Fall varsity athletic awards were presented at Wilbraham & Monson Academy on Monday, November 16 at the end-of-season Athletic Banquet. Coaches and team members recognized outstanding achievement, perseverance, and leadership on the field. In addition to student awards, two coaches received recognition.Athletic Director Skip Jarocki gave a thank-you gift to Karen Nicholson, who has been a volunteer Girls' Varsity Soccer coach for ten years, and the  Varsity Water Polo team honored Steve Gray for his 25 years of service as head coach with the gift of a silver tray.
Those students receiving Coaches Awards were Laura Dederichs of Cologne, Germany, for volleyball; Brooke Mele of Wilbraham, for field hockey; Caitlin Charette for water polo; Qiulin Li of Shanghai, China, and Adam Ginsberg of Arlington, Virginia, for cross country; Sara Vincunas of Granville for girls' soccer; David Lawrence of Wilbraham for boys' soccer; and Peter Pascarelli of Astoria, New York, for football, an award designated as the Doug Foley Award. In addition to Coaches Awards, boys' and girls' soccer teams each present a 12th Player Award given to that player who comes off the bench and sparks the team to greater efforts. This year that honor went to Kanta Sugai of Tokyo, Japan, and, for the second consecutive year, to Jacqueline Smith of West Springfield.
Most Valuable Players included Trevor Treibt of Brookfield, Connecticut, for football; Emma Camilleri of Wilbraham, for field hockey; Casey Marini of Hampden and Trevor Moran of Monson for boys' soccer; for a second year, Meghan Cole of Belchertown for girls' soccer; Christpher Glabicky of Palmer and Aislinn Calabrese of West Springfield for cross country; Haleigh Murphy of Point Richmond, California, for volleyball; Carey Shetterley of Rochester, Michigan, and Steven Marcus of West Springfield for water polo.