by Asad Khimani
Staff Writer
Corn, King Corn, and Prog are some of the names he is known by at Westford Academy. Senior Mark Cornelius, a student-athlete for the WA Ghosts, plays football, basketball, and baseball for the school.
He made the varsity teams for all three sports in sophomore year. In basketball, he plays the position of guard, in football he plays wide receiver and in baseball, he pitches, plays outfield, centerfield, and a little bit of first base. Also, he was one of the captains of the basketball team this season. Overall, he is talented at all three sports.
Cornelius has been playing basketball and baseball since he was very young, sometime around kindergarten. However, he only started to play football in his sophomore year at WA.
“I love all three, but basketball is probably my favorite,” said Cornelius.
With the spring sports season coming up, Cornelius said that the baseball team will be good this year and should do well.
“We’ve got a lot of good players, mostly seniors. So yeah, we should do very well this year. It would be disappointing if we didn’t,” said Cornelius.
Cornelius said that WA tied for the DCL title two years ago and made it to the playoffs last year. This year, they are aiming to once again be the DCL champions.
Cornelius hopes to play basketball or football in college next year.
“I’m not sure which one yet. It kind of depends on what school I go to,” said Cornelius.
He is mostly looking at the University of New Hampshire and Bentley University, but the college he will definitely go to is still undecided. However, it is definite that this is King Corn’s last year as a Grey Ghost.
“It’s fun playing all three sports. I enjoyed every minute of it, and it’s gonna be different when I’m only playing one,” Cornelius explained.
