Stars shine at Scholar-Athlete Awards
Globe honors top athletes of the 2008-09 season
The Boston Globe honored the best and brightest of the 2008-09 school year Sunday at its Scholar-Athlete Award ceremony.
This year's ceremony was held at the Globe's Dorchester headquarters and featured the 14 Boston Globe/Richard Phelps Scholar-Athletes. Each of the winners received $3,000 college scholarships. The Globe selected one boy and one girl from seven Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association districts.
This year's winners were:
District A: Darren Hartwell, North Reading, and Emily Lanois, Hamilton-Wenham.
District B: James Queeney, Reading, and Annie Abber, Malden.
District C: Danny Guadagnoli, Framingham, and Meghan Ferreira, Mansfield.
District D: A.J. Carvalho, Case, and Olivia Amorin, Case.
District E: Matthew LaBove, St. John's (S), and Sophia Mercadante, Lunenburg.
District H: Joshua Boyd, Catholic Memorial, and Michelle Golden, St. Mary's.
Boston: Yaovi Jondoh, Charlestown, and Rachel McGrath, Latin Academy.
In addition to the scholar-athlete awards, the Globe announced its Male and Female Athletes of the year for MIAA and NEPSAC schools.
The NEPSAC Athletes of the Year were David Lawson of Middlesex School and Casey Griffin of Noble and Greenough. Both were named All-Americans in lacrosse this spring. Lawson, who will attend Duke to play lacrosse, also played basketball and football at the Concord school. Griffin also played hockey and field hockey at Nobles and will attend Dartmouth.
The Boston Globe/Will McDonough Athletes of the Year for public schools went to Norton's Sean Ryan and North Andover's Kirsten Kasper. Ryan was the Globe's Division 3 player of the Year in football, a Tri-Valley League All-Star in Track, and the Tri-Valley MVP in baseball and a Globe All-Scholastic. Kasper was a state champion in cross country and track and earned All-Scholastic honors in each, and was a three-time swimming All-Scholastic.
The Globe's spring All-Scholastic section will be printed Sunday, June 21.
