Sports Highlights | Basketball
Sports Highlights | Basketball Varsity Girls Basketball
Junior Varsity Boys Basketball The JV basketball season marked the return of Coach Joseph after a one year hiatus. He was welcomed by the experience and leadership of sophomores Michael Bannon, Michael McCormick, John Pohmer, Nick Pantelidis, and Ernest Frimpong. The team also had very talented freshmen Ian Wareham, Chandler Naylon, Christian Chandy, and Aidan Henegar. Sophomore Benjamin James and freshmen William Isler, William Miller, and Nicholas Slayton added to a solid core of young players. The young Knights were very balanced and patient in a season where the other teams were very strong. Their general
inexperience and lack of height showed against bigger teams like Columbia Prep, Trevor Day, and Calhoun. However, the young Knights learned from every defeat and improved tremendously over the season. The Knights finished with a 3-11 record. Many of those games were very close and the young Knights were competitive in every game. Their improvement has been steady and they learned how to keep and manage leads and win. Their level of poise, focus, and effort has increased tremendously and their spirit was great during this season. Coach Joseph really enjoyed guiding this team and hopes their experiences were valuable enough to make the Varsity team next season.
The 2015-16 Varsity Lady Knights season showed that if you do not get down in the face of obstacles, you can accomplish great things. The Lady Knights posted their winningest season in four years. They finished with a record of 18-7 overall, 10-2 in league. They earned the NYCAL regular season co-championship, the Lady Knights’ first 1st place finish since 2011. The Lady Knights were capably led by senior co-captains Nora Caliban and Sommer Queally. Junior Tori May Della Pace was the first Lady Knight to score over 400 points in a season since 2009, earned NYCAL First Team All-League honors, and was named the NYCAL Most Valuable Player. Three Lady Knights were named NYCAL Second-Team All-League players: Nora Caliban, Summer O’Sullivan, and Kelly Breidenbach. In December, Coach Palladino oversaw his 126th victory, making him Loyola’s all-time winningest girls basketball coach. The Lady Knights look forward to continuing and building on their wins next season.
Coach: Mr. Jacques Joseph Roster: Michael Bannon Christian Chandy Ernest Frimpong Aidan Henegar Will Isler Ben James Michael McCormick Will Miller Chandler Naylon Nick Pantelidis John Pohmer Nicholas Slayton Ian Wareham
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Coach: Mr. David Palladino
Roster: Gabriella Batista Kelly Breidenbach Nora Caliban Tori May Della Pace Lauryn May Katie Nakano Rhiannon O’Connor
Summer O’Sullivan Sommer Queally Ita Tannian Willow Thornton Hannah Valente
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