By Karolina Zaccareo ’27 / Reporter
The 2024-2025 BoarPen brings the hype to fall sports.
BoarPen is coming in hot, bringing the energy to sports, arts, and campus life at Choate. This year, BoarPen is led by Michael Papaspyros ’25, Chris Joseph ’25, Rita Tunney ’25, Nao Murata ’25, Cawthra Burns ’25, and Favour Olagunju ’25.
Inspired by their predecessors, the current BoarPen aims to continue the group’s legacy of enthusiasm. Olagunju’s third-form prefect Dylan Allen ’22, who was a member of BoarPen, left a lasting impression that influenced her decision to join the team. “She was really school-spirited and high energy… she was someone that I looked up to. Just seeing her go on stage and promote Choate spirit really made me want to do the same thing for younger kids,” Olagunju said. Similarly, Joseph was inspired to join by former BoarPen member Damian Carano ’22, who brought electric energy to Joseph’s first JV Boys’ Water Polo game when nobody else was there to support the team. “It really made me want to be there for the Choate community, no matter what sport you play, no matter what level you play, whether that’s varsity or thirds,” Joseph said.
BoarPen stresses the importance of students showing up for each other “because when we support each other, there’s more camaraderie, there’s more fun,” Olangunju said. Whether it’s at a football game, a music concert, or a pep rally performance, the more students involve themselves with school life, the more “it opens up the rest of campus to them,” Joseph said. BoarPen wants to “promote a diverse and inclusive space where everyone feels their activity, sport, and everything that they do on campus is represented,” Olagunju added. They are open to any suggestions to help them achieve their goal of representing the whole Choate community.
With an aim to to bring the community together, BoarPen will continue hosting its famous spike ball, kickball, dodgeball, and P-Cup tournaments, as well as lip sync battles and many other events. They have plenty of tricks up their sleeves, so be on the lookout for live game updates on their Instagram, @boarpen, and School Meeting announcements .
Olagunju emphasized BoarPen’s mission of fostering a greater sense of community, describing it as creating “one big family” and “painting the whole school with blue and gold.” So let’s come together to attend events, support our classmates, and get ready to go full boar this year!
