3/10/2019

Volume 5 Issue 2

POB

Girls Bowling—Undefeated Conference Champions

Girls’ Basketball– A Historic Season

Winter Season Recap

2 – All-State

15 – All-County

Girls’ Bowling

Conference Champions

State Championship

Qualifiers

Sinead Heaney

Doug Vaca

Sabrina Ratas

Heather Sanborn

Sari Arrow

Inside this issue:

College Commitments 2

Alumni Update 3

POBMS PE Students of the Month

4

POB Athletic Hall of Fame

5

Fall Season Post Season Honors

6-7

Boys’ and Girls’ Indoor Track Records

8-9

Boys’ and Girls’ Swimming and Diving

Records

10-11

The Hawks Nest POB Physical Education,

Health, Athletics and Recreation

For the season the Varsity Girls Bowling returned three starters from last year’s 17th place finish in the counties. Sari Arrow, Hayley Goldsmith, and Danielle Stein were the core group of girls who were looked at to improve and to lead the team to a better finish in Nassau Conference III. Overall, the starting lineup of Vanessa Bonilla, Danielle Stein, Hayley Goldsmith, and senior Sari Arrow lead the Hawks to an undefeated record in Conference 3 and only lost two games the

entire season. They finished an astonishing 13-0 and were ranked in the counties as the 4th best team in the large schools out of 42 eligible teams. Contributors throughout the year included Michelle Zhu, Rebecca Prisand, Liz Tsang, and Karin Sammoriya, all who helped cement the Hawk’s incredible run. In the team county tournament the team finished 4th out of 16 teams. This is the best finish for the varsity program in quite a long time. Sari Arrow, the team’s undisputed leader and captain also bested her best finish at the individual tournament with a 2nd place finish and ended the season with an incredible 177.4 average that was 4th highest in the county at the end of the year earning her All-County hon-ors. She will represent the Hawks in the state championship this weekend in Syracuse. The Lady Hawks will be losing their leader via graduation but will have a lot to look forward to. The core will be back for the next two years and look to build on this amazing success.

The 2018-2019 Girls Varsity Basketball was one for the history books. The Hawks finished the season with a pro-gram record 13 wins. The 13 wins is the most wins by any Girls’ Basketball team in the program history dating back to 1967. With a record of 9-3 in conference, the girls finished 2nd in conference AA-2 and earned a 6 seed in the Nassau county playoffs. Unfortunately, the season ended in the

quarterfinals against a tough opponent in Freeport. Freshman Emma Kimmel led the team in scoring and finished 4th in Nassau County in 3 point field goals made with 52. Senior, Eunice Yim and junior, Amanda Ortsman led the team on and off the court as co-captains. These three ladies all received post season awards this year. Amanda Ortsman earned All– County honors, while Emma Kimmel and Eunice Yim earned All-Class. Thank you to the senior class, Eunice Yim and Samantha Fried for their dedication to the program. Every player on the Varsity Basketball team has shown motivation to push themselves to new limits, and dedication to this team. Looking forward to next year! Congratulations to the team!

Hawks moving on to College

It is with great pleasure to announce that six Plainview-Old Bethpage student athletes have

decided to pursue a college degree while participating in collegiate athletics.

Patrick Ensmenger—Lacrosse—Arcadi University

Samantha Fried—Softball—Millersville University

Danielle Pollard - Soccer—Jacksonville University

Wil Price—Soccer—SUNY-Geneso

Micheal Rothstein—Baseball—West Virginia Wesleyan

Douglas Vaca—Diving—Delaware University

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One of the core values of the Plainview Old Bethpage Athletic Department is that “ Every student athlete and coach will aim for, pursue and achieve high academic standards”.

Once again our student athletes and coaches worked hard to ensure that numerous Varsity teams earned the distinction of NYSPHSAA Scholar Athlete Team. This award is given to a

team which has 75% of their roster with accumulative GPA of 90 or higher. This award is a great achievement for any interscholastic athletic team and demonstrates a true commitment to education from our student athletes, coaches, teachers and support staff.

In addition to our team’s academic success, 75% of our varsity student athletes received the individual scholar athlete award. Given to any varsity student athlete with a 90 GPA or higher.

This winter season the following teams earned the NYSPHSAA Scholar Athlete Team Award:

This winter the Varsity Basketball team had the opportunity to tour of ESPN . This was possible thanks to Alumni Seth Greenberg.

