PROVIDENCE, RI (WPRI) — This week’s Cardi’s Furniture & Mattresses Hometown Sports Hero is Ken Fecteau.
The Coventry native brought home four medals, a Bronze in the Discus, a Silver in the Shot Put and Golds in the Hammer and Weight Throw in the 75–79-year-old age group at the RI Senior Games. Currently ranked fifth in the nation in the Hammer Throw, Fecteau competed for the URI Track Team from 1967-1971 and a Ram teammate from those days is the reason he started back up with the sport.
“I bumped into my old Fraternity brother about 10 years ago at a meeting that we had, and he said he started doing the Senior Games, so I said well, we threw the Hammer in college, let’s do it again,” Fecteau said. “So, I signed up for the Senior Games and that’s how I got back into it.”…