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Margaux Murphy Receives Phil Womble Ethics in Sports Award for Laguna Blanca
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One of the qualities Laguna Blanca athletic director and girls volleyball coach Jason Donnelly appreciates about Margaux Murphy '19 is how she deeply cares about others.
A great example of Murphy’s caring is the more than 200 hours she’s logged as a member of the National Charity League and through other volunteering opportunities.
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One of the qualities Laguna Blanca athletic director and girls volleyball coach Jason Donnelly appreciates about Margaux Murphy '19 is how she deeply cares about others.
A great example of Murphy’s caring is the more than 200 hours she’s logged as a member of the National Charity League and through other volunteering opportunities.
A three-sport athlete at Laguna, Murphy was honored as the school’s recipient of the Phil Womble Ethics in Sports Award by the Santa Barbara Athletic Round Table.
“When I think about Margaux, I think about a kid who really wants to learn,” Donnelly said. “She’s willing to do whatever it takes to help her team and help herself.”
“When I think about Margaux, I think about a kid who really wants to learn,” Donnelly said. “She’s willing to do whatever it takes to help her team and help herself.”
Murphy plays on Donnelly’s varsity volleyball team and plays on the varsity teams for both soccer and beach volleyball.
“Margaux is a hard-working student-athlete who puts the team before herself,” said varsity soccer coach Kevin Shertzer, who added that she worked her way into the starting line-up last season and “scored some crucial goals to help secure the league title and win our first-round CIF playoff match.”
The daughter of John and Suzanne Murphy excels in the classroom, maintaining a 3.92GPA while playing three sports and putting in hours of volunteer work.
In addition to her participation in NCL since the seventh grade, she is involved in Laguna Blanca’s Middle School Mentorship Program and has served as a Laguna Student Ambassador for the last three years.
In addition to being honored with the Phil Womble Award, Margaux won the Ambassador Scholarship Award at the 2018 Global Leadership Connection. Also she was the recipient the Laguna Blanca Photography award in her freshman year, and received an honorable mention for her photography in the 2017 Scholastic Arts and Writers Competition, Western region.
“Margaux embodies all the qualities you want in a student athlete: she shows up, she does her job, and she cares deeply about others,” Donnelly said. “She loves to learn and she’s a really good person.”
In addition to being honored with the Phil Womble Award, Margaux won the Ambassador Scholarship Award at the 2018 Global Leadership Connection. Also she was the recipient the Laguna Blanca Photography award in her freshman year, and received an honorable mention for her photography in the 2017 Scholastic Arts and Writers Competition, Western region.
“Margaux embodies all the qualities you want in a student athlete: she shows up, she does her job, and she cares deeply about others,” Donnelly said. “She loves to learn and she’s a really good person.”
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