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Berkshire County Girls Basketball Hall of Fame inducts 8 in Class of 2025
@Source: berkshireeagle.com
The Berkshire County Girls Basketball Hall of Fame added 9 new members on Saturday during a ceremony at the Proprietors Lodge in Pittsfield.
Dasen Woitkowski, Riley Robinson, Terri Salinetti Labrecque, Peggy Steuerwald, Debbie Carey Decker, Brooke DiGennaro, McKenzie Robinson, Mark Kaley and Bill Robinson were inducted with the Class of 2025.
Three inductees share a family name, as father Bill Robinson was inducted alongside his daughters McKenzie and Riley. Their dad is known as the head coach of the Hoosac Valley boys basketball team, a position that has earned him numerous accolades and a program he's led to six Western Massachusetts championships and four state title appearances.
Back in 2011, the father of three daughters, started the Berkshire Mountaineers Girls AAU Basketball Program, which has grown ever since and helped develop players across the region, including several members of the storied Hoosac Valley girls varsity program.
McKenzie and Riley Robinson are two of those such players. McKenzie graduated Hoosac in 2015 as a three-time Western Mass. champion, who played in two state finals before going on to play at MCLA. With the Trailblazers she set the all-time assist record in a single season her junior year.
Riley Robinson graduated Hoosac Valley in 2020 after helping lead the Hurricanes to back-to-back state championships. She also won three Western Mass. titles and was named The Berkshire Eagle's Athlete of the Year in 2019-20. Riley played collegiately at Springfield College, reaching the NCAA Division III Sweet 16 in 2022.
A contemporary teammate and rival of both Robinson sisters was Brooke DiGennaro, who graduated Drury High School in 2019. DiGennaro also played AAU for the Mountaineers. While neither Robinson played in the game, DiGennaro led the Blue Devils in scoring during a 2016 Western Mass. Championship game loss to Hoosac Valley. DiGennaro scored 1,074 points in her Drury career, 51st all-time in Berkshire County, and won a gold medal at the Bay State Games under coach Liz Kay, before going on to play at MCLA. She missed playing alongside McKenzie Robinson by a year. DiGennaro was second team All-MASCAC in 2021 and averaged 16.5 points per game.
Two inductees matriculated through Lenox High School, albeit during different eras. Debbie Carey Decker played under Lenny Miller and graduated in 1984, while Peggy Steuerwald suited up for Fred Lafave until graduating in 2006.
Steuerwald started as an eighth-grader for the Millionaires and won five Southern Division titles before playing for two years under Andrea Bertini at Westfield State.
Carey Decker helped lead Lenox to a Division I Western Mass. title in 1983 and then won the 1984 Division III State Championship over Boston Cathedral. She was named MVP of the D-III Western Mass. Tournament her senior year. At Mitchell College, Carey Decker was an All-American soccer player and led the women's basketball team to a 48-6 record over two seasons.
Terri Salinetti Labrecque graduated from Lee High School in 1988 after collecting 12 varsity letters in soccer, basketball and softball. She actually follows her sister, Lisa Salinetti Ross, into the Hall of Fame. Terri was a four-year starter on the court for the Wildcats, earning All-Western Mass. recognition her senior year before going on to excel at Wheaton College. She scored 1,230 points for the Lyons, eighth all-time at the school. She also ranks first in made free throws with 328 and fourth all-time in steals with 208. She was All-NEWMAC in both her junior and senior years.
Dasen Woitkowski played at Pittsfield High through 1999, and was a scoring phenom before injuries derailed her junior and senior seasons. She won a Western Mass. title as a freshman and was averaging around 18.5 points per game when she tore her ACL. She did a post-graduate year at Phillips Andover Academy in 2000, helping lead the team to a NEPSAC Class C championship.
Woitkowski started her college career at UMass, but transferred to Smith College, where she played three years of basketball and softball. On the court, she scored 1,026 points in 69 games. She was a NEWMAC First Team All-Conference player in 2023-24 and Second Team the year prior. She earned the St. Ann's Award as the top player at a women's college and finished her senior year averaging 15.4 points, 8.5 rebound, and 2.8 assists per game.
After college, Woitkowski played semi-pro for a year in Denmark averaging 24 points and 13 rebounds per game.
Mark Kaley enters after spending nearly two decades as a girls basketball coach in Dalton. He worked with the travel program from 1994 to 2006 and was an assistant coach at Wahconah under Boog Powell from 1998-2010. He's currently a Berkshire County High School Basketball Official and has been for 12 years.
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