Hilda Carey, rscj, won the 2003 Outstanding Faculty Award for her tutoring services to student athletes at Boston College, where she teaches writing and literature to freshmen and remains a “closet Mets fan” in a Red Sox town.

Sister Carey’s love of baseball, combined with her “love of kids,” has made it a joy for her to support student athletes, she said.

She tutors student athletes as freshmen but then, “I keep in touch with them throughout their entire time at Boston College,” she said. “The pressures that build up … I try to keep an eye on them,” she said. “The students really appreciate that.”

Verna Phillips, Director of Learning Resources for Student Athletes, said Sister Carey has been selected because “she typifies caring concern,” even as she “holds the students to the highest standards of accountability.”

Sister Carey began her teaching career in 1956. She has taught in Japan and Korea as well as at nine Sacred Heart schools in the United States, and in Japan and Korea.

She vividly recalls the year she began teaching fulltime at Boston College. “It was 1986, the year the Mets beat the Red Sox in the World Series,” she said.