Girls’ Soccer: 10-11 NJSIAA Non-Public A, North Jersey: Semifinalists Skyland Conference: Ranked 7th Courier News: Ranked 9th in Top 10 All-Skyland Conference/All-Delaware Division: Maddie Temares, Natalia Ramirez (1st team), Julia Rotatori, Sarah Moseson (2nd team) Courier News All-Area: Maddie Temares (1st team), Natalia Ramirez (3rd team), Sarah Moseson, Julia Rotatori (Honorable Mentions) Natalia Ramirez was named MVP of the NJSIAA North Jersey Sectional Playoffs in a fan poll on NJ.com. She was one of nearly 50 contenders around the state.
Girls’ Tennis: 11-6 NJSIAA Non-Public A: Semifinalists NJISAA Prep A Tournament: 3rd place. Brooke Murphy and Wesley Streicher won 1st Doubles. Somerset County Tournament: 3rd place. Brooke Murphy and Wesley Streicher won 1st Doubles. Skyland Conference: Tied for 2nd place All-Skyland Conference: Brooke Murphy, Wesley Streicher (2nd team, 1st doubles), Lindsey Yu (2nd team, 3rd singles), Jessica Li (Honorable Mention, 2nd singles) All-State All-Non-Public: Brooke Murphy, Wesley Streicher (2nd team, 1st doubles) Brooke Murphy and Wesley Streicher advanced to the quarterfinal round of the state doubles tournament.
Sam Scherl ’17 after his victory at the U.S. Junior Open in December.
Squash Ace Sam Scherl ’17 Wins Big, at Home and Abroad
Wesley Streicher ’17 and Brooke Murphy ’18 were crowned First Doubles Champions in both the Somerset County Tournament (3-6, 6-3, 6-4) and NJISAA Prep A Tournament (6-1, 3-6, 7-6).
Water Polo: 15-11 Eastern Prep High School Water Polo Championship: 5th place in “B” division Eastern Prep High School Tournament All-Tournament Team: Victor Vollbrechthausen, Matt Stanton Garden State Tournament: 3rd place Best of the East, Flight IV: 6th place 40
THE PINGRY REVIEW
Two weeks after claiming a Pingry first by winning the 2015 Under-17 U.S. Junior Open Squash Championship, the largest individual junior squash tournament in the world, Sam Scherl ’17 took his talents across the pond to the second-largest individual junior squash tournament in the world: the British Junior Open. He was one of 39 in Team USA’s junior delegation to compete in the tournament, giving his division’s top-seed and eventual champion a tough run in four matches before losing in a close quarterfinal round. In only the second year that Pingry has sent a player to the prestigious tournament, Sam finished fifth overall. According to Boys’ Varsity Squash Head Coach Ramsay Vehslage, Sam was the highest-finishing American in his age group (under-17), and the second-highest finishing American overall. In December, Sam captured another squash win, taking home the Gold Racquet Invitational trophy. He is the 84th winner of the prestigious singles and doubles invitational, which began in 1928. Recently ranked #7 nationally in U.S. Squash’s BU-19 division (Sam turned 17 in January, but was “playing up” a division for most of the year), Sam defeated pro Richard Chin in the first round, Lee Rosen (the current singles champion at the University Club in New York, and a past Gold Racquet winner) in the quarters, Will Newnham (an assistant pro at the Racquet and Tennis Club of New York and previous University of Rochester squash standout) in the semifinals, and Jacques Swanepoel (Columbia University’s head squash coach) in the final. Tournament Director Mark Hinckley was confident that Sam is the youngest-ever winner of the Gold Racquet Invitational. “Considering that he earned three national titles [U-17 individual title, U17 mixed doubles with Lindsay Stanley, and the boys’ U-17 doubles with friend Sean Oen] last year, won the Gold Racquet Invitational, and now has these achievements, the combination of victories is really extraordinary, and unprecedented for a Pingry student,” Coach Vehslage says.