"The first mention of girls' soccer at Wakefield High School was in the 1955 yearbook which noted that the girls played intramural games from September to November. The first girls soccer team was formed in 1979 after increasing interest in the sport, with Mr. Mogavero as their supervisor. Coaching duties were taken over by Noel Higgins in 1980. By the 1982 season, the team had posted a 9-3-1 record, the second best in the Middlesex League, and had qualified for the state tournament." -- Text from calendar. The first interscholastic girls soccer team (front row, left to right) Lisa Lane, Cindy Callahan, Barbara Langer, Paula Roache, Brenda Parnell, Ann Schille, Mary-Lou Racca, Sue Mitchell, Ellie Gaw. (Back row, left to right) Coach Noel Higgins, Meg Sydlowski, Anne Yamartino, Vicky Halliday, Darlene Sheehan, Mary Hurton, Sheila Coughlin, Joanne Lowrey, Sara Whitehead, and Manager Mike Camo. Meg Sydlowski, now Meg McKenna, is the girls varsity coach at WHS. Image from the Wakefield Municipal Gas and Light Department annual calendar, 2002
