2010 Boston Globe All-Scholastics

This Sunday's Boston Globe includes their special section recognizing All-Scholastic athletes from the Fall 2010 season. I didn't always look forward to these awards, since the selection process seems a little arbitrary to me. Awards that are not determined entirely on the course or on the field of play are always a little suspect, I think.

But at some point I realized that the best way to think about these post-season honors was as an extra bonus, not something to take the place of championships and honors earned in competition, but an addition to them. This has helped me not to grouse about injustices real or imagined.

In that spirit, let me add my congratulations to the Bay Staters who earned All-Scholastic and League All-Star recognition. On the boys side, Weymouth's Steve Sollowin, the two-time Bay State League champ, was named Division I Cross-Country Runner of the Year. Brookline junior Chernet Sisay was also named an All-Scholastic. On the girls' side, congratulations to Weymouth's Jillian Corcoran and Wellesley's Priyanka Fouda who were recognized as All-Scholastics.

Mike Glennon might easily have been named a Boys Coach of the Year, and would have deserved it, as his team won the State D1 championships for the second time in four years. But this is where we have to take a deep breath and not fret. The honor is subjective, and deserving coaches are not always recognized. So it goes. Until they start running races or taking standardized tests to determine the winners, it's not worth worrying about.

Having said that, it's nice to see someone get recognized. Big congratulations, then, to Weymouth's Mike Miller, who was honored as the Girls Div I coach of the year for guiding the Wildcats to their first state championship in a generation. Mike brings tremendous energy to the Weymouth program and he has built the team into a perennial contender. Congratulations, Coach Miller!

As for league all-Stars, here are the Bay-State runners who were recognized as all-stars for the 2010 season:

Boys:

Brookline: Matt Goroff, Mike Katzeff, Mark Perry, Chernet Sisay, Romey Skylar. Framingham: Ben Groleau. Needham: Sean O'Connor, Jeff Okerman. Newton North: Justin Keefe, Ezra Lichtman, Dan Ranti. Walpole: Justin Connolly, Zach Ganshirt, Dave Wians. Wellesley: James Eisenstein, Peter Kreig. Weymouth: Steven Connolly, Nolan Parsley, Stephen Sollowin.

Girls:

Brookline: Leah Gellineau. Framingham: Sarah Bowhill, Maria Grandoni. Milton: Clara Heiden, Mairead Kiernan. Natick: Annie McElaney. Needham: Hannah Alpert. Newton North: Margo Gillis. Norwood: Kelsey Colbert. Walpole: Courtney Shea. Wellesley: Priyanka Fouda, Jessie Kaliski, Eva Lauer, Eve Roth. Weymouth: Molly Barker, Jill Corcoran, Morgan Fitzgibbon, Bridget Jaklitsch, Julie Tevenan.