A large rock sits outside the tennis courts at Scarsdale High School with a plaque commemorating the girls tennis team’s decade-long dominance…
Last year the Scarsdale football team was losing games in the second half. This year the Raiders are winning them.
The Edgemont cross-country Panthers kicked off the season with a meet on their home turf Sept. 10. Having already run through the full course three times during practice, two of which were time trials, the Panthers felt well prepared and confident entering the meet against Pelham and Ardsley.
Despite competing in a meet that doesn’t actually count for anything, the Scarsdale girls swim and dive team sure set the tone for the season.
In the first game of the 2019 football season, Edgemont took down Croton-Harmon on the road, 26-14. The Panthers were led by Ryan Gordon’s three touchdowns, Kirk Gialleonardo’s two touchdowns and Dexter Seeley’s monster defensive effort.
The makeup of the Scarsdale girls tennis team is anything but typical. However, with a strong core of veterans and eight juniors, the team is set up to be elite this year and next at the very least.
They may never be the subject of a trivia answer, but just in case, Jack Mintzer, David Peng, Dylan Wasserberger and Ethan Gates are the first four-year boys volleyball players at Scarsdale. The Mintzer-proclaimed “core four” spent a year on junior varsity as freshmen and are now seniors on …
Coaching a fall sport is unique compared to winter and spring. And second-year Scarsdale field hockey coach Lauren Barton loves what makes the fall different: the preseason.
Katie Feinstein didn’t hesitate to take three seventh-graders on the varsity tennis team at Edgemont. In 2014, Feinstein’s third year of coaching at her alma mater, she knew they’d be just fine. After all, the 1999 graduate and state doubles qualifier was also a six-year varsity tennis playe…
A 3-0 start and a near appearance in the Briarcliff Tournament finals for the Scarsdale girls volleyball team was sparked by returning outside hitter Magan Chin.
Down 10-0 in the second half and playing without its starting halfbacks, Harry Song and Julian Higgins, it was starting to look like a repeat of 2018.
After being diagnosed with juvenile arthritis when he was 6 years old, recent Scarsdale High School graduate Brian Lilly finally took control of his athletic life sophomore year and has been full throttle ever since.
The fall sports season is heating up this weekend.
Ten seniors graduated after the 2017 season. Nine more this year. Add in a new head coach and the Scarsdale boys soccer team has seen a lot of change in a short period of time.
Nikki Rosee started last spring as an assistant coach for the Edgemont track and field team. Following the sudden retirement of 30-year veteran J.C. Periac on the first day of preseason in March, Rosee soon found herself as Periac’s replacement as the spring girls head coach and this fall sh…
Tom Blank, Darren Hawks and now Dr. Eric Brand.
The Scarsdale Summer Youth Tennis League celebrated its successful 35th season with more than 30 players ages 6 to 16 playing more than 300 matches during the season at the Scarsdale Middle School tennis courts.
Richard Presser Park on Central Avenue in Hartsdale has become a bastion of hope for the local cricket community. Up until June, when the town of Greenburgh carved out a 22-yard pitch for residents to practice the sport they are passionate about, the only sound these players heard when they …
The Scarsdale Recreation Department crowned the Scarsdale World Series adult softball champions Aug. 10 at Crossway 2. The first-year Launchers won the regular season title with a 9-3 record and took the championship over Leone Real Estate.
James Nicholas emerging as the top golfer in the Ivy League for his senior year at Yale wasn’t much of a surprise after he gave up football prior to his sophomore year at Yale. His younger brother, Stephen Jr., becoming one of the better golfers in the Centennial Conference for Franklin &…
Inga DeNunzio worried the Scarsdale Town Pool team would have a short stay in its return to Division 1 of the Westchester County Swim Conference this summer. Jackie Cordero thought this might be the year that sent the Greenburgh Swim Team down to Division 2.
The Scarsdale Town Pool swim and dive team hosted the first day of the Westchester County Swim Conference championships Monday, Aug. 5. The host team had placed fifth in Westchester County the previous week, while Greenburgh Swim Team was fourth overall. Conferences continue this week at dif…
On a Monday morning during one of the hottest weeks of the year, most people stayed inside to keep cool with the air conditioning. On the tennis courts at Scarsdale High School, however, groups of adults and some children braved the heat for their regularly scheduled tennis lessons. Their in…
Ben Shapiro fell in love with college tennis during the recruiting process while he was at Scarsdale High School, so much so that he realized he could help make the Raiders more of a team on and off the court.
