Marquis Francois ’14 Receives Boyden Award

marquis boydenMarquis Francois ‘14 (Jersey City, NJ) was honored on Sunday evening at the Western Massachusetts chapter of the National Football Foundation banquet held at the University of Massachusetts. Francois is this year’s recipient of the Dr. Frank L. Boyden Award given in honor of the longtime Deerfield Academy headmaster.   The award recognizes the outstanding Western Massachusetts prep school football scholar-athlete.  Francois was captain as a Senior and started as a defensive tackle for the Williston football team for the past three years.  In recognition of his outstanding play, he was named to the First Team All League Colonial League football team in both his Junior and Senior years.  As a scholar, Francois has distinguished himself by consistently earning Honors over the past four years.

Previous Williston recipients include:

2012 – John Woodside
2011 – Kevin Conroy
2009 – Max Richards
2007 – Mike Petegorsky
2006 – Colin Elliott
2004 – Bryan Bolte
1997 – William Lopes
1993 – John Kane
1983 – William Okun
1974 – Richard White
1971 – Gil Timm
1967 – David Urquhart

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