John Pacheco ('63, baseball, basketball, soccer) was an outstanding three-sport athlete for New Bedford Institute of Technology in the early 1960's. As a basketball player, he reached the 1,000-point club with a total of 1,308 points in an era long before the three-point shot, placing him 21st on the all-time scoring list. A two-time team captain, he was twice selected to the North/South Christmas Seafood Tournament All-Star Team and was honored several times as The Standard-Times Player of the Week. In soccer, Pacheco played four seasons for NBIT and was named team captain three times.  He was described as a very good defender and was an accomplished player on offense as well. He was a member of what is considered by many as the best soccer team ever at NBIT, the 1959 Colonial League championship team. That team went on to win the NAIA Regional Championship before moving to the NAIA National Tournament where they lost to Elizabethtown College, 2-1, in a game played at Slippery Rock College.  Pacheco's soccer teams competed against Division I schools in New England including Brown and the University of Rhode Island, posting four consecutive winning seasons.  During the spring, Pacheco was also one of the top baseball players for NBIT as both a hitter and a pitcher.  After graduating from NBIT in 1963, Pacheco became a teacher in the New Bedford school system, starting a long and successful coaching career with the Whalers' baseball and boys' basketball teams. He is a member of the New Bedford Athletic Hall of Fame.  Pacheco returned to the Dartmouth campus and coached the SMTI/SMU men's basketball team for four seasons from 1968 through 1972 with his best season a 14-11 team in 1968-69.