Maggie Layo – Massachusetts Athlete of the Year!

by Neil Murphy, SPS Athletic Administrator

Great local news! Sandwich High School’s Maggie Layo ’14 was presented with the Will McDonough/Boston Globe Athlete of the Year Award on June 22, 2014 at the Boston Globe Headquarters in Boston.

While there have been scholar-athletes recognized from the area recently, there has not been an Athlete of the Year Award recipient from the Cape and Islands in almost 20 years – the last winner was a young lady from Falmouth in 1996.

Maggie’s accomplishments and her awards over her four years at Sandwich High School are impressive.

• 4 year varsity starter in Field Hockey, Hockey, Lacrosse
• Captained all three teams her senior year
• 8-time ACL All-Star
• Sandwich HS all-time points leader in Ice Hockey
• Current Massachusetts single season assists leader in MIAA Hockey  with 49 assist
•  MIAA Shriners Coaches All-Star Hockey game MVP 2014
•  Boston Globe All-Scholastic Field Hockey 2013
•  Boston Herald All-Scholastic Field Hockey 2013
•  Boston Globe All-Scholastic Ice Hockey 2014
•  Boston Herald All Scholastic Ice Hockey 2014
•  Never missed the post season with any SHS team in which she participated
•  Cape Cod Storm State Champion Hockey 2013-14  (non-MIA)
•  Cape Cod Storm National Champion Hockey 2014  (non-MIA)

The entire Sandwich Public Schools Community is so proud of Maggie – an accomplished athlete and scholar and a great person!

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