“Always make a total

effort, even when odds

are against you.”

Arnold Palmer

Team Team GPA

Girls’ Indoor Track 97.00

Boys’ Swimming and Diving 96.75

Kickline 96.13

Girls’ Basketball 95.78

Boys’ Indoor Track 94.93

Girls’ Bowling 94.54

Gymnastics 93.32

Competitive Cheerleading 91.56

Boys’ Basketball 91.49

Wrestling 91.43

Boys’ Bowling 90.86

Girls’ Indoor Track—One for the Record Books

Catching up with our Alumni

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The Girl’s Winter Track team had its best season in over 20 years. For the first time ever in POB history, a member of the team qualified and raced in the NYS Championships in both Cross Country and Winter Track & Field in consecutive sea-sons. That individual is none other than Senior Captain Sinead Heaney. Sinead represented all of Nassau County in the NYS Cross Country Championships with the 3rd best time in Nassau County. She followed that incredible feet with a winter track season for the record books. Sinead broke the school record in the 1000m, 1500m, Mile, 3000m, 4 x 800

relay, and the Distance Medley Relay. Sinead competed in the NYS Winter Track Champion-ships as part of an intersectional distance medley relay with three other athletes from Port Washington, South Side, and Friends Academy. Sinead ran the anchor distance portion of the relay and ran a personal best mile time. Sinead earned MVP for the team as well as All Con-ference and All County for all of Nassau County. A team is not an individual though. Also adding to this record season was Senior Samantha Oliva who set our school record in Weight Throw and lead the team in Shot Put. Amy Lederer lead the team in the 55m, High Hurdles, 300m, and as part of the 4 x 800 school record relay with Sinead and Jane Wernow. Jane is not only a captain but the leader of the team both on and off the track. Congratulations to Head Coach Justin Carey and Assistant Coach Joaquin Calatayud for their team’s epic accomplish-ments.

Nick Godino (‘15) - Baruch College—Volleyball—Started in 22 games this

season. He leads the team in points (232), kills (202),.

Alec Durutovic (‘15) - SUNY Oswego—Basketball– Played in 30 games,

averaging 12.5 minutes per game. He Scored 112 points, grabbed 104 re-

bounds, and had 10 blocks. The Lakers finished the year #20 in the county,

captured the conference championship and reached the sweet 16 in the Divi-

sion 3 NCAA tournament.

Bradley Weiss (‘15) St. Joseph’s—Basketball—Played in 20 games, averaging 26.7

minutes. He scored 194 points, 150 rebounds and blocked 45 shots

Brendan Fitzpatrick (‘16) SUNY Cortland-Basketball– Played in 26 games, averaging 22.7

minutes. He scored 102 points, 59 rebounds and had 33 assists on the year.

Daniel Kim (‘17) Hunter College—Volleyball—Played in 7 matches and started 2. Averag-

ing 1.32 points per set.

Jack Stafford (‘17) Scranton College—Basketball– played in 13 games and scored 6

points.

Katherine Lee (‘17) Hunter College—Swimming-Received the CUNYAC All-Star award in

2018-2019. At the CUNYAC Championship she placed 1st in the 200 yard freestyle relay

and 400 yard freestyle, 2nd in the 800 yard freestyle relay, 3rd in the 100 yard freestyle, 4th

in the 50 yard freestyle and 200yard freestyle

Peter Pappas (‘17) Edinboro University—He had a dual meet record of 17-4

at 157lbs this season. He was crowned champion of the Michigan St. Open,

Storm Open. He came in 2nd place at the Findlay Open, Cleveland State Open.

Another great season by our Challenger basketball program this year. The final game was played in front of a packed house at POB-JFK HS

“Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. Grit is having stamina. Grit is sticking with your future, day-in, day-out. Not just for the week, not just for the month, but for years. And working really hard to make that future a reality. “

Angela Lee Duckworth

POBMS—PE Students of the Mont

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2018-2019 Interscholastic Sports Schedule

Throughout this school year, the POBMS Physical Education staff have had the privilege of recognizing students who have displayed exceptional character and an enthusiasm for every opportunity to improve themselves, as well as for helping others to do the same. Each monthly award winner earned the title of “Physical Education Student of the Month.” These students serve as role models for all of us. They are active, accepting, and ambitious. They are humble, hard-working, responsible, and resilient. Asking for nothing in return, they arrive each day for class, ready to give their best for all of those around them. These students offer their energy and effort each time they step into our classroom! Never hesitating to aid others in this setting, which they have learned to excel, these leaders are well-deserving of entry into this class of esteemed Physical Education students. It is our pleasure to present the P.O.B.M.S. Physical Education Students of the Month so far this year!

