CHS teammates named to US Lax All-Academic Team

On June 28, Canton High School Class of 2018 graduates Colleen Boucher and Molly Colburn were named to the 2018 US Lacrosse High School All-Academic Team and received their awards at halftime of the Major League Lacrosse All-Star Game at Harvard Stadium in Boston.

Former CHS teammates Colleen Boucher and Molly Colburn received their All-Academic awards at the MLL All-Star Game.

Boucher and Colburn were two of the captains of this year’s CHS girls varsity lacrosse team and were among only 25 girls selected for this honor from all of eastern Massachusetts. According to US Lacrosse, the sport’s national governing body, an All-Academic honoree is a player who exhibits exemplary lacrosse skills, good sportsmanship on the field, and represents high standards of academic achievement in the classroom.

Both girls had a positive impact on the lacrosse field for Canton High, with Boucher named Defensive Player of the Year by the team and receiving an All-Hockomock League honorable mention. She also earned varsity letters as a member of the volleyball and indoor track teams. Colburn was a four-year varsity lacrosse player who provided offensive firepower from her midfield position and was awarded the Bulldog Award her senior year. She also earned varsity letters in field hockey. The girls have been teammates since they began playing lacrosse together in elementary school as part of the Canton Youth Lacrosse program.

Off the field, both students shared the honor of being two of only eight seniors to receive the Canton High School Century Club Award each of their four years of high school. This award recognizes 100 students each year for having the highest non-weighted grade point average and is limited to the top 10 freshmen, 20 sophomores, 30 juniors, and 40 seniors.

Boucher was a member of the state championship Canton High math team, National Honor Society, and French National Honor Society. She also received the Ralph Clough Academic Award for Science. She will be majoring in biochemistry at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, where she was awarded a Blackwell Pioneer in Science Scholarship.

Colburn was vice president of the National Honor Society and a member of the Spanish National Honor Society. She received the Ralph Clough Academic Award for Spanish and Daughters of the American Revolution (D.A.R.) Good Citizen Award. Colburn was also instrumental in creating Canton High’s separational recycling program, Waste Organization Operation (W.O.O.), through Operation Action, a club she formed. She will be majoring in engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, where she was awarded an esteemed Provost Scholarship.

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