ROBERT J. “BOB” MASSA (Athlete, Class of 2000)

Bob Massa achieved All State honors in both soccer and wrestling.

In 1975 Bob was a finalist at the Freshmen State Wrestling Championships.  The following year he was a mid-year All Star finalist for Warren High and was named All Suburban East at one hundred and twenty-six pounds.  In 1977 he moved up to one hundred and thirty-two pounds, was the mid-year All Star Champion, and was named both All Suburban East and All State.  He repeated these latter honors in 1978 when he competed at one hundred and forty-five pounds and stunned a heavily favored Hendricken grappler in the state finals.  Bob served as the Warren High School wrestling coach from 1980 to 1983.

Bob also starred in soccer for Warren High, first achieving 1976 honors in the Suburban East Division.  In 1977 he was the third leading scorer in Rhode Island and was named an All Eastern and All State forward.  Then, at the age of eighteen, he was named the team’s coach, the youngest coach in Warren High history, and served in that position from 1979 to 1982.

In the 1980s he was a member of the Repro Stat squad that captured the Warren Slow-Pitch Softball League’s regular season and playoff titles. 

In the 1980s and ’90s Bob also played on several championship softball teams: Local 328-Industrial State champions ( 2 years); Tri-Town-USSSA Class C & D State champions;  Tri- Town- Bristol League Bronze division; Tillotson- Pearson- Warren League champions ( 3 years); and Zompa Plumbing Barrington League champions.

Later he was the first Warren finisher in a number of local road races and coached in the Warren Youth Soccer Association’s Summer League.

He has served as a Rhode Island Interscholastic League wrestling official from 1995 into the Twenty-First Century.