SPORTS HALL of FAME ATHLETE
Kim 'Jones' Hahne '83

It may have been assumed that since Kim was the daughter of a coach and athletic director that she would be a natural athlete. To a degree that was true but it was the element of hard work that elevated her game, whatever "game" was going on that season.

Kim excelled in three sports, and was among the first of many Sidney student-athletes to successfully pull off the unique "double" of playing two sports in one season.

The rise of girls sports came at the right time for Kim and fellow class of `05 Hall of Fame member Kris Smith Sanabria. Together, they brought the basketball program into prominence. In field hockey, the duo led Sidney - already a perennial Section 4 power- into the new foray of intersectional competition.

All told, Kim earned 17 varsity letters, played on 10 championship teams and was a 10-time Susquenango League All-Star. Breaking it down by seasons:

As a link (or halfback) in field hockey, Kim was a three-year starter. She co-captained the 1982 team to the Section 4 championship, then scored the winning goal in the first-ever NYSPHSAA Western Regional Championship game. There was no state title game that year, so Sidney could go no further.

Kim was on the varsity basketball team for 5 years. She scored more than 1200 points and collected over 800 rebounds. The team won Sus division titles in three straight seasons (1981-83). In her senior season, the Lady Warriors were the Section 4 Class C runner-up. Kim was named MVP in the B-G tournament her sophomore season, and the Delhi Tip-off and A.B. Doyle Tournaments as a senior. The Sus League selected her to their All-Star first team four consecutive years.

While a track & field participant in the spring, Kim discovered her talent in the weight events - shot put and discus. So it came to pass that Kim would attempt the shot put during the winter season in addition to playing basketball. In three seasons indoors, Kim was runner-up twice and champion once (1982) in that event. In the 1982-83 campaign, she set a school record of 38 feet while placing 5th in the NYS Meet. She matched that fifth place standing outdoors during the state meet her senior year. Kim also established the mark for the school and Sus League with a 41'3" throw.

She earned various medals and Outstanding Field events performer at meets in Johnstown and Cortland, as well as the Optimist Games.

Kim also ventured outside the realm of high school sports before the opportunities we know today even existed. She participated in the Empire State Games in the scholastic division for four years and in the open division for three more. In 1982 she not only won the silver medal in the shot put, but she attended the Olympic Training Camp in the shot and discus.

Fortunately, Kim's area of excellence was not contained to sports. She was Class President in grades 9-11, followed by Student Council President as a senior. That year under Kim's reign, Homecoming was brought back as an autumn highlight for all students at Sidney.

There was also National Honor Society for two years. Kim qualified for an SCS Achievement Award for three years, including having the most points achieved in her senior year. She also earned the Francis L. Redmond Scholar Athlete Award and Mirabito Leadership Award in 1983.

There were athletic awards to be won as well. She was voted Sidney's basketball MVP (1981-82 and 1982-83), Spring Track MVP (1983), WAA Outstanding Female Athlete (1983) and The Sporting Eye newspaper's Female Athlete of the 1982-83 sports year.

Kim earned an Academic/Athletic scholarship to Wagner College. She chose Track & Field as her sport and won two silver medals and one bronze medal in the shot put during the Metropolitan Athletic Conference (MAC) Championships. In 1986, Kim added a silver medal in the Javelin.

Married to Tom Hahne and with one son Tommy, Kim is now a guidance Counselor at Owego Free Academy. The Sidney Alumni Sports Hall of Fame committee is proud to induct Kim Jones Hahne as a member of the class of 2005. It is no doubt even more special to us that she is being introduced by her father, Jack Jones - that same athletic director who is also a Hall of Fame member.