Southington Girls Basketball Coach Gets 500th Career Win: Reports

SOUTHINGTON, CT — Howie Hewitt, who has led the Southington girls basketball team for three seasons after decades of coaching boys basketball in Meriden, won his 500th game Monday night, multiple news outlets reported.

Hewitt achieved the milestone when the Southington Blue Knights beat Northwest Catholic High School in West Hartford, 56-37, Hearst Connecticut Media reported.

He earned his first 457 wins as Maloney High School's boys basketball coach, Hearst said. He resigned from that job in May 2019 so he could coach in Southington, according to the news outlet.

And his final 43 wins came from the Southington girls team, where his record is currently 43-13, the Record-Journal reported.

"Blessed really doesn't cover how I feel," Hewitt said after he notched the win, as reported by the Record-Journal. "Never in a million years would I have thought 500 was possible; 500 is a number that's so far out there."

In 2016, Hewitt was inducted into the Connecticut High School Coaches Association Hall of Fame.