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Gatorade 2021 - 2022: Player of the Year

Football - Massachusetts

Gatorade Player of the year

Ayden Pereira

Quarterback
CENTRAL CATHOLIC HS
LAWRENCE, MASSACHUSETTS
SENIOR
Height: 6-FOOT-0
Press Release

Peak Performance

2823

Passing Yards

34

Passing Touchdowns

790

Rushing Yards
“ Ayden is a great player who has really evolved into a complete quarterback. He is a dual threat as a runner and thrower. He makes every throw a high school quarterback needs to make.”
Tom Ryan
Head Coach - head coach of Methuen High

Athletic Excellence

The 6-foot, 190-pound senior quarterback passed for 2,823 yards and 34 touchdowns this past season, leading the Raiders (12-2) to the Division 1 Super Bowl. He also rushed for 790 yards and 14 scores, averaging 6.4 yards per carry. A two-time Boston Globe and Boston Herald All-Scholastic, he was the 2020 Boston Herald Offensive Player of the Year.

Academic Achievement

Pereira has maintained a weighted 3.87 GPA in the classroom. He has verbally committed to play football on scholarship at the University of Maine next fall.

Exemplary Character

Pereira has volunteered locally with the National Down Syndrome Society.