Last night, June 20, the VHS Sports Boosters Organization held the 2022 VHS Senior Sports Award Ceremony at Sellitto Field.
Seventy-seven student athletes participated and were honored. Athletic Director Laura Palmerezzi reviewed each team’s accomplishments and the achievements of several individual athletes for the 2021-2022 season, and each student received a plaque memorializing their Verona High School sports achievements. Of the group, 56 are high honor students with GPAs of 3.7 or higher and they received maroon and white honor cords to wear on graduation night.
The Coaches Award, which is also known as the Maroon & White Award, went to Lauren Kobernick and Sean Mulligan. Kobernick’s sports were cross country, basketball and track, while Mulligan played basketball and baseball.
The 2021 VHS Athletes of the Year, Frank Riggio and Melanie Naeris, presented the 2022 VHS Athletes of the Year awards to Grace Madigan, Ella Moore and Cael Zebrowski. Madigan and Moore played soccer and lacrosse, while Zebrowski played football and basketball.
Many class of 2022 athletes will continue in their sports in college:
- Dermot Badman – Tennis – Moravian University
- Aidan Millar – Sailing – College of Charleston
- Derek Bernardino – Wrestling – Saint John Fisher College
- Meghan Haughney – Lacrosse – Muhlenberg College
- Cael Zebrowski – Football – Salve Regina University
- Brody Neale – Football – Salve Regina University
- James Haveron – Football – Salve Regina University
- Sean Mulligan – Baseball – Salve Regina University
