Boys & Girls Club Holds Member Recognition Night
In late June, the Club closed out the school year program with our Annual Member Recognition Night Dinner. Over 300 club members, parents, staff and board members were in attendance as members were recognized throughout the various program areas. After a dinner created by Patriot’s Kids Café Director, Maureen Cooper, 2009 Youth of the Year, Max Barbosa, our emcee for the evening, kicked off the evening with the awards for Summer Athletics and Education followed by Fine Arts and Music. Just a short time later, Maureen Peterson, Past President of the Board of Directors, presented the Youth of the Year Awards to: Anthony Brandao, David Cotter, Regina Crawford, Joey Brandao, Aisling Kerr, Tyrell Pugh (Boy of the Year) and Keila Centeio (Youth of the Year). Keila also represented her fellow award winners at the Statewide Youth of the Year judging held in Worcester in May. Next on the agenda were special awards of recognition to staff members Bruce Seals and Queenette Santos on celebrating their 20th and 15th years of employment respectively with the Club. After program awards in Athletics (Winter & Spring), Social Recreation, Teen Program, Aquatics and our Denney Center Unit we closed the night with our Program Director Awards, the top award in each program area. These award winners were: Social Recreation – Saide Smith; Aquatics – Emma Murphy and Casey MacKinnon; Athletics – Anthony Brandao; Walter Denney Youth Center – Andre Wideman and Sinoa Johnson; Music – Regina Crawford; and; Teen Center – Robert Lawless and Cedric Correia. Congratulations to these winners and all of the members recognized on this night for their leadership, participation and sportsmanship. We would also like to thank our friends at The Greater Boston Food Bank as well as Club members Regina Crawford, Sherry Nguyen, Manny Brandao, Anthony Brandao and Shane Kelly, who, as the newly formed Club Band, provided the entertainment for the evening.
Summer Swim Team
After offering try-outs for new swimmers this past week the Summer Swim Team begins practicing three evenings a week on July 6th. The Summer Swim Team is open to boys and girls ages 6 to 18 who can swim a minimum of 50 yards. Practices are held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings with swimmers ages 11 & younger practicing at 6:00 p.m. and swimmers ages 12 and older practicing at 7:00 p.m. The team is made up of members of the school-year Marr-lin Swim Team, participants from the recently concluded Intramural Swim League and recreational swimmers from our summer program. Meets on the schedule include the Blue/White Meet on 7/15, home against the Revere Swim Club (7/21) and on the road against the Waltham Club on 7/28. The season will conclude with a home meet against the Waltham Club followed by a team barbecue on 8/12. For information on the Summer Swim Team please contact Aquatic Director, Aquiles Gomes at ext. 2220.
All-Star Teams Complete Season
This Spring, the Program Council of Boys and Girls Clubs in the region offered two inter-club leagues – a 12 & U Indoor Soccer League and a 15 & U Flag Football League. We placed two teams in the Soccer league, one each from our Denney Center and Marr Clubhouse Units. Our Denney Center Stars finished out of the play-off hunt but managed to show improvement each week. The Soccer All-Stars at the Marr Unit closed out the regular season in 2nd place overall. In the first round of the play-offs they advanced with a thrilling 3-2 win over the Watertown Club. This set-up a championship match-up against the Medford Club, the only team to beat our Stars in the regular season. In this highly anticipated championship our All-Stars managed to pull out a 5-2 victory and capture their third consecutive league championship. Congratulations to team members: Jasmine Castro, Mauro Barbosa, Devante Teixeira, Dante Lopes, Adrianna Hernandez, Zelito Pina, Erilson Teixeira, Malik Brown, Philp Chomicki, D’Mitra Weathers, Dana Monteiro, Walter Dew-Hollis, Jessica Hernandez and Armani Monteiro. At our Marr Unit the Flag Football All-Stars finished in 3rd place during the regular season. Team members: Philip Lodge, Cedric Correia, Walter Dew-Hollis, Emoni Vicente, Jordan Williams, Francis DePina, Alberto Monteiro, Joshua Herron and Dirique Richards enjoyed a first round play-off victory over the Salem, MA Boys and Girls Club before falling to the John M. Barry Boys and Girls Club of Newton in the championship game. Congratulations to all three teams on their successful seasons. For more information on any of our upcoming Athletic programs please contact Bruce Seals at (617) 288-7120, ext. 2210.
