Shelton High School scholar athletes win recognition

Winter 2016-17

Shelton High School

Blanchette’s Sporting Goods

SCC Scholar Athletes

Casey O’Connor and Ryan Murphy

Ryan Murphy

Boys’ Basketball, Baseball  

Class rank:  #82/387     gpa:   91.96

Ryan Murphy is the SHS Boys’ Basketball captain, Varsity Baseball starter, SCC All-Academic Team, Basketball Team Scholar Athlete 2x, Baseball team Scholar Athlete 2x, CAPT Scholar, World Language Spanish Honor Society, SHS Honor Roll, SHS Student of the Month, National Honor Society, Best Buddies, volunteer basketball summer camp

“Ryan is an extremely dedicated, hard-working student-athlete.  He leads by example on and off the court.  He takes on academic and athletic challenges the same way; with everything he has.  He doesn’t accept anything less than his best effort.  He’s been a pleasure to coach and to teach.”

                        - SHS Boys' Basketball Coach, Brian Gardiner

Casey O’Connor 

Girls’ Volleyball, Girls’ Basketball      
    
class rank:   #28/387    gpa:  96.38

Varsity Volleyball starter, Girls’ Basketball Captain, SCC All-Academic team, SCC Academic All-Star team, All-SCC Basketball team, All-SCC Girls’ Volleyball, Softball, World Language Spanish Honor Society, SHS Honor Roll, SHS Student of the Month, CAPT Scholar, FBLA, National Honor Society, volunteer basketball summer camp, math tutor

“Casey is the hardest working player on the team and a true leader by her example in everything she does on and off the court.”

                                                                         
            - SHS Girls' Basketball Coach, Joe Cavallaro

The SCC Scholar Athlete of the Month program is sponsored by Blanchette’s Sporting Goods and recognizes student athletes who have a minimum of a B (3.0) overall and earn a varsity letter.  
Student athletes also demonstrate leadership qualities by being a positive role model both on and off the field and show commitment to self-improvement and put their team before themselves.

For more information contact the Shelton Athletic Department.

This is a press release from John Niski, Director of Athletics, Shelton Public Schools.