Biden administration declares Argentine union bureaucracy a “model” as it enforces historic cuts in living standards

Amid a historic attack on workers’ living standards in Argentina, US Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, Biden’s second-highest-ranking diplomat, met with leaders of the General Confederation of Workers (CGT) in Buenos Aires and praised “the transformative power of Argentine syndicalism.” As the largest trade union body in the country, the CGT is a “model” for the entire region, she stressed.

Conditions are worsening exponentially for workers in Argentina, who often describe the decades-long fall in living standards by pointing out that they haven’t had an asado (barbecue) in years, or half-jokingly saying that they have “had to become vegetarian.”

In 2021, meat consumption reached the lowest point since the 1920s, when Argentina was one of the wealthiest countries in the world. In late 2022, UNICEF found that more than 1 million children and 3 million adults were skipping a daily meal because they couldn’t afford it. Meat consumption had fallen 67 percent, and the intake of fruits, vegetables and dairy had dropped 40 percent, according to the UN agency.

At the behest of global finance capital and in close coordination with the IMF, the “left” nationalist government of Peronist President Alberto Fernandez and the union bureaucracy are enforcing  economic shock therapy to impose mass poverty and hunger against workers.

With the third highest inflation rate in the world after Venezuela and Zimbabwe, prices in Argentina have increased 105 percent in one year—that is, they have more than doubled. And inflation is expected to continue accelerating, as the ruling elite employs the devaluation of the Argentine peso as a battering ram against workers.

By the end of 2022, the official poverty rate had risen to 40 percent, but it is likely much higher now. In February 2023, UNICEF warned that two out of three children were poor or are deprived of basic rights, and that nearly 100 percent of these children live in households with an active worker. In the first trimester of 2023, the government found that the median per capita income in the cities—where 93 percent of the population lives—had fallen to 44,000 monthly pesos. This means that half of the population is living on $107 monthly, or about $3.60 daily according to the black-market but more precise “blue dollar.”

In an industrialized country and leading food producer, children are undernourished and incomes have fallen below Haiti’s per capita GDP.

And just as US imperialism “draws lessons” from its war against Russia in Ukraine by staging war games in Europe and the Asia-Pacific, it is sending top officials to draw lessons from the escalating class struggle in Argentina.

Gerardo Martínez, foreign relations secretary of the CGT and leader of the construction workers union UOCRA, led the delegation to the US Embassy and said in a news briefing that they “analyzed the socio-economic situation in Argentina, the trade-unionist vision of social dialogue and the efforts to find guided compromises.”

Barely 20 miles away from the embassy, in the suburb of General Pacheco, workers at a snack food plant of the US multinational Mondelez (formerly Kraft Foods) were blocking the Pan-American highway, exposing the character of Sherman’s meeting with the CGT bureaucrats.

A worker who belongs to a rank-and-file committee organizing the protest explained to C5N:

[The] union and its internal commission ignored us and signed an agreement at our expense. We are suffering speed-ups, and fellow workers who are pregnant are being forced to work on packaging, where they hit their bellies against boxes given the fast rate of production. We can’t stand this any longer. The situation started during the pandemic. The company hires and fires personnel as it pleases. Now, 1,800 have been left jobless, including pregnant workers. This company does whatever it wants … and the Ministry did not answer our appeals.

Beyond exchanging compliments, Sherman, who was joined by US Ambassador Marc Stanley and other US diplomats, asked the CGT to “institutionalize” an Argentine chapter of “M-Power”—a Biden administration initiative launched with the support of the AFL-CIO that seeks to “elevate the role of trade unions” internationally.

This request takes place as the White House exerts pressure and leverages IMF funds to align Buenos Aires behind its military and economic war drive against Russia and China. The Biden administration’s M-Power is one of its tools to advance this geopolitical agenda.

The meeting with the CGT follows a recent trip by President Fernández to the White House. Sergio Massa, the minister of economy, who is leading the ongoing austerity drive, has met several times with IMF and US officials in Washington this year. Moreover, on Monday, the chief of the US Southern Command, Gen. Laura Richardson, met with Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana to discuss the country’s ties to China.

The praise for the CGT as a “model” confirms the warnings of the World Socialist Web Site that Biden’s claims to be “the most pro-union president” mean that he is relying on the union bureaucracy to impose austerity and war.

In Argentina, with a Central Bank interest rate of 78 percent, local and foreign investors are seeing windfalls, and vultures led by the IMF are ransacking the public treasury by charging interest on $400 billion in public debt. Monthly interest payments to “Leliq” bondholders have increased seven-fold over the last year, surpassing pension payments and becoming the largest expenditure for the government.

Meanwhile, export corporations, including in gas and mining, can sell their products in dollars and euros and maintain low operational costs in pesos.

This outright plundering of Argentina, with the support of the handful of corrupt billionaire oligarchs in the country, has been possible only thanks to the union bureaucracy, which is allied with the Fernandez administration. The CGT and CTA confederations agreed to a 60 percent ceiling on wage negotiations with the government, which is resulting in a huge drop in the purchasing power of workers.

At the same time, in “revision talks,” or paritarias, every six months or even more frequently, union officials meet with employers in ostensible “negotiations” mediated by the government, where they feign outrage and sometimes are compelled to call for “Hollywood” strikes for 24, 48 or 72 hours until they finally “compromise” and agree to wage increases far below the inflation rate. This process has become institutionalized, and its results are enforced by union delegates and the “internal commissions” at workplaces.

As a fundamental element in the Argentine syndicalist “model,” wherever rank-and-file opposition seems to overflow, as in Mondelez, careerists among the plethora of pseudo-left organizations swarm in like firefighters with their fists raised and and spouting radical rhetoric, calling for workers to “recover” the unions from the bureaucracy. But whatever new leadership or faction they build gets channeled back and integrated into the same bureaucracy in the name of “unity.”

As workers face global corporations and offensives directed from Wall Street and London, the most crucial service provided by the Argentine union federations is that they keep workers isolated from their class brothers and sisters internationally as they, too, enter into struggle against similar attacks.

After decades of militant struggles, beginning with waves of strikes in 1918 and 1919, inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, Argentina’s trade union apparatus took shape in the 1940s, amid a boom of trade and industrialization that began during World War Two. A cabal of military officials eventually led by Juan Domingo Perón implemented major concessions to workers, including wage increases, new benefits and labor protections. However, these measures were used to subordinate union activity to the diktats of management and the capitalist state.

Perón had been influenced by what he saw for almost two years, as a military envoy during the war in Mussolini’s Italy, particularly the fascist corporatist alliance between the state, employers and trade unions. This is the historic basis of the “model” now promoted by Biden.

Union membership, encouraged by Perón, shot upwards, and the union bureaucracy became entrenched around the Peronist CGT, which grew into a conservative appendage of the capitalist state.

The US designation of the CGT as a “model” form of trade unionism has particularly sinister implications, given the history of this right-wing apparatus during the run-up to the 1976 military coup. It played the leading role in organizing the Argentine Anticommunist Alliance, or Triple A, a network of death squads that killed and disappeared hundreds of militant and left-wing workers and even union delegates in an attempt to quell the mounting uprising by workers and youth.

Today, both the US and the Argentine ruling classes are banking on this union bureaucracy suppressing working class opposition as the next administration tries to eliminate welfare, energy subsidies and other social protections, while syphoning the profits from the world’s largest lithium deposits and the major Vaca Muerta gas field at the behest of the financial vultures and US and European imperialism.

Major class battles are on the horizon and, while the Peronist bureaucracy maintains significant influence that Biden wants to emulate, its enforcement of decades of unending attacks on living standards has significantly eroded its control over the working class. Union membership among formal workers has been cut almost in half since 1990, to 27 percent.

As the WSWS has explained: “Biden’s promotion of the unions arises out of fear that the rank-and-file organizations set up by many sections of workers to prevent their struggles from being suppressed and isolated will develop into a national and international network. This is precisely what is necessary.” Accordingly, the WSWS is fighting to build the International Workers Alliance of Rank-and-File Committees in opposition to all trade union bureaucracies.

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California’s downtowns were emptied by COVID: S.F. still reeling but San Diego rebounds

One of the biggest questions facing California‘s largest cities in the last few years has been how their downtowns will rebound from the pandemic.

Early indications show that some regions are recovering much more quickly than others. And the stakes couldn’t be higher, as leaders and officials race to lure workers and tourists back to cities’ economic centers.

San Diego has bounced back to 99% of previous foot traffic levels while Los Angeles is at 65%, according to a study by the School of Cities at the University of Toronto that recorded foot traffic based on cellphone data in 62 North American cities from 2019 to November 2022. San Francisco remained at only 31% of pre-pandemic levels.

Each of California’s largest downtowns has rebounded differently. San Diego was more reliant on tourism and residential development, which helped its recovery. San Francisco, on the other hand, was far more dependent on office workers and has suffered from companies shifting to remote work. The lack of commuter traffic has also devastated that downtown’s retail life. San Francisco leaders have been working to turn things around and prevent what some experts have described as a potential “doom loop.”

