5 area girls selected as finalists for 2021R.K. Thompson Self-Reliance Award
Information submitted Jamie Burenga • • • • •
VAN WERT – Five area girls have been selected for the 2021 R.K.
Thompson Self Reliance Award, according to Breanne Sudduth, Keri McClure
and Anthony Adams, co-chairpersons of the Van Wert Service Club’s
selection committee. The program provides cash awards to seniors of Van
Wert County High Schools who best exhibit the trait of self-reliance.
These awards are designed to seek out and honor the student who does the
best with what she has.
This year’s girl finalists include Jamie
Burenga, daughter of Thomas and Julie Burenga; Madison Langdon, daughter
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.