Local Athletes Receive Winter Sports Honors

by Erez Ben-Akiva
Monomoy-Mashpee boys hockey won the Cape and Islands League Lighthouse Division and received a number of end-of-season awards. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTO Monomoy-Mashpee boys hockey won the Cape and Islands League Lighthouse Division and received a number of end-of-season awards. EREZ BEN-AKIVA PHOTO

A multitude of local student-athletes across several different sports received various honors following this past winter season.
For Nauset, 17 athletes were named Cape and Islands League All-Stars. They were: Maxwell Eldred (boys basketball), Sophie Eldredge (girls hockey), Julia Kipperman (girls hockey), Brody Bassett (boys hockey), Jake Eldredge (boys hockey), Logan Miller (boys hockey), Zach Weiner (boys hockey), Xavier Andrulot (boys indoor track), Reed Dill (boys indoor track), Heather Campbell (girls indoor track), Violet Roche (girls indoor track), Loring Eldred (boys swimming), Thomas Olean (boys swimming), Laura Kaser (girls swimming), Edie Spiegel (girls swimming), Owen O’Reilly (boys wrestling), and Jack Peno (wrestling).
Eight athletes received honorable mentions: Brynn Kew (girls basketball), Oliver Accettullo (boys basketball), Max Lanzetta (boys hockey), Evan Melano (boys indoor track), Anika Valli (girls indoor track), Clancy Desmond (girls swimming), Jack Hopkins (boys swimming), and Evan McCarty (boys wrestling). 
Nine athletes received individual sportsmanship awards: Makayla Kasakoff (girls basketball), Wesley Kaser (boys basketball), Norah Swanson (girls hockey), Max Lanzetta (boys hockey), Sam Bowden (boys indoor track), Lana Dill (girls indoor track), Daisy deRuyter (girls swimming), Jack Hopkins (boys swimming), and Nate McCarty (boys wrestling).
Owen O’Reilly (boys wrestling), Brody Bassett (boys hockey), Laura Kaser (girls swimming) and Violet Roche (girls indoor track) each received Cape and Islands League Most Valuable Player honors. Roche was also named the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Student Athlete of the Month for January.
The girls hockey team (a co-op with Monomoy), boys indoor track team and boys wrestling team (a co-op with Cape Cod Tech) were all Cape and Islands League champions. 
The boys basketball team, boys and girls swimming team, and girls indoor track team received team sportsmanship awards.
For Cape Tech, Daunte Gray and Chaz Thomas received Cape and Islands League All-Star honors for boys wrestling. Matt Swartz (boys hockey) was named the Cape and Island League’s recipient of the 2026 Boston Bruins-MIAA Sportsmanship Award.
For Monomoy, athletes receiving Cape and Islands League All-Star honors were: Dezmond Wall (boys basketball), Zach Martin (boys basketball), Jean-Louis Marjollet (boys basketball), Kiley Mawn (girls basketball), Emma Ayer (girls basketball), Amanda McIsaac (girls basketball), Owen Cloney (boys hockey), Nick Garneau (boys hockey), Max Cronen (boys hockey), Gavin O’Leary (boys hockey), Luke Raftery (boys hockey), Dom Silvester (boys hockey), Gaby Bassett (girls hockey), Morgan Willis (girls hockey), Zay-Dah Thomas (girls indoor track), Jonathan Sagesse (boys indoor track), Sean Needham (boys indoor track), Alique Brown (boys indoor track), Nirvens Pierre (boys indoor track), Quinn Muldoon (boys indoor track), Jakob Conlon (boys indoor track), Marco-Dean Hart (boys indoor track), Chatham Gillis (boys indoor track), Patrick Jordan (boys indoor track), Alexa Ford (girls indoor track), Lucy Cortese (girls indoor track), Varvara Conley (girls indoor track), Kade Stephens (boys indoor track), and Skyler Orsmond (girls indoor track). 
Max Cronen (boys hockey) was also named Most Valuable Player of the Cape and Islands League Lighthouse Division.
Lucy Cortese and Patrick Jordan were named Monomoy’s Scholar Athletes of the Month for January. Autumn Escher and Luke Raftery were named Scholar Athletes of the Month for February.
Team accomplishments included boys hockey (a co-op with Mashpee) winning the Cape and Islands Lighthouse Division and a team sportsmanship award, cheer competing at states and New Englands, plus indoor track’s inaugural season, which included several athletes competing at states, new englands and nationals, and the boys team winning the Cape and Islands League meet.