Coach Pam Krause Inducted into Shrewsbury High School Hall of Fame
November 2011 – Pam Krause is being recognized for her years of dedication and success as a coach at SHS as well as her success as an athlete. She has been coaching for a remarkable 33 years and has no intention of stopping anytime soon.
Pam, Class of 1969, was Captain of the Basketball and Field Hockey teams. They were the only sports, other than cheering, that were offered for girls. She was a four-year member of the Varsity Field Hockey team and played Varsity Basketball as a junior and senior. She was awarded the MVP for both sports in her senior year as well as an Athletic Award for the highest ranking senior girl in the class. Because there was no girls Crew team at SHS at the time, Pam rowed in the Bay State Games. After graduation she attended Bridgewater State College where she played Field Hockey all four years. She refereed Field Hockey for almost 10 years and Basketball for a couple of years.
As a young woman, Pam followed her passion for teaching, coaching and rowing and in 1976 became the Novice Crew Coach. Rowing and coaching were in her blood. She was lucky enough to work with her grandfather, mother, husband, daughter and son. Pam’s grandfather and mother were both previously inducted into the Hall of Fame. Her grandfather, Kenneth F. Burns, who founded the SHS Crew program and coached from 1937 until he passed away in 1982, was inducted posthumously in 1991. Her mother, Barbara Burns Caron, who was the first Girls Crew Coach and coached from 1975 until her retirement in 1994, was inducted in 2003. Pam coached Novice Crew until 1982 and in 1983 became the Boys Head Coach, a position she held for 20 years. For the last five years she has been coaching the Girls Crew team. She was also the Assistant Girls Gymnastics Coach from 1988-1990 and the Head Field Hockey Coach from 1988-1996.
In 1999, Pam was the recipient of the Quinsigamond Rowing Association (QRA) Award for her dedication to the sport. She received the MAHPERD Honors Award in 2000 for teaching Physical Education (PE). She even has a trophy named after her for the MA Public Championships.
Pam started the MA Public Championships and the New England Regionals for Crew. She has helped run many successful regattas. Her love for the sport keeps her active outside of coaching. She is past president of the QRA and still on the board. She is affiliated with the MAHPERD, AAHPERD for Physical Education, and she has a National Federation of Coaches Certificate. For many years she also ran the Shrewsbury Parks and Recreation Crew Program.
The highlight of her coaching career has been overseeing the development of hundreds of oarsmen over the years. She is currently a PE teacher at SHS, and Girls Crew Coach. She lives in Shrewsbury with her husband Russell. She has a daughter, Megan and son, Brian, daughter-in-law Sarah, and two beautiful grandchildren, Izaak and Aleksander.