Quantez Franklin
Anna Maria College
Anna Maria College senior Quantez Franklin is busy right now in the middle of his final collegiate basketball season. The former Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School standout athlete is a starting guard for the Amcats averaging nearly 13 points per game and the team is hovering around the .500 mark at 7-7 as of this week. He started at guard for the Amcats his junior year as well. Franklin is a native of South Yarmouth.
Former Falmouth High School volleyball standout Bridgett Flynn has been busy the past two years playing collegiately with the Johnson and Wales Cougars in Providence, Rhode Island. An East Falmouth native, Flynn is a sophomore at the school. At Falmouth High, she earned varsity letters for volleyball for four years and was Libero and Captain in her senior year. She also eanred the Clippers’ Coaches’ Award her freshman, junior and senior seasons.
Sean Donahue
College of Charleston
2014 Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School graduate Sean Donahue is busy preparing for the upcoming 2015 collegiate sailing season at the College of Charleston. Donahue, a freshman, was a standout varsity sailor for the Dolphins for four years before matriculating down south. He lettered all four years in golf, hockey and sailing at Dennis-Yarmouth and was captain and skipper in sailing as well as an ACL all-star in ice hockey. A member of the National Honor Society and Ambassadors Club, Donahue was a recipient of the John and Abigail Adams Scholarship and served as Key Club President. He is the son of Jerry and Susan Donahue of East Dennis and he hopes to major in accounting.
2014 Cape Cod Academy graduate Elizabeth Pemberton, an Osterville native, is also busy training for the upcoming collegiate sailing season at the College of Charleston. A three-time varsity sailing letterman for the Seahawks, her high school team placed 2nd (crew) and 5th (skipper) at nationals in 2013 and finished 9th (skipper) and 15th (crew) at nationals in 2014 and 2012, respectively. She is the daughter of Rob and Diane Pemberton of Osterville. Elizabeth coaches sailing during the summer months at the Wianno Yacht Club on Osterville.
Former Dennis-Yarmouth Regional High School basketball standout Stephanie Tobey (Class of 1998), who went on to play center at Bryant University and has had a superlative coaching career since graduating from college in 2002, is one of the assistant women’s basketball coaches this season at Boston University. Tobey was the head coach at Lynchburg College before moving on as an assistant coach at such division 1 schools as Fordham University, University of Rhode Island and Bryant University. She is a native of West Yarmouth.
Reilly O’Connell
Providence
Sandwich High School graduate Reilly O’Connell is enjoying a fine collegiate swimming career at Providence College in Rhode Island. A junior for the Friars, O’Connell collected 189.25 points on the Friars’ season her sophomore year when she qualified for the BIG EAST Championships in the 50y freestyle, 100y freestyle, 200y freestyle and as part of the 200y freestyle relay, 400y freestyle relay, 800y freestyle relay and the 200y medley relay. She also competed in the BIG EAST finals in the 100y freestyle, tying for 14th place (53.83), and in the 200y freestyle, earning eighth (1:55.11). As a freshman, O’Connell finished seventh on the team with 106.50 points, earned a first-place finish in the 100m freestyle in a win over Brandeis, finishing in 1:02.28 and swam a personal-best in the 100y freestyle (55.30) and the 200y freestyle (1:57.19) at the BIG EAST Championships. She was the winner of The O’Neill Family Award and qualified for the BIG EAST Championships in the 100y freestyle, 200y freestyle, 500y freestyle while participating in the 400y freestyle relay her freshman season. A four-time letterman in swimming for the Lady Blue Knights of Sandwich High School, O’Connell captained the swim team in 2011 and her Cape Cod YMCA Mako Swim Team from 2010-2012. She was a two-time team MVP and four-year Atlantic Coast League All-Star in swimming for the Blue Knights and still holds four school records in the 200 freestyle, 100 freestyle, 200 freestyle relay and 400 freestyle relay. She also lettered in lacrosse twice. She is the daughter of Matthew and Diane O’Connell of West Barnstable and is a health policy and management major.
Ryan Kennedy
Johnson & Wales
2012 Barnstable High School graduate Ryan Kennedy is currently enjoying a fine collegiate volleyball season as a starting outside hitter for the Johnson and Wales Wildcats in Providence, Rhode Island. Now in his third collegiate season, Kennedy helped lead Barnstable High to back-to-back South Alliance League championships in 2010 and 2011 and he served as captain in 2012. He is a business major and hails from West Barnstable.
Cape Cod Technical Regional High School graduate David Sherman enjoyed a fine freshman collegiate season this fall running cross country for the Johnson and Wales Cougars in Providence, Rhode Island. A native of Yarmouth Port, Sherman was a standout cross country and track man while running in high school for the Crusaders where he broke and set two school records in the 4×800 in both his junior and senior years.
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