“There is tremendous diversity in who’s coming back,” said Karen Chapple, a professor emerita of city and regional planning at UC Berkeley and director at the School of Cities.

San Diego

People wait on a skybridge to enter Petco Park in downtown San Diego on April 13.
(Meg McLaughlin / San Diego Union-Tribune)

On a Thursday night in Little Italy in downtown San Diego, the restaurants along India Street were buzzing. Tables at Buon Appetito and Barbusa were filled with diners, giddy from the reprieve of California’s wild wintry weather. Tourists strolled the sidewalks, illuminated by string lights overhead. Across town in the historic streets of the Gaslamp quarter, dozens of customers queued up to order ice cream cones and cups from Cali Cream. A few blocks away, fans formed a line outside the American Comedy Club to see Kevin Fredericks’ show, the latest leg of his national tour.

Downtown San Diego is whirling again, a place that was in a developmental sprint until 2020 momentarily slowed it down. “San Diego has an unusually large and diverse set of activities, which I think is part of what’s leading the way,” said Bill Fulton, an urban planner and San Diego’s former planning director.

Though San Diego’s downtown is less office-centric, it was still decimated by the dramatic retraction of its bedrock leisure and hospitality industries — about 9,840 jobs were lost in 2020, wiping out four years of job growth, according to the Downtown San Diego Partnership.

But tourism, especially domestic travel, returned with gusto in 2021. Conventions, particularly Comic-Con, came back to town. Sheyla Ulloa, an assistant manager of the Gaslamp Garage, a souvenir shop, stood in the store one day as lanyard-wearing conventioneers scooped up gifts. The return of conventions was a special turning point. “That was when I felt we are getting back on track,” Ulloa, 35, said.

A woman and her dog walk past Bub’s at the Ballpark in San Diego. The city’s downtown lost about 9,840 jobs in 2020, wiping out four years of job growth, according to the Downtown San Diego Partnership.
(Meg McLaughlin / San Diego Union-Tribune)

Leaders credit recovery to other areas, too. “We have also seen the diversification of these new industries into downtown San Diego,” Betsy Brennan, the director of Downtown San Diego Partnership, said, noting the emerging biotechnology industry.

According to CoStar, a real-estate tracking company, about 2.8 million square feet of newly developed mixed-used space is slated to open over the next two years, the biggest stock of inventory in two decades. It includes the $550-million transformation of Westfield Horton Plaza into a mixed-used life science and technology center, and real-estate developer IQHQ’s research and development center, or RaDD, which comprises offices, laboratories and retail space on the waterfront. Neither of the spaces has announced any tenants yet, CoStar analysts said.

Downtown San Diego residents have also kept things in motion. “I love downtown,” Logan DeBuano, who lives and owns a salon in the area. “It’s the simplicity of being able to walk everywhere, and having things so close.”

But the pandemic still casts a shadow. Storefronts remain boarded up, and the number of homeless people in downtown has hit a record high, as home prices across the county soar and pandemic protections expire. Some residents in the area say the quality of life has declined.

Ariana Sadre walked from her downtown apartment to a 10:30 a.m. yoga class in the East Village, navigating streets lined with encampments and littered with rubbish during her 10-block route. Sadre, 31, said she has started to see open drug use, needles on the ground and people with gaping wounds.

“I feel for people, and it upsets me that we don’t have solutions in place,” she said. “But it’s crazy, because we keep building these high-rises and charging astronomical rent, and there are these massive problems that aren’t being addressed.” (The city has added more shelter beds, and the City Council is looking at a proposed ban on encampments on public property, but the crisis has not been fully solved.)

In the Columbia District, Allyson Samfilippo, co-owner of Kuma Cafe, which caters largely to downtown’s office workers, has had to raise prices and switch to leaner operations. Customers have told her their businesses are relocating. The climate feels different now, she said. “I was 25 when we started this and was ready to go,” said Samfilippo, who opened Kuma in 2016 with her husband. “Now I’m just looking around to see where the chips are going to fall.” She does see promise: Vacancy signs are coming down as new businesses move in.

“I hope that we will find a way to keep making it,” she said.

Los Angeles

Pedestrians make their way through downtown Los Angeles on April 10.
(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

One recent Tuesday morning, office workers dodged puddles and hid under umbrellas, stopping to pick up almond lattes and scones at Nice Coffee, an open air cafe in City National Plaza. Rain lashed the plaza’s skyscrapers, their neat rows of office windows stacked one atop the other, revealing mostly empty rooms under glaring white lights.

Downtown Los Angeles relies in part on the spending of employees who fill the skyscrapers in the city’s core. But office occupancy rates are at 47% of pre-pandemic levels, and rental rates are below 2019 levels.

The spike in remote work is short-term pain, said Nick Griffin, executive director of the Downtown Center Business Improvement District. He remains “bullish” on downtown Los Angeles’ ability to absorb those changes. “Hospitality, residential and to some extent retail [are] all recovering quickly and picking up the slack, and are likely taking a more prominent role in the shape of downtown going forward,” Griffin said.

Before the pandemic struck, downtown L.A. was ascending. Since the late 1990s, a watershed of residential units helped the population balloon from 20,000 to more than 85,000. It became a tourism magnet. Celebrity chefs opened restaurants and bars. The Arts District oozed with popularity and coolness.

“Downtown Los Angeles was booming,” resident James Lee said as he played with his dog, Buster, a 13-year-old terrier mix, in a mud-covered park in the Historic Core. The restaurants, the culture and walkability gave downtown its own vibe. “Then COVID kneecapped it.”

During the pandemic lockdown in May 2020, the 101 and 110 freeways were virtually empty.
(Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times)

Trips to downtown L.A. fell from an average of 10 million monthly visits in 2019 to 2 million in April 2020, according to the Downtown Center Business Improvement District’s 2022 year-end report. Workplace visits dropped from 5.4 million average visits in 2019 to as low as 2.4 million visits. But 2022 saw meaningful and stable advancements; average monthly visits are now around 10% below the pre-pandemic average, the report found.

Many storefronts remain shuttered, and residents, employees and business owners point to the growing homelessness emergency that they say has gotten worse. At Wax Candy, a salon, manager Yaso Pacheco keeps the front door locked and buzzes clients in — a security measure introduced only recently after several unsettling interactions left employees rattled. Other workers and residents say certain streets are impassable, particularly after dark when leaving work.

But some familiar rhythms are reemerging. At the Golden Gopher, a neighborhood bar, managers said the energy during St. Patrick’s Day weekend was reminiscent of previous times: loud, crowded, hectic. Lee said he sees architecture and food tours on the move and more people exploring the steep streets of Bunker Hill, while other residents point to reopened galleries and tourists taking selfies in front of Disney Concert Hall. A slate of high-rise hotels, including the Conrad, inside Frank Gehry’s megacomplex the Grand, and the Moxy and AC complex are adding clout to downtown L.A. “It feels like it’s recovering,” said Carrin Tanaka, 36, a freelance music composer who lives in the area.

For some entrepreneurs, the pandemic crystallized new opportunities. Elliott Lau, the owner of Nice Cafe, applied for a liquor license last year, largely encouraged by busier sidewalks, offices and summer’s contagious energy. Lydia Clarke moved downtown in 2012 to open DTLA Cheese in Grand Central Market. She loved operating in the market but began exploring other locations. Then, the store beside Kippered, a bar Clarke also owns, went on the market, about 500 feet from Grand Central.

“When will you find a corner vacancy, right next to your other business?” Clarke, 45, said. “It feels like a nice time to [move]. Wheels are starting to not just be moving, but they’re getting greased up again.”

San Francisco

A night view of the Ferry Building and Market Street in San Francisco.
(Tayfun Coskun / Getty Images)

About 10 people lined up inside Le Regency Deli & Cafe in downtown San Francisco — a mix of law firm employees, construction workers, project managers, conventioneers and municipal staffers. A man in a uniform for BART, the city’s transit service, remarked to the deli’s owner, Paul Ayanian, how good it felt to see other customers. Trolley bells chimed on an otherwise empty street outside. It was three years to the day that Bay Area counties, including San Francisco, issued pandemic shutdown orders.

“Before we’d have a line out the door at lunch time,” Ayanian, 68, said. He and two employees — down from a staff of seven pre-pandemic — assembled wraps, salads and panini sandwiches.

San Francisco has earned a reputation as America’s emptiest downtown, exacerbated by the shift to remote work and massive layoffs, led by the behemoth tech industry. The city’s office vacancy rate hit a record high of 29.4% in the first quarter of 2023, up from 19.7% from the first quarter of 2022, according to data from the real-estate brokerage firm CBRE. Its office occupancy rate has stalled and hangs around 40% weekly, among the lowest in the nation.

That means fewer people grabbing coffee, jostling through the Embarcadero or Montgomery Street BART stations at peak hours, getting haircuts, going to happy hours or picking up dry cleaning — sending alarms about the loss in tax revenue if downtown remains empty.

