Malden High School recognizes over 500 student-athletes at All-Sports Award Ceremony and BBQ

‘Bo’ Bogan-Stead and Hailey Tran are Golden Tornado ‘Student-Athletes of the Year’ Scholarship Award winners

 

By Steve Freker

 

It is not easy being a top-shelf high school student-athlete, especially when they follow the maxim “Student comes before Athlete.” Participating in sports can provide high school students with fitness, fun, confidence, companionship and great memories. Balancing the demands of interscholastic sports with high-end academic courses can be a daunting task.

Meet Malden High School seniors “Bo” Bogan Stead and Hailey Tran. Both are usually at the top of any list when it comes to Malden High students AND athletes. So it was at the June 10 Malden High School All-Sports Awards Ceremony and BBQ event, which was hosted and funded by the Golden Tornado Club, the booster club for Malden High School Athletics. Stead, a top student in all of his four years at Malden High School, also captained two bookend sports, the Tornado Golf Team in the fall season and Baseball this past spring. Tran is another multi-sport student-athlete — a former Greater Boston League MVP swimmer — who served as the Salutatorian as the #2-ranked student in the recently graduated Malden High School Class of 2025.

Stead and Tran were recognized at the All-Sports Ceremony as the 2025 Malden High School Student-Athletes of the Year. The awards come with a $1,000 scholarship each, provided by the Golden Tornado Club. Malden Public Schools Director of Athletics Charlie Conefrey served as master of ceremonies for the event, assisted by Athletic Department and Golden Tornado Club Secretary Jeanne Marquardo.

The awards ceremony went in chronological calendar order, with 2024-25 Fall Season Awards bestowed first, followed by Winter, then Spring. In addition to a Coach’s Award and Scholastic Award being presented for every team, every level (Varsity, Junior Varsity & Freshman), for whatever levels teams were fielded in a particular sport, Greater Boston League All-Star certificates and Varsity Letters or Pins were also presented to the student-athletes by their coaches. Special Awards were also presented to the six Malden High School student-athletes who achieved the high honor of being named Greater Boston League “Most Valuable Player.”

Following are the six GBL “MVPs” from Malden High for the 2024-2025 athletic year:

—Slade Harding (Boys Cross Country)

—Ashlynn Cullity (Field Hockey)

—Amanda Fowke (Girls Basketball)

—Sophie Tran (Swimming)

—Chalais Saintil (Outdoor Track—Throwing)

—Eddy Mei (Boys Volleyball)

Following the awards, all of the student-athletes and coaches were treated to a full BBQ dinner, catered by Henry’s of Malden (Malden Moose) and including burgers, hot dogs, chips and dessert.

 

Following is a complete list of all the awards. Each Sport honored a student-athlete with a Coach’s Award and a Scholastic Award, with the Scholastic Award signifying the top student (GPA) for that team:

FALL SEASON

CHEERLEADING: Alexis Maciel Lima (Coach’s Award), Alexis Maciel Lima (Scholastic).

BOYS CROSS COUNTRY: Slade Harding (Coach’s Award), Kidus Tsige (Scholastic).

GIRLS CROSS COUNTRY: Ivana Marinkovic (Coach’s Award), Lilian Fang (Scholastic).

FIELD HOCKEY (Coed): Stanley Jiang (Coach’s Award), Kyle Huang (Scholastic).

FIELD HOCKEY (Coed, Junior Varsity): Emelia McWayne (Coach’s), Yawen Zuo (Scholastic).

FOOTBALL: Jayden McGuffie (Coach’s), Johnson Huynh (Scholastic).

GOLF (Coed): Christopher MacDonald (Coach’s), Sophie Tran (Scholastic).

BOYS SOCCER: Yohanes Megerssa (Coach’s), Suyog Shrestha (Scholastic).

BOYS SOCCER (Junior Varsity): Raphael Sanchez-Martinez (Coach’s), Iyad Doukkali (Scholastic).

BOYS SOCCER (Freshmen): Adam Namir (Coach’s), Prahlad Karthik (Scholastic).

GIRLS SOCCER: Sofia Vargas (Coach’s), Sofia Vargas (Scholastic).

GIRLS SOCCER (Junior Varsity): Karelyn Rios (Coach’s), Aya Bihi and Linnea Heining (Scholastic).

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL: Namaicka Jeune (Coach’s), Abigail Lee (Scholastic).

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL (Junior Varsity): Raquel Ferreira (Coach’s), Danielle Harrington (Scholastic).

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL (Freshman): Tenzin Tseten (Coach’s), Tenzin Tseten (Scholastic).

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WINTER SEASON

BOYS BASKETBALL: Kaua Fernandes Dias Valaderes (Coach’s), Christopher MacDonald (Scholastic).

BOYS BASKETBALL (Junior Varsity): Nguyen Sy (Coach’s), Shaoqin Zhang (Scholastic).

BOYS BASKETBALL (Freshman): Jaylen Jeudy (Coach’s), Kim Zeng (Scholastic).

GIRLS BASKETBALL: Ina Tolete (Coach’s), Ina Tolete (Scholastic).

GIRLS BASKETBALL (Junior Varsity): Beyonce Pierre-Rene (Coach’s), Cheryl Lin (Scholastic).

GIRLS BASKETBALL (Freshman): Caelyn Orphe (Coach’s), Hadassa Pierre-Rene (Scholastic).

WINTER CHEERLEADING: Gloria Alexis (Coach’s), Alexia Maciel Lima (Scholastic).

GYMNASTICS (Coed): Ivana Marinkovic (Coach’s), Sofia Vargas (Scholastic).

BOYS ICE HOCKEY: Evan Souders (Scholastic).

BOYS INDOOR TRACK: Nahim Laguerre (Coach’s), Lincoln Boswell (Scholastic).

GIRLS INDOOR TRACK: Huong Ly (Coach’s), Fiona Lin (Scholastic).

SWIMMING (Coed): Sade Huynh (Coach’s), Hailey Tran (Scholastic).

WRESTLING (Coed): David Parada Araujo (Coach’s), Katelynn Vo (Scholastic).

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SPRING SEASON

BASEBALL: Christopher MacDonald (Coach’s), Robert “Bo” Stead (Scholastic).

BASEBALL (Junior Varsity): Keith Vien (Coach’s), Johnny Mei (Scholastic).

BOYS LACROSSE: Ben Rosa (Coach’s), Jacob “Jake” Morrison (Scholastic).

GIRLS LACROSSE: Jeslyn San (Coach’s), Abigail Lee (Scholastic).

BOYS OUTDOOR TRACK: Chalais “Calais” Santil (Coach’s), Kail Boswell (Scholastic).

GIRLS OUTDOOR TRACK: Addison McWayne (Coach’s), Fiona Lin (Scholastic).

SOFTBALL: Zayra Garcia Deras (Coach’s), Yasmina Goucem (Scholastic).

BOYS TENNIS: Tanvir Singh (Coach’s), Dylan Huang (Scholastic).

BOYS TENNIS (Junior Varsity): JieYi “Jacky” He (Coach’s), JieYi “Jacky” He (Scholastic).

GIRLS TENNIS: Isabelle Tan (Coach’s), Ivana Marinkovic (Scholastic).

GIRLS TENNIS (Junior Varsity): Cathen Fontanilla (Coach’s), Cathen Fontanilla (Scholastic).

BOYS VOLLEYBALL: Saul Yaffe-Le (Coach’s), Kenton Nguyen (Scholastic).

BOYS VOLLEYBALL (Junior Varsity): Dang Nguyen (Coach’s).