The votes are in, and you've made your voices heard on who should be the 2025-26 Taunton Daily Gazette Boys and Girls Athletes of the Year.
The 2025-26 Taunton Daily Gazette Boys Athlete of the Year, as chosen by readers, is Dighton-Rehoboth tennis' Ty Perry, receiving 61% of the vote.
The 2026 Taunton Daily Gazette Boys Tennis Player of the Year and junior captain firmly established himself as one of the top players in all of MIAA Division 3, going a perfect 13-0 at first singles without dropping a set, earning a unanimous South Coast Conference MVP. At the USTA Massachusetts High School State Individual Singles and Doubles Championships, he was seeded No. 29 of 65 and reached the Round of 32, falling to the eventual runner-up, Newton North's Johnny Wastcoat.
Taunton hockey's Jamie Vallarelli, who enters his senior season tied with Taunton High Athletic Hall of Famer Jeff Gallagher for most points in program history (139), finished as the boys runner up with 17% of the vote. Taunton football's Corbin Melo, who was also salutatorian and a baseball captain and now plays football for Amherst College, received 9% to come in third.
The 2025-26 Taunton Daily Gazette Girls Athlete of the Year, as chosen by readers, is the Bishop Stang hockey co-op's Alexis Pettinato, receiving 77% of the vote. This is the second year in a row Pettinato has been chosen as Girls Athlete of the Year.
#girls #vote
The 2025-26 Taunton Daily Gazette Boys Athlete of the Year, as chosen by readers, is Dighton-Rehoboth tennis' Ty Perry, receiving 61% of the vote.
The 2026 Taunton Daily Gazette Boys Tennis Player of the Year and junior captain firmly established himself as one of the top players in all of MIAA Division 3, going a perfect 13-0 at first singles without dropping a set, earning a unanimous South Coast Conference MVP. At the USTA Massachusetts High School State Individual Singles and Doubles Championships, he was seeded No. 29 of 65 and reached the Round of 32, falling to the eventual runner-up, Newton North's Johnny Wastcoat.
Taunton hockey's Jamie Vallarelli, who enters his senior season tied with Taunton High Athletic Hall of Famer Jeff Gallagher for most points in program history (139), finished as the boys runner up with 17% of the vote. Taunton football's Corbin Melo, who was also salutatorian and a baseball captain and now plays football for Amherst College, received 9% to come in third.
The 2025-26 Taunton Daily Gazette Girls Athlete of the Year, as chosen by readers, is the Bishop Stang hockey co-op's Alexis Pettinato, receiving 77% of the vote. This is the second year in a row Pettinato has been chosen as Girls Athlete of the Year.
#girls #vote
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