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Ogden fosters a family-like community By lISA MARGARIA lmargaria@liherald.com
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YESHIVA UNIVERSItY MEN’S head basketball coach Elliot Steinmetz addressed his team at an Oct. 15 practice.
Steinmetz leads Maccabees By JEFFREY BESSEN jbessen@liherald.com
A lifelong Woodmere resident who is the son and grandson of coaches and played basketball at Yeshiva University now leads his alma mater men’s team — a squad with a No. 2 ranking in Division III and a 40-game winning streak — the secondlongest in men’s D-3 history. Elliot Steinmetz, 41, a real estate lawyer with his own firm — Rosenberg & Stein-
metz PC — and his Maccabees have become the talk of the sports world, from articles in local newspapers to an ESPN Magazine story to a rundown in the Nov. 10 Axios email sports report, and much chatter on social media. After losing the first game of the 2019-20 season, Yeshiva went on a tear, winning its next 27 games and two NCAA playoffs games, making it to the D-3 Sweet Sixteen before the coronavirus pandemic
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shut down sports nationwide. The Maccabees added seven wins to the streak in an abbreviated 2020 season, with three of 10 scheduled games canceled because of Covid. The team has started this season with four victories, three of them on the road. Y.U. played a Tuesday home game against Skyline Conference foe Mount Saint Vincent as the Herald went to press. SUNY Potsdam won a D-3record 60 consecutive games Continued on page 10
Over the past 10 years, Dr. Dina Anzalone, the principal of Ogden Elementary School in South Valley Stream, has, by all accounts, turned the building into a loving community, and has maintained its family feel, despite the obstacles brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. When Anzalone was offered the job a decade ago, she was hesitant, because, by most accounts at the time, parents were unhappy and staff morale was low due to the school’s lack of a community environment. “I was thinking, what did I get myself into?” Anzalone recalled. Since then, she has focused on listening, and building relationships to turn the school community into what many Ogden
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staff, kids and parents would call a family. “This building is such a happy place from the minute you walk in the door,” Anzalone said, “and that’s not something that happened overnight.” Working closely with parents has been a large part of rejuvenating the school’s reputation over the years. “If you can’t build trusting relationships with people,” Anzalone said, “you can’t make anything happen.” Ogden has maintained a sense of community through the height of the pandemic and social distancing. Over the p a s t t wo ye a r s , school officials were challenged to think outside the box in order to maintain a sense of normalcy, with a goal of continuing to host programs and events that students could enjoy.
students also know that their voices are heard here,” Ogden Principal Dina Anzalone said as she made cotton candy at Fall Y’all.
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