As the mural of my high school's great athletic moments was unveiled to the public in the fall of 2012, I divulged a few behind-the-scenes stories about its creation in our alumni magazine. Here was the product.
Eat as much protein as you like, Tom Higley ’86, but you’ll never grow as tall as you stand in our new Mulvena-Mazik Fitness Center.
There he is, a seven-foot, younger version of himself adorning the fitness center wall, perpetually breaking the tape at the 1985 county meet. He’d just erased a Dickinson runner’s lead in the final 30 meters. “Something inside me told me to go for it,” he said back then. “And I did.”
The mural that Higley graces is Salesianum’s own Ashburn Alley, walk of fame, and Division I stadium lobby rolled into one. Its pictures and narratives fill five walls. The long timeline relives our moments of athletic triumph—and those heartbreaks glorious because of the monumental efforts they elicited.
