Ute Otley News Today

Last summer at a Vermont Basketball Coaches Association meeting, Champlain Valley Union girls coach Ute Otley suggested the VBCA create a scholarship in the name of Eric Ward, the beloved former coach at Thetford Academy who died after a battle with...

In his 14 years coaching varsity girls basketball at Thetford Academy, Eric Ward received only one technical foul — and he did it on purpose.“He told the girls, if you do this, I’ll get a technical,” Pam Robinson, Ward’s younger sister, said. “I can’t...