From five participants at the first-ever Able Lacrosse clinic at a small field in Scarsdale in the fall of 2020, to 36 at the most recent session at Rippowam Cisqua School, the Able Athletics program, which now includes field hockey, has grown bigger and faster than anyone could have anticip…
The 53rd annual Scarsdale 15K and 4M runs were held Sunday, March 26, starting at Scarsdale High School and heading through Fox Meadow and Greenacres. Runners and walkers of all ages and abilities were welcome.
Sophomore Megan Lee (Scarsdale ’21) had an incredible postseason for Amherst women’s swimming, which was 6-2 on the season. Amherst placed third of 11 teams at the NESCAC Championships. Lee was All-NESCAC in the 800 freestyle relay, placing third in 7:30.28 with Jennifer Adams, Lauren Eng an…
Notre Dame football had Rudy Ruettiger. Syracuse men’s lacrosse has Paul Lamonaca.
The Skyliners Synchronized Skating Team traveled to Norwood, Massachusetts, for the 2023 Eastern Synchronized Skating Sectional Championships on a mission: to perform their best and earn coveted spots in the 2023 U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships. All Skyliners qualifying lines ended u…
You can teach an old fencer new tricks. Edgemont’s Aaron Waxler is proof of that.
After years of patience playing behind later-professional Will Pulisic, Eliot Hamill (Edgemont ’18) took over as Duke men’s soccer goalie as a junior in the spring of 2021 following not having a season in the fall of 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hamill was the starter for that short se…
This was — without a doubt — the greatest single season in the history of Scarsdale High School athletics. What we saw is unprecedented. They’re going to need at least one full oversized banner in the gym to add the achievements from this season alone.
The Scarsdale Youth Hockey Association 18-u travel team, primarily high school seniors, returned early from summer break to prepare for a preseason tournament, the Doritos Cup in Bridgeport, Connecticut, from Aug. 26-28. Captains Freddy Kushnick and Sam Horner led the team, most of whom have…
For the third consecutive season, Claire D. Leone Real Estate faced The Launchers in Scarsdale Adult Softball finals. The Launchers, this year’s second seed, won in 2020, while top seed Claire D. Leone won the 2021 title. Leone came out on top again this year with a thrilling 8-7 win.
The JCC Maccabi Games is an international Olympic-style sporting event for people that identify as Jewish between the ages of 13 and 16. The games include competitions in baseball, basketball, flag football, ice hockey, soccer, volleyball, dance, tennis, swimming and table tennis. While ther…
You can tell it’s a new facility by the shine as the silver fencing strips light up the room. Scarsdale Fencing Center is a sparkling new center only a few months old, but it’s already training fencers who are leaving their mark earning medals at fencing competitions around the world.
Since graduating from Scarsdale High School in 2006, Dr. Nicholas Rolnick has come to appreciate the importance of physical therapy as a way to help people return to activities they love. Rolnick is the founder of a practice called The Human Performance Mechanic.
It was a great way to finish up the summer season as local swimmers participated in the Westchester County Swim Conference championships.
From the moment he first put a club in his hands at the age of 5, Atticus Tagami fell in love with the game of golf.
It was a sea of blue swim caps with LYC in big white letters all around the pool, but the Scarsdale Town pool swim and dive team was undaunted.
Tuesday, July 19, could not have been a better day for a swim meet. With a high of 91 degrees and a lot of sun, the pool is the perfect spot to be. The meet featured two teams, Greenburgh Swim Team and Wykagyl Country Club. This meet was a dogfight with many neck and neck races, and it reall…
It was a perfect day for a swim meet and it was the perfect result for the Scarsdale Municipal Pool swim and dive team as it cruised to a victory over the host Larchmont Shore Club the morning of Wednesday, July 13.
Among the original voices in the first 24 hours of WFAN — the country’s first successful 24/7 all sports talk radio station, which debuted July 1, 1987 — longtime Scarsdale resident Ed Coleman outlasted them all.
He was nervous, he was starving and a bit tired, but Scarsdale High School sophomore Taj Grewal knew why he was there and what he had to do.
Instead of having her senior year wiped out by COVID-19 cancellations, Middlebury field hockey and women’s lacrosse player Erin Nicholas (Scarsdale ’17) saved a year of eligibility when there were no sports in 2020-21 and returned last fall to pick up where she left off. It paid major divide…
When their then-preschooler sister couldn’t participate in mainstream sports programs due to her various special needs, older brothers Rowan and Christian Dias took matters into their own hands. After spending time with her in their backyard in Scarsdale teaching her their favorite sport, la…
It was cloudy and cold, but the rain held off as more than 500 runners participated in the 52nd annual 15K and four-mile races hosted by the Scarsdale Parks and Recreation Department Sunday, April 3 at Scarsdale High School.
Audrey Shaev (Scarsdale ’18) and Connecticut College women’s basketball went 4-17 overall and lost 40-31 to Williams in the opening round of the NESCAC Tournament. As a senior, Shaev played 21 games, starting six. She scored 72 points and had 17 rebounds, 17 assists and 12 steals.
