Former WHS Star Marco Coppola Excelling at WPI

Watertown's Marco Coppola has continued his excellence on the basketball court as a freshman at Worcester Polytechnic Institute, where he leads the team in scoring in his freshman year.

WPI coach Chris Bartley told the Worcester Telegram & Gazette that Coppola may be the best player in the college's history.

“I know it’s a lot of pressure to put on him, but he’s got something special in him. I think he’s a player you can build a program around," Bartley told the Telegram. "As a freshman, that’s a lot on his shoulders, but he can handle it.”

In the first 10 games, Coppola has averaged a team-best 17.3 points for the Engineers, who are No. 17 in NCAA Div. III.

Last year, , and led Eastern Massachusetts in scoring with an average of 26.4 points a game.