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GARDEN CITY NEWS

Friday, June 25, 2021

SPORTS WRAP-UP 2021

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Congratulations To All Sports Teams

Lady Trojans Varsity Lacrosse: Long Island Class B Champions

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Just two days after winning the Nassau County Class B Championship, the Lady Trojans faced the Suffolk County Champions, the West Babylon Eagles, in the Long Island Championship game on Saturday, June 19. With a score of 14-5, the Trojans clinched the championship for the first time since 2017.

Varsity Team: Seniors: Ashley Larsson, Madeleine O’Connor, Olivia Ottomanelli, Julia Sharp, Juliana Santel, Lizanne Griffith, Sarah Kilcommons, Natalie Palmeri, Angelina Suau, Sophie Read, Olivia Escoffery, and Laine Aries.

Juniors: Carla Curth, Kristen Hegarty, Gwen Liberopoulos, Caitlin McNaboe, Kellin Reilly, Olivia Cappello, Meghan Rode, Kate Gambino, Maggie Moran, Kasey Prybylski, Catie Kephart, and Amanda Grimes.

Underclassmen: Marie Cacciabaudo, Katie Gaven, Grace Hopkins, Rory Heslin, CeCe VanBlenis, Kendal Morris, Mabel Overbeck, Maureen Arendt, Niamh Pfaff, Kyle Finnell and Regan Backer.

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The graduating senior players. Best of luck on their future journey!

Back row, left to right: Juliana Santel, Laine Aries, Sophie Read, Olivia Ottomanelli, Madeleine O’Connor, Natalie Palmeri.

Middle row, left to right: Olivia Escoffery, Julia Sharp, Ashley Larsson, captain Olivia Kaval, Lizanne Griffith, captain Alexandra Hopkins, captain Sydney Pappas.

Bottom row, left to right: Angelina Suau and captain Lisa Garizio Missing from photo: Sarah Kilcommons.

Juniors Kristen Hegarty, Meghan Rode, Caitlin McNaboe, Carla Curth and Olivia Cappello.

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GC boys write new chapter to Garden City Lacrosse record book

#27 Sophomore Stevie Finnell with a huge goal in LI Championship game

Senior and game MVP Drew Quinn with the save

#6 Gerard O’Connor starts the offense against Comsewogue

The 2021 lacrosse season promised to be unlike any other for so many reasons. After having their junior season cancelled due to the COVID pandemic, the senior boys and the underclassmen could not wait to get back to competitive play and opened their season at home on May 7 against a strong Port Washington team only 6 days after the football season ended with a Nassau County Championship.

Due to the shortened season, the boys played some higher-classified schools they do not traditionally play due to school enrollment size. The Varsity team was again led by longtime coach Steve Finnell and assistant coaches Joe Jacovino and Tim Holman. The senior captains were Pierce Archer, Ryan Connolly, Gerard O’Connor and Bobby Seel.

The team played with a lot of heart, and a number of players performed incredibly well. After a slow start to the season, the boys would go on an

11-game win streak to finish the season 13-3. The season was capped off by a defensively dominating win on Saturday, June 19, when the boys defeated Comsewogue High School by a score of 5-1 for the Long Island Class B Championship. Senior goalie Drew Quinn contributed 8 saves, and was named the game’s MVP. This was the program’s third Long Island Championship over the past four seasons. The amazing success of the program over the last fourteen years has led to the team winning 11 county, 7 Long island and three NY State Championships. Sadly, this year, there were no state playoffs due to the COVID pandemic shortening the length of the season.