“It is very ironic that our success created our exposure to failure,” said Wade Rose, president of Advance SF, a business advocacy group. “[San Francisco] hasn’t come back due in large part to the strength of the economy prior, and that the companies we promoted to form the background of San Francisco were the ones that created the technology that allowed everyone to leave and work from home.”

San Francisco’s Embarcadaro saw a return of locals and tourists to the Farmer’s Market in October 2021.
(Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times)

It’s not just remote work that’s hamstringing recovery. Public safety is a top concern, though data indicate violent crime has fallen over the last decade and is below that of cities of similar size. The fentanyl crisis has hit the city especially hard, prompting Gov. Gavin Newsom to call in the California National Guard and the California Highway Patrol to help San Francisco police and prosecutors target traffickers.

Tourism, particularly international tourism, has not returned to pre-pandemic levels, although visitor spending more than doubled in 2022 from the prior year. Business owners find hope in the city’s conventions schedule, with events like the DreamForce tech gathering and the Game Developers Conference back on the calendar for the first time since 2019.

Freddie Thomas has been working in the Russ Building’s lobby security for more than 15 years through many of the city’s previous economic somersaults. “The businesses that are here, they are tenacious,” he said. “That’s what I admire about San Francisco. We will find a way to build these businesses back.”

The community benefit district Downtown SF Partnership is organizing events, including light shows, to transform downtown from a commuter’s town to a destination. Future Bars Group, a hospitality group with 14 businesses in San Francisco, is expanding its footprint. “All of the things that make San Francisco are still there,” Brian Sheehy, Future’s chief executive, said. “It’s just some housekeeping we have to deal with.”

Back at Le Regency deli, Demescha King, a legal assistant in a nearby office, called over the counter to the owner, Ayanian. “I said I hope they’re still open, because I’m coming here to get a sandwich,” she said. Her office, which now requires in-person work three days per week, often catered lunches from Le Regency.

Ayanian said he had good business day, but he has learned to temper his expectations. “I used to get excited,” he said, adding that one day a week isn’t enough. By 2 p.m., Le Regency was closed.

Posted 29 Apr 2023 17:37 by | News | No comments

Chiefs RB Pacheco still has chip on shoulder after seventh round draft selection

Kansas City Chiefs running back Isiah Pacheco made an immediate impact in his first NFL season, becoming the team’s starter. The Rutgers Scarlet Knight brought tough running and productive late-game moments to contribute to the Chiefs’ Super Bowl LVII victory.

Pacheco recently teamed up with USAA to appear in its NFL Draft Salute to Service special event for an exclusive chalk talk with military members, veterans, and their families. Chiefs legend and all-time leading tackler Derrick Johnson joined Pacheco as they spoke with local military from Whiteman Air Force Base and Fort Leavenworth at Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que.

Chiefs Wire’s Ed Easton Jr. recently sat down with Pacheco to talk about his work with the USAA and how last year’s NFL draft has influenced him as a pro player.

“I’m glad me and Derrick Johnson are teaming up today to speak to the veterans that served his country,” said Pacheco. “I want to thank them for their service. Because without doing what they did, I wouldn’t be able to do what I do today.”

Who’s ready for the 2023 #NFLDraft? Honored to be participate in @USAA’s chalk talk speaking with #Military members from @whitemanairforcebase & @fortleavenworth while enjoying some Kansas City BBQ! Thank you to all our armed forces for your service &sacrifice. #SaluteToService pic.twitter.com/sVL52lUoM7

— Isiah Pacheco (@isiah_pachecoRB) April 27, 2023

The conversation included stories about their unique draft day memories and connecting with the military members. Johnson’s experience growing up as the son of a Vietnam War veteran was also discussed, while Pacheco shared exclusively with Chiefs Wire some information about his draft day a year ago.

“It was a big day for me one year ago, at the same moment because all my family and friends, my grandparents and my teachers, were all waiting on that one moment to hear my name get called,” Pacheco said. “What made it even better it was towards the end. It sounds bad, but it sounds pretty. Pretty cool at the end (at pick No. 251) and then you know the story.”

Ahead of the #NFLDraft today in Kansas City, we’re hosting service members from @Whiteman_AFB and @FortLeavenworth at our #ChalkTalk with @NFL stars @Isiah_PachecoRB and @superdj56! #SaluteToService pic.twitter.com/RnuuheAYvH

— USAA (@USAA) April 27, 2023

Pacheco was selected in the seventh round but immediately became an impact player for the Chiefs. He turned heads around the league and used his late draft selection as fuel from that day on.

“Yes, sir. I use that as fuel. Going in the seventh round, (I’ll) always have a chip on my shoulder. Why? So late or why? You know, the position I was in, but I didn’t question it,” said Pacheco. “You know, I just kept my head down, and I blocked out the negative energy and stuck to the script and stayed on task, and that was finding the edge to compete against the older guys and picking their brain, so they could teach me the business side of the program.”

The Chiefs found a diamond in the rough in Pacheco, who continues to improve with every game. A year ago, the team found a way to get better with a player that is constantly focused on improvement.

Posted 29 Apr 2023 17:27 by | News | No comments

Chiefs GM Brett Veach gets honest on Clyde Edwards-Helaire’s future

The Kansas City Chiefs will soon have a notable decision to make regarding Clyde Edwards-Helaire’s future with the team.

As a first-round pick in the 2020 NFL Draft, Edwards-Helaire has a fifth-year option in his contract for the 2024 season. If the Chiefs decide to pick up Edwards-Helaire’s fifth-year option, the versatile running back will then earn $5.461 million next year.

The Chiefs have until May 1 to decide on whether they will pick up Edwards-Helaire’s option for the 2024 campaign.

During a press conference on Thursday, Chiefs general manager Brett Veach took some time to touch on this matter.

“We have some time here, we’ll see,” Veach said. “I think we’ll go through the draft, and we’ll handle our business and make smart decisions — like we always do. I don’t think we’ve reached a decision on anything yet.

“But safe to say, once we get through the draft, we’ll look at our board, we’ll look at our offseason business we have to attend to, some different players, and contact stuff. And we’ll handle all that after the draft.”

Edwards-Helaire is coming off of a roller-coaster 2022 campaign in which he tallied 453 yards from scrimmage in 10 regular season games played. He was placed on injured reserve in November due to a high-ankle sprain injury. He was activated off IR days before Super Bowl 57, but he wound up being a healthy scratch for the game, as Kansas City instead rolled with running backs Isiah Pacheco, Jerick McKinnon, and Ronald Jones against the Philadelphia Eagles.

Edwards-Helaire, Pacheco, and La’Mical Perine are currently the only running backs on the Chiefs roster.

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Posted 29 Apr 2023 16:37 by | News | No comments

Girls basketball All-Scholastics and league All-Stars

GIRLS BASKETBALL ALL-SCHOLASTICS

DREAM TEAM

Anna Foley (Andover)

Cecilia Kay (Arlington Catholic)

Hannah Martin (North Andover)

Yirsy Queliz (St. Mary’s)

Ashlee Talbot (Dracut)

ALL-SCHOLASTICS

Izzy Adams (Walpole)

Charlotte Adams-Lopez (Bishop Feehan)

Hijjah Allen-Paisley (Cathedral)

Katherine Cheeseboro (Dartmouth)

Sarah Chenette (Cohasset)

Camryn Collins (Foxboro)

Emily Collins (Winchester)

Ella Damon (Dighton-Rehoboth)

Abby Dube (Pentucket)

Maggie Elie (Rockland)

Emma Foley (Newburyport)

Maddy Genser (Newton South)

Natalia Hall-Rosa (Bridgewater-Raynham)

Amelia Hanscom (Andover)

Alyssa Hopps (Quincy)

Cyndea Labissiere (Woburn)

Caitlyn Leahy (Whitman-Hanson)

Margo Mattes (Brookline)

Niya Morgen (St. Mary’s)

Faith Newton (North Reading)

Kate Olenik (Medfield)

Madison Oliver (Norwell)

Ava Orlando (Notre Dame)

Katie Peterson (Franklin)

Kellyn Preira (St. Mary’s)

Sam Reale (Bishop Feehan)

Abby Wager (Mansfield)

Abigail Wright (Newton North)

HONORABLE MENTION

Catherine Antwi (Lowell Catholic)

Taylor Bettencourt (Peabody)

Emma Cochrane (Norton)

Jovanah Coston (Tech Boston)

Abby Cushing (Lincoln-Sudbury)

Lucy Donahoe (Ipswich)

Jourdan Ferreira (New Mission)

Ella Getz (Wayland)

Lauren Hennessey (Lynn Classical)

Sophie Hilbrunner (Waltham)

Teagan Lind (Falmouth)

Grace McNamara (Scituate)

Mia Molinari (Millis)

Selina Monestime (Framingham)

Elle Orlando (Notre Dame)

Shannon Patrick (Acton-Boxboro)

Alyvia Pena (Burlington)

Emma Shinney (Wakefield)

Ava Thurman (Lynn Classical)

Makenna Ward (Newburyport)

ALL-SCHOLASTICS

DREAM TEAM

ANNA FOLEY

ANDOVER

The 6-foot-3 senior forward averaged 16.3 points, 8 rebounds, 4.1 assists, 2.5 steals, and 2 blocks for the Div. 1 state champions. Foley had 1,139 career points and 627 career rebounds. The two-time Merrimack Valley Conference Large School Player of the Year will continue her career at Quinnipiac.

