The Midcoast Sports Hall of Fame has announced its 2018 class, which will be inducted Saturday, Oct. 20 at the Rockland Elks Lodge. The inductees are Bob Brewer, Penny Post Crockett, Robert Huntley, Richard Kelley, Jeff Madore, Wade Oliver, Charles “Chuck” Shea and Russell “Rusty” Worcester Jr. Shea is the only inductee from Lincoln County to the hall of fame, at Dow’s Discount in Waldoboro.

He is a 1959 graduate of Wiscasset High School, where he earned 15 varsity letters in basketball, baseball, cross country and track and field. Wiscasset won three straight league and state championships in cross country from 1956 to 1958 and won the state track and field championship in 1958. Shea won the state cross-country championship as an individual in 1956.

After graduation, Shea attended Bowdoin College, where he earned seven varsity letters in cross country, baseball and basketball. Just after graduating from Bowdoin, he returned to Wiscasset High  to coach cross country from 1963 to 1995. His teams won two state championships during his coaching tenure, one of which included his son Steve, who was also an individual state champion in 1989.

Shea coached basketball from 1963 to 1967 and again from 1980 to 1982. Chuck coached the 1980-81 team to Wiscasset’s first undefeated season at 18-0 and many considered it the best team in Wiscasset history. Shea also started the tennis program at Wiscasset in 1977 and served as athletic director at Wiscasset High for many years.

He has stayed very active over the years by playing in Brunswick and Bath adult softball leagues, numerous basketball leagues into his 50s, lots of tennis matches and has run a plethora of road races, including the Casco Bay Marathon.

He is now an avid bowler and plays pickleball in his spare time. Shea still lives in Wiscasset with his wife Faye.