On attack the team was led by Ryan Connolly, Jack Downey, Tommy Engelke and Pat Gaven. Leading the midfield were seniors Gerard O’Connor, Bobby Seel and Terry Going, junior Luke Schmitt and soph

Junior #21 Jack Cascadden with another win at the X

#15 Ryan Connolly had two early goals to lead GC against Comsewogue

Senior #3 Bobby Seel and junior #16 Luke Schmitt directing the offense

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In addition to the above, the team consisted of seniors Colin Walsh, Kurt

Dengler, Ian Paisley, Hugh Keenan, Owen Quinn, Brendan McGovern, Max Codignotto and Peter Casey, juniors Jay Ottomanelli, Ryan Maher, Mike Fargione, Ryan McKenna, Ryan Buccellato, Andrew Scattereggia, Tanner Schmitt and Chris Allen, and sophomores RJ Votruba, Jack Archer,

Patrick Blum, Henry Gibbons, Bryan Boccafola and Brandon Rosenblatt and freshman Aidan Considine and Dennis Fargione.

The boys dedicated their season to senior classmate and friend Molly Madigan, and wore her initials on their helmets throughout the season.

Junior #32 Brendan Staub NS SENIOR #44 Jack Downey in transition

#10 Pierce Archer on the move

Teamwork Working together to achieve the best possible result.

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omore Stevie Finnell. Pierce Archer, Mike Deluca, Kyle Carney and Liam Westfield were amazing all season at defensive midfield. Winning a significant percentage at the faceoff X was junior Jack Cascadden and senior Griffin Minuto. Leading a stellar and tough defense has been senior goalie

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The GC Rams 2027 Team

GC Rams 2027 wins the Harvey Cohen Tournament for their age division.

The GC Middle School 7th Grade Lacrosse Team

The Garden City Middle School Seventh Grade Lacrosse team.

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to all the Garden City Sports teams, our dedicated coaches and parents on all your achievements.

I am inspired daily by our young female athletes who strive for success and never give up.

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Garden City High School Girls Varsity Track & Field

3K Champion Emily Pogozelski on the podium.

4x800m Relay Champions: Alexa Andron, Fiona Pfaff, Kaylin Kufs, Emily Pogozelski.

Garden City High School Girls Varsity Track & Field had an amazing spring 2021 season under the leadership of Coaches Messier, Skrivanek and Bury. The Nassau County Class AAA Championships were run at the Mitchell Athletic Complex on Tuesday, June 8

Emily Pogozelski ran the 3000m individual race in 10:51 earning her the title of Nassau County Class AAA 3K Champion! Alexa Andron, Kaylin Kufs, Fiona Pfaff, and Emily Pogozelski ran the 4x800m relay in 10:15 earning them the title of Nassau County Class AAA

and Friday June 11. Qualifying runners included: seniors Victoria Ernst and Fiona Pfaff; juniors Grace Duffy, Kaylin Kufs and Emily Pogozelski; sophomore Alexa Andron; freshmen Sophia Erigo, Kayla Pasqualina and Katerina Smolanick.

4x800m Relay Champions! This 4x800m relay team later placed third in the Nassau County Sectional meet at JFKBellmore High School on Friday, June 18. Their hard work and dedication really paid off! Congratulations to all!

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What a great year for Garden City sports!

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Boys Varsity Swimming and Diving Team 2020–21

Seniors: Michael Reinhardt, Cameron Yuen, Aidan Gaffney The Garden City Boys Swim and Dive Team The Boys Varsity Swimming & Diving 2020–2021 season was one to remember. Under the leadership of Coach Anne Sullivan, the boys were one of the first of the high school teams to resume after the shutdown, many without access to a swimming pool since the prior season. Despite this hurdle, many of the boys swam personal best times in the condensed season and almost the whole team qualified for Divisions. At Counties,

the swimmers that qualified all did an outstanding job with fast swims and great relays.

The team had two NY State qualifiers, Cameron Yuen (senior) and Christopher Reilly (junior). although states were canceled this year. The team wishes the graduating seniors all the best and a special congratulations to Cameron Yuen, as he heads to Tufts University to be a diver on their swim team. Go GC!

