Meri was a 12 season athlete for Old Rochester while collecting 4 MVP Awards. She played Volleyball all four years. She played basketball for three years and captained Old Rochesters inaugural indoor track season of 1985-86 her senior year. And where she really made her mark was the four seasons of spring track.
Meri excelled at the hurdles and the high jump. She set school records in both the indoor and outdoor high jump, the 50 yard hurdles, the 100 yard and the 100 meter hurdles, the 300 yard hurdles and the shuttle hurdles. Meri was the team MVP her sophomore, junior and senior year of spring track as well as her winter season. She had top three finishes at the state divisional championships her sophomore and junior year. She missed states her senior year due to ligament damage from high jumping.
She continued her track career at Boston University for 2 years before transferring to UMass Dartmouth to focus on nursing in which she is still involved today. Meri has also returned to coach track and cross country for many years at Old Rochester. This past 2021-22 season she coached two young ladies, Jen Williams and Maggie Brogioli, to break her own high jump record in the same meet. Meri set the bar high for her own success while being a driving force at Old Rochester.
THE COMPLETE STORY
ARCHIVAL MEDIA
Historical photographs, action images, team photographs and later-life images will be assembled here as verified source material becomes available.
INDUCTION CEREMONY
Vimeo labels this segment “Meredith Mattson-Days”; matched to ORRAHOF inductee Meredith Mattson Days.
SOURCES & HISTORICAL NOTES
October 16, 2026: plaque biography reconciled directly against the existing photograph of the physical 2022 plaque. The inscription matches. Printed errors and induction-era claims remain part of the plaque record; this is not independent verification of every historical claim. No photographs were added or changed.
Verified against the original 2022 Hall of Fame manufacturer plaque artwork supplied by ORRAHOF. Graduation year recorded as 1986 exactly as shown on the plaque artwork.
October 2, 2026: physical plaque photograph IMG_1922.JPEG from the inductee's Drive folder visually matched by name and 2022 induction label and attached as the plaque reference. Original retained in Drive. Webflow encoding compression only; no crop, retouch or generated detail. Approved primary portrait and earlier biography wording retained. Word-for-word physical-plaque reconciliation remains pending.
The Hall of Fame archive also preserves the complete 2022 display (IMG_1921.HEIC), pairing the historical photograph and induction plaque. That original display is included in the profile gallery.
October 14, 2026: text-only editorial review against the existing Hall biography and source notes. Adds the plaque-supported senior-season injury context rather than treating missing senior results as a gap. This review does not certify an exact physical-plaque match or current record status.
