Wednesday at Stoneham

Melrose travels to neighbor Stoneham today to finish ML12 regular season play. This represents an opportunity for everyone to show their development in both individual and team play.  

Melrose continues its strong showing in The Boston Globe All-Sports standings winning over sixty percent of its contests. 

Some will ask why girls participating in sports matters. Here's why. 

An excerpt: 

• "As little as four hours of exercise a week may reduce a teenage girl’s risk of breast cancer by up to 60%; breast cancer is a disease that afflicts one out of every eight American women. (Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 1994)
• Forty percent of women over the age of 50 suffers from osteoporosis (brittle bones). (Osteoporosis, 1996) None of us should want our daughters to repeat the experiences of generations of women—our mothers and grandmothers—who were not permitted to play sports or encouraged to participate in weight-bearing exercises that are necessary to establishing bone mass.
• Girls and women who play sports have higher levels of confidence and self-esteem and lower levels of depression."

Additionally, many MVB graduates continue to excel in education, business, medicine, and other fields.