CLEAN SWEEP! PICCO WINS PRINCIPAL'S AWARD, WRIGHT WINS FORBES AWARD
By: Tim Birney | WaverlyAthletics.com | June 22, 2021 | Photo courtesy Rich McIntosh
WAVERLY — It was a clean sweep in 2020-21 as Waverly athletes were
crowned the top female and male three-sport athletes in the Valley.
Senior
Gabby Picco was announced as the Valley Principal’s Award winner
Tuesday night at the annual Waverly All-Sports Banquet, while her
classmate Collin Wright was announced as the Gary Forbes Memorial Award
Winner.
Picco, who is in the Top 10 in her class and a member of
the National Honor Society, earned five letters for varsity soccer, and
four for golf.
She is a two-time all-state performer on the
soccer pitch — third-team as a sophomore, and fourth-team as a junior.
(There were no all-state teams compiled this year.)
On the links,
she a four-time state qualifier, and a four-time team Section IV
champion. She also defied the odds (67 million-to-1), and holds a state
record for two holes-in-one in the same round.
As a senior, Picco switched from golf to track & field, and earned a pair of Section IV medals for the Lady Wolverines.
She also won the 2020-21 All-State Heisman High School Scholarship Award.
In the fall, Picco will play Division I soccer at LaSalle, where she will major in business.
Wright,
who is Top Ten in his class and a member of the National Honor Society,
holds the school record in the 3,000-meter steeplechase, and the
3,200-meter run for both indoor and outdoor track programs.
Wright
is a three-time qualifier for the New York State Cross Country
Championships, and a state qualifier as a sophomore in the steeplechase.
(His final two seasons to duplicate the feat were wiped out by the
Covid-19 pandemic — no season in 2020, and no postseason in 2021.)
In the fall, Wright will attend Binghamton University to major in Biology on the pre-Med track.
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