Martha’s Vineyard athletics received high recognition this past weekend at the Cape and Islands League’s first annual Scholar Athlete Awards ceremony.
Students from Martha’s Vineyard Regional High School (MVRHS), Eleanor Mone and Syius Rivera Rigali, both received a 2025–26 Cape and Islands League Scholar Athlete of the Year award at the Sunday event, held at Cape Cod Academy in Osterville. Mone plays soccer and ice hockey at the high school, and Rivera Rigali participated in football and swimming.
Bill Rigali, head coach of the Martha’s Vineyard girls’ tennis team, also received Coach of the Year in honor of a “remarkable 2025 season,” a press release from MVRHS said. The girls’ tennis team went 15-1 in the regular season last year, captured the Cape and Islands League championship, and advanced to the MIAA State Championship before they fell to Dover-Sherborn in the state final. This year, they are so far undefeated, and even beat Dover-Sherborn recently.
John Mattson, athletic director at Nauset High School, served as the master of ceremonies of the awards, and Emma Mawn, a graduate of Monomoy Regional High School and currently the assistant field hockey coach at Saint Anselm College, was a guest speaker.