While Mihir Barlinge may not have won a medal at the 2018 USA Taekwondo National Championships, he walked away with something much greater — the determination to come back the following year and win one. Earlier this month, the rising Scarsdale High School freshman achieved his goal by takin…
Inga DeNunzio thought Greenburgh had two wins. Jackie Cordero was under the impression Scarsdale had one win.
The Sleepy Hollow/Hastings/Edgemont/Irvington girls swim team got the best offseason news possible last week as the 200 freestyle relay from last fall was named All-American with the 62nd ranked high school time in the country.
Gus Thompson had two goals heading to Mexico City for the 14th Pan American Maccabi Games: 1) To experience a new culture and 2) to win gold. The recent Scarsdale High School graduate returned to Scarsdale earlier this week having achieved both.
Marcos Monteagudo thought he had a home with Blind Brook boys soccer, until the Scarsdale job opened up this spring with the stepping down of five-year coach Paul Brooks. The opportunity to coach a competitive program in Class AA doesn’t come up often and Monteagudo didn’t want to regret not…
For the Greenburgh Swim Team, morning practices are a peaceful time at the Anthony F. Veteran Park pool complex just before campers arrive and before the public gets to use the pool. New this year are afternoon practices in two lanes that have given coach Jackie Cordero’s team a little boost…
Aging out of the Scarsdale summer swim and dive program can be an emotional thing, especially for those who were born to be there.
Bridget Horwood (Scarsdale ’15) started 11 games for Colby women’s lacrosse in her final season since walking onto the team as a freshman. Horwood scored 12 goals and had 13 assists and 12 groundballs for 9-7 Colby.
Opening the summer swim and dive season at Lake Isle was the calm before the storm for Greenburgh coach Jackie Cordero.
Summer swim meets go by stroke and by age group, from freestyle youngest to oldest to backstroke to breaststroke to butterfly with diving and relays sandwiched around those individual swimming events.
If there are three things Una O’Donnell proved this spring it’s that she can pitch, hit and run.
From a Scarsdale perspective, the lacrosse coaching sidelines at John Jay High School have a familiar look to them. Scarsdale teachers and former coaches Stacey Wierl, Jeremy Guski and Sean O’Rourke helped lead the John Jay girls and boys to the New York State finals this spring.
On Saturday, June 15, the Scarsdale baseball community gathered at the Crossway fields to celebrate Super Saturday, a fun-filled day of activities centered around Scarsdale Little League. The day featured championship games in three divisions: The Raptors won the Atlantic Division (mostly fi…
Brandon Wu will always remember the 18th green at Pebble Beach.
In the town of Delmar, New York, a suburb of Albany, the Scarsdale Hellfish competed in the 2019 New York High School Ultimate Championship. Ultimate is a fast-paced sport in which a disc is thrown down a field until it is caught in an opponent’s end zone.
From the moment he accepted the position as head coach of the Maccabi USA youth men’s basketball team for the 14th Pan American Maccabi Games, Josh Javer knew he wanted Gus Thompson on his team.
The Scarsdale track and field team sent a pair of relays to New Balance Nationals in North Carolina last weekend. For the girls, it was the first time since 2014 that a team made the trek.
With the Section 1 team title already well in hand at Fenway Golf Club, the Scarsdale Raiders had one more mission ahead of them to cap off their perfect season. David Umansky, the final golfer to come in, needed to shoot at most a 40 in order to set a school record for best 9-hole round.
Scarsdale boys lacrosse coach James Synowiez knew there was one acceptable reason to interrupt prom: the U.S. Lacrosse High School All-American announcement.
Nico Bernard had an important job as the anchor of Scarsdale’s 4x800-meter relay in the winter and spring. His goal was to cross the finish line before the opposing anchors, but despite being the team’s fastest leg, he could only achieve his objective if everyone on the team stepped up.
When Lindsay Gottlieb was a senior at Scarsdale High School in the winter of 1994-95, varsity girls basketball coach Paul Celentano handed her a whistle and a shirt that said “Coach.”
On the surface, Nikolay Sahakyan and Jason Shuler were an unlikely pair to win the Conference 1, Section 1 and New York State doubles tennis championships.
Nothing makes a six-hour bus ride home better than celebrating a championship. That’s what the Scarsdale girls golf team got to do this year after achieving so many records for the program, which started in 2007.
Ward Bandsma, Eric Jacobson, D.J. Matusz and Nico Bernard placed second in New York State in the 4x800-meter relay over the winter. They lowered their time to 7:49.43 at New Balance Nationals a week later.
As the state qualifier meet got shifted from Thursday/Friday to Friday/Saturday as a result of heavy rain, the final few Edgemont runners watched their weekend plans get a little busier.