CECILIA KAY

BISHOP FENWICK

The 6-foot-2 point forward averaged 22 points, 13 rebounds, and 4.1 blocks per game. During the tournament, Kay averaged 22.6 points, 13.6 rebounds, and 4.0 blocks per game in leading Bishop Fenwick to the Div. 3 state semifinals. A Catholic Central League All-Star and captain, Kay has amassed 1,286 points through her junior season.

HANNAH MARTIN

NORTH ANDOVER

The 5-foot-7 point guard averaged 23 points, 5 rebounds, and 3 steals per game. She was the Larry McIntyre Board 130 tournament MVP. For her career, Martin has 1,226 points, and is the all-time female leading scorer at North Andover. The three-time MCC First Team All-Conference is also a three-time team MVP.

YIRSY QUELIZ

ST. MARY’S

The 5-foot-3 point guard ran the show for the Div. 3 state champs. The senior averaged 10.9 points, 5.3 assists, and 2.8 steals per game in a Catholic Central League All-Star season. For her career, she scored 1,323 points, and led the Spartans to three state championships. She will continue her career at Northeastern University.

ASHLEE TALBOT

DRACUT

This 5-foot-5 senior point guard powered the Div. 2 state runner-up Middies, averaging 21.7 points, 5.85 rebounds, 4.5 assists and 3 steals per game. For her career, she scored 1,483 points, grabbed 437 rebounds, dished out 287 assists, and made 301 steals. She earned team MVP in volleyball this past season and will continue her basketball career at Saint Michael’s.

ALL-SCHOLASTICS

ISABELLE ADAMS

WALPOLE

The 5-foot-7 sophomore point guard averaged 13 points, 8.5 rebounds and 5 assists per game and was the Bay State Conference MVP. For her career, she has over 550 points. She also competes in field hockey and is an honor roll student.

CHARLOTTE ADAMS-LOPEZ

BISHOP FEEHAN

The 5-foot-8 sophomore point guard averaged 10.2 points, 5 rebounds, 3.5 assists, and 1.4 steals with the Div. 1 state runner-up Shamrocks. She hit 37 percent from 3-point land, and 88 percent of her free throws. A Catholic Central League All-Star, she has 413 career points.

HIJJAH ALLEN-PAISLEY

CATHEDRAL

The sophomore 5-foot-5 combo guard for the Div. 4 state champions averaged 15 points, 2 rebounds, and 2 steals per game. She has been a varsity player since the seventh grade. She was also a state champion in 2019-2020 and is an honor roll student.

KATHERINE CHEESEBRO

DARTMOUTH

The 5-foot-8 combo guard had a standout sophomore season, averaging 23.1 points, 8.6 rebounds, and 3.1 steals per game. She averaged 45.8 percent from the field and 81.5 percent from the line. The two-time Southeast Conference All-Star also plays soccer.

SARAH CHENETTE

COHASSET

A 5-foot-11 shooting guard and junior captain averaged 19 points and 9 rebounds per game. She scored 1,000 points in just 57 games, and was the Stephen Skaff Tournament MVP. A high honors student, she also plays field hockey and tennis.

CAMRYN COLLINS

FOXBORO

A 5-foot-8 junior combo guard, Collins led Foxboro to a Div. 2 state title. This season, she averaged 17.2 points, 6 rebounds, 5.6 assists, 5.8 steals, and 0.5 blocks per game. She was the Hockomock League MVP and the Warrior Classic Tournament MVP. She owns a 4.5 GPA, is an honor roll student as well as a member of the National Honor Society.

EMILY COLLINS

WINCHESTER

The junior point forward was Middlesex League Liberty co-MVP after averaging 19 points and 13 rebounds a game in leading her team to the Div. 1 state quarterfinals. The school’s all-time leading scorer has averaged double figures in points and rebounds in each of her three years on the team. Collins takes honors courses in English and Spanish as well as advanced pre-calculus.

ELLA DAMON

DIGHTON-REHOBOTH

The 5-foot-6 senior point guard was the South Coast Conference MVP, averaging 17 points, 3.1 assists, and 4 steals per game. A two-year captain and three-year SCC All-Star, she had 890 career points and 225 steals. A National Honor Society member, she also competes in soccer and track.

ABIGAIL DUBE

PENTUCKET

The 5-foot-8 shooting guard led the Sachems to the Div. 2 Elite Eight. The MVP of the Spartan Classic Tournament was an all-Cape Ann League performer. She averaged 10.7 points, 4 rebounds, 3 assists, and 2 steals per game, while making 47 3-pointers. Dube will continue her career at St. Joseph’s College in Maine.

MAGGIE ELIE

ROCKLAND

The 5-foot-9 junior guard led the Bulldogs to the Div. 3 Final Four this season, averaging 16.1 points, 6.2 rebounds, 7.2 assists, and 1.8 steals per game on her way to being named South Shore League Tobin Division Player of the Year. She is a three-time South Shore League All-Star.

EMMA FOLEY

NEWBURYPORT

The 5-foot-11 forward led Newburyport to the Div. 2 Elite Eight. The captain scored 19.8 points per game and was the Cape Ann League co-MVP. A Cape Ann First Team All-Star her junior year as well, Foley is an honor roll student and all-star performer in volleyball, as well. She will attend Northeastern University.

MADDY GENSER

NEWTON SOUTH

A 5-foot-6 point guard, this senior was a captain who averaged 15.7 points, 5.7 rebounds, 5.8 assists, and 2.7 steals per game. The co-MVP of the Dual County League Thorpe Division, she was a four-time DCL All-Star with 1,082 career points. She is an all-state soccer player as well. She will play soccer and basketball at Colby College.

NATALIA HALL-ROSA

BRIDGEWATER-RAYNHAM

This 6-foot forward helped lead the Trojans to the Div. 1 Elite Eight. The junior averaged 19.4 points, 7.7 rebounds, 1.6 assists, and 3.3 steals per game. The Southeast Conference MVP is two points shy of 1,000 for her career.

AMELIA HANSCOM

ANDOVER

A 5-foot-10 forward for the undefeated Div. 1 state champs, Hanscom averaged 12.9 points, 7.5 rebounds, three assists, two steals and a block as a senior. The First Team MVC All-Conference performer amassed 927 points and 659 rebounds for her career. She will play at Colby.

ALYSSA HOPPS

QUINCY

A 5-foot-11 small forward averaged 13.7 points, 8.9 rebounds, and 2.9 blocks per game in a strong sophomore season. She led Quincy to a 17-5 record, and hit the game-winning shot to beat Pembroke and clinch the league title. The Patriot League Fisher Division MVP also competes in volleyball and track.

CYNDEA LABISSIERE

WOBURN

Labissiere averaged 13.3 points, 8.2 rebounds, 4.6 assists and four steals a game in leading her team to a 22-2 record. A four-year varsity performer, Labissiere scored 826 points and was a part of a Woburn team that went 71-10 over that period. A three-sport standout and a member of both the National Honor Society and French National Honor Society, Labissiere will attend Lehigh on a soccer scholarship.

CAITLIN LEAHY

WHITMAN-HANSON

This 5-foot-7 senior point guard helped lead the Panthers to a Div. 2 Sweet Sixteen appearance. She had 274 points, 84 offensive rebounds, 124 defensive rebounds, 103 assists, 76 steals, and 4 blocks in winning Patriot League MVP. The English Honors Society and National Honors Society student will attend Bridgewater State.

MARGO MATTES

BROOKLINE

This 5-foot-10 guard led the Warriors to a Div. 1 Sweet 16 appearance. The MVP of the Bay State Conference led the league in scoring with 22.8 points per game. Between Mason (Ohio) and Brookline, Mattes finished with 1,508 career points. A National Honor Society student with a 4.0 GPA, she will attend Princeton.

NIYA MORGEN

ST. MARY’S

This 5-foot-6 guard helped power the Spartans to a Div. 3 state championship. The senior averaged 17.3 points per game in a Catholic Central League MVP performance. She shot 53 percent from the field, and hit 44 percent of her 3-point shots, ending her career with 1,176 points. She will attend Bentley.

FAITH NEWTON

NORTH READING

The senior 5-foot-11 guard/wing led North Reading to a Div. 3 Sweet 16 appearance. She averaged 17 points, 9 rebounds, 2 blocks, and 2 steals per game. She hit 54 3-pointers and made 74 percent from the line. For her career, she had 754 points, 434 rebounds, 87 steals, 55 blocks, and was a three-time Cape Ann League All-Star. She will continue her career at Rollins College (Fla.).

