Booster Awards Night, Varsity Lists and Footlocker Results

The WHS Athletic Boosters Award Night will be held Wednesday evening December 2nd at 6 PM in the auditorium. Following the ceremony which will recognize athletes from all fall sports (and should take no more than an hour), we'll move on to room B244 (Coach Lehmann's classroom) for a separate cross country only meeting which will begin within 10 minutes of the main ceremony's conclusion. At the breakout meeting we'll recognize the recipients of team-specific awards including Most Improved, Rookie of the Year, and MVP. All are invited to attend and we hope to see you there! We hope to be done by around 8 PM.

I also want to recognize on this blog the athletes on this year's team who earned varsity status. For this distinction, the coaching staff used the criteria listed below:

1. Athletes who competed at the MIAA EMass Divisional Championship meet and/or in the varsity race at the DCL Championship Meet. These meets represent our post-season, and the EMass Division 4 Championship is our state sectional tournament. Athletes who were slated to compete in either of these meets but were unable due to illness or injury are worthy of consideration for varsity status as well.

2. Athletes who have participated in cross country at WHS for at least two years. This level of commitment and dedication to the team and the sport is worthy of recognition, as such any athlete with two or more years of participation is deserving of varsity status contingent on characteristics like attendance, attitude, and commitment to the team and their own improvement.

3. Team captains who voluntarily took on the extra responsibility of a leadership role are eligible for varsity status in the rare occasion that neither of the first two criteria apply. 


Girls Varsity:

Taylor DeRubeis '16
Emma Kiefer '16
Allie Kunen '16
Rachel Lorenc '16
Abby McCarthy '17
Lauren McNamara '17
Sophie Mishara '17
Caroline Provost '16
Erica Sheffres '16
Sarah Tully '17

Boys Varsity:

David Ahearne '19
John Bartick '16
Harrison Brewton '16
Patrick Butler '16
Logan Chaet '16
Jett Chan '18
Trevor Chase '18
Devin Comettant '16
Logan Dawson '18
Cole Jacobs '16
Addison Kay '17
Zach Last '16
Zhenyang Luo '18
Dan Pachter '16
Alex Porter '16

If you're on this list and you think you've earned your varsity jacket, please inform Ms. Sullivan in the main office. The requirements for a varsity jacket are:

• two varsity letters in a sport or combination of sports
• four years in the same sport
• three seasons in the same sport with one varsity letter

Finally, Sarah Tully raced this past weekend in the Championship Race at the Footlocker Northeast Regional at Van Cortlandt Park in New York City. This is one of the most competitive high school races in the entire New England and mid-Atlantic region, and she did very well to finish in the top 40 behind only five other runners from Massachusetts.