Nancy Smith was inducted into the Northeast-10 Conference Hall of Fame during halftime of the women's basketball game on Saturday. Growing up in Quincy, MA, Nancy was schooled by her older sisters, Susan and Diane, in many sports. Basketball took hold of her and she says, "It became pretty much my passion" (boston.com). Scoring over 20 points a game, she earned a scholarship to Stonehill after graduating from Archbishop Williams in Braintree. Averaging 5.6 assists per game at Stonehill, her 604 assists ranked her 6th in conference history. She says this is "bittersweet because Susan died of cancer on Jan.6" (boston.com). Susan was her sister.
The writer of this article, Lenny Megliola, uses logos and pathos in his article. He has many statistics of game point averages and rankings, which help bring out the logic in the article. His pathos comes in when he uses a quote of Smith talking about her sister passing away. Although this is a happy time, it is obviously bittersweet because it was her sister who taught her how to play the game. Megliola also brings in the use of background information to keep his article valid and interesting. Some things i thought he could've improved on were his explanations of universities and high schools. Yes, most of us know that Stonehill is Stonehill College and that Archbishop Williams is Archbishop WIlliams High School, but if someone were to read this article who didn't I think they might be a little confused.
I agree with you Katherine, if a non-local was reading this article, they would probably be confused about Smith's education. Nice analysis!
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