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Emma Sutcliffe, Margaux Griffin, Kelly Brennan, Ava Charon, Lauren Oxenham, Sela Scarangella, Coach Reid Sclafani After being unable to play the 2020 season and having the 2021 season delayed and shortened due to COVID, the Garden City Varsity Girls Golf team came roaring back to end the season strong by placing second in the Twentieth Annual Nassau County tournament. This year the two-day championship took place on the Bethpage Yellow and Green courses where the top eight teams in the county competed.

The GC Maroon team placed just eight strokes behind first place finisher Great Neck, and ahead of third and fourth place Manhasset and Jericho.

Coach Reid Sclafani said “I am very proud of the performance by our team all year. And especially at the county tournament, where we were ranked fifth but finished second because all seven Garden City competitors scored better than their season average, a significant team accomplishment.”

All-County honors were earned by senior captain Margaux Griffin, who

finished seventh place, and junior Ava Charon, who finished ninth place.

Honorable Mention All-County Honors were earned by junior Emma Sutcliffe, who finished in thirteenth place, senior captain Kelly Brennan in sixteenth place, and junior Lauren Oxenham in nineteenth place. All-Conference honors were earned by senior captain Sela Scarangella and eighth-grader Haley Baschnagel.

The successful performance at the County Championship was preceded by a solid regular season where GC Maroon finished with a 4-1 record (first in Conference) and GC White finished with a 2-2 record (third in Conference). As the Girls Golf team concludes another great season, they wish continued success to graduating seniors Kelly Brennan, Caroline Egan, Daria Gemmell, Margaux Griffin, Sela Scarangella and Lindsey Stevenson, who will all be missed.

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GCHS Boys Baseball wins LI Championship

The Garden City High School Boys Varsity Baseball Team

The Garden City High School Varsity Baseball team pulled off something nobody thought possible heading into the 2021 season this Father's Day by winning the Long Island Championship defeating Huntington 5-3!

It's only the second time this has been accomplished in the school's history with the first victory back in 2000.

Under the leadership of Coaches Dave Izzo and Ray Chaputian everything

was beginning to click and then came Calhoun. The Colts had just steamrolled through 6 wins in a row crushing every team in its path. But Garden City was winning also-the Trojans were shaping into a solid team unit and so the table was set as Co-Captain Frank Santeramo, one of Newsday's top 100 players on Long Island was due in the rotation vs the undefeated Calhoun Colts. Frank pitched a gem- a com-

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Photo by Ed Rotondo plete game shutout allowing only 3 hits striking out 9 and walking zero. This was a true turning point for Garden City stunning the undefeated Colts with a performance that now set doubt in their minds. The win also gave a huge advantage to Garden City securing all tie breaker situations as long as GC remained tied for 2nd place. They did, and that tie breaker earned by beating Calhoun came in and paid off big time giving Garden City a first round bye to the semi finals and home field advantage. Who knew how big a game that was and how it would shape the road to being Long Island Champions!

The entire pitching staff was an

integral part of this incredible season. Starting pitchers Pat Heber and Co-Captain Aidan Magnotta pitched beautifully while keeping Garden City in every game. Huge contributions from freshman Gabe Beschloss in the playoffs and Championship game by maintaining his composure and closing out the games. Joe Infante raked all season and was the cool, calm catcher behind the dish calling games like a pro. Garden City also got a nice surprise with another freshman, SS Jack Fanning. His range and smoothness is something to see along with a nice swing and the ability to make routine ground balls a challenge for infielders to throw him out.

The team was well balanced with speedsters like Co-Captain Joey Frandina, Francesco Ingrassia, and Pete Halloran roaming the outfield as balls didn't stand a chance of hitting the ground. With Gabe Elmokian at the hot corner the left side of the infield was secure. At first base Pat Heber made some amazing plays and his bat was another asset for GC. Joe Wood playing a combo of second base and right field showed his versatility. Garden City kept a solid defense all season long. Contributions were made by second baseman and pitcher Chris Blum, along with pitchers Matt Mohen, Simon Ferris and Liam Rooney. Infielders Charles Iovino, Connor Brock, and Matt Tusiani-Eng, as well as outfielders Anthony Remick, Ronnie Marciano, Richie Longo, and catcher TJ Krieg all played roles in making this a winning team.