The following dates are the 2019-2020 Nassau County Interscholastic Sports season start dates. These dates have been approved and are final. Please remember that JV and Varsity do practice during school vacations and students are required to attend. Fall Sports JV and Varsity Football – August 19th All other JV and Varsity Sports—August 26th All Middle School Sports—September 5th Kickline—September 9th Winter Sports V/JV Wrestling and Bowling— November 12th All other JV and Varsity Sports—November 18th All Winter 1 Middle School Sports—November 12th All Winter 2 Middle School Sports—January 21st

Spring Sports V/JV B/G Lax, B/G Outdoor Track, Baseball, Softball, —March 9th V/JV B/G Golf, Boys’ Tennis, Girls’ Badminton—March 16th All Middle School Sports— March 30th

For more information please go to Athletic Website

“Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great can be achieved..” Ralph Waldo Emerson

The students of Pasadena elementary school got the chance to experience the fun and excitement of the circus during their Physical Educa-tion class.

Hawk Wrestling

I’ve Got your Back Award

Plainview-Old Bethpage Athletic Hall of Fame Class of 2019

The POB Athletic Booster club is sponsoring a new award that will recognize JV and Varsity Student Athletes. The award will be given to student athletes that best exemplify the traits of being a great teammate and willingness to help others succeed. This season’s award winners are:

JV—Joey Pastier (Boys’ Basketball), Jordyn Solminsky (Girls Basket-ball), Miles Serpico (Wrestling)

Varsity—Dan Dossie (Boys’ Basketball), Samantha Fried (Softball), Jack You (Boys’ Swimming), Rohit Aggarwal (Boys’ Indoor Track),

Eden Greenberg (Girls’ Indoor Track), Maggie Donovan (Competitive Cheer), Christopher Shin (Boys’ Bowling), Rebecca Prisand (Girls’ Bowling, Matt Coleman (Wrestling), Alyssa Sanborn (Gymnastics), Samantha Kenny (Kickline)

The Plainview-Old Bethpage Hall of Fame committee recently announced the Hall of Fame Class of 2018. Here are the members of the 1st ever Hall of Fame class. Student Athletes Jim Adams—Class of ‘69—JFK High School—Football, Wrestling, and Lacrosse Ila Lansky (Goldstein)— Class of ‘97—POB-JFK High School—Gymnastics Richard Hirsch—Class of ‘73—JFK High School—Lacrosse Jeffrey Kimmel—Class of ‘84—Soccer Danny Kramer—Class of ‘02—Soccer Chris Rogler - Class of ‘95—Football and Lacrosse Coaches Ralph Dreyer—John F. Kennedy High School - Boys’ Soccer Coach Ozzie Stewart—John F. Kennedy High School - Boys’ Basketball Coach Contributor Mario Collelouri—POB School Board Member On July 1st we will be hosting our 2nd annual POB Hall of Fame Golf Outing at The Honorable Joseph Colby Town of Oyster Bay Golf Course. Please join us as we honor these great individuals and enshrine them in to the POB Hall of Fame.

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Fitness Fact:

"Memory retention and learning functions are all about brain cells actually changing, growing, and working better together, exercise creates the best environment for that process to occur."

John J. Ratey, clinical associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School

The Hawks wrestling team put together their best dual meet record in over a decade, going 7-7-1. The dual meet season was led by wins over Bethpage, Calhoun, Herricks, Valley Stream North, and Great Neck South. Plainview wrestling’s hosted their second annual alumni match. This year with over 15 alumni coming back to root on the Hawks.

This season was highlighted with the Hawks having an outstanding showing at the Conference Championship with 10 All-Conference wrestlers. Conference Champ: Max Yahre 2nd place in the conference: Jake Bater, Harrison Kyriacou 3rd place in the conference: Matt Coleman, Aaron Bater, Tim Rea 4th place in the conference: Aidan Shwom 5th place in the conference: Travs Edrehi 6th place in the conference: Perry Azougi, Nick Demasi Junior Max Yahre also placed 5th in Nassau County, while compiling his 100th career victory. We wish the best of luck to seniors Matt Coleman, Harrison Kyriacou, Tim Rea, and 5 year varsity wrestler Aidan Shwom. Thank you for all you have contributed to the growth of the program!

