ABIGAIL DAVIDSON, Hometown Weekly Staff
As a Thurston Middle School Physical Education teacher and the baseball coach at Westwood High, Brian Whelan has seen many teens that dreamed of making the majors, but never devoted themselves to the excruciating amounts of hard work and effort necessary to bring them to the next level. But in Patrick Irvine, a Westwood native and recent graduate of Elon University, Whelan saw something different.
“I could tell he had an extra drive that most kids at his age just don’t have,” recalls Whelan.
via Hometown Weekly Medfield Dover Sherborn Walpole Needham Westwood Newspapers.
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