Marinelli Named New Canaan Sports Person of the Year
August 31, 2009 in FCIAC East, New Canaan by timparry
Rams head football coach Lou Marinelli was named New Canaan’s Sportsperson of the Year by the Fairfield County Sports Commission, and will be honored along with 14 other recipients October 19 at the commission’s 5th Annual Sports Night awards dinner, Monday, Oct. 19 at the Hyatt Regency Greenwich.
Marinelli led the New Canaan football team to a 13-0 record and the FCIAC and CIAC Class MM Championships, as well as the No. 1 rankings in the state writers and coaches polls.
Also on Oct. 19, Pete Demmerle will be inducted posthumously into The Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame’s amateur wing. Demmerle was a record-setting split end for New Canaan in 1969 and 1970 and went on to become a two-time All-America selection at Notre Dame.
In 1999, Demmerle was diagnosed with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), commonly known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, and passed away in May 2007.
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