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Softballapalooza returns to Garden City

On the field.

GCAA Softball wrapped up the season with its annual “Softballapalooza” Tournament and Picnic at Garden City’s Community Park and Pavilion. Over 300 people turned out to participate and enjoy a 6-hour tournament event planned from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. and included all kindergarten through 11th grade players.

Throughout the day, kindergarten and first-graders competed in throwing,

Softball is great! running and batting competitions. The teams in the fourth–fifth grade level competed in the 3rd Annual “Garden City Pineapple Cup Tournament” and the second–third graders competed in their first ever Pineapple Cup Tournament event. Special thanks to High School Varsity volunteers Stephanie Morgan, Kate Pogozelski, and Bella Scianablo.

Organizers, coaches and parents gave

it their all to make our season ender a huge success. Final Thanks to Mary Sievers, who organizes all Garden City Softball logistics such as uniforms, gear and most importantly, Softballapalooza.

The Garden City Recreation Department continues to ensure special attention to all fields (particularly Tullamore which was skinned and dedicated to softball play) ensuring GCAA

Softball teams have adequate softball fields, which differ from baseball fields.

GCAA Softball now offers programs for the spring (flagship season), summer and fall: https://www.leaguelineup.com/welcome.asp?url=gcaasoftball GCAA has run baseball in Garden City since 1955 and softball shortly thereafter.

Enjoying a great day for softball.

The Villanova Wildcats.

Getting ready to play in Softballapalooza.

The team is ready!

Inside the dugout.

The team is ready to go.

The Boston College Softball second and third grade girls division finished a fun season!

Team Notre Dame

Varsity Field Hockey Nassau Class A Champions 2021: Captain Sarah Killcommons, Captain Sydney Pappas, Maureen Arendt, Kate Berkery, Marie Cacciabaudo, Olivia Cappello, Maeve Carney, Jess Cerrato, Emma Cowie, Hayley FitzSimons, Lisa Garizio, Lizanne Griffith, Rory Heslin, Tara Hollis, Olivia Kaval, Ashley Malatak, Anastasia Menoudakos, Maggie Moran, Sheila Mullins, Emma Nallan, Hailey Olshefsky, Olivia Ottomanelli, Kasey Prybylski, Sophie Read, Kellin Reilly, Julia Sharp, Emma Sutcliffe, Blakeley Trapani, Grace Tynan, Mackenzie Wehrum.Coaches Lauren Lavelle, Robyn Madden and Janet Rogler Photo by Robyn Madden

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Garden City Boys’ Varsity Fencing 2020-2021 Varsity Fencing Roster

Saber: Grant Scarangella (Captain), Thomas Crowe, Kyle Galanti, Andu Liu, Nicholas Michael, Alex Pasqualina, Chris Ng, Harrison O’Grady and Patrick Bohn Foil: Andrew Burns (Captain), Justin Martin, Joseph Armstrong, Jordan DeNaro, Iaokim Marinos, Daniel Vazquez, Raymond Byrnes, Eric Hartmann, Andrew Pinou, Calegero Ehrig and Augustin Mingio Murphy Épée: Ryan Bradley (Co-Captain), Sean Maas (Co-Captain), Aidan Rosenblatt, Logan Morisson, Owen Williams, Niall Cowie, Michael Siragusa, L Rivera, Steve Cowie and Aidan Wu

Members of the Boy’s Fencing Team.

The Garden City Fencing Team competed over a short period of six weeks, split squad practices, masked and socially distanced meets, limited substitutions and no spectators. It was an unusual season and they fin-

Honors- All County Championships

ished the season with a 7-3 record.