KATE OLENIK

MEDFIELD

This 5-foot-7 point guard led Medfield to a Div. 2 Final Four appearance. The Tri-Valley League MVP and All-Star finished her career with 1,192 points. The finalist for the Gatorade Player of the Year averaged 22.7 points, 3.9 rebounds, three assists, and 4.4 steals per game. A team MVP three years in a row, she was a two-time Herald All-Scholastic. She will continue her career at Colby.

MADISON OLIVER

NORWELL

A 5-foot-11 forward, she led the Clippers to a Div. 3 Final Four appearance. Only a sophomore, she was South Shore League MVP. She averaged 14.7 points, 10 rebounds, and 3 assists per game. The honor roll student was also a South Shore League All-Star in volleyball.

AVA ORLANDO

NOTRE DAME

A 5-foot-6 point guard, Orlando is just a sophomore but helped lead her team to a 15-7 season. The leading scorer in the Catholic Conference at 20.2 points per game, she also averaged 6.5 assists. She made 53 3-pointers and surpassed the 1,000-point mark this season. The three-sport athlete also plays volleyball and lacrosse.

KATIE PETERSON

FRANKLIN

This 6-foot forward helped lead Franklin to a 17-5 record and spot in the Div. 1 Sweet 16. The senior and Hockomock League All-Star averaged 15.5 points, eight rebounds and two assists per game. She had 16 blocks, and made 49 percent of her field goal attempts. A USA Lacrosse All-American, she will continue that sport at UMass.

KELLYN PREIRA

ST. MARY’S

The 5-foot-10 forward helped lead the Spartans to a Div. 3 state title. For the season, she averaged 13 points and 6.7 rebounds per game, and added 55 blocks. She shot 42 percent from the floor, and made 59 steals. She scored 1,025 points, led St. Mary’s to a 95-10 record, and was a three-time Catholic Central League All-Star. She will attend Monmouth.

SAMANTHA REALE

BISHOP FEEHAN

The 5-foot-8 senior shooting guard helped Feehan to a spot in the Div. 1 state final. This season. she averaged 13.6 points, 6.1 rebounds, and 3.4 steals per game in a Catholic Central League All-Star performance. A captain and two-year starter, she finished her career with 587 points and a 52-13 record. She will continue her career at Babson.

ABBY WAGER

MANSFIELD

A 5-foot-10 guard for Mansfield, she led the Hornets to a 13-8 record. The four-year varsity player finished with 1,008 points and was the third girl at Mansfield to hit 1,000 points. A three-time Hockomock League All-Star, she was also a Hearts for Hope and Roundball Tournament All-Star. She will attend Southern New Hampshire.

ABIGAIL WRIGHT

NEWTON NORTH

A 6-foot-1 guard/forward and Bay State Conference All-Star averaged 19 points and 12 rebounds per game this season. The two-time captain was a 1,000-point scorer and Gatorade Player of the Year nominee. Also a Herald All-Scholastic in volleyball, she will attend Harvard.

LEAGUE ALL-STARS

BAY STATE CONFERENCE

Abigail Wright, Devon Burke (Newton North); Izzy Adams, Brooke Walonis, Haley Brigham (Walpole); Alli Jones (Wellesley); Selina Monestime, Katie Regan, Allie Regan (Framingham); Madi Forman (Natick); Stephanie Needham (Milton);
Margo Mattes, Geanna Bryant (Brookline); Megan Doyle (Weymouth); Maddie Ali (Needham)

MVP: Izzy Adams, Margo Mattes

BOSTON CITY LEAGUE

Lauren Dillin, Amiah Noel, Yelaine Perez (Latin Academy); Denise Grant, Lazhia Lobo (Boston United); Evelyn Agama, Jai’Reona Brown-Carter, Adriana Chandler, Jasha Guity Hernandez (Brighton); Zylise Bell (Burke); Elise Martinez (Charlestown); Adina Barrett (CASH); Isabella Munoz (East Boston); Rose Monestime, Carmen Plata Abud (English); Kayla Couden McGill, Autumn Moore (Excel); Hadi Bah, Sierra Cherrie, Sasha Hayde-Toussaint (Fenway); Dezire James (Madison Park); Tamia Darling, Jourdan Ferreira, Amy Mariano (New Mission); Aissatou Bangura, Onyeka Unaegbu (O’Bryant); Jovanah Coston, Kenisha Delva, Empress Nordeus, Destinee Ogarro (Tech Boston)

CAPE AND ISLANDS

ATLANTIC: Ryann Cobban, Madison Lawrence, Aubrie Schwayer (Sandwich); Teagan Lind, Jazzy Fernandes (Falmouth); Jill Ernstrom (Nauset); Savanna Azoff, Grace Presswood, Jaylene Pires (Dennis-Yarmouth); Chloe Egan (Barnstable)

MVP: Teagan Lind

MARITIME: Melissa Velasquez, Helen DiGiovanni, Lucy Mawn (Monomoy); Ciara Barnett, Kacey Riseborough (Nantucket); Lillian Shanahan, Jenna Marsh (Cape Cod Academy); Maria Andrade, Josie Welch (Martha’s Vineyard)

MVP: Lillian Shanahan, Melissa Velasquez

LIGHTHOUSE: Caitlin Kelly (Sturgis West); Edie Picard (Rising Ride); Norianne Wray, Poppy Randall (Sturgis East); Lily Connors, Sophie Holmes (Falmouth Academy); Maggie Crofford, Michaela Enright, Devin Crofford, Marlo Jumper (St. John Paul)

MVP: Devin Crofford

CAPE ANN LEAGUE

FIRST TEAM: Samantha Kimball (Amesbury); Carena Ziolkowski (Georgetown); Lucy Donahue (Ipswich); Isabella George (Lynnfield); Calista Lai (Manchester-Essex); Emma Foley, Makenna Ward, Deirdre McElhinney (Newburyport); Faith Newton, Brianne Slattery (North Reading); Gabby Bellacqua, Abby Dube, Alyssa Thompson (Pentucket)

ALL-STARS: Ellie Marden (Amesbury); Marley Morrison, Tyrah Marcelin (Georgetown); Gabby Campbell, Abby Simon (Hamilton-Wenham); Hazel Hoog (Ipswich); Erika Pasquale (Lynnfield); Lily Oliver, Kendall Newton (Manchester-Essex); Olivia McDonald (Newburyport); Isabella Basil, Reese Renda (Triton)

PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Makenna Ward, Emma Foley, Lucy Donahoe

CATHOLIC CENTRAL LEAGUE

LARGE: Kellyn Preira, Niya Morgen, Yirsy Queliz, Bella Owumi (St. Mary’s); Sam Reale, Mary Daley, Charlotte Adams-Lopez (Bishop Feehan); Keyona Raines, Yedidya Lubunga (Cathedral); Bridget Markey, Kate Carreau (Bishop Stang); Elise Carter), Angie Coletti (Archbishop Williams); Cecilia Kay (Bishop Fenwick); Nora Simpson (Arlington Catholic); Kaci Belmont (Cardinal Spellman)

MVP: Niya Morgen

SMALL: Isabella Lopez-Marin, Alexandra Baldwin, Irene Connors, Mary Fallon (Matignon); Aine Flynn, Charlotte Walter, Maeve Reardon (St. Joseph)

MVP: Isabella Lopez-Marin

CATHOLIC CONFERENCE

Alix Abelard, Lilly Blow, Tressa Murphy (Fontbonne); Mia Mitchell, Marchella Bonfardeci, Luna Murray (Malden Catholic); Ava Orlando, Elle Orlando, Lola Paradis (Notre Dame); Claire Ryan (Ursuline)

COMMONWEALTH ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

Avery Robichaud, Adrianna Taboucherani, Isobel Callahan (Fellowship Christian);

Natalie Fay, Sarah Freitas (Academy of Notre Dame); Annie Brosnan, Sabina Doyle, Alice Dalton (Minuteman); Bryanna Grant, Emma Dorgan, Molly Mcleod (Essex Tech); Emily Sandelli, Briannah Namale, Felicia Melendez, Nellie Chan (Greater Lowell); Briana Boccelli, Tythiana Sainthelmy (Northeast); Breana Nensamba, Bailey DeLeire (Mystic Valley); Engelyz Bingham, Aliyah Volquez (Lynn Tech); Kiley McFadden, Lindsay McCarthy, Kerry Brown (Shawsheen);

Madison Dawkins, Angel Efosa, Wilmeri Valera (Whittier); Sadie Tracy, Ashley Hart (Nashoba Tech); Catherine Antwi, Brynn Johnson, Emily Cushion (Lowell Catholic); Sadie Coleman-Plourde, Alex Butters, Maddie Darlington (Innovation Academy); Eriliz Vazquez, Amailey Gomez (Greater Lawrence); Katrina Fortes (KIPP)

MVP: Adriana Taboucherani, Catherine Antwi

DUAL COUNTY LEAGUE

ALL-LEAGUE: Shannon Patrick (Acton-Boxboro); Mackenzie Tierney (Bedford); Bleu Kerr (Boston Latin); Maddy Genser, Tatum Murray (Newton South); Morgan Ranucci, Sophie Hilbrunner (Waltham); Alanna Saunders (Westford Academy); Abby Cushing (Lincoln-Sudbury); Ella Getz (Wayland)

