All-Scholastics
Super Sunday

Who says high school sports are done for the summer?
The Sunday Globe is filled with high school coverage, including our 2009 Spring All-Scholastics and the first of a seven-part series by staff writer Bob Hohler chronicling the trials and tribulations of athletics in Boston's public school system.
We've got a bunch of extra content online for both series. Check out our Spring All-Scholastics, which features behind-the-scenes video from our Scholar-Athletes shoot, along with a feature we dubbed Academics or Athletics with those same award-winning standouts.
Check out Part 1 of our Failing our Athletes series and stick with us all week for much more. You'll find online extras, which include a video interview with Boston schools Athletic Director Ken Still and an interactive map of sports programs offered at city schools.
Over the weekend, we also unveiled the final Top 20s of the spring season and recapped Friday's Shriners Classic at Bentley College. Hop over to High School Sports Central for all the details.
The week in photos
Globe photographers were hard at work over the final days of the spring high school sports season. Check out our collection of galleries from this week's state championship tilts and the Globe's Scholar-Athlete Awards banquet on Sunday.
- Sunday, June 14: The Globe's Scholar-Athletes Awards.
- Saturday, June 13: State baseball finals in Lowell; State softball finals in Worcester; Individual tennis finals in Worcester.
- Friday, June 12: State lacrosse finals (Walpole vs. St. John's Shrewsbury; Westwood vs. Longmeadow) in Worcester.
- Thursday, June 11: State volleyball final: St. John's Prep vs. Lincoln-Sudbury in Ashland; State team tennis final: Concord-Carlisle vs. Longmeadow in Worcester.
- Wednesday, June 10: State lacrosse finals (Duxbury vs. St. John's Prep; Scituate vs. Dover-Sherborn) in Worcester.
- Tuesday, June 9: State lacrosse final: North Andover vs. Norwell in Wellesley.
Video: Athletes of the Year
The Boston Globe today honored the best and brightest of the 2008-09 school year at its Scholar-Athlete Award ceremony.
In addition to toasting the 14 Boston Globe/Richard Phelps Scholar-Athletes, 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. The Boston Globe/Will McDonough Athletes of the Year for public schools went to Norton's Sean Ryan and North Andover's Kirsten Kasper.
Check out the video at the top of this entry to see the Athletes of the Year receive their awards. For more on the awards celebration, check out this story, or you can view our photo gallery.
Check out our complete list of past Athletes of the Year.
Missing All-Stars
One of the most frequent questions we receive after our All-Scholastics sections run -- as our Winter 2009 section did this past Sunday -- is why certain leagues were omitted from the list of league all-stars that accompany each sport.
It's simple: You can't print what you don't have.
Fortunately, if your league missed the print deadline for the All-Scholastic section, there's still time to get your stars to us. You can email us your stars (but please call to confirm at (617) 929-2860) and we'll print a list of absentee leagues in Sunday's Globe.
What's more, we'll add all those leagues to our online section.
Congrats again to all the stars of the winter season.
Fall-Scholastics
We celebrate the accomplishments of the star athletes and teams from the fall season. Hop over to the Fall 2008 All-Scholastics page to relive an amazing season of high school athletics.
And if you want to leave a message for your favorite high school athlete, wishing him or her well on the All-Scholastic honor, go ahead and leave it in the comments section here.
2007-08 highlight reel
All this week we're bringing you video highlights from the Globe's 2008 All-Scholastic Award banquet that was held Sunday afternoon at the Quincy Marriott. The event featured New England Patriots tight end Ben Watson as the keynote speaker, while former Athletes of the Year Brian Morrissey of Winchester and Meredith Frank of Westwood were the student speakers.
You'll find the links to all three speeches at the bottom of this entry. In the video embedded below, you'll find our 2007-08 highlight reel that aired at the start of the ceremony. Congrats to all of this year's All-Scholastics.
We'll have much more video throughout the week. Here's the tentative plan:
- Monday: Ben Watson's speech
- Tuesday: Brian Morrissey's speech
- Wednesday: Meredith Frank's speech
- Thursday: 2007-08 highlight reel
- Friday: Athlete of the Year presentations
Frank's speech
All this week we're bringing you video highlights from the Globe's 2008 All-Scholastic Award banquet that was held Sunday afternoon at the Quincy Marriott. The event featured New England Patriots tight end Ben Watson as the keynote speaker, while former Athletes of the Year Brian Morrissey of Winchester and Meredith Frank of Westwood were the student speakers.
Check out the video below to see Frank's speech.
We'll have much more video throughout the week. Here's the tentative plan:
- Monday: Ben Watson's speech
- Tuesday: Brian Morrissey's speech
- Wednesday: Meredith Frank's speech
- Thursday: Athlete of the Year presentations
- Friday: More highlights from this year's banquet
For those of you who attended the event, we hope you had as much fun as we did. We'll also try to post the season highlight video that ran on the big screens at the start of Sunday's program.
Morrissey's speech
All this week we're bringing you video highlights from the Globe's 2008 All-Scholastic Award banquet that was held Sunday afternoon at the Quincy Marriott. The event featured New England Patriots tight end Ben Watson as the keynote speaker, while former Athletes of the Year Brian Morrissey of Winchester and Meredith Frank of Westwood were the student speakers.
Check out the video below to see Morrissey's speech.
We'll have much more video throughout the week. Here's the tentative plan:
- Monday: Ben Watson's speech
- Tuesday: Brian Morrissey's speech
- Wednesday: Meredith Frank's speech
- Thursday: Athlete of the Year presentations
- Friday: More highlights from this year's banquet
For those of you who attended the event, we hope you had as much fun as we did. We'll also try to post the season highlight video that ran on the big screens at the start of Sunday's program.
