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The Sports Museum has announced that they will honor Boston Fleet players Megan Keller, Haley Winn and Aerin Frankel and Boston Bruins players Jeremy Swayman and Charlie McAvoy during in the annual The Tradition celebration.
The Tradition, which is celebrating its 25th anniversary, is a fundraising event that honors excellence and leadership in New England athletics. The five hockey honorees all won Olympic Gold for USA Hockey at the Milano Cortina Games this past February.
The Sports Museum was founded in 1977 and is located on levels five and six of TD Garden. Each year, The Tradition event supports the museum’s nonprofit work that is geared toward educational programs and preventing bullying, while honoring the best of the best in New England.
Other Bruins already on the honor roll include Patrice Bergeron, Zdeno Chara and Tim Thomas. The Boston Fleet trio will be the first to represent the Professional Women’s Hockey League. Jillian Dempsey, who played one season with the Fleet, was honored in 2022, before the PWHL’s creation.
This year, alongside the five hockey players, Dana Barros, Jim Calhoun, Derek Lowe and Andre Tippett will be honored. The event will be held next Thursday, November 19th at 6pm.
Fans can purchase tickets for the event on The Sports Museum’s website.
Keller, Winn and Frankel will have just gotten back from participating in the IIHF Women’s Worlds. Swayman and McAvoy will be returning from an Atlantic Division matchup against the Detroit Red Wings.
The event will have a sit-and-talk style conversation with the honorees. It will give those in attendance a chance to hear from the group in a more personalized way.
“Sports, at its best, is a celebration of everything that you know we pride ourselves in Boston: work ethic, loyalty, and tradition,” said Executive Director Rusty Sullivan to the Boston Globe. “When we see that in our athletes, that’s the way we see ourselves, I think as Bostonians and New Englanders, and which is what makes everything so powerful here.”
The celebration for the gold medalists has continued since they first won back in February. The night will be another way to honor them and their contributions to a historic Olympics for USA Hockey.
Keller, Frankel, and McAvoy all played college hockey in Boston as well, making the honor even more special and a full-circle moment. They contributed to the programs at Boston College, Northeastern University, and Boston University, respectively.
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