THORPE: Bridget Bartlett, Lily Newcombe, Sophia Shumilova (Acton-Boxboro); Carlie Duverglas (Cambridge); Brooke Boyle, Emma Henschke (Concord-Carlisle); Frankie Liu, Katie Rapisarda, Evie Schwartz (Lincoln-Sudbury); Viv Shreve (Newton South)

FOLEY: Cassie Morrison, Bridget Sheahan (Bedford); Paige Fitzgerald (Boston Latin); Ainslie LaForest, Emilie Zinda (Waltham); Saniyyah Philips, Lila Powers (Wayland); Emma Flory (Weston)

MVP: Maddy Genser, Abby Cushing, Ella Getz, Sophie Hilbrunner

GREATER BOSTON LEAGUE

Ava Thurman, Lauren Hennessey, Akiyah Brown, Lauren Wilson, Keisha Perez (Lynn Classical); Jaeleigh Perry, Amara Flores, Matty Laurino (Lynn English); Kayley Rossi, Emilia Maria Babcock, Malaica Guillaume (Everett); Bella O’Brien, Meryn McInnis (Medford); Victoria Gammon, Anna Yak (Malden); Belma Velic, Shayna Smith (Revere); Joselinne Moran Palma (Chelsea); Mia Pacheco (Somerville)

MVP: Ava Thurman, Lauren Hennessey

HOCKOMOCK LEAGUE

Camryn Collins, Kailey Sullivan, Addie Ruter (Foxboro); Emily Sawyer (King Philip); Samya DaSilva (Canton); Jasmine Davis (Sharon); Abby Wager, Kara Santos (Mansfield); Cali Melo (Taunton); Ava McKeon (North Attleboro); Kayla Goldrick, Vanessa Ellis (Attleboro); Brooke Ferreira (Milford); Kamryn Derba, Avery Gamble (Oliver Ames); Katie Peterson, Chloe Fales (Franklin)

MVP: Camryn Collins

MAYFLOWER ATHLETIC CONFERENCE

LARGE: Bella Sulfaro, Kathleen Murphy, Bridget Devine (Blue Hills); Avery Rounds, Hannah Martin, Elizabeth Kinnane (Diman); Mia Ortega, Miah Rhode (Southeastern); Amy Freitas (Tri-County); Nicole Widegren (Bristol-Plymouth)

MVP: Avery Rounds, Diman

SMALL: Hailey Hathaway, Izzy Hougasian, Olivia Perry (Old Colony); Zoey Bradshaw, Mia Bradshaw, Abby Pattison (South Shore); CaiLysce Blake, Alaina Hines (Upper Cape); Jada Miranda (Cape Cod Tech); Madelin Caggiano (Norfolk Aggie); Abby Nelson (Bristol Aggie)

MVP: Jada Miranda

COMPREHENSIVE: Amanda Jacques, Dorothea McGrath, Jenella Jacobs (West Bridgewater); Leah Sylvain, Korynne Holden (Westport); Hanelie Cadet, Dahlia Parent (Avon); Samantha O’Leary (Bishop Connolly); Alyssa Slamin (Holbrook)

MVP: Amanda Jacques

MERRIMACK VALLEY CONFERENCE

FIRST TEAM: Anna Foley, Amelia Hanscom, Marissa Kobelski, Michaela Buckley (Andover); Sofia Mazzotta (Billerica); Kathleen Smith (Central Catholic); Kailyn Smith (Chelmsford); Tyanna Medina (Lawrence); Ashlee Talbot (Dracut); Samantha Ryan (Tewksbury); Samantha Pfiel (Methuen); Hannah Martin (North Andover)

SECOND TEAM: Haileigh Cyrus (Billerica); Kerri Finneran, Shea Montague (Central Catholic); Aisling Harrington, Isabella Mirasola (Chelmsford); Brodie Gannon, Emma Felker, Lamees Alasaad (Dracut); Haley Phillips (Haverhill); Yeira Davila (Lawrence); Lacey Pare Stella Procope (Lowell); Brooke Tardugno, Thyanais Santiago (Methuen); Sydney Rogers, Jackie Rogers (North Andover); Katrina MacDonald (Tewksbury)

MVP: Anna Foley, Ashlee Talbot

MIDDLESEX LEAGUE

LIBERTY: Meghan Qualey, Cyndea Labissiere, Shannon McCarthy, Mckenna Morrison (Woburn); Stella Criniti, Maddie Parks (Lexington); Emily Collins (Winchester); Linda Sheng (Belmont); Brooke Pulpi, Molly Trahan (Reading); Louise Mueller (Arlington)

MVP: Cyndea Labissiere, Emily Collins

FREEDOM: Brooklyn Caulder, Mia Forti, Emma Quinn, Emma Shinney (Wakefield); Lily Lambo (Watertown); Eva Boudreau (Wilmington); Shauna Sullivan (Stoneham); Chloe Gentile (Melrose); Taylor Pavao, Alyvia Pena, Savanna Scali (Burlington)

MVP: Emma Shinney, Alyvia Pena

NORTHEASTERN CONFERENCE

ALL-CONFERENCE: Taylor Bettencourt, Logan Lomasney (Peabody); Maddie Stiglets (Winthrop); Peyton DiBiasio, Ashleen Escobar (Saugus); Kaleigh Monagle, Taylor Bovardi (Masconomet)

ALL-STARS: Samantha Dormer, Tessa Andriano (Marblehead); Abby Ruggeri (Beverly); Abigail Bettencourt, Lauryn Mendonca, Isabel Bettencourt (Peabody); Mia Theberge, Angie Lalikos (Masconomet); Amayah McConney (Salem); Ellie Anderson (Danvers); Grace Fleuriel, Reese Brodin, Kaylee Farrell (Winthrop); Lexi Carollo, Taiya Mano (Gloucester); Asheigh Moore, Jessica Bremberg, Ana Silva (Saugus); Sam Ward, Jesse Ford (Swampscott)

MVP: Logan Lomasney

PATRIOT LEAGUE

Lyla Peters, Amanda Donovan (Duxbury); Mary Kate Flynn, Olivia Damon, Mary Carven (Hanover); Ellie Savistcus, Colette Haney, Sarah Holler (Hingham); Taylor Brilliant, Allie Ferris, Sadie Ellwood (Marshfield); Ava Bryan (North Quincy); Elli Tam, Alissa Marcella, Deanna Linscott (Pembroke); Jenna Cappola, Maeve Moriarty, Sophia Allen (Plymouth North); Sarah Kenney (Plymouth South); Caroline Tracey, Alyssa Hopps, Lena Waldron (Quincy); Grace McNamara, Emilia Rojik, Grace Love (Scituate); Cassidy Conroy (Silver Lake); Caitlin Leahy, Taryn Leonard, Jenna Mishou (Whitman-Hanson)

MVP: Caitlin Leahy, Alyssa Hopps

SOUTH COAST CONFERENCE

Ella Damon, Lucy Latour (Dighton Rehoboth); Cecelia Levrault, Addison Taylor (Apponequet); Paige Meda, Mckinley Wenzel (Bourne); Brooke Orton, Liberty Gazaille, Jamie Moniz (Case); Caroline Bragioli (Old Rochester); Alexandra Dantas (Seekonk); Mya Mederios (Fairhaven); Mia Gentile, Gabriella Nugent (Somerset Berkley)

MVP: Ella Damon

SOUTHEAST CONFERENCE

Natalia Hall-Rosa, Reese Bartlett, Brenna Woodbury (Bridgewater-Raynham); Mya Hayes-Paulette, Jada Holley (Durfee); Naveiha Madison, Ngozi Nwosu, Tajeiha Madison (Brockton); Katherine Cheeseboro (Dartmouth); Alexia Thompson, Vanessa Bucha, Zaria Anderson (New Bedford)

MVP: Natalia Hall-Rosa

SOUTH SHORE LEAGUE

SULLIVAN: Ella Williamson (Abington); Phoebe Katilus, Chloe Lang (East Bridgewater); Hailey Iwanski, Lila Peddie (Middleboro); Maddie Oliver, Chloe Richardson, Sara Cashin, Regan Dowd, Chloe Kirchner (Norwell)

PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Maddie Oliver (Norwell)

TOBIN: Ashleigh Johnson (Carver); Sarah Chenette, Laney Larsen, Abbie Goff (Cohasset); Lucy Peters (Hull); Amiyah Peters, Hialeah Turner Foster, Stella Steccei (Mashpee); Maggie Elie, Zariah Ottley, Sydney Blaney, Maddy Hermeau, Charlie Kelleher (Rockland)

PLAYER OF THE YEAR: Maggie Elie (Rockland)

TRI-VALLEY LEAGUE

Melissa Leone, Colby Lima (Ashland); Erica Hillis, Hana Skeary, Elliana Scalabrine (Dover-Sherborn); Megan Simpson (Holliston); Kate Olenik, Annie Stanton, Izzy Kittredge (Medfield); Shannon Mejia (Medway); Mia Molinari (Millis); Emma Cochrane, Taryn Fierri, Carly McDonald (Norton); Alexa Coras, Tricia Wladkowski (Norwood); Ava Connaughton, Arienne Katzman (Westwood)

