After being named to the Babe Ruth Baseball League’s fourteen/fifteen-year-old All Stars, John Terra went on to play baseball at Warren High School.

But his real success came in soccer.  As a sophomore he was a member of the Redskins’ Eastern Division runner-up squad.  The following year he and fellow Hall of Fame member John Pimental led their team all the way to the state finals, where they lost to Cranston East on a dubious penalty kick call.  In the playoffs John scored four times as Warren defeated Hendricken, Barrington, and Bristol.

In that 1974 semi-final competition between Warren and Bristol, the two teams first played to a double overtime scoreless tie, before John scored the next game’s only goal in the Redskins victory.  Per Manny Correira, then of the Bristol Phoenix, “The previously unheralded Warren booters made it three shockers in a row by beating Bristol, 1-0.  The Bristol High soccer team would remember arch-rival Warren for a long time.”

For his efforts John was named All State and All Eastern Division forward.  He returned the following year and, after tying the state record with thirty goals and capturing the state scoring title, was again rewarded with both All State and All Eastern Division honors.

Following high school, he played for Barrington College, the Rhode Island Bicentennial All Stars, and the Warren Soccer Club’s 1976 championship team.

John eventually turned to coaching and led the Warren High School team from 1989 to 1992.  He also coached in the Warren Summer Soccer League and the Warren School Indoor Soccer League, winning two championships in the process.

In 1993 he assisted Tony Texeira as the Mt. Hope High School Huskies won the state soccer championship.  He then helped coach that team for another two seasons.

Pictures from Hall of Fame archives