With more than three decades of leadership at the local, state, regional, national, and international level, Marc R. Pacheco was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1988 and to the Massachusetts Senate in 1992 by the citizens of the 1st Plymouth and Bristol District. As the eldest longest continuing serving member of the Senate, Senator Pacheco is the Dean of the Massachusetts Senate.
RAYNHAM--After taking a knee to the head in a high school soccer game, student-athlete Molly Caron suffered months of chronic migraines, experienced lapses in concentration and saw her grades slip.
The Raynham resident, a Former Miss Easton Outstanding Teen, now hopes sharing her experiences will help reduce the chances of other student-athletes suffering brain injuries. Second-impact concussions, which can occur when a player returns to the field too soon after suffering a concussion, can be particularly serious.
“It’s really, really dangerous,” said Caron, who is now a freshman soccer player at Emerson College. “It’s something you don’t want to mess around with.”
Caron is expected to testify on Beacon Hill today in support of a bill state Sen. Marc Pacheco, D-Taunton, is sponsoring to make baseline concussion testing mandatory for all high school athletes statewide.