Picture from the 2nd annual Alumni Wrestling match.

2018 –2019 Winter Team MVPs

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Junior Varsity Team MVPS

Boys’ Basketball—Dylan banner

Girls’ basketball—Alex Kaminsky

Wrestling—Jack barton

Varsity Team MVPs

Competitive Cheerleading— Sam Kwon

Boys’ basketball— Nick Galasso

Boys’ Bowling— Salvatore Testa

Boys’ Swimming and Diving— Doug Vaca

Boys’ Indoor Track and Field— Jaeyoon Song

Girls’ Basketball— Amanda Ortsman

Girls’ Bowling— Sari Arrow

Girls’ Winter Track and Field— Sinead Heaney

Gymnastics— Sabrina Ratas

Kickline—Gabby Perchekly

Wrestling—Max Yahre

2018-2019 Winter Post Season Award Winners

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All-State

Sabrina Ratas (8th) Gymnastics

Heather Sanborn (10th) Gymnastics

All-County

Lily Adinolfi (FR) Gymnastics

Sari Arrow (SR) Girls’ Bowling

Tyler Ciulla (FR) Boys’ Bowling

Sinead Heany (SR) Girls’ Indoor Track

Amanda Ortsman (JR) Girls’ Basketball

Payton Sacks (FR) Gymnastics

Alyssa Sanborn (8th) Gymnastics

Salvatore Testa (JR) Boys’ Bowling

Doug Vaca (SR) Swimming and Diving (1m Dive)

Max Yahre (JR) Wrestling

All-Class

Emma Kimmel (FR) Girls’ Basketball

Eunice Yim (SR) Girls’ Basketball

All-Conference

Perry Azougi (SOPH) Wrestling Jack Bater (JR) Wrestling Matt Coleman (SR) Wretsling

Nick DeMasi (JR) Wrestling Travis Edrehi (SOPH) Wrestling Nick Galasso (SR) Boys’ Basketball

Harrison Kyriacou (SR) Wrestling Nick Nemickas (SOPH)

Boys’ Basketball Tim Rea (SR) Wrestling

Dominica Wallace (SOPH) Gymnastics Jack You (SR) Swimming (50 Free)

200 Free Relay—Jack You (SR), Daniel Shemetov (FR), Samuel Chon (FR), Junesok Roh (JR)

All-Division

Haley Goldsmith (SOPH)

Girls’ Bowling

Amanda Rogers (SR)

Competitive Cheerleading Doug Vaca (SR) Swimming (1m Dive)

Jack You (SR) Swimming (100 FLY)

200 Free Relay—Jack You (SR), Daniel Shemetov (FR), Samuel Chon (FR), Junesok Roh (JR)

400 Free Relay—Jack You (SR), Daniel Shemetov (FR), Samuel Chon (FR), Junesok Roh (JR)

Plainview-Old Bethpage Girls’ Indoor Track School Records

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EVENT NAME TIME / DIS. DATE

55 m E.Otaka 7.5 2010 55 Hurdles L.Solomon 9.8 2007 300 m B.D’Angelis 44.9 2009 600 m J.Wallach (8th Grade) 1:46.7 2012 800 m B.Rabinovici 2:39 1993 1000m Sinead Heaney 3:16.39 2019 **** 1500m Sinead Heaney 4:58.67 2019 **** 1600 m Sinead Heaney 5:25.87 2019 **** 3000 m Sinead Heaney 11:14.90 2019 **** 1500 Walk V. Smith 8:04 2007 Shot Put E. Park 28’1 ¼ 2013 Triple Jump A.Gungor 33’ 5 ½ 2012 Long Jump A.Gungor 16’ 1 ¾ 2012 High Jump L.Solomon 4’10” 2009 A.Gungor 2010 Pole Vault J. Pantell 8’6” 2015 A. Kim 2018 Weight Throw Samantha Oliva 25’5” 2019 ****

Relays 4 X 200 1:57.3 4 X 800 10:30.25*** DMR 13:45.57*** E.Otaka 2009 S. Heaney 2018 S. Heaney 2018

