A member of the Rhode Island Soccer Coaches Association Hall of Fame, Dick Brochu coached the 1973 Smithfield High School team to the Rhode Island championship.

            Dick’s first athletic achievements came in swimming, where he won the Eddie Higgins Long-Distance Championship Trophy (for the first Warren resident to finish) in 1952, 1953, and 1954.  He also captured the 1953 Hog Island to Bristol title and was the overall champion at the Warren Water Carnival of 1954.

            At the Rhode Island College of Education (now Rhode Island College), he earned letters in basketball and soccer during three varsity campaigns.

            In 1966 he became the cross country coach at Warren High School.  Two years later he moved to Smithfield High School, at a time when that school was one of only six teams in the fledgling Rhode Island Interscholastic Soccer League.  The first coach in Rhode Island high school boys soccer to reach one hundred victories, he led his team to the state championship in 1973.

            Dick was a referee in the Warren Schoolboy Indoor Soccer League in 1981, 1982, and 1983.

            In 1984 the Rhode Island Soccer Coaches Association made Dick a member of their Hall of Fame.  He was honored for taking Smithfield High School to six playoff appearances, two league titles, and the 1973 state championship.