The team consisted of the following students, followed by honors earned during the All County Championships:

Junior foil Joe Armstrong (right) out-lunges his opponent from Great Neck North.

Junior foil Jordan DeNaro (right) finds his target.

The All County honors were named for the 2021 Season with senior épée co-captain Sean Maas named 1st Team All Long Island with a 22-4 record for the regular season. Sean was dominant all season and went

a stretch of 5 meets without a loss.

2nd Team All County honors went to senior foil captain Andrew Burns and junior saber Alex Pasqualina, while Honorable Mentions went to foil juniors Joe Armstrong and Jordan DeNaro.

The GC fencers and parents thank Kevin Oliver for his coaching and hard work in making sure that the fencing season went live. Many thanks to all the parents for their support and patience during this unprecedented season.

The team wishes the seven departing seniors (Ryan Bradley, Andrew Burns, Sean Maas, Justin Martin, Logan Morisson, Aidan Rosenblatt and Grant Scarangella) good luck as they start their college careers.

Finally, the team congratulates the new captains for the 2022 season: sabre co-captains Alex Pasqualina and Nicholas Michael, foil co-captains Joe Armstrong and Jordan De Naro, and épée captain Michel Siragusa.

Sophomore épée Michael Siragusa (left) gets the point against his opponent from Syosset

Junior saber Alex Pasqualina (right) goes toe-to-toe with his opponent from Great Neck North.

Junior saber Nicholas Michael (right) evens the score as he catches his opponent flat-footed.

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Members of the Boys’ and Girls’ Varsity Fencing teams celebrate the season at the annual banquet.

While it was unclear in the fall whether there would be a season and certain events like the annual Brentwood Invitational and Individual County Championships could not take place due to the pandemic, the GC Fencers were happy to have successful seasons.

The GC Girls Varsity Fencing Team finished the regular season with a

7-4 record and in fourth place out of twelve competing teams. In the Team Championship Tournament, GC faced Jericho in a thrilling quarterfinal match that came down to the last touch and ended with a 14-13 GC victory.

They then lost to the eventual County Champion Great Neck South squad and ended the season tied for third in the

County.

The GC Boys’ Varsity Fencing Team finished the regular season with a 7-3 record and in fourth place out of ten competing teams. In the Team Championship Tournament, GC beat Great Neck North by a 14-10 score.

They then faced Syosset and fell to the regular season champions by a score of

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The fencing parents thank GC alum Coach Kevin Oliver and Coach Brooke Appelman for their dedication to the program and all of the extra work involved this year with changes to the normal routines. We also thank outgoing A.D. Eamonn Flood for his assistance in having the meets live streamed so that the parents could see their fencers. We all wish our seniors Riley DeGearo, Annaliese Etienne, Francesca DiStefano, Ryan Bradley, Andrew Burns, Sean Maas, Justin Martin, Logan Morrison, Aidan Rosenblatt and Grant Scarangella good luck in college and in the future. Finally, we congratulate the following fencers on honors earned this season as follows: All County Second Team: Jr. Alex Pasqualina All County Honorable Mention: Sophomore Alexa Andron All County Second Team: Sr. Foil Captain Andrew Burns All County Honorable Mentions: Jr. Joe Armstrong, Jr. Jordan DeNaro and Jr. Foil Captain Sophia Ortiz All County First Team: Sean Maas All County Honorable Mention: Dian Wakeham

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GCHS Boys Soccer finishes season as champions The Garden City High School Boys Soccer team finished the year as champions, with the following accolades: Nassau Champions

County

Finished Nassau County

season

Class 1st

A

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Undefeated 2021 Season

Only 4 goals against all season

Coach Paul Cutter received 2020-21 Paul LeSuer Nassau County Coach of the Year Award

Boys Varsity Soccer Team - Nassau County Class A Champions with Coach Paul Cutter & Coach Reid Scalfani

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The Garden City Wolfpack soccer team had a sweet victory when it won the Hershey Memorial Day Challenge Soccer Tournament.