A.Austria J. Wernow J. Wernow

J. Passes A. Lederer A. Lederer

B.D’Angelis L. Chavez L. Chavez

4 X 400 4:35.8 Mile Medley 5:05 J.Wallach 2012 A. Joe 2001

B.Nickel T.Pritchard

M.Fiume C.Krammerer

A.Gungor M.Jarchin

Plainview-Old Bethpage Boys’ Indoor Track School Records

EVENT NAME TIME / DIS. DATE

55 m E. Cheng 6.5 1/96 55 Hurdles D. Landau 8.3 12/05 200 m E. Cheng 23.3 3/96 300 m T. Benson 39.31 12/12/15 400m D. Fishbein 59.1 1/07 600 m R. Beckerman 1:27.5 2/99 800 m Mario Ferone 2:11.1 1/5/10 1000m J. Rosenkrantz 2:47 1/95 1600 m J. Rosenkrantz 4:37 2/92 3200 m M. Cashman 9:38 2/92 Shot Put Abe Jun 42’ 10.25” 2/12/10 Triple Jump Vasilios Stotis 38’ 3” 1/23/10 Long Jump D. Kim 19’11 1/08 High Jump Matthew Benjamin 5’11” 2/24/10

Relays

4 X 200 1:39 4 X 800 9:02 4 x 1600 20:35 J. Symons 2/96 V. Raju 2/92 B. Nordell 1/98

B. Bae M. Lewek M. Kuhne

J. Rosenkrantz B. Levenson R. Klein

E. Cheng A. Labrocca J. Bank

4 X 400 3:24 Mile Medley 4:07 55HH Relay 27.9 J. Klaff 2/92 E. Bernstein 12/95 A. Mei 1/97

J. Rosenkrantz J. Symons E. Levine

R. Kasendorf A. Mei J. Lee

E. Chen M. Kuhne

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Plainview-Old Bethpage Girls’ Swimming and Diving School Records

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Event Name Time Year 200 Medley Brandenstein 1:54.53 2017 Mejia, Lee Tanaka 200 Free I. Ren 2:01.32 2013 200 IM Moca Tanaka 2:17.34 2017 50 Free Moca Tanaka 24.81 2018 **** IM Dive Ashley Bellino 379.90 2017 (11 Dives) IM Dive Ashley Bellino 269.12 2017 (6 Dives) 100 Fly Mejia 1:01.22 2017 100 Free Moca Tanaka 53.83 2018 **** 500 Free Peyser 5:21.53 1996 200 Relay Brandenstein, 1:44.17 2017 Tanaka Mejia Lee 100 Back I. Ren 59.66 2012 100 Breast Moca Tanaka 1.98.09 2018 **** 400 Relay Brandenstein 3:52.16 2017 , Tanaka Mejia Lee

Plainview-Old Bethpage Boys’ Swimming and Diving School Records

Event Name Time Year 200 Medley Bouzourne 1:42.92 2011 Casciola, D. Sirgusa J. Gabalski 200 Free Descovich 1:48.12 2003 200 IM Flanaghan 2:07.90 2008 50 Free J. Roh 21.97 2018 IM Dive Doug Vaca 379.90 2019 **** (11 Dives) IM Dive Doug Vaca 269.12 2019 **** (6 Dives)

100 Fly J. Gabalski 53.27 2011 100 Free Flanaghan 48.10 2008 500 Free Descovich 5:06.18 2001 200 Relay Grieshaber 1:30.14 2018 Ianni, Roh You 100 Back Flanaghan 55.64 2006 100 BR A. Gabalski 1:03.30 2011 400 Rel Casciola 3:54.66 2011 D. Siragusa, Alexander J. Gabalski

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Additional Post Season Awards—Sport Specific

2018-2019 Interscholastic Season Start Dates

Fall Sports JV and Varsity Football – August 19th

All other JV and Varsity Sports—August 26th All Middle School Sports—September 5th

Kickline—September 9th

Winter Sports V/JV Wrestling and Bowling— November 12th

All other JV and Varsity Sports—November 18th All Winter 1 Middle School Sports—November 12th

All Winter 2 Middle School Sports—January 21st

Spring Sports V/JV B/G Lax, B/G Outdoor Track, Baseball, Softball, —March 9th

V/JV B/G Golf, Boys’ Tennis, Girls’ Badminton—March 16th All Middle School Sports—March 30th

Physical Education, Health, Athletics and Recreation Department

Stratford Road Elementary School 33 Bedford Road

Plainview, NY 11803

Phone: 516-434-3100 E-mail: jbraico@pobschools.org

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