After a highly successful senior season with the Bulldogs last fall, promising local soccer talent Abdul Barrie made even greater strides in 2021 as a post-grad player at South Kent School in Connecticut. Last month, the Canton resident and 2021 CHS graduate helped lead the Cardinals to a New England prep school championship with a […]
Former Canton High track standout Patrick Hession will be running the 2021 Boston Marathon as a member of Dougie’s Team supporting the Doug Flutie Jr. Foundation for Autism. Hession will be raising money to help the Flutie Foundation continue to fund programs that help people and families affected by autism live life to the fullest. […]
Olivia Maffeo of Canton, one of the region’s top high school girls hockey prospects, recently got the chance to test her skills against some of the best in her age group as a participant in the 2021 USA Hockey BioSteel Girls 16/17 Player Development Camp. The week-long camp, held June 26 to July 2 at St. Cloud […]
In its 36th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, Gatorade has announced that it has named Owen McGowan of Canton as its 2020-21 Massachusetts Football Player of the Year. A standout linebacker at Catholic Memorial High School, McGowan is headed to Boston College to play for the Eagles this fall. McGowan is […]
It didn’t quite play out the way he pictured that it would, but Canton’s Jerry Harding is now an NCAA hockey national champion — and a deserving one at that — after his UMass teammates came together to help finish the job at this year’s Frozen Four in Pittsburgh. Harding, a key forward in his […]
Even in an abbreviated and highly atypical season marked by rule changes, postponements and the lack of a traditional playoff structure, hockey success still found its way to Canton this winter with notable achievements seen across the public and private school ranks. On one end of town, at the newly reopened Metropolis Skating Rink, Canton […]
Five players from Canton are headed to the MIAA Division 1 Super Bowl as members of the south champion Catholic Memorial team. The unbeaten Knights (10-0) will face D1 north winner St. John’s Prep (9-1) at Gillette Stadium on Saturday, December 7. Pictured above are Canton players Owen McGowan, Brady McGowan, Barrett Pratt, Shawn O’Connor, […]
On Wednesday, November 13, Canton’s Jenna Peccia signed her National Letter of Intent to play college lacrosse for Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia, beginning in 2020-21. A standout goalie on the Dexter Southfield girls lacrosse team, Peccia had verbally committed to Old Dominion as a junior after touring several Division 1 colleges on the […]
Canton resident Michael McMahon was recently presented with a Collegiate Apprentice Award at the Mechanics Hall 2019 Celebration of Excellence. A 2016 graduate of Canton High School, McMahon is now a senior at Becker College, where he is captain of the baseball team and is pursuing a BS in Business Administration with a sports management concentration. […]
Bob Brown, a Canton native and former CHS student-athlete, is now a national title winner after capturing the United States Australian Football League (USAFL) Division III national championship as a member of the Boston Demons. A 2009 Canton High School graduate, Brown plays the forward pocket position on the Demons, who compete in the Eastern […]
