Chicopee High senior excels through kindness, helpfulness, and a love of soccer.
Alyssa D. Werbicki
School: Chicopee Comprehensive High School
Grade: Senior
Community service: Library aide, peer mentor and mediator, three-year participant in “Rays of Hope: A Walk Toward The Cure of Breast Cancer” and Chicopee park and recreation youth soccer referee.
Achievements: Captain and four-year member of girls’ varsity soccer team, and 2010 Division I MVP John Kalloch Award, All-Western Massachusetts Selection Division I 2010.
How I make a difference: I am a very caring and outgoing person who is easy to get along with. I like to help people when they are going through rough times. Recently, I signed up to be a peer mentor with the special needs students. I love working with them. It comes with the personal experience of living with my brother David.
Interests: Playing soccer, going to the gym
Favorite book: “The Five People You Meet in Heaven” by Mitchell Albom
Favorite song: “Then” by Brad Paisley
How you relax: Bonding with my family and cuddling up to a movie
Famous people you would like to meet: Soccer legends Mia Hamm and David Beckham
People from history you would like to meet: I would love to meet the Egyptians.
Nominating counselor Donna Hall Adams: As a senior at Chicopee Comprehensive High School, Alyssa has certainly had an impact on our school. She stands out as an outstanding role model and a student of strong character and values.
Alyssa’s teachers describe her as being “helpful, considerate and patient with others, a good sense of humor and is always pleasant, helps others out whenever and wherever she can.” She helps students teachers or her teammates.
She has been a library aide, peer mentor and a peer mediator. In these roles she gone out of her way to make sure everyone feels good about themselves and that everyone is included. That is a special talent and one that is appreciated in our high school.
Alyssa has been a member of our varsity soccer team for the past four years. During her junior year she scored 17 goals and was named Most Valuable Player of Western Massachusetts. The team won the Western Massachusetts Championship and they were the MIAA Tournament sectional champions. During her senior year, Alyssa was the captain of the soccer team.
Her coach, Noel Carvalho, describes her as a “coach’s dream” and said that she was a role model on the field and that “she always set an example for the team.”