"The 41 of us you see sitting here today is not the largest class that's graduated, but as they say, the smaller dog the bigger the bark," class speaker Aidan Koczela told his classmates Friday on the school football field. "We made sure everyone in this school heard our roar and told them the classic story of the underdogs defining the odds, and that is just what we did."
Koczela said with or without a pandemic, the class of 2021 were going to set goals, stick to them, and adapt to achieve them
"This year football and soccer played in the spring during the second fall, the band concert went live without an audience, and our SATs kept being canceled," he said. "Obviously the pandemic greatly affected everyone, but this hasn't been the only time the students of this class have had to adapt. We have been adapting since the first day of high school. It is hard to believe that at one point we were scared freshmen walking through the halls for the first time, but we all had a bit of fire inside us."