New Haven Register (New Haven, CT)
Roy reflects as he nears retirement
STORRS — Thirty-seven years into his UConn career and weeks from retirement, Greg Roy spends part of each day looking into the past. It’s not only that he’s feeling particularly emotional and nostalgic, but because can’t avoid the view.
When Roy, UConn’s director of cross country and track & field, peeks through the blinds of his office window and into Greer Fieldhouse, he sees current members of the Huskies track teams coming and going. He also sees basketball teams and baseball teams from another era — vivid memories from the chaos of a joint operation that was the foundation for an athletic department’s rise.
Back in the mid-tolate-1980s, before construction of Gampel Pavilion and countless “UConn 2000” initiatives changed the campus landscape, the teams of Geno Auriemma and Jim Calhoun would play and practice in the Fieldhouse.