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Sports Basketball Saint Joseph Academy basketball wrapped up the 2008-2009 season with great success. The season showed tremendous progress, highlighted by the Varsity Team’s Christmas trip to Alabama for a 3-game holiday tournament, and their huge regular season win over Magnificat on January 31st. Four seniors, Maura Heffernan, Leighann Larsen, Teresa Mangan and Bridget Urban, exemplified great leadership and the entire team worked extremely hard at improving themselves and achieving individual and team goals. “The seniors were truly positive role models for the younger players,“ according to Head Coach Dave Murphy. Congratulations go to Seniors Leighann Larsen and Teresa Mangan, who were selected to play in the Greater Cleveland Basketball Coaches Association All-Star game and were named by Sun News to the girls AllSun team. Coach Murphy and all the coaches deserve credit for the outstanding performance from their teams. The future looks bright for the Jaguars as the Varsity team finished with a 12-11 record while the JV team finished at 13-4 and the Freshmen compiled an equally impressive record of 15-3 respectively.
Above Left: Leighann Larsen J’09 captures a rebound. Above right: Teresa Mangan J’09 drives ahead for the shot.
Swimming Saint Joseph Academy swimmers made a big splash this swim season as four school records were broken. They included; the 200 Medley Relay (Ashley Horton ’10, Grace Harter ’12, Emma Ryan ’12, and Jessica Walsh-Frazier ’11), the 200 IM (Emma Ryan ’12), the 100 Fly (Emma Ryan ’12) and the 100 Back (Emma Ryan ’12). Congratulations go out to Freshman Emma Ryan who became the first district qualifier from Saint Joseph Academy in several years, qualifying in both the 100 Fly and the 100 Back. Coach Meg Story remarked, “All of the girls on the team showed great dedication, getting up for 5:30am practices 4 days a week and staying after school for dry land workouts.” That dedication showed as almost all of the members of the team dropped time in their individual races. A big thanks to all of the wonderful Seniors: Katie Dugan, Jessica Gawthrop, Clare Horning, Katie Roudebush, and Emily Tennant. Coach Story and Coach and Math Teacher Ed Dargay also did a great job! Emma Ryan J’12 competes in the 200 meter Individual Medley
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