Dave Shea, who coached generations of boys and girls basketball and baseball players at Bacon Academy in Colchester, died Saturday at the age of 91.

Shea coached for 49 years, retiring as girls basketball coach in 2019. The school gym is named after him. He had an overall record of 778-308 and qualified for the state tournament in 48 of his 49 seasons.

He won two state titles (2012 in Class L and 2009 in Class M) with the girls team and Bacon was the state runner-up in 2001, 2013 and 2017. His girls record over 25 years was 449-140. His boys team won the Class S state title in 1981.

Shea was the second coach in Connecticut history to win titles with a boys and girls team (after Bill Reagan with St. Thomas Aquinas boys and the Old Saybrook girls) when the Bacon Academy girls won the t

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