Hall of Fame
From 1962-65, Mihalko was one of the star players on the Plattsburgh State men’s soccer team. He attained All-New York Region Second Team acclaim on three occasions and was also a three-time All-SUNYAC First Team performer.
During the final three years of his collegiate soccer career, Mihalko led the Cardinals in both goals and points and was twice voted the team’s most valuable player.
WHERE HE IS NOW:
Jim retired in 1999 after a 25-year career as an English and Social Studies teacher at Adirondack High School in Boone, N.Y. In addition to his duties as an educator, Jim coached both the boys and girls varsity soccer teams at AHS and concluded his coaching career with a record of 263-78. His teams won a total of seven league championships. Jim was also a member of the Utica Board of Soccer Officials for over 30 years.
Jim and his wife, Audrey, have four children: Randy, a SUNY graduate and landscape branch manager living in Sherwood, Ore.; Geoff, a Clarkson graduate and civil engineer in Portland, Ore.; Brian, a Rochester Institute of Technology graduate, and project engineer in Huntington Beach, Calif.; and Jaime, a Utica College graduate and an R.N. at Duke University Hospital in Raleigh, N.C. When Jim and Audrey aren’t traveling or visiting their children, they spend the winters cross country skiing and the summers kayaking and golfing.
FAVORITE PLATTSBURGH STATE SPORTS MOMENT:
“Thinking back about favorite moments playing soccer for Plattsburgh actually did not occur on the soccer field, but on the soccer trips. Traveling throughout New York and New England in the months of September and October when the leaves were turning to their brilliant and majestic colors was a photographer’s dream. ”Leaf peeping” tours are very popular, and here I was, “a kid off the farm” enjoying all this splendid scenery for free while having fun playing soccer for Plattsburgh State.”