Front row (left to right): Ian Miller, Lucas Doggendorf, Liam Moylan, Andrew Seifert, Callum Paton, Matthew Jendras Back row (left to right): Jaxson Pepicelli, Reggie Wenk, Ryan Carey, Declan Carroll, Carter Fecht Team is coached by Drew Carey & Chris Jendras and trained by Evan Woodhouse from One Goal.

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Left to right: Matt Tepper, Dylan Thelian, Colby Wenk, Finn Tepper, Christian Roddini, Michael Ferrucci, John Prisco, Will Buccellato, Kyle Swanson, Vance Palmer, Eric Swanson.

The Garden City Centennials First Grade Red Dragons.

The Boys U-11 Gators had an incredible run at the Hershey Tournament over Memorial Day going undefeated and winning the final game 1-0 against some tough competition in the top bracket for their age group. The boys played

remarkable all weekend in some pretty tough rainy conditions and had a lot of fun doing it. We want to congratulate the boys for an amazing tournament win and a fantastic spring season!

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Garden City U-9 Dynamite GC Wolfpack The U9 Dynamite were LIJSL Fall Champs, East Islip wins Hershey tournment Tournament Champs and Hershey Challenge Champs

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The First Grade Dominators The U10 Garden City Raptors

Left to right: Kaitlyn Butler, Eric Swanson, Louise Prager, Annalee Miller, Ashley Swanson, Emmy Del Monaco, Reese Trillhaase, Taylor LeFave, Keira Short, Nora Bley, Greg LeFave, Gia Ciccone, Sofia Rebele.

Absent from photo: BJ Prager, Allison Aboulafia, Gabriela Valadez.

The girls first grade Dominators had a fantastic spring season and ended on a high note to finish out their time together on the 3 v 3 fields. Most of the girls have played on the same team since their pre-K season! The coaches would

like to congratulate the girls on their efforts all season as they have come so far as a team since that first season and we look forward to seeing them back out on the fields in the fall!

The U10 Garden City Raptors wrapped up a fun and hard-fought season of league games and multiple tournament appearances. The team had outstanding contributions from ace goalkeepers Dylan Ferrucci and Donovan Carroll, stifling defenders Zach LaRosa, Will Haskell and Ethan Rorer, speedy midfielders Kyle Ring, Devon Laufer, Whipple Newell and Vin Sartorelli, and crafty forwards Cormac Smith, Tommy Villanova, Ryan Jackson and Nick Scacchi.

The Blue Legends

The U9 Garden City Panthers

The Blue Legends finished a legendary season under coaches Lou Galli, Laurence Galli and Tim Goettelmann.

The U9 Garden City Panthers finished an impressive season with a strong road victory. The Panthers gave their all in every game and had a lot of fun along the way. Congratulations on a great season to Brady Castellano, Chris Collins, Ryan DeBusschere, Connor Dengler, Alex Hirschfield, Anthony Licari, Anthony Oppedisano, James Sardelis, Connor Southard, Dermot Smith, Steven Toro and Grant Volpe!

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GCHS Girls Cross Country Team wins Division, Conference Championships The Garden City High School Girls Cross Country Team had a victorious and memorable 2021 season under the leadership of Coach Seth Messier. Varsity runners included Alexa Andron, Sydney Chean, Grace Duffy, Victoria Ernst, Nicole Mejia, Fiona Pfaff, Emily Pogozelski, Kate Pogozelski, Lauren Sullivan, Deanna Turner and Kimberly Villoni.

