Fontbonne Academy girls basketball coach Clare Murphy was inducted into the Northeast – New Agenda Women’s Sports Organization Hall of Fame on Nov. 2, but her career is far from finished.

Murphy, who has coached basketball at Fontbonne for 35 years (head coach for 28 years) and teaches physical education at Quincy’s Atlantic Middle School, was thankful to receive recognition from an organization that promotes educational equity, equal opportunity and awareness of evolving needs of New England female athletes.

“I’ve spent a very long time at the school as a student and now as a coach, helping to educate female athletes,” she said. “To be able to be recognized by so many amazing female coaches of all varying sports is really, really special.”

A 1987 Fontbonne graduate, Murphy said Fontbon

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