate of Dartmouth and the owner of A.B. Gile Insurance in Lebanon.
In announcing the athletic directors, Wayne Shepard said, “We are very fortunate to have two men of the caliber of Jim and Gary to work with our Coaches and on the many facets of putting on a football game.”
The summer classic, which brings together the finest high school football players in New Hampshire and Vermont, will be played here at Dartmouth on Memorial Field on Saturday, Aug. 4.
The head coaches for the 2012 Shrine Bowl are expected to be announced within a few days.
Over 200 players from Vermont and New Hampshire, all graduating high school seniors, have already been nominated by their respective head coaches, and screening committees, chaired by the two head coaches, will select the two 36-man teams later this month.
The Shrine Game has raised over five million for the Shrine Hospitals for Children in 58 years. The hospitals, which benefit from the Shrine Maple Sugar Bowl, are the Shrine Children’s Hospitals in Springfield, Mass. and Montreal, Que. and the Shrine Burns Institute in Boston.
The game is sponsored by Bektash Shrine Center of Concord, Cairo Shrine Center of Rutland and Mt. Sinai Center of Montpelier.
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