Spartan Flavor: Milford icons Facques, Maurais to gain NHIAA Fame

Late former longtime Milford boys basketball coach Mo Facques will be inducted into the NHIAA Hall of Fame in November. (Courtesy photo)
MILFORD – The NHIAA Hall of Fame induction ceremony set for Sunday, Nov. 17 will have a definite Milford High School flavor.
That’s because the Class of 2024 includes late legendary boys basketball coach Mo Facques and former longtime MHS athletic director Marc Maurais.
Two Spartan icons, for certain.
Facques, who passed away in 2019 at the age of 79, guided Milford to a stunning 1972 Class L championship, beating Manchester Central in the title game, and after a brief stint in Nashua, returned to Milford and guided the Spartans to a Class I title in 1975. He spent another decade guiding the Spartans,and was a co-coach in the early 2000s with the late Bill Brown. In 2015, then-Wilton-Lyndeborough coach Ken Garnham coaxed Facques out of retirement as an assistant on the Warriors team that won the Class S (Division IV) crown.
He taught history at Milford High School and Milford Middle School for 30 years.
Maurais was the Milford athletic director for 30 years, guiding the Spartans program initially through the adjustment period following the departure of Amherst and Mont Vernon students for a new school, Souhegan High School. That basically cut the school’s enrollment in half.
He had been the athletic director in Pittsburg, where he coached multiple sports including starting the soccer program there. When he took over Milford, succeeding Bill Dod – who went to Souhegan – Maurais also coached baseball for four years before giving it up to focus on his AD duties. He worked his entire tenure at Milford without an assistant, and opted at the age of 55 to step down at the end of the 2021-22 school year to take advantage of the district’s early retirement program.
MILFORD – The NHIAA Hall of Fame induction ceremony set for Sunday, Nov. 17 will have a definite Milford High School flavor.
That’s because the Class of 2024 includes late legendary boys basketball coach Mo Facques and former longtime MHS athletic director Marc Maurais.
Two Spartan icons, for certain.
Facques, who passed away in 2019 at the age of 79, guided Milford to a stunning 1972 Class L championship, beating Manchester Central in the title game, and after a brief stint in Nashua, returned to Milford and guided the Spartans to a Class I title in 1975. He spent another decade guiding the Spartans, and was a co-coach in the early 2000s with the late Bill Brown. In 2015, then-Wilton-Lyndeborough coach Ken Garnham coaxed Facques out of retirement as an assistant on the Warriors team that won the Class S (Division IV) crown.
He taught history at Milford High School and Milford Middle School for 30 years.
Maurais was the Milford athletic director for 30 years, guiding the Spartans program initially through the adjustment period following the departure of Amherst and Mont Vernon students for a new school, Souhegan High School. That basically cut the school’s enrollment in half.
He had been the athletic director in Pittsburg, where he coached multiple sports including starting the socccer program there. When he took over Milford, succeeding Bill Dod – who went to Souhegan – Maurais also coached baseball for four years before giving it up to focus on his AD duties. He worked his entire tenure at Milford without an assistant, and opted at the age of 55 to step down at the end of the 2021-22 school year to take advantage of the district’s early retirement program.

Former longtime Milford athletic director Marc Maurais will be inducted into the NHIAA Hall of Fame in November. (Cabinet file photo by TOM KING)
Former longtime Milford athletic director Marc Maurais will be inducted into the NHIAA Hall of Fame in November. (Cabinet file photo by TOM KING)
OTHER INDUCTEES
In all, there will be six inductees for the November ceremony at the Courtyard Marriot in Concord. Besides Facques and Maurais, the others are: Portsmouth game official Paula Anania, former Franklin track coach William Heydt, longtime former Manchester Central girls soccer coach Peter Lally, and longtime Portsmouth track coach Stan Lyford.