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Scott Brown of Lewiston joins three other Maine natives on this year’s list of inductees. Here are the three others, with a brief biography of each.

Andrea Hatch holds the official women’s record for most consecutive Boston Marathons, 31, from 1978-2008, with a personal best 3:16:01. A veteran of over 80 marathons, with her fastest being 3:09, Hatch has also competed nationally and internationally in numerous track and cross-country championships. Her other personal records include: 39:23 for 10K, 1:28:40 in a half-marathon, and the 1999 mother/daughter award, with daughter Sarah, at the Avon Global 10K Championship in New York City.

Julia Kirtland is the first female athlete in NCAA history to win individual national titles in three separate sports in one academic year – cross-country, indoor and outdoor track, while attending Macalester College. She is also an eight-time NCAA Div. III National Champion, a 16-time All-American in cross-country, indoor and outdoor track, a 1996 RRCA Roads Scholar, the 1997 National Marathon Champion in a personal best of 2:37:46, and the first Maine female winner at the Beach to Beacon 10K, claiming the first three consecutive titles.

Erik “Ned” Nedeau is the first Maine runner to break four minutes in the mile, 3:59.6. At Kennebunk High School, he won six Maine state titles in the 300-, 400-, and 600-meters, as well as the triple jump. At Division I Northeastern, Erik was a five-time All- American in the 800 and 1500, and a bronze medalist in the 1500 meters at the 1996 World Indoor Championships. At Amherst College in Massachusetts, Ned has coached four NCAA champions and the school’s first-ever nationally-ranked cross-country team.

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