The girls had an undefeated season with a record of 13-0 versus teams Calhoun, Long Beach, Great Neck North/South, Jericho, Bellmore, Sewanhaka and more. They were named Division 2A and Conference 2 Champions and placed 4th in the Section VIII Nassau County Championship race on April 17. The team qualified for the Section VIII Long Island Championships on April 24, placing 5th as a team. Junior Emily Pogozelski placed 11th in this race achieving

a trifecta of titles: All Section VIII, All County and All Conference. Emily had an accomplished season running her personal best 5K at 19 minutes and 32 seconds. Victoria Ernst and Fiona Pfaff were named All County.

Alexa Andron, Sydney Chean, Grace Duffy, Nicole Mejia, Kate Pogozelski and Lauren Sullivan were named All Conference.

Our Junior Varsity team worked extraordinarily hard this year. They had an amazing season placing in the top 2 teams at each conference meet and they are very motivated for next season.

Sadly, the team is saying goodbye to ten graduating seniors. These amazing and dedicated young women will be truly missed.

To quote Coach Messier on the success of the team this year, “it was the best year of coaching I’ve experienced in 23 years...and I will miss the seniors dearly.”

Varsity Team Division 2A and Conference 2 Champs.

Graduating seniors Victoria Ernst, Deanna Turner, Nicole Mejia, Lauren Sullivan, Fiona Pfaff, Corina Henke, Madison Matarazzo and Simran Sohal (Emily Bermel and Brooke Edwards are missing).

All Section VIII, All County and All Conference: Emily Pogozelski (middle).

All County and All Conference: Fiona Pfaff and Victoria Ernst (left to right, respectively).

Coach Messier with his Varsity and Junior Varsity runners..

Senior Lauren Sullivan cheerfully crossing the finish line for one last time.

Emily Pogozelski runs a sub 20-minute 5K. Her personal record is 19 min, 32 sec.

The Girls Cross Country Team celebrated its graduating seniors with tribute posters, speeches, roses and a few tears. These amazing athletes will be truly missed!

The seniors are: Emily

Garden City Varsity Football 2020–21

Bermel, Brooke Edwards, Victoria Ernst, Corina Henke, Maddy Matarazzo, Nicole Mejia, Fiona Pfaff, Simran Sohal, Lauren Sullivan and Deanna Turner.

2020/2021 Undefeated Nassau County Football Champions!

Coach Messier with his graduating seniors.

Captains: Peirce Archer #10, Micheal Haass #75 & Willy Blair #77 The graduating senior girls with their posters.

The creative junior poster makers with the seniors.

GC Trojan Football has come to be synonymous with dedication, preparation, and above all a winning tradition.

Under possibly the most extreme circumstances the 2020–21 squad persevered through COVID testing, protocols, and a modified schedule to produce another amazing (8-0) undefeated season. Enduring through speculation of cancellations, infection, and/or opposing team forfeit, the GC Trojans just wanted to play! Each victory saw contributions from multiple players and everyone seemed to step up at just the right time. The boys capped off this unforgettable run with another Nassau County Championship playing rival MacArthur to a (14-8) victory.

Most of these boys are lifelong teammates, many having started in the GC Thunder Football program as youths

and discovered their passion not only for the game of football, but also for the camaraderie that develops between the players, coaches, and parents. An unforgettable experience for a unique group of players! Good luck to all the boys in the years to come! GO TROJANS!

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Girls Varsity Volleyball completes 2021 season

The Garden City High School Varsity Girls Volleyball team completed their 2021 season.

Congratulations to the student athletes listed below for athletic honors that were recently awarded. The girls

would also like to thank Coach Dubon for all of his guidance throughout the season.

Ellie Jewell #44 (Senior Captain)- All Conference

Ellie Pamatat #15 (Freshman)- All County

Kate Arlotta #21 (Junior)- All County

The would like to Congratulate

Gianna Riggi #17 (Senior Captain)- All County, Honorable Mention

Garden City HS Boys Varsity Basketball

all the Garden City Sports Teams on the 2020-2021 season

See you in the Fall!

The Garden City High School Boys Varsity Basketball Team

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Photos by Ed Rotondo Photography

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