Longtime Andrew Warde Coach Ed Bengermino Inducted into FCIAC Hall of Fame

Ed Bengermino, the long-time Andrew Warde High School baseball, basketball, and volleyball coach, was inducted into the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference Hall of Fame this evening in a ceremony attended by over 300 people at the Chatham Manor in Norwalk.

Dave Schulz, the current Fairfield Ludlowe High School athletic director, FCIAC president, and a 2010 inductee into the Hall of Fame, introduced Bengermino, who was accompanied by current Fairfield Warde High School athletic director Chris Manfredonia.

Bengermino served as a basketball, volleyball, and baseball coach in the Fairfield High School system at Andrew Warde High School and Fairfield High School. His basketball teams won two FCIAC Eastern Division championships, and he coached the volleyball team to 10 division championships, seven FIAC championships, and four state championship appearances from 1974 to 1997.

Click the image below to read the sports story in the Crimson Crier about his basketball team from February, 1973.

He was named Outstanding Girls Volleyball Coach by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference and was inducted into the Girls Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2005.

Bengermino coached his baseball teams to three FCIAC Eastern Division championships, two Western Division titles, and a CIAC Class LL state championship in 1981. The following year, his Crimson Eagles advanced to the state championship game once again.

He was the creator and director of the Connecticut High School Boys Club Volleyball League, which was a predecessor to the league becoming a sanctioned CIAC varsity sport.

Paul