HIGH SCHOOL GOOD NEWS – March 2020

“Inspiring Learners to Achieve Extraordinary Success”

On Saturday, 2/15/20, the Coxsackie-Athens Wrestling team sent its 10 qualifying wrestlers to the Section 2 Division 2 State Qualifiers in Glens Falls. Each wrestler was fighting for the chance to represent all of Section 2 at this year’s New York State Tournament. Junior Captain Logan Campbell prevailed as the Section 2 Division 2 Champion at 113lbs, punching his ticket to the State Tournament. Logan became just the third finalist in program history. Logan also became only the second Coxsackie-Athens Wrestler to claim the Section 2 crown. The C-A Wrestling Team sent its first two wrestlers to the NYS tournament last season, Devon Shader (Section 2 Champion) and Marc Martinez (Section 2 Wild Card); both boys are currently competing for NCAA Division 3’s SUNY Brockport. Coxsackie-Athens is proud to have two champions in the past two seasons. HARD WORK IS PAYING OFF! Also placing in the tournament (consisting of 34 different schools) was Senior Colby Lord at 182lbs. Colby took the bronze, placing 3rd, earning a podium appearance in back to back weeks! The State Tournament will be Friday, 2/28 and Saturday, 2/29 at the Times Union Center in Albany.

Congratulations to Coach Colwell and the boys volleyball team for their win on Saturday over Saquoit Valley to capture the programs second regional title. It is the highest level of competition for small school boys volleyball.

The Coxsackie-Athens CSD Art Department will celebrate the K-12 District Art show with a special reception for students and their families! Thursday, March 26th 3:30-5:30 Athens Cultural Center 24 2nd Street Athens, NY 12015 All are welcome to view and enjoy the work of C-A's student artists! Light refreshments will be served.

Congratulations to Rachel Marino and Lindsey Penet! Both students were selected by Ms. Kowalski to have their work displayed in the NYSATA Legislative Student Art Exhibit at the Legislative Building in the Empire State Plaza! The exhibit is open to the public from March 23rd to March 26th. Rachel and Lindsey will enjoy a special art reception and ceremony on Wednesday, March 25th and will have the opportunity to meet their Senator and Assemblymember. Way to go artists!

The National Honor Society hosted a Winter Ball Dance on February 28, 2020. There were many snacks and drinks available including pizza, chips, drinks, and soda. Free slices of pizza were given out to high honor students! Those who attended had a great time and all funds raised are going towards the club’s funds for future events.

HS Library News: For the month of February, the High School Library had a few fun contests for students and staff to participate in. We had a contest where the students had to guess how many Lego's were in the jar. Dylan Dillberg guessed 457 and won first prize! Mrs. Multari and Jayda Griffin came in with the second closest guess with 450. There were 481 Legos in all. Our next contest was to guess the amount of heart shaped Peppermint Patties in the jar for Valentine’s Day. Isabelle Scully had the winning guess (closest without going over) with 76.

James Barone and Sofia Galante were also given a prize since they guessed the closest with 86, but were over by 1. There were 85 Peppermint Patties in the jar. Our last contest this month was our guess the book in the jar, which was won by Molly Bartels, Rachel Restko, Kiersten Vignera, Sarah Tyner, Kaitlyn Kull, and Grace Mathes. They all guessed the book correctly. The book in the jar was Divergent by Veronica Roth. This month we also celebrated the Global School Day of Play on February 3 and set up numerous fun games for the students to play. (See photos.) Ryan Ulcsht had a blast with the ZomeTool set. Each day thereafter he came into the library and made something new. Lastly, we leaped into Leap year with our origami frog races. Mrs. Space beat Ms. Taylor by one jump.

Congratulations to our High Honor Roll and Honor Roll students!! Please see the lists below.

