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Melrose High Alumnus Headed to NECC All-Conference Team
Sam Jean-Gilles has been named to the All-NECC First Team.

Former Melrose High School basketball star Sam Jean-Gilles has been tapped for the New England Collegiate Conference All-Conference First Team, according to a missive from Regis College.
Regis credits Jean-Gilles, a sophomore, with essential contributions to its team’s fourth consecutive NECC Tournament, and first ever conference championship. Jean-Gilles averaged 12.4 points, 2.4 assists, 6.9 rebounds, and 1.6 steals per game this season.
As has been documented in the Boston Globe, Jean Gilles grew up in Haiti, and moved to Melrose after the cataclysmic 2010 earthquake in his home nation.
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