As the San Diego Unified School District year ends, athletic and academic scholarships large and small are being given to high school seniors who soon will be off to college.
Two recent La Jolla High School graduates were awarded scholarships for their water polo prowess, both calling it an honor while noting that water polo is very much a team and community sport.
La Jolla High School students receive athletic awards
Recent La Jolla High School graduate Rhys Bugelli has won the Matthew Abrams Memorial Award, which comes with his name on an award plaque hung at the Coggan Family Aquatic Complex and a $1,000 scholarship.
The award was begun in 2019 by La Jollans Dave and Joyce Abrams as a way to memorialize their son Matthew Abrams, a 1999 LJHS graduate and MVP of its water polo team that year who died of cancer in 2018.
Water polo was Matthew’s passion, Dave Abrams said. “We thought it’s fitting that we tie this memorial into that aspect of his life.”