Media Area Girls' Softball Walt Pileggi Memorial Award — Penncrest High School | NextJawn
Media Area Girls' Softball Walt Pileggi Memorial Award
In 2008, at the suggestion of Media Swarms founding president Pete Thomas, the league voted to establish the Walter J. Pileggi Memorial Scholarship. This $1,000 scholarship is awarded to a graduating high school senior who has played in the organization and is choosing to further her academic education at a secondary institute of learning.
Any girl who meets these requirements is encouraged to complete an application and submit it to her guidance counselor.
How Coach Pileggi got started in MAGS:
"It was a Saturday afternoon and I was always the one who took our girls to any of their activities. Walt was always working. I had been told that Domenica's team needed to stop at the field just to get their practice schedule. I had called Walter and asked him if he wanted to have lunch with us and he said 'sure, pick me up at the office'. So, I picked him up, told him we just had to take Domenica to the field for a minute to pick up her schedule and we are off. Parking was impossible so I asked Walter to just run her down to meet her Coach and pick up the practice schedule. He grumbled, but agreed. I circled many times and finally found a parking space. I waited and waited. Finally, Domenica came running to the car with a smile ear to ear and Walt followed her sort of shaking his head. When the door opened Domenica shouted... Daddy's our Coach... I said, 'No he's not'... and Walt looked at me with a look that could kill. He then said that he was the only Dad on the field and either Pete or Ken Parks was there to say that if no one stepped up to coach this team then they didn't have one... and all those little girls looked right at Walt... he said no a number of times and then he was had.
It was so funny to watch him the first year... the girls loved him, he couldn't do anything wrong in their eyes... and then the next year he began to fall in love with coaching 'his team'. It was probably one of the best times he had in his life. We made lifelong friends and became so much closer to our daughters' friends." - Mrs. Sandi Pileggi, Walter's Wife
Scholarship application is due May 5, 2027.
Penncrest High School
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