MVP: Kate Olenik, Emma Cochrane

Posted 29 Apr 2023 15:37 by | News | No comments

2023 NFL mock draft: Chiefs Wire staff’s 7th annual dueling mock draft

STEVE SISNEY/The Oklahoman

Pick Player
Round 1, Pick 31 Oklahoma OT Anton Harrison
Round 2, Pick 63 Tennessee WR Cedric Tillman
Round 3, Pick 95 Missouri EDGE Isaiah McGuire
Round 4, Pick 122 South Carolina DT Zaach Pickens
Round 4, Pick 134 Illinois RB Chase Brown
Round 5, Pick 166 Purdue CB Cory Trice Jr.
Round 6, Pick 178 Cincinnati TE Josh Whyle
Round 6, Pick 217 Ferris State EDGE Caleb Murphy
Round 7, Pick 249 Louisville OG Caleb Chandler
Round 7, Pick 250 Virginia WR Keytaon Thompson

I’ve done a lot of mock drafts in the last couple of months and this one is by far my favorite. I believe my first five picks could be legitimate contributors as rookies. Harrison would immediately plugin as the Chiefs’ starting right tackle and could have an outside shot at being their left tackle if Jawaan Taylor disappoints.

Tillman would be a great value at No. 63, and I wouldn’t mind if the Chiefs had to move up a little bit to grab him. The Chiefs need a big, physical receiver who can make contested catches, block well and break tackles. At 23 years old and with four years of college ball under his belt, Tillman is better equipped to pick up Andy Reid’s offense than a typical rookie.

McGuire is someone I have really come to like for the Chiefs over the last few weeks. He has the prototypical size for a Steve Spagnuolo DE and his measurables are among the best of all EDGE guys in this draft. This past season in a matchup against Georgia he dominated first-round projected OT Broderick Jones.

Staying in the trenches, Pickens is a guy I feel is flying under the radar and could push to start opposite Chris Jones. Pickens is a brick wall against the run, and he had some impressive pass-rushing displays during Senior Bowl week.

Back on the offensive side of the ball, Brown and Whyle could also make impacts as rookies, especially Brown. He reminds me a bit of Isiah Pacheco as he’s a downhill, one-cut runner who can also make plays as a receiver, maybe even more so than Pacheco.

Whyle will have a tougher time finding playing time with so many veterans ahead of him on the depth chart, but he’s a smooth route runner who would really benefit from Andy Reid’s schematics.

The Chiefs hit a home run drafting cornerbacks last year, and Trice Jr. could continue that trend. He has great size and would be a natural fit in Spagnuolo’s press-man coverages. With L’Jarius Sneed’s future up in the air after 2023, the Chiefs need CB depth.

Rounding out my mock draft are project players Murphy, Chandler and Thompson. Murphy was insanely productive in Division II for Ferris State and plays with a high motor. Chandler is an athletic interior offensive lineman who is versatile, and Thompson is a Swiss army knife receiver who is dangerous with the ball in his hands and could contribute on special teams.

Closing out on a side note, I would support the Chiefs trading up in the first round to grab a playmaker. The Chiefs are still a Super Bowl contender and don’t have many holes to fill, so they definitely don’t need 10 draft picks. I also remain intrigued by the possibility of acquiring Arizona Cardinals receiver DeAndre Hopkins, whom the Chiefs have had reported interest in.

Posted 29 Apr 2023 14:37 by | News | No comments

Automating Amazon Vendor Central Net PPM Reporting

Amazon’s Net Pure Profit Margin (Net PPM) is an essential key performance indicator (KPI) for Amazon Vendors.

What is Net PPM?

Net PPM reflects the product profitability after expenses like the cost of goods, vendor funding (co-op activities), and sales discounts. Per Amazon, the metric will;

“identify what products are driving profitability up or down by analyzing Net Pure Product Margin or Net PPM. Net PPM measures product profitability after the cost of goods, vendor funding, and sales discounts are considered.”

The good news? No need to worry about calculating your Vendor Net PPM; Amazon offers data to analyze this metric as part of a collection of Amazon Retail Analytics reports.

How about some more good news? The metric is part of a more extensive collection of ARA reports. The reports include data for glance views, margins, sales performance, and many others. The metrics in the ARA support deep dives into sales diagnostics, the financial health of your vendor account, trending product sales, and insight into products that can be optimized.

ARA reports are available for Vendors in North America, Europe, and APAC.

Why is Net PPM crucial for your business?

Amazon Net PPM provides insight into whether a product generates enough profit from its sales, providing clues that help ensure operating and overhead costs are contained.

While companies use Net PPM to assess operational profitability performance, the metric can also impact other aspects of an Amazon business. For example, poor performance can;

  • affect your ability to sell products through Amazon Advertising because you cannot continue supporting your marketing campaign with paid media.
  • impact future Amazon purchase orders due to “Amazon Can’t Realize a Profit (CRaP).”
  • cause Amazon to concede the buy box to competitors.
  • trigger Amazon algorithms lower organic page rank.

Net PPM Formula Examples

Amazon automatically provides a Net PPM in reports. As a result, there is no need to invest the effort to calculate it yourself. However, it can be helpful to understand how it is calculated so you can make informed decisions to optimize your Vendor operations.

As we have stated previously, Net PPM measures the profitability (profit/cost) of an item sold through Amazon.com.

Amazon calculates ASIN level Net PPM based on the following formula:

Average Selling Price - Cost Price + Vendor Negotiated Contract Terms) / Average Selling Price

Note that your Vendor terms, at the account level, will impact your performance, so ensure you negotiate favorable terms to maximize your opportunity for profit.

Below is a formula for an account-level Net PPM;

Shipped Revenue — PCOGS + Vendor Negotiated Contract Terms — Sales Discount

A sales discount is deducted from your margin when a customer receives a discount. A discount may be promo code redemptions, lightning deals, and similar. Amazon includes these sales discounts as part of the Net PPM in Vendor Central. Also, note that the Net PPM metric Amazon shares does not factor spending on Amazon Advertising, any chargebacks, or specific costs related to payment terms.

Where Can I Find Net PPM in Amazon Vendor Central?

Amazon offers two primary methods to access Net PPM data in Vendor Central. The first method is manual reporting downloads, and the second is Amazon API automation software.

  1. Manual Downloads: Log into your Vendor Central account and download the report.
  2. Automation: Ensures your team can skip the manual data wrangling and take control of your Inventory data and store it in a private data lake or cloud warehouses such as Snowflake, BigQuery, Amazon Athena, Redshift, and Azure Data Lake. Your team can then leverage best-in-class analytics and business tools like Tableau Looker, Power BI, and Google Data Studio to fuel Amazon analytics via custom reports, interactive graphs, and sales dashboards.

Manual Download Net PPM Reports

The first method we mentioned is a downloaded report file available on the account interface. Select “Reports” and “Retail Analytics. “There will be a report listed called “Net PPM” similar to the screen below:

What is the downside of manual report downloads? Someone logging in daily, downloading reports, and manually tracking 100s of report files needs to scale better. This approach can result in time-consuming and error-prone work, especially if you need consistent access.

Amazon Vendor Central Software Automation For Reports

Amazon Vendor Central software is an essential data automation tool. The Vendor Central API provides official, direct access to your data.

Suppose you are an individual Vendor, a large brand, an agency, or an FBA acquisition company. In that case, API automation provides various features, including the ability to perform code-free, fully automated Net PPM reporting data feeds to a data lake or cloud data warehouse.

Automation will automatically generate reports, process, route, and load to your private data destination so you can manage and optimize your sales and inventory. Automation also supports other Vendor Retail Analytic reports for which items are selling best, sales history, glance views, and other Amazon Vendor Central reports.

Vendors also have direct API access to Amazon Advertising (Sponsored Ads, DSP, Attribution) performance data.

Tools For Amazon Automation

No more manual data wrangling. With data unified and accessible, quickly optimize for poor conversion rates, identify gaps in operational performance, uncover the percentage of customers converting, or refine advertising efforts on and off Amazon.

Data automation unlocks the ability to use BI tools that can spot trends and adjust your business in response to changing market conditions.

Rather than a mess of file downloads, automation will unify your data to a leading data lake or cloud warehouses like Databricks, Redshift, Redshift Spectrum, Google BigQuery, Snowflake, Azure Data Lake, Ahana, and Amazon Athena for a unified, analytics-ready single source of truth to fuel informed decisions on product, media, and customer demand.

Unified data opens new opportunities for Vendor analytics. For example, for self-service reporting and insights, you can use your Google Data Studio, Tableau, Microsoft Power BI, Looker, Amazon Quicksight, or many others.

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Frequency Asked Questions

Does Amazon’s Net Pure Profit Margin reflect the financial health of my Vendor business with Amazon?

