Running, Baseball Star Makes Rockville H.S. Hall Of Fame Class

VERNON — A two-sport Rockville High School athlete who achieved All-State cross country status twice in helping his teams to three consecutive unbeaten seasons, Sean Trask Class of 1992) is the fourth announced 2019 inductee into the Rockville High School Athletic Hall of Fame.

The hall has slated its seventh-annual induction ceremony Sunday, Sept. 15 at the high school. A 1 p.m. reception precedes the 2 p.m. induction ceremony. Tickets are priced at $20, with children 12 years of age and under admitted free of charge. Tickets can be reserved by contacting committee chair Scott Smith at 860-604-6618 or at smithsc33@sbcglobal.net

The Vernon native joins Amy Schrag (1987), Julie Blowers Bertsch (2003) and Pat Brand (1975) as announced inductees among the eight-person class.

In a celebrated career between 1988 and 1992, Trask was a four-year member of the cross country program under RHS Hall of Fame head coach Harry Geraghty and a four-year member of the baseball program under RHS Hall of Fame head coach Art Wheelock.

In cross country, the two-year captain earned All-State honors twice and finished seventh in the State Open in a field of 203 runners and fifth in Class LL and 27th in the New England Championships as a senior and 24th in the State Open as a junior.

Behind Trask in cross country, the Rams placed second in both the class meet and State Open in 1991 after capturing 3rd in Class LL and fourth in the Open in 1990. RHS won the CCC-East in each of Trask’s final three years, when the Rams rung up a perfect regular-season 64-0 record in that span with the help of their three-time All-CCC selection.

A three-year member of the baseball team, Trask was a left-handed pitcher and outfielder whose teams won 46 and lost 21 overall — including 29-13 and two second-place finishes in the CCC-East. As a sophomore in 1990, Trask helped the Rams to a 16-8 overall record and three wins in the Class “LL” tournament which boosted the club into the tournament semifinals for the first time in nine years.

Teaming with two fellow RHS Hall of Famers, Trask’s junior season of 1991 produced one of the best baseball teams in program history. That team fell one win shy of sharing the CCC-East title, earning the No. 4 seed in the Class “LL” tournament and a final overall record of 17-3, 11-3 in the conference.

Trask retains two enduring memories of his baseball career: a complete-game, two-hit shutout of Hartford Public without a walk in his junior year that kept the Rams unbeaten and in contention for the conference championship, and a 4-3 home victory over perennial CCC-East champion East Hartford as a senior. In that game– the first win for the Rams over EHHS in four years – Trask helped himself to the win in relief after tripling and scoring the winning run in the bottom of the eighth on a single by Jack Biggs.

Following graduation, Trask pitched for four years at RPI, helping the Engineers, as a senior, to the first of three straight unbeaten conference seasons and into the NCAA Division III national tournament.

Trask holds a B.S. Degree in Mathematics from RPI and an MBA in Finance from the University of Hartford. Meg and Sean Trask reside in Greenville, SC with their two teenage daughters. Formerly the COO and Vice President of Finance for the United Way of Greenville County, Trask is currently proprietor of Mr. Appliance of Greater Greenville.