When your top three skiers, veterans Kea Rutherford and Bella Rutherford and newcomer Schuyler Ng are not only among the best in the Southern …
Edgemont senior Kate Howard has been on and off — and on and off — with gymnastics since age 5. With an opportunity to compete for her high school she returned to the sport once again sophomore year and hasn’t looked back since.
If this year’s Edgemont gymnastics team is any indication of where the program is headed, the future is bright for the Panthers.
Akira Lomvardas stopped swimming after the New York State championships, which took place almost a year ago. During the COVID-19 pandemic he shifted his fitness training to lifting weights and Crossfit. Last month he returned to the water for the first time with the Ardsley/Hastings/Edgemont…
Between the school and athletic department’s COVID-19 protocols being well thought out and thus far having prevented spread of the virus, the district’s plan to implement testing for high-risk athletes and coaches, the guidance to quarantine any winter high-risk team for 10 days if a member …
The Section 1 runner-up Ardsley/Hastings/Edgemont/Dobbs Ferry/Irvington boys swim team got off to a hot start this season, knocking off two top rivals in virtual meets last week. AHEDI topped Horace Greeley 97-79 and Scarsdale 101-69.
While some high school winter sports have been delayed by the COVID-19 pandemic, Edgemont’s ski team, as an outdoor sport where social distancing is more easily achievable, has been able to look forward to a partial season.
Moving from Manhattan to Edgemont prior to his junior year in 2019 turned out to be a victory for Vikram Ostrander. He had many wins on the mat for the Edgemont wrestling team and his growth and potential has led to his commitment this week to Division I University of Virginia.
Katie Feinstein may have spent her formative years as a three-sport standout at Edgemont High School, but it was coaching tennis the last nine years at her alma mater where she truly “grew up.” Not only did she learn a lot coaching tennis for nine years, but she changed careers, got married,…
It took until the final week of the season, but the Edgemont cross-country team finally left campus, competing in a dual meet at Scarsdale and the Section 1 Southern Westchester Large Schools regional race at Milton.
Coming into the Section 1 regional game having already tied and defeated Ardsley during the regular season, the Edgemont girls soccer team was hoping to win the season series and advance to the quarterfinals.
Aine Butler-Boyle watched the final game of her high school field hockey career on a livestream. Quarantined due to potential COVID-19 exposure, she wasn’t able to attend or play against North Salem, and with too many other teammates also out of commission, the Edgemont Panthers ended up not…
A David and Goliath reference seems appropriate here. If only…
The cross-country season has been both stressful and productive for the Edgemont Panthers.
The match that ended the Edgemont girls tennis season was certainly unique as junior Dani Friedman faced off against freshman Nishka Daga, a pair of teammates vying for third place in the Section 1 South Westchester Large Schools Regional singles tournament.
With the Section 1 Southern Westchester Large Schools regional tournaments kicking off next week, the Scarsdale and Edgemont boys and girls soccer teams are showing they are ready for whatever teams they get seeded to face when brackets are released Sunday.
Following a 4-0 loss to John Jay-Cross River and a 4-2 loss to Ardsley, the Edgemont boys soccer team had a better showing in each rematch, despite picking up losses Nos. 5 and 6 on the season.
Daphne Ballas missed much of last fall due to an injury, so she’s making up for lost time as a senior.
On the heels of getting shut out four times in a row, the Edgemont field hockey team takes pride in playing a tight 1-0 game against Pearl River and improving from a 5-0 to a 2-0 loss to Ursuline.
Despite a 1-4-1 record midway through the season, the Edgemont girls soccer team has been competitive in its first year in Class A. With a win, a tie, two overtime games played and two losses in which they let up only three goals, the future is bright for a Panther team that has only three seniors.
The 2020 field hockey season has been nostalgic for Edgemont senior Mia Ripp.
Nishka Daga achieved something that doesn’t often happen during a high school tennis season: she defeated an opponent she had lost to earlier in the season.
With an Ardsley runner on his tail, Edgemont junior Adam Abramowitz crossed the finish line of the first cross-country meet of the season. Mask drenched with and dripping sweat and completely out of breath, Abramowitz narrowly held off his opponent after the top four runners had crossed with…
Edgemont boys soccer’s official full-time introduction to Class A soccer — the Panthers have played against many A teams over the years — had mixed results despite two losses to open the season.
With five All-Section players graduating, including a top 16 New York State doubles team of Olga Lew-Kiedrowska and Ariella Zagorsky, the Edgemont girls tennis team certainly has a new look this year.
While a junior varsity girls soccer game was being played at Blanford Field in Edgemont, the varsity team headed to Rye Neck to officially kick off the 2020 fall sports season Saturday afternoon.
