Former Panther honored

AWESOME AMCAT: Paul Robitaille, a 2015 graduate of Johnston High School who played for the football Panthers, is joined by his mother Karen and father Glen at the recent Anna Maria College Amcats annual awards dinner where he received the prestigious “Offensive Player of the Year” award.

(Submitted photo)

Posted Friday, March 22, 2019 1:21 pm

By PETE FONTAINE

Remember Paul Robitaille?

Back in 2015, his senior season on Cherry Hill, Robitaille was a member of Johnston High School’s football Panthers whose talents were utilized on the defensive side of the field.

“Paul started his schoolboy football career on Cherry Hill as a standout defensive player,” a football coach close to the Robitaille family said while speaking on behalf of the JHS graduate. “At Anna Maria (College), the coaches asked him to switch to the offensive side of the ball as a junior and he excelled ever since.”

So much so, in fact, the 6-foot-3, 265-pound senior was recently honored with the prestigious “Offensive Player of the Year” award during the Amcats annual and recent football awards dinner in Paxton, Ma.

Robitaille was one of only two former Rhode Island schoolboy football standouts on the Amcats 2018 roster.