Three alumni and a former coach will be inducted into Blake’s Athletic Hall of Fame, which highlights the accomplishments of alumni, coaches and friends and celebrates the school’s sports history. New inductees will be honored during a banquet hosted by Blake’s athletics department on Thursday, Sept. 24 as part of Reunion and Homecoming Weekend.

Congratulations the 2026 Blake Athletic Hall of Fame inductees:

Hillary Crowe ʼ11

Hillary Crowe served as captain of Blake girls’ lacrosse, soccer and hockey teams. In lacrosse, her team won the state tournament in 2008, 2010 and 2011 with an undefeated season in 2011. She was a two-time all-state lacrosse pick. In her senior year, Crowe’s soccer team won the Tri-Metro Conference championships and went on to take third at state. Crowe received all-conference accolades all four years with the hockey team, was a two-time all-metro and all-state pick and was named most valuable forward as a junior and senior. Crowe also scored the winning goal in the 2009 Class A girls’ hockey state championship. She received Blake’s 2011 Athena Award and was two-time recipient of the Dean’s Recognition Award. Crowe went on to play hockey for Harvard, earning many accolades. Professionally, Crowe played with the DEC Salzburg Eagles (2015-17), which were the European Women’s Hockey League runners up during both her seasons with the team. During these seasons she was selected as a member of the league’s all-star team. Crowe went on to play for the Vienna Sabres. In 2018, she joined the National Women’s Hockey League, playing for the Metropolitan Riveters, who won the Isobel Cup Championship that year. Crowe is now a vice president at Camber Road Partners, a specialty finance firm that leases equipment to venture-backed companies.

Jenny Hagen Maine ʼ81

Jenny Hagen Maine is a 1981 Athena Award, John R. Hartman Athletic Trophy and Nellie Atwater Award recipient. She captained the varsity girls’ basketball, soccer and volleyball teams her junior and senior year. She participated in varsity track in eighth grade, receiving all-conference and all-state honors and setting a 2-mile record at districts. Maine played varsity softball and varsity boys’ soccer in ninth grade and was part of the varsity girls’ soccer team for three years, the varsity girls’ volleyball team for four years and the varsity girls’ basketball team for five years. She had a record of 15 varsity letters, tying the Blake record with Whitney MacMillan ’47 for the most varsity letters earned. She received three-time all-conference and all-state honors in girls’ soccer and girls’ volleyball and two-time all-conference and all-state honors in girls’ basketball. Maine was the 1980 Tri-Metro Conference basketball scoring champion and MVP. Maine went on to play women’s varsity soccer for four years at Springfield College, where she served as team captain and was a two-time member of the All-New England Team. Her team won the division championships in 1981 and 1982 and was ranked 17th nationally. Maine worked in education, serving as Blake’s director of the annual fund and alumni relations and as special events coordinator from 1992-2001. (Blake’s Jenny Stephens Hagen Spirit Award was established in 2001 in her honor.) She served as associate director of admissions for Blair Academy in Blairstown, New Jersey, and then as the school’s director of alumni relations. At Blair Academy, she was the boys’ soccer assistant coach. She then created the program and became head coach for the girls’ varsity soccer team at the school. She currently serves on the Blair Academy Athletic Hall of Fame committee.

Jaimi Salone ʼ16

Jaimi Salone was captain of Blake’s varsity track and field team. In the 2016 Class A state tournament, they were the individual champion in discus, marking a state record (155′ 01″) that had not been surpassed since 1994. Salone also was the individual champion in shot put in 2016 and took second in state in discus in 2015 (Class AA). They also played varsity girls’ basketball, junior varsity girls’ volleyball, softball and fencing. At Blake, Salone received International Thespian Society honors and the John Grafton Burgess Memorial Award. They were a Blake camp counselor in 2016, leading a track and field camp. After Blake, Salone was a member of the Stanford varsity track and field team, throwing discus and shot put. They received Mountain Pacific Sports Federation All-Academic honors in 2019 and 2020; they also received a Pac-12 All-Academic honorable mention in 2018 and 2019. Salone participated in the NCAA championships in 2019, coming in 23rd in discus and receiving an All-American honorable mention. They made top 10 all-time standings for the Stanford team in discus, shot put and weight throw. Salone was a 2021-22 defensive lineman for the Minnesota Vixen football team. They are currently a research analyst at the Center for Energy and Environment, a media producer and a leftist community organizer.

Harold “Chief” Wonson

Harold “Chief” Wonson worked at Blake for 36 years (1940-76) teaching English and math, serving as dean of students and coaching football, baseball and golf. Wonson and his wife, Dode, who also worked in various roles at Blake, married on Nov. 26, 1943 in the Blake Chapel, the first couple to do so. Their three children, Mitch B’66, Peter B’64 and Barbara N’72, all attended the school. Wonson attended Dartmouth College where he played baseball and also lettered in cross country and track. In 2004, Wonson was inducted into Dartmouth's athletics hall of fame, Wearers of the Green. In the early 1940s, Wonson pitched for a semipro team in Sleepy Eye, Minnesota, and signed with the Minneapolis Millers, but could only play for the team in the summer when school was not in session. Wonson left teaching in the mid-1950s to work for Connecticut Mutual Life Insurance but continued to coach Blake football. He returned to full-time teaching and coaching at Blake in 1957. After retirement, he continued his lifelong involvement in athletics through frequent tennis matches and golf outings. For many years he was a manager and coach in the Edina Little League Baseball program. Wonson also practiced chipping shots on the Blake field throughout retirement. A plaque next to the Hopkins campus driveway commemorates this spot. He died on February 17, 1998; memorial gifts were directed to Blake’s athletic department.