Nikki Rosee is all about the long haul, whether it comes to running distances or the future. The new Edgemont cross-country coach approached t…
With 1:20 left on the clock and Briarcliff/Hamilton on the Edgemont/Keio 3-yard line in a 22-all game, Edgemont coach Brendan Connolly made the easiest call of his coaching career. “Let them score,” he told his defense.
After winning Section 1 with 294 points last year and falling three points shy of the New York State title, the Sleepy Hollow/Hastings/Edgemont/Irvington girls swim team scored 328.5 points in repeating as section champs. This weekend the team finds out how it stacks up against the rest of t…
National Signing Day most often comes and goes at Edgemont High School with little fanfare. For the first time in a long time, the Panthers had a chance to celebrate one of their own.
After suffering its first loss of the season in week 7, the Edgemont football team defeated Haldane 22-16 last weekend to improve to 7-1. It was a nice bounce back win for the Panthers before their bowl game against Briarcliff on Saturday.
The fall cross-country season always speeds by in the short two-and-a-half months that the Edgemont Panthers spend together. During this time, the team gets to enjoy the pleasant weather and charming change in scenery, but as the season approaches its end, the team has to say goodbye to thei…
First-year Edgemont girls soccer coach Eric Brand’s motto is “Work hard, play smart, have fun.” It’s a simple way to not only break down each day, but a season as a whole.
It took an up and down regular season, but the Edgemont volleyball team played its best match of the season in the opening round of the Section 1 Class B tournament, a tight 3-0 sweep by No. 8 Westlake.
In the first half against Albertus Magnus, the Edgemont boys soccer team thought it had the go-ahead goal. The officials ruled the ball had not fully crossed the goal line and play resumed. While Edgemont was still soaking in and disputing the call, Magnus quickly put the ball in the net for…
Edgemont swimmers making states is no longer a novelty. It hasn’t been for years. But that doesn’t mean it’s easy or happens over night.
In what has been another successful season in the independent league, the Edgemont football team suffered their first loss of the season last Saturday at Tuckahoe.
It took two years to replace Sydney Vleck, but Megan Lee, Anya Pabby and Joy Jiang now have a fourth leg for their elite relays. Fellow junior Danielle Eforo joined the fold and for the second time in three years, the Scarsdale girls swim and dive team is sending all three relays to states.
It’s hard to believe the Edgemont High School football team, rooted in a winning tradition from the late 1990s into the early 2000s, had not won a league title since 2006. On Friday, that drought ended.
With Ali Gaviser injured early in the season and Daphne Ballas likely not to play in sectionals, Edgemont girls soccer’s top two scoring options will be spectators for postseason. But like they have done all season, the Panthers will aim to be the hardest working team on the field and pull o…
Edgemont volleyball finished the regular season 8-9 and they will have a No. 8-No. 9 matchup in sectionals. The Panthers fell just short of a home game, so they will travel to Westlake for the Class B tournament today.
Between the Section 1 Conference I and III tournaments and the first day of the Section 1 tournament on Wednesday, there’s been a lot of excitement for Scarsdale and Edgemont.
If four-year player Zach Stern has learned anything about the postseason it’s to not look too far ahead. That’s something he and his Edgemont boys soccer teammates are vowing to do this fall.
With two losses going to third set tiebreakers and another at 7-5, 6-4, the Edgemont girls tennis team gave Harrison a run for its money in the Section 1 team tournament quarterfinals. In the end, however, Harrison won 4-1, with two matches unfinished with the match clinched.
After serving as head coach of the Edgemont boys soccer team for three years, Dave Villalobos knew it was time for a change. He went to then-athletic director Jim San Marco and suggested he lure Mike Cozza, who, after five years coaching girls and boys soccer at Edgemont had gone over to Eas…
It can be a long season when you don’t put the ball in the goal. That’s been the case for the 1-7-1 Edgemont field hockey team.
Swimming is a sport that demands training year-round in order to excel at the elite level. Of course, doing anything year-round is incredibly hard on one’s body and mind.
The Edgemont football team defeated Irvington on the road Saturday to improve to 4-0 for the first time in over a decade. The Panthers were led by junior Kirk Gialleonardo’s 4 touchdowns — two passing, two rushing — and two interceptions, junior Jake Rosen’s touchdown and 119 receiving yards…
Since the moment she walked off the court at the Billie Jean King USTA National Tennis Center on Sept. 18, Edgemont sophomore Dani Friedman had Oct. 4 circled on her calendar. Following a 6-4, 4-6, 10-8 loss to Bronxville’s Katie Formato at third singles, Friedman was seeking redemption in t…
Many athletes choose to run as a way to stay in shape for their main sport, but if their main sport is track and field, the best choice for the offseason is to run cross-country in the fall. Cross-country can seem very unappealing, and is even a supposed “curse word” for most sprinters, but …
A second-week bye couldn’t stop Edgemont’s momentum. The Panthers football team has now taken down Croton-Harmon in the opening week and Briarcliff and Hastings on back-to-back weekends following the week without a game.
With three players suffering concussions and three others dealing with various injuries, the Edgemont girls soccer team has been down five starters and a key bench player. The Panthers are doing their best to fill in the gaps, including calling up four players from junior varsity.
The Sleepy Hollow/Hastings/Edgemont/Irvington girls swim team is resilient. After falling to fellow powerhouse Horace Greeley to open the season, SHEDI has dominated in winning its next three meets.
Since serving one year as the junior varsity coach in anticipation of being named Edgemont’s varsity volleyball coach for last fall, Eddie Olivares has been looking at the bigger picture. He knew when certain key players were going to graduate and has planned accordingly. That’s why last yea…
Despite seven starters returning this fall, the veterans the Edgemont field hockey team did graduate, most notably in the midfield, were a longtime presence on the field. With two seniors and a sophomore this year — there are eight juniors and eight freshmen — Edgemont is back in another one…
Some years — like last year — when circumstances dictate, one of the great Edgemont traditions takes a hiatus. But when the tennis team has its mostly annual match at the Billie Jean King USTA National Tennis Center in Flushing Meadows, it’s an experience like no other.
The pool is open and ready for some excellent swims this season.
Junior Daphne Ballas and the Edgemont girls soccer team are off to a fast start. With a 2-2 record and Ballas having scored in three of the four games, the Panthers like where they are as the dust settles from the many changes within the program.
Scoring 14 goals over the first three games of the season was validating to the Edgemont boys soccer team.
A large rock sits outside the tennis courts at Scarsdale High School with a plaque commemorating the girls tennis team’s decade-long dominance within Section 1, a 117-match winning streak that stretched from 1990-2000.
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.
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.
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…
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 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.
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.
The Section 1 Class B championships meet was a great opportunity for Edgemont’s track and field competitors to have one more shot at earning personal records and hitting cut times for the state qualifier.
With 85 degree temperatures at the start of the junior varsity Westchester County Championship meet, followed by a downpour by the end, this bipolar weather signified that it was officially a “spring track” meet. Unfortunately, for the Edgemont Panthers it was also the last for most of the team.
Falling two goals shy of potentially hosting the first home playoff game in the program history, the Edgemont boys lacrosse team headed into the postseason with fire in its eyes.
After starting the season 8-2, the Edgemont girls lacrosse team had extremely high expectations.
Golfer Evelyn Chiu will be back next year with something to prove.
