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Watertown High School’s boys track team excelled at Sunday’s MSTCA Div. 5 State Relays, finishing fourth place overall and one relay setting a new Div. 5 record. The meet, held at Reggie Lewis Track & Athletic Center in Boston, featured the best teams from around Massachusetts of comparable size. The 4 x 200 relay team of Nick Cordeiro, Nathan Follett, Edie Ferreira and Mangé Camara placed first with a time of 1:35.71.
Watertown High School sprinter Mangé Camara recently had what his coach called “perhaps the finest individual performances in the history of Watertown indoor track and field.” The junior broke not one, but two Watertown High School records at the MSTCA Speed Classic at the Reggie Lewis Track and Athletic Center on Dec. 29. The meet includes the top sprinters in Massachusetts in all divisions, said Watertown track and field coach Tom Wittenhagen.
“In this history of Watertown indoor track and field I can think of no other athletic performer who set two outstanding school records in a single day. I don’t think that has ever been duplicated,” Wittenhagen said.
Watertown’s Gabriella Coppola moved into second place on the Endicott College women’s basketball program’s assist list during the game at Gordon College on Thursday night.
The former WHS star tallied five assists in Wenham, Mass., and gave her a total of 46 through 12 games in her senior year and 306 in her career for the Gulls. She came into the game tied with Kaylin Burke at 301, so her first assist in the 78-55 win against Gordon put her into second place. The assist record at Endicott is held by Heidi Stevens, who had 472 in her career. Coppola is also second on the single-season assists list at Endicott with 135 during her sophomore year. She is also among the top active NCAA Div.
Twenty Watertown High School athletes received Middlesex League All-Star honors according lists to the Boston Globe and Boston Herald, and the Raiders had League most valuable players in field hockey and boys soccer. Field hockey goalie Jonna Kennedy was named MVP of the Middlesex League Freedom. She and the Raiders won the Middlesex League, the North Section and the ninth-straight State Championship. Boys soccer player Alex Abrahamyan helped the Raiders win the North Section for the first time since 2013 and reach the state semifinals. He was named co-MVP of the Middlesex League Freedom.
After a historic run in the MIAA playoffs, Watertown head football coach John Cacace was named the Div. 5 Coach of the Year by the Boston Globe.
This season the Raiders finished 7-5 and won the school’s first North Section title by going on the road three straight weeks, culminating in a comeback win at Lynnfield in the North Final. Watertown made it to the Eastern Mass. final, where the team fell to a powerful Dennis-Yarmouth squad that went on to win the Div. 5 Super Bowl.
Watertown High School field hockey players Sydney Poulin and Jonna Kennedy were named to the All-Scholastic teams by the Boston Globe and Boston Herald, and the Globe chose Poulin as the Div. 2 Player of the Year. The pair helped Watertown win its ninth straight MIAA Div. 2 State Championship in November, and both were co-captains for the Raiders this year. Poulin scored 28 goals and added seven assists this season to give her a career total of 52 goals and 32 assists.
Winning championships is nothing new for Watertown’s Kourtney Kennedy, who won four state titles with the Raiders, but this fall she was was part of one at the Div. I college level. Kennedy plays for UConn, which went undefeated and captured the NCAA Div. I Field Hockey championship with a 2-1 win over Maryland. “It was something I will never forget,” Kennedy told Wicked Local Watertown.
Gabriella Coppola had had quite an encore to her stellar career on the Watertown High School girls basketball team. Now a senior at Endicott College, she has steadily climbed up the list of assist leaders at the Beverly-based college and in all of NCAA Div. III. Coppola, who plays guard for the Gulls, has 15 assists through five games during the 2017-18 season, putting her at 275 for her college career. This is fourth best all-time at Endicott and 30th highest among active D3 players.