Telegraph photo by TOM KING Nashua South's Kirsten McIntire, right, and Nashua North's Theresa Ellison were named NHIAA Scholar Athletes.

NASHUA – The New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association has been looking for ways to honor senior athletes in the wake of their winter tournament seaason and entire spring season being cancelled.

With that in mind, the senior scholar athletes at both Nashua North and South have been named by the NHIAA. To make the list athletes needed to have a GPA of B-plus or better, play two sports, and be considered positive role models. In some cases, athletes who were set to play in the cancelled spring season got credit for that as a second sport.

For the Nashua South girls, the list includes Annalise Brick, Jenna Chiavelli,Jaime Conmy,Catherine Covert, Haley Dion, Rachel Hiscock, Elizabeth Kopicko, Anai Dominguez, Alexandria Elliott, Olivia Kingston, Kelsie Leith, Cara Lecklider, Payson Mooso, Baley Morin, Madison Rowe, Meghan Russell, Madison Sewade, Lia Whitesel, Kaitlin Fitzgibbons, Kirsten McIntire, Sarah Picard, and Sarah Signorello.

For the South boys, earning the honors were Joe Buturla, Joseph Calomo, Charlie Collins, Chris Dawe, James Deichman, Kevin Flaherty, Zach Gauthier, Caden Hedquist, Andres Hulfachor, Patrick Hyde, Ben Levine, Colby Martel, Braden McDonnell, Kyle O’Connor, Riley Olsen, Kyle Salemi, Parker Senecal, Jacob Smith, Trevor Stewart, Chris Vo, and Nathan Zalzal.

The Nashua North girl scholar athletes are Emily Arana, Brooke Bakhit,Abby Coy, Elizabeth Deck, Theresa Ellison, Chantal Finley, Hannah Gaffny, Sarah Gelinas, Quinn Greenleaf, Courtney Gunter, Lillyann Jin, Sarah Kelley, Amanda Kime, Elizabeth Klayton, Gabrielle Laaferriere, Alexas Miranda, Julianna Moreno,Lydia Murray, Adaobieze Nwankwo, Lauren Oliver, Nicole Perault, Sophia Searles, Madelaine Simpson, Caroline Sweet, and Chloe Young.

For the North boys, Brian Ascani, Gabe Buxton, Joe Curran, Ruben De Jesus, Dominick Gentry, Radamez Gonzalez, Tyler Griffin, Ryan Haney, Matt Harger, Yassine Jakib, Vladomir Jungkman, Kyle Krulikowski, Marc Laferriere, Cameron Lee, Josh Lentz, James Maddock, Aidan McGrath, Colin Miller, Sam Nicholls, Joe Pappas, Nasir Perry, Nicholas Roscoe, Mason Rychwa, Alex Sheran, and Noah Weiss.

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When the NHIAA cancelled the spring season, all eyes turned to the fall, and Nashua athletic director Lisa Gingras and others mentioned that it’s not September that is the first month in question, it will be August, when teams train, and practice begins around the middle of the month.

In fact, regular season soccer would start at the end of August – as early as August 28, and field hockey begins regular season play on Aug. 31. The first regular season high school football games are set for Friday, Sept. 4, but there will be scrimmages scheduled for the couple of weeks leading up to that.

“Hopefully we can get in to our facilities so the athletes can properly get ready for their seasons,” Gingras said. “We don’t want to see anyone get injured.”

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