Watson addresses Globe All-Scholastics
All this week we'll be posting video highlights from the 2008 Globe All-Scholastics awards banquet, which featured New England Patriots tight end Benjamin Watson as the keynote speaker.
Watson mixed plenty of humor into his speech that encouraged the student-athletes to enjoy the journey throughout their high school and college careers. Below, check out a highlight reel from Watson's speech, which includes his thoughts on tracking down Champ Bailey during the 2005 playoffs, comments on Bill Belichick and Tom Brady, and a light moment after the speech in which Globe High School Sports Editor Bob Holmes draws the ire of the crowd with a jab at the 2007 Patriots.
For the full, 16-minute version of Watson's introduction and speech, click HERE.
We'll have much more video throughout the week. Here's the tentative plan:
- Monday: Ben Watson's speech
- Tuesday: Brian Morrissey's speech
- Wednesday: Meredith Frank's speech
- Thursday: Athlete of the Year presentations
- Friday: More highlights from this year's banquet
For those of you who attended the event, we hope you had as much fun as we did. We'll also try to post the season highlight video that ran on the big screens at the start of Sunday's program.
Take a bow
Today, the Boston Globe unveiled our 2008 Spring All-Scholastics. Hop over and explore the section as we toast those athletes who remained focus during a time when thoughts drifted to pool parties, beaches, and lazy summer days.
A reminder to all of our All-Scholastics that today is also our year-end banquet at the Quincy Marriott. All athletes should have received their invitation to attend today's event, which includes New England Patriots tight end Ben Watson as a featured speaker.
I'll be on hand capturing video from the festivities and we'll post that starting tomorrow and running through next week. So even as high school sports slip into hibernation for the summer, stick with us for more coverage.
Plus, football season is only approximately 55 days away. We'll be back out at double sessions before you know it, so enjoy that time at the beach while you can.
Winter All-Scholastics
Winter officially ends today for high school sports as we punctuate another amazing season of accomplishments by debuting our 2007-08 winter All-Scholastics.
As always, selecting players for the limited number of spots on these elite teams is an arduous task for the Globe's high school sports staff. It's with the input of coaches and trusted observers that we present our take on the region's most noteworthy competitors. We remind everyone that this is a day to celebrate not only those who earned All-Scholastic honors, but also the countless others that were considered.
There's also a batch of multimedia on the All-Scholastics page for your perusal. Here's what you'll find:
- Airin' it out: We took four boys' hockey Super Teamers -- a quartet that competed in the Super 8 title game in Pat Kiley, Rob Toczylowski, and Mike Lozzi of Reading, and Greg Crovo of Malden Catholic -- and pitted them in a postseason rematch. But since we couldn't afford ice time at a local rink, we got the next best thing: air hockey. Check out how their only little Final Four tournament unfolded.
- Just horsin' around: We took seven boys' and girls' basketbal Super Teamers -- Gerard Coleman (West Roxbury), Jake O'Brien (BC High), Julian Colaruso (Catholic Memorial), Mary Nwachukwu (Dighton-Rehoboth), Ashley Rivera (Lowell), Caroline Stewart (Masconomet), and Courtney Finn (Winthrop) -- and brought them across Morrissey Blvd. to BC High's McNeice Pavillion for a game of H-O-R-S-E. A bit of a gender war broke out and the ladies walked away as queens of the hardwood.
- The 200 club: Check out a photo gallery documenting the five girls' hockey All-Scholastics that all reside in the elite 200-point (or more) club. Massachusetts may never see another group of athletes quite like this.
- Moments to savor: We count down 10 of our most memorable moments from the winter season. Now you tell us yours.
Thank you again to everyone that made the winter season a little less chilling, and a lot more chilling. Congrats to all of our All-Scholastics.
Look for updates from:
- Bob Holmes: A Reading resident (Go Rockets!) and Boston College graduate, Holmes is the Boston Globe High School Sports Editor. We remind you now that his weekly picks are often made in jest so everyone just calm down when he picks against Everett for 11 straight weeks.
- Mike Carraggi: An Everett native (Go Tide!), Mike attends Eastern Nazarene college and is entering his second year with the Globe. He'll focus on Division 1 this fall, which means he'll spend a lot of time in his hometown, which Forsberg thinks is cool because the Tide have that Fried Dough cart.
- Emily Wright: A Hyannis native (Go Barnstable Red Raiders!), Emily is a senior at Emerson College and has been with the Globe since the end of July. She'll cover Division 1A and will be the first intern we've trusted to navigate her way to Dennis-Yarmouth or any other school on the Cape.
- Mike Grossi: A Lexington native (Go Minutemen!), Mike attends Northeastern and has been with the Globe for two months. He'll cover Division 2 and 2A and unsuccessfully lobbied to include Lexington in the preseason Top 20.
- Jonathan Raymond: A native of Benicia, Calif. (a suburb of San Francisco), Jonathan attends Northeastern and has been working at the Globe since the end of June. He will be focusing on Division 3 and is likely woefully underprepared for covering a game in a foot of snow.
- David Carty: A native of West Bridgewater (Go Wildcats!), David is a senior at Emerson College and has been working at the Globe for a year. He'll cover Divisions 3A and 4 because, "small school ball is in my blood."
- The bench: You'll also catch updates from our regional contributors, including Globe North's Julian Benbow and South's Monique Walker. Correspondent Brendan Hall will have updates from the Globe West coverage area and will often try to sneak in Central Mass. news.