Coxsackie-Athens High School - Quarter 2 High Honor Roll 2019-20

Grade 9: Jacob Allen, Madison Archibald, Jacob Bender, Paige Bender, Brooke Betke, Nora DuPont, Maggie Kinch, Caitlyn Lackie, Isabella Luvera, Jacob McCarthy, Alexander Moore, Brady Penet, Amaya Rulison, Zachary Santillo, Ryan Ulscht, Nicholas VanHoesen

Grade 10: Myesha Alam, Macyn Bradt, Elizabeth Bruno, Matthew Buhrke, Malorie Cardarella, Casey Carroll, Meghan Cenci, Piper Chimento, Matthew Clark, Hannah Crown, Roberto Cruz, Isabella DelVecchio, Patience DeRose, Garrett Donnelly, Shawn Donnelly, Rachel Enriquez, Natalee Farrand, Gabriel Hoglund, Ava Hubert, Dillon Hynes, Kaitlyn Johnson, Rachel Marino, Shole’ Minnick, Brandon Morehouse, Madyson Morgan, Michael O’Connor, Anthony Patti, Mackenzie Peters, Claire Richards, Francesca Salvino, Emily Santillo, Isabel Scully, Alyssa Soto, Maeve Squier, Jacob Trabucco, Ashley Weidel, Leonardo Woytowich.

Grade 11: Mallory Braden, Damien Calvo, Erasmia Deaver, Laci Diamond, Cathryn Elberth, Emma Ferenczy, Jonathan Jordan, Joshua Kiefer, Leandra King, Erin Mogul, Madison O’Callaghan, Avianna Robles, Aidan Scarpinati, Alexandra Shablovsky, Sarah Tyner, Jasmine VanDyke, Nathan VanValkenburg, Kiersten Vignera, Paige Wallace, Kye Williams, Brandon Wolbert.

Grade 12: Zarib Alam, Eliza Baxter, Aiden Boehm, Darian Briody, Kaliana Burnell, Kacey Chamberlin, Kaylee Conner, Alivia Dickson, Jillian Fitzgerald, Joseph Grecco, Lauren Higgins, Carly Isabelle, Abby Keating, Joslyn Keezer, Lindsey Penet, Connor Ploof, Suvin Sanpal, Kane Schrader, Jordan Towns, Lydia Valentino.

Coxsackie-Athens High School 2019-20 - Quarter 2 Honor Roll students

Grade 9: Grace Bartels, Matthew Burch, Matthew Higgins, Zachary Kinch, Priscilla Lambert, Joseph Maurer Jr, Kathrine McManus, Samuel Mozzillo, Aidan Smedstad, Ruth Thomas, Olivia Valentine, Brayden Valentino, Gediwon Williams

Grade 10: Gabrielle Dickson, Gianna Gooley, Gavin Hanse, Dominic Scaringe Grade 11: Dominick Bird, Peyton Bradt, Robert Burch, Haylie Howe, Taylor Leonard-Pigott, Casey Matter, Paul Moran, Madison Moskowitz, Leslie Pigott, Mikayla Ploof, Jayden Pulver, Colin Riley

Grade 12: Zachary Cogswell, Dylan Dillberg, Kenna Doyle, JonPaul Kemble, Rachel McGuire, Megan Peters, Frances Pilato, Amanda Recine, Killian Schrader, Madeline Scully

High School Prom Court 2020 Girls: Emma Ferenczy, Grace Mathes, Josie Mattraw-Johnson, Erin Mogul, Sarah Tyner, Jasmine VanDyke, Paige Wallace

Boys: Dominick Bird, Joseph Buchanan, Logan Campbell, Ian Leon, Patrick McManus, Aidan Scarpinatti, Maverick Stannard

Congratulations to Roberto Cruz who was nominated by Mrs. Decker to be the Coxsackie-Athens High School Rotary Student of the Month for March.

Roberto, members of his family, Mrs. Decker and Dr. Mercer will attend a Rotary luncheon in his honor at Pegasus Restaurant on March 11th. Nice job, Roberto - you make C-A shine!

On March 19th we will be hosting our second annual Career Day in the high school gymnasium. We will feature 40 businesses to discuss possible careers as well as hiring our students.

On March 24th Ms. Hopkins will be taking CA High students to Albany for a trades tour of the following:

1st tour Carpenters Local 291

2nd tour Bricklayers and Allied Craftworkers

The C-A Drama Club, comprising upwards of 75 students from elementary through senior high, will present three performances of the classic musical The Wizard of Oz on the weekend of March 13th and 14th.

Congratulations to the following Senior High School Band members who have been chosen to participate in the Greene County Spring All County Music Festival to be held at R-C-S High School on the evening of Friday, March 20th: Aiden Boehm, Justin Caruso, Kenna Doyle, Rachel Enriquez, Clara Flores, Kyle Green, Rachel Marino, Madison Moskowitz, Anthony Patti, Lindsey Penet and Paige Wallace.