Chris Widen
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- Year:
- 1996
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- Team:
- Baseball/Football
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- Induction Year:
- 2013
Bio
Chris Widen was a two-sport standout on the gridiron for Ruggeri and on the baseball diamond for legendary Academy mentor Bob Corradi, as he was named as the 1996 Male Athlete of the Year. Widen, a native of Auburn, Mass., earned back-to-back Most Valuable Player honors in baseball as a junior and senior while serving as a team captain in his final campaign, and he holds the single-season Buccaneer record for the highest batting average (.471 in 1994) while also holding the single-season marks for stolen bases (29) and hit by pitches (16) in 1996. Widen capped his senior campaign by earning spots on both the all-Massachusetts State Collegiate Athletic Conference and All-New England squads.