Yes, it can. However, it should not be viewed in isolation from other product and account metrics.

Is there an API for Vendors?

Yes, the Amazon Selling Partner API and Amazon Advertising API provide direct, official access to Vendor sales performance, inventory, net pure profit margin, purchase order, and other report metrics. The API supports yearly, daily, and weekly reporting periods.

Amazon brand analytics, sales diagnostics, amazon search terms report, Glance Views, and other report automation is available, saving your team from manual file downloads.

Rather than manually dealing with a single report and export a comma-separated report each day, the API supports fast, code-free access via Openbridge Amazon Vendor Central software.

Does my brand need to enroll in Amazon Brand Registry?

Yes, your brand should be enrolled in the Amazon brand registry. Not only does this protect your brand, but your Vendor account will also be able to access Brand Analytics reporting.

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Posted 29 Apr 2023 13:45 by | News | 2 comments

A’s new ballpark saga drags into another MLB season | Las Vegas Review-Journal

Oakland Athletics fans cheer before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans cheer before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics right fielder Billy McKinney (28) is introduced before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans gather before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans stand for the national anthem before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics players head to the dugout before the start of the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics players gather in the dugout before the start of the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans look on before the start of the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics President Dave Kaval poses for a picture before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans walk the concourse before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics apparel is seen for sale before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans walk the concourse before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans line up for the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans line up for the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans walk the concourse before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans cheer before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics President Dave Kaval, from left, Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf and David Rinetti, vice president of stadium operations, raise the Athletics’ flag before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics President Dave Kaval, right, and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf cheer after raising the Athletics’ flag before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics President Dave Kaval speaks with members of the media before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf talks about the Oakland Athletics before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fan Angela Pacheco talks about the team before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Mario Cruz, of Modesto, Calif., poses for a picture before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
The Oakland Athletics warm up before the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at the Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans look on before the start of the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans watch the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans watch the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto
Oakland Athletics fans watch the opening night game against the Baltimore Orioles on Monday, April 18, 2022, at Oakland Coliseum in Oakland, Calif. (Chase Stevens/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @csstevensphoto

OAKLAND, Calif. —As the Athletics rang in the first home stand of the 2022 MLB season Monday in Oakland, the “home” part remains in flux for future seasons.

The A’s took on the Baltimore Orioles at the aging RingCentral Coliseum, a facility both the team and MLB don’t see fit for long-term use.

As the franchise negotiates a potential $12 billion mixed-use project centered around a $1 billion waterfront ballpark at the Port of Oakland’s Howard Terminal, the team has also been pushing some of its betting chips in Las Vegas’ direction.

Due to the continued exploration in Nevada, some fans of the team — which pushes the “Rooted in Oakland” mantra — believe those roots are running thin in the Bay Area.

“I was never happy that the Raiders left and I’m certainly not going to be happy when the A’s leave,” said Angela Pacheco, lifelong A’s fan. “I think it’s all but a done deal.”

Last May, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred gave the A’s permission to explore possible relocation after years of talks about a new facility in Oakland dragged on. Nearly one year later, Las Vegas is the only location the A’s have seriously researched.

Team brass including A’s owner John Fisher and President Dave Kaval have made almost a dozen trips to Southern Nevada. During those trips team officials met with various politicians, resort owners and other groups with land to offer for a potential $1 billion domed stadium.

Five potential sites

The A’s have a final site list of five potential spots in Las Vegas the team could call home. And while some worry the Las Vegas overture is a leverage play by the A’s, Kaval insists, as he has all along, the search is real.

“Both (Las Vegas and Oakland) are progressing at a pace where we’re going to know a lot this summer,” Kaval said Monday in Oakland. “We want to know as soon as we can because the uncertainty is difficult for fans, it’s difficult for both communities, really everyone involved.”

Oakland A’s President Dave Kaval and Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf with the raising of the Atheltics flag to kick off opening day at the coliseum. #oakland #mlb #athletics pic.twitter.com/Rj6TQ1AN1O

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Kaval said he’ll be back in Las Vegas Tuesday for several important meetings with area land owners as the organization pushes to identify that final Southern Nevada site. With the site list sitting at five, the possible options could shorten when Kaval heads back to Oakland Wednesday evening.

“We’re in final negotiations on a couple of the options and (there’s been) really positive dialogue with the different potential partners,” Kaval said. “We’re not at the point yet where we can make a public announcement, but we are getting closer … We want to get to the point where we can divulge the information and get the support of the community, the elected leaders and everyone involved in the process.”

Pacheco said she believes the A’s are doing everything in their power to ensure that the team ends up in Las Vegas. She also likened the situation to a classic baseball film.

“Have you ever seen that movie ‘Major League?’ How the owner makes the conditions the worst that they can so they can lose and go away?” Pacheco said. “That’s what I think Dave Kaval is (doing.) They should make that movie instead of “Moneyball,” referring to a 2011 film about the A’s.

Mayor wants A’s to stay

Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf has made it clear every chance she gets that she’s not a fan of the Las Vegas area. Earlier this month Schaaf stirred Las Vegas residents into an uproar when she dubbed the city a “gross desert.” In response, Las Vegas Mayor Carolyn Goodman invited Schaaf to visit Southern Nevada.

Schaaf said she respects the pushback that she’s heard and seen from residents and Southern Nevada dignitaries.

“I totally respect Mayor Goodman. I respect the Las Vegans who are going to stand up for their city and who are going to defend it,” Schaaf said. “That’s what we do in Oakland all day long. Let us all love our cities, stick up for them and express our pride. We’ll see where the ballpark goes.”

Last month, Oakland City Council member Carroll Fife last month brought up the possibility of putting the Howard Terminal project to a public vote. Schaaf said she doesn’t think that will go forward.

“I have not seen anyone bring it to be scheduled for discussion,” Schaaf said. “I do not think it is going to happen. I do not think that it has any merit … I don’t know of a single other council member that supports the idea.”

Kaval and the A’s have been at odds for months over various aspects tied to the Howard Terminal project, mainly related to community benefits, affordable housing and infrastructure costs. Schaaf acknowledged they’re still negotiating those points.

“I find that myself and Dave Kaval are extremely aligned on our vision,” Schaaf said. “Sometimes the devil is in the details and while we share a vision, the question is how will we pay for it?”

Some fans resigned to losing team

Many fans aren’t optimistic that Oakland will keep the A’s, just as the city couldn’t stop the Raiders from relocating to Las Vegas in 2020.

“This is very sad to me, this is like home to me,” said Mario Cruz, another fan attending Monday’s game. “We already lost to the Raiders, the Warriors are in San Francisco now and I won’t be surprised if the Athletics leave. It’s going to be a sad day when that comes.”

Cruz said he would remain an A’s fan, as he begrudgingly did with the Raiders when they left. Trips to Las Vegas to see the A’s would be in the cards for Cruz and his group if the team lands in Southern Nevada.

Pacheco on the other hand said she might not even be a fan of the sport anymore if the A’s abandon ship in Oakland.

“I might not even care about baseball,” Pacheco said. “I might become a Giants fan, because they’ve got a great stadium, a good organization and a good location. I mean to be determined, but I’m certainly not going to spend my money and my time to go watch games in Vegas. Certainly not.”

Contact Mick Akers at [email protected] or 702-387-2920. Follow @mickakers on Twitter.

Contact Mick Akers at [email protected] or 702-387-2920. Follow @mickakers on Twitter.

Posted 29 Apr 2023 09:37 by | News | 1 comment

ESC: Expansion Survey Edition

ESC is working on a survey regarding the potential undergraduate expansion.

The meeting began with time for council members to review the CCSC letter to the board of trustees regarding FGLI concerns discussed last week. University Senator Elias Tzoc-Pacheco (‘23) noted that it might be worth emphasizing difficulties in student access to funding for programs and research. He explained that he has heard from multiple students who did not get funding for summer programs abroad or got funding that they found insufficient. This inadequate funding limits students’ abilities to take advantage of all the opportunities the university offers.

The council then moved on to discuss a draft of a survey for SEAS students regarding undergraduate expansion. Members reviewed CCSC’s survey and discussed what they might do differently. This included editing questions about the core and other academics to be more SEAS specific. 

Several council members expressed the importance of ensuring that questions do not lead students to favor or oppose expansion. Another point that multiple members raised was that the survey should be short enough that students are willing to fill it out.

Class of 2022 President Estevan Mesa (‘22) suggested adding a question about students’ experiences with Columbia-sponsored programs to see NYC, such as the ticket lottery program for Broadway shows.

Council members also identified several questions about the potential expansion plan that could use clarification, including questions concerning housing, dining, renovations, and the hiring of professors.

The meeting continued with position updates. VP Policy Angel Mancera (‘23) said that in his meeting with Dean Kromm, she told him that soon, students will be able to have one non-Columbia guest in their dorms. VP Student Life Matthew Wahl (‘23) reiterated the success of the SEAS Gala event and shared that the $4,000 raised through the event will likely be donated to the Columbia Food Pantry.

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