{"id":2712,"date":"2016-05-19T14:47:04","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T14:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/?p=2712"},"modified":"2017-03-22T15:00:19","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T15:00:19","slug":"athletic-hall-of-fame-2016-stephen-durant-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/2016\/05\/19\/athletic-hall-of-fame-2016-stephen-durant-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletic Hall of Fame 2016: Stephen Durant ’64"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stephen Durant ’64 is one of the greatest athletes to ever compete for Williston.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Stephen Durant ’64 attended Williston for five years and proved himself to be one of greatest athletes to ever attend the school.\u00a0 As a three-year member of the varsity football team, Durant\u00a0was a two-time Boston Herald All-New England Prep School Team selection.\u00a0 The fact that he was named to the team at two different positions – quarterback and fullback – made the feat even more impressive.<\/p>\n

In 1964, with the football team on its way to a New England championship, Durant\u00a0gained 305 yards while averaging 5.5 yards per carry and, more impressively, never lost yardage. In 1964, he was named the Stimets Trophy winner as well as the Frank Boyden Award winner, given to the Top Western Mass Prep School Scholar-Football player. In 1963 he was named the Connecticut Valley Scholar Athlete recipient.<\/p>\n

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Nick Garofano ’16 presents Durant with his Hall of Fame award.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Durant\u00a0also played basketball for two years, but it was lacrosse where he found a true passion.\u00a0 A Second Team All-New England selection in 1963, he was named co-captain his senior year as he led the team in scoring and earned First Team All-New England honors. \u201cAt Williston I loved the routine of sports every day,” he said. “In football we went from winning one game my junior year to being undefeated in our senior year. As I remember, in our senior year between football, basketball, and lacrosse, we only lost two games, both in basketball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Durant\u00a0was also a National Merit Scholarship Finalist, consistently earning a place on the Academic Honor Roll, while also sitting on Student Council.<\/p>\n

Following graduation, he\u00a0attended Princeton University where he played lacrosse for four years, including 1966 when the Tigers were Ivy League Champs. In 1968 he was an Honorable Mention All-American selection. After Princeton, Durant\u00a0attended Yale Law School, earning a degree in 1974. \u00a0Durant continued to play lacrosse for the Jacksonville Lacrosse Club, winning the 1980 Florida State Championship, until a broken collarbone forced his retirement.<\/p>\n

Durant\u00a0continues to practice law in Jacksonville, Florida, where he lives with his wife, Tess, a 1964 graduate of the Northampton School for Girls. They both were on campus\u00a0at Reunion this year, and Stephen accepted the award from Nick Garofano ’16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Stephen Durant ’64 attended Williston for five years and proved himself to be one of greatest athletes to ever attend the school.\u00a0 As a three-year member of the varsity football team, Durant\u00a0was a two-time Boston Herald All-New England Prep School Team selection.\u00a0 The fact that he was named to the team at two different positions … Continue reading Athletic Hall of Fame 2016: Stephen Durant ’64<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-athletics-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2712"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3294,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2712\/revisions\/3294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/willistonblogs.com\/athletics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}