Karen (Olsen) Arsenault
Graduating class: 1988
Inducted into Hall of Fame: 2000
Hall of Fame Category: Athlete
Karen was a three-sport (volleyball, basketball, spring track), four-year athlete at FHS. She earned ten athletic letters and was a South Coast Conference All Star in all three sports. She captained her volleyball and spring track teams and was highly respected by her teammates and opponents.
Karen's volleyball team went on to state tournament play. As an outside hitter she was recruited by UConn and Northeastern University.
In basketball Karen scored over thirty points three times, with 36 against Dartmouth in the 1987-88 season, her personal high. She averaged 17.2 per game and was a Standard Times All-Star selection that season.
Track and field was perhaps her best sport. Karen held school records in 100 meter hurdles at both 30 (:15.7) and 33 inch (:16.3) heights, 330 yard and 300 meter hurdle races, the 400 meter hurdles, the shuttle hurdle relay, and the 4x400 meter i:elay (4:18.8 - McKnight, Olsen, MacDonald and Edwards). In the Bay State Games she placed first in the 100 meter hurdles (:15.9) and in the Junior Olympics she was first as well (:16.4).
Upon graduation, Karen was awarded the Mel Entin Award and the Mildred Parkinson Tunstall Award.