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Vol. 69 No. 30
JUlY 22 - 28, 2021
Seaford grad’s ride to honor 9/11 victims
JiMMY JoYCE, a 2017 Wantagh High graduate and a senior at Hofstra University, was a 16thround pick of the Seattle Mariners in the Major League Baseball Draft on July 13. Joyce was a three-sport athlete at Wantagh and was a member of its 2016 Long Island championship football team as a senior.
In the past, she has begun her ride at the WNY Iraq and Afghanistan Veteran’s War Two water bottles, a repair Memorial in Buffalo. All of her kit, two replacement tires, gra- previous trips have taken eight nola bars and a phone full of days. She charts her route south music. That’s all that Michele to Seaford, she explained, before Myers, Seaford High School class she decides where to stop along of 1985, will need at the end of the way. She said she tries to stop this month when she at three fire departtakes off on a bike ments or police staon her fifth annual tions each day of the Ride to Remember, trek. While there, honoring the five she hands out prayer members of the Seacards in honor of ford school commuthe five Seaford vicnity who died in the tims and a Sept. 11, 2001, terror- lYNDa “Michele’s Ride to ist attacks on the Remember” patch. World Trade Center: sChaChNEr “I just want them Thomas and Timo- Member, 9/11 to know that there thy Haskell, John Committee are still people out Perry, Robert Sliwak there who still and Michael Wittenappreciate what they stein. do for their communities,” she Myers, who went for her first said. “Almost every fire departride in 2015, said that this year’s ment I’ve gone to has an experinine-day-long marathon will ence from that day at ground start on July 31, in Shanksville, zero.” Pa., where United Flight 93 One of her first stops is usualcrashed that day, and end in Sea- ly the Brockport Fire Departford. ment — about 20 miles from “I’ve always wanted to do Rochester — because that’s something to honor the victims where she was when the attacks of 9/11,” Myers, 54, said. “I want- took place. She decided to reloed to give back to my alma mater, cate the ride this year and start so I decided to ride my bike.” it at the Flight 93 National Myers now lives in Rochester. Continued on page 15
By MallorY WilsoN mwilson@liherald.com
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he is a fine example of Seaford pride.
Courtesy Hofstra Athletic Communications
Wantagh’s Joyce selected by Seattle in MLB Draft By toNY BEllissiMo tbellissimo@liherald.com
For mer Wantagh High School baseball star and Hofstra University senior Jimmy Joyce was selected by the Seattle Mariners in the 16th round of the 2021 Major League Baseball Draft on July 13. Joyce, who helped Wantagh capture consecutive Nassau Class A championships as a pitcher and third baseman,
and won the Diamond Award as the best positional player in the county as a senior in 2017, was the 474th overall pick in the draft. “I thought I had a 50-50 chance to get drafted, and I’m extremely grateful,” Joyce said. “There were only 20 rounds this year, so it was getting late, but I kept the faith. It’s a wild feeling, that’s for sure.” In upstate New York for summer ball while the draft
was being held, Joyce was working out that afternoon with some friends, including University of Maryland-Baltimore County’s Keegan Leffler, who broke the news while following the draft tracker on his phone. “I got the call from the Mariners just a few seconds after Keegan saw it,” Joyce said. “Then my phone just started blowing up immediately with calls and texts. I Continued on page 9