Agganis All-Star Week starts this Sunday, June 22 with the opening ceremony and six of the nine All-Star Games that will take place over the course of four days.
The opening ceremony is Sunday at 9 a.m. at Manning Field in Lynn. It will include the presentation of 2025 Agganis Foundation Scholarships, five major awards, and the introduction of this year’s Agganis All-Stars.
The lacrosse doubleheader will be held Sunday at Manning Field at 11 a.m. (girls) and 1 p.m. (boys), with softball and baseball played at the adjacent Fraser Field that day at noon and 2 p.m., respectively. The girls and boys soccer games will be held Sunday at Manning Field at 5 p.m. (girls) and 6:30 p.m. (boys).
Action continues on Monday, June 23 with the boys and girls basketball doubleheader at Lynn Classical High School at 5:30 (boys) and 7 p.m. (girls).
The 63rd Agganis All-Star Football Game will close out the week’s events on Wednesday, June 25 at Manning Field at 6 p.m.
Tickets for the Agganis All-Star Games are $10 for adults, $7 for students and senior citizens and are available at agganisfoundation.com. Tickets will also be sold at the gate.
This year’s Agganis Scholarship winners include Allyson Bettencourt of Peabody High (Vassar), Sophia Fritz of Salem (UMass Amherst), Georgia Allaire (Duke), Deirdre McCarron (Wellesley), Brooke Maloney (UMass Amherst) and Shea Newhall (Methodist), all of St. Mary’s Lynn; Emma Rose (Trinity) and Paige Martino (Boston College) of Lynnfield; Nevaeh Eth (Simmons) and Amanda Hughes (Bryn Mawr) of Lynn Classical; Madison Botta (St. Anselm) of Saugus; and Richie Avery (Endicott) of Malden Catholic. Since 1955, the Agganis Foundation has awarded 1,074 scholarships totaling $2,588,000.
This year’s action will also feature numerous Gloucester athletes competing across the varying sports.
In the baseball classic, Fishermen standouts Giacomo Martell and Brayden Francis will represent GHS on the North team. Charlie Amero will compete in the boys basketball game, also landing on the North team along with players from Revere, Grafton, Medford, Lowell Catholic, North Andover, Lynnfield and Masconomet.
In the girls lacrosse game, Gloucester’s leading scorer Skye Berry will compete for the South team. And in the boys soccer game, reigning All-Northeastern Conference selection and Fishermen leading scorer Wesdra Silva will compete for the North alongside teammates Dylan Smith, a standout midfielder, and Stefano Numerosi, a top tier goalie.
The Agganis All-Star Games are played in memory of legendary Lynn athlete Harry Agganis, an All-American quarterback at Lynn Classical and Boston University. He was expected to be the first-round draft pick of the Cleveland Browns, but he opted for a professional baseball career and was the starting first baseman for the Boston Red Sox when he died of a pulmonary embolism in 1955 at the age of 26.
The Agganis Foundation was formed shortly thereafter with a mission of awarding college scholarships in Agganis’ name.