Zaza Aslanian knows to treat every game like it could be the last one of the season. Playing with her typical hard-nosed intensity, Aslanian led the Edgemont field hockey team to a 3-2 opening day/senior night victory Tuesday, Oct. 13.
Jennifer Wandle made it through four days of practice as the new Edgemont girls lacrosse coach last spring when the beginnings of the COVID-19 pandemic closed down schools, which did not reopen until last month. If all goes well on Tuesday, Oct. 13, Wandle will have made it through the entir…
Results are important, but when you get to the New York State championships, it’s the experience that matters more, especially for the young swimmers.
Going from wrestling in high school and college gyms to the Times Union Center in Albany can be a daunting task for a young wrestler. Trading in bleachers for an arena is like jumping from Little League to the Major Leagues overnight.
“The puck stops here” was Eastchester/Tuckahoe/Bronxville/Edgemont goalie J.P. Rosabella’s modus operandi during the first three games and nearly two periods of the finals of sectionals. He’d allowed six goals in the first three wins, but in the finals it wasn’t that he couldn’t stop the puc…
Heading into the New York State swimming championships this weekend, Edgemont and Scarsdale swimmers are pumped up based on the stellar seasons they had individually and as teams.
Some teams have a rich history of Westchester County Center appearances and Gold Balls, or even the occasional cameo in the semifinals. The Edgemont girls basketball team has three league titles and two quarterfinals appearances over the last three years.
Over a span of three games, No. 11 Eastchester/Tuckahoe/Bronxville/Edgemont has knocked off No. 6 Cortlandt, No. 3 Scarsdale and No. 2 Mamaroneck. Will No. 1 Suffern be next?
Rye Neck was the higher seed by five spots, but Edgemont had won the two regular season meetings between the two teams. It all came down to the Section 1 Class B outbracket game on Feb. 15.
For a winter with very little snow locally, the Scarsdale and Edgemont ski teams sure got plenty of practices and competitions in for the regular season. That paid off for the Section 1 championships at Hunter Mountain.
The Scarsdale ice hockey team made a reservation for a trip to the Section 1 Division 1 semifinals. On Tuesday, Eastchester/Tuckahoe/Bronxville/Edgemont cancelled the reservation and made one of its own.
Eastchester/Tuckahoe/Bronxville/Edgemont entered the Section 1 Division 1 tournament against Cortlandt expecting to win. But what happened was shocking.
Dylan Johns didn’t start playing ice hockey until he was a freshman in high school. He joined the modified team that year, but took last year to play travel hockey, returning to the high school level with the Eastchester/Tuckahoe/Bronxville/Edgemont varsity team this winter. The Edgemont jun…
If there’s one thing you take away from wrestling, it’s to never give up. That’s what led Sander Miller to a Section 1 Division 2 title last Saturday.
Track meets can easily last anywhere from four to six hours, and that doesn’t even include travel time. Then the time spent at the meet is largely composed of waiting for an event, followed by an intense period of actually competing, and then repeating this cycle.
When Alexis Chan was an eighth-grader in her first year on the Edgemont varsity girls basketball team, her coaches decided that since nothing else was working, they’d try something new. For two years, Edgemont ran a variation on Grinnell College’s “The System,” where offense was king and the…
The Scarsdale bowling season has officially drawn to a close, ending another successful year for the girls, while the boys used this year as a transition period to develop their newly established core of players.
More competitions, more practices.
Edgemont’s ski team competed in 5 of its 8 regular season races within a span of two weeks, with the final two races at Campgaw being a slalom on Feb. 4 and a giant slalom the next day.
The Eastchester/Tuckahoe/Bronxville/Edgemont ice hockey team was 7-12-1 and lost 9-1 to Rye Town/Harrison in their return to sectionals last winter. With four games left this season, ETBE is 6-9 and lost 10-7 to RT/H in the team’s fourth game in five days.
In a season full of more downs than the 5-15 Edgemont boys basketball team would like to recall, the most memorable moment came from the unlikeliest of Panthers.
The Edgemont High School ski team has been incredibly busy lately, competing in three races over four days to close out January as the regular season winds down.
In postseason swim meets, 40 points are awarded to the winner of each relay, 34 to the runner-up. Had the Ardsley/Hastings/Edgemont/Dobbs Ferry/Irvington boys won any of the three relays, they would have beaten Horace Greeley for the second time this season.
What comes with the changing of the guard to five new captains this winter is also a time to groom the Edgemont ski team’s future, which lies in the hands of the seventh-, eighth- and ninth-graders.
With qualifying standards the norm for the rest of the track and field season, the Edgemont Panthers sent seven boys and seven girls to the Westchester County Championships. Despite the small representation, the dedicated bunch is still making great strides to improve.
