Speak with Wareham High School senior Grace Brogioli for five seconds, and you know you are speaking with a special kid. Not only has Brogioli enjoyed success on the athletic fields on Viking Drive, more importantly, she has excelled inside the classrooms there.
Brogioli has been selected as one of just two student-athletes in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to receive the 2021 National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Scholar/Essay Scholarship.
The second-year captain of Wareham s field hockey team, Brogioli told Fun 107 about how she remembered joining the team as an eighth-grader. She said she was so nervous to be playing with girls that were seniors on the team, but they went out of their way to make her feel comfortable. Now that Brogioli is a senior, she said she wanted to make sure to create that same environment for her younger sister and the other eighth graders on this year s team.
Wareham High’s Grace Brogioli shines in statewide competition
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WAREHAM – Soft-spoken Wareham High senior Grace Brogioli said she was “shocked” to learn she had won the Massachusetts Secondary Schools Athletic Directors Association 2021 Scholar Athlete Essay Award.
She is one of only two winners statewide, and is now eligible for the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association Scholar/Essay Competition.
“I was shocked when I got the email saying I won it because it’s a statewide award-scholarship. So I was really surprised - but I was glad,” she said.
But it was no surprise to anyone familiar with Brogioli.
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Coach Zach Ledogar talks strategy with the Bulldogs between periods.
Coach Rich Valatkevicz and the team plan for the next period.
The Vikings and Bulldogs fought it out on the ice on Feb. 10 in a game that ended in a tie, likely knocking the Vikings out of the playoffs.
Old Rochester Regional’s Bulldogs will be the third seat for their tournament.
The Vikings held the lead for the first two periods, with goaltender Ryker King, who Wareham Coach Rich Valatkevicz said was “absolutely phenomenal,” blocking shot after shot. He let in the fewest goals of the season in his third start.