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- Pat Donnelly commits to Phillips Exeter Academy
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All the bright future questions are now a thing of the past for Pat Donnelly of Longmeadow.
The senior at Longmeadow High School has made it official - he's headed to Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, N.H., this fall.
"It is so nice to know where you're going, what it's going to be like," Donnelly, 18, said."It's nice to have the decision out of the way."
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Donnelly had also considered Phillips Andover and Worcester academies, saying the prep route was always the planned path.
"I like the school so much because it had the best combination for me ... with basketball, football and academics," Donnelly said.
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Donnelly led the Lancers to an undefeated and Division I Super Bowl championship season in football last fall and last month led the way to the program's first Western Mass. title in basketball.
"My mind has been on the sports seasons, and we didn't hear (about admissions) until March 10," Donnelly said."
At Longmeadow, Donnelly went 35-0 in three seasons as a starting quarterback, directing the Lancers to three straight Division I Super Bowl titles.In 324 career passing attempts, he threw for 3,023 yards, 43 touchdowns and only five interceptions.
The all-state selection also won the Angelo Bertelli Award, named for the former Heisman Trophy Award winner from West Springfield and given to the region's most valuable player.
"In football, everyone expected us to win ... we almost had to win," Donnelly said.
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At Exeter, Donnelly will join a football team that is coming off a 5-3 season and a basketball squad that won a school-record 17 games this winter.
Donnelly holds a weighted grade point average of 3.3 and said he is not leaning toward any particular field of future study in college.