The honors keep coming for Middlebury field hockey senior Erin Nicholas (Scarsdale ’17). After leading Middlebury to a 22-0 finish (10-0 NESCAC) and NESCAC and NCAA Division III titles for the fourth time — an NCAA first — Nicholas was named NCAA tournament Most Outstanding Player for the se…
Justin Wood just wanted to get fit and spent two years focusing on cardio, light weightlifting and proper nutrition to lose 70 pounds. His newfound lifestyle led the now-Edgemont High School senior to set New York State records in powerlifting for his age group in his very first competition …
A national championship and signing her National Letter of Intent committing to NCAA Division I powerhouse Notre Dame were among the fencing highlights of 2021 for Scarsdale High School senior Sedna Gandhi.
Winning national championships has become second nature for Erin Nicholas, a 2017 Scarsdale graduate.
The Scarsdale Youth Football program is a member of the 16-team Westchester Youth Football League. This fall, Scarsdale’s third and fourth grade team went 8-0 and were crowned champions of the league. The team started the season with three preseason scrimmage wins over White Plains, Pelham a…
The Saturday morning sights and sounds at Sterling Field, tucked away at the back of Disbrow Park in Rye, aren’t typical geographically speaking. Coming from the mouths of the Rye Rugby Club coaches are words like “ruck,” “prop,” “scrum,” “hooker,” “pitch” and “try” in “a real mixture” of ac…
After nearly a year and a half of the COVID-19 pandemic throwing the end of her sophomore year and much of her junior year at Scarsdale High School in a tizzy, Lizzie Hurshman decided that an adventure was just what she needed to break the cycle. Twenty-six hundred cross-country miles later,…
After not having a season last summer due to COVID-19, the Scarsdale Recreation Department was proud to offer residents a full 12-game regular season and a postseason that eventually saw Claire D. Leone Real Estate win another championship.
Putting on a USA ice hockey jersey to represent his country in the 2021 Under-17 Five Nations Tournament in Switzerland was yet another career highlight for rising Scarsdale High School junior Brian Nicholas. Going 3-0 and winning the tournament was a bonus.
Eliot Hamill didn’t have grand illusions of what his early career with the Duke men’s soccer team would be like. He went from a small high school and a little-known travel program — and not being an Academy player —knowing he’d be a backup goalie to a veteran with international experience, a…
Tony Abbatine may have made a name for himself as a behind-the-scenes approach coach for professional baseball players since the late 1990s, but the seeds for his visual and emotional habits for players were planted at Scarsdale High School’s Dean Field in the mid-to-late ’80s.
Going 4-1 in Division 1 and taking fourth of 30 scoring teams in the Westchester County Swim Conference championship meet was all just “the cherry on top,” according to Scarsdale Town Pool swim and dive team coach Inga DeNunzio.
Emma Coleman was never judged by the numbers she posted in an athletic setting. For the 2017 Scarsdale High School graduate it was always the grit, passion and intensity with which she played the game as an award-winning defensive specialist — and senior year captain — in field hockey, baske…
Scarsdale and Edgemont athletes playing in college had a mixed bag when it came to COVID-19 and its impact on sports in the spring of 2020 and for the 2020-21 academic year. Some spring 2020 teams started their season before being sent home and many athletes lost out on fall and winter sport…
With the exception of not having the Westchester County Championships due to the changes in the pool facility at Playland, the summer swim and dive season is almost back to normal this year.
When he heard his name called as 1 of the 20 ice hockey players chosen for the United States under-17 men’s select team that will play in Switzerland at the Five Nations tournament Aug. 17-21, Scarsdale High School rising junior Brian Nicholas was both relieved and honored.
Twists and turns are nothing new for Evan Moretti, an elite diver who graduated from Scarsdale High School in 2015 and Duke University in 2019, but when it came to the plot of his story, he was certainly thrown for a loop last year.
When Edgemont resident Carol Weitzman first brought pickleball clinics to Greenburgh in 2014, USA Pickleball Association district ambassador Jim Geary echoed a statement he’d once heard about the sport — played on a small 20x44-foot court with a lightweight racket and an airy plastic ball wi…
County Tennis Club of Westchester in Scarsdale closed out its Semi-Rough Division season in the Westchester County Tennis League on Saturday, June 19, with a 4-1 loss to the Coveleigh Club A team. County finished the season at 1-6, tied for sixth place in the eight-team league, pending the p…
While his four older siblings have a trophy room to be envious of between high school championships, NCAA championships, Player of the Year honors and more in a multitude of sports, Scarsdale High School rising junior Brian Nicholas is paving his own path to greatness.
In the midst of a worldwide pandemic, I never thought we’d find the comfort and happiness that my child yearned for — for an entire year — in youth tackle football. But now I know that sometimes the most wonderful blessings come from the least expected places.
Nine friends, including four from Scarsdale, competed in the Zion National Park Ultra Marathon in Utah on Saturday and Sunday, April 10-11. The Ultra Marathon featured both a 100-mile run and a 100K (62-mile) run.
For the first time in her life, at age 41, Lindsay Gottlieb was “the other” in the room when she went from a 20-year coaching career in NCAA women’s college basketball to the NBA with the Cleveland Cavaliers two years ago as 1 of 7 female coaches in the league.
Steve Anastas found his calling in sports media decades ago as a student at Scarsdale High School, but finding a permanent landing spot as a sportscaster has been a challenge as he focused on trying to find that perfect personal/professional life balance.
One day can change your entire life.
Ethan Wachs walks the walk and talks the talk for Scarsdale Schools TV sports broadcasts, but it wasn’t an easy path for him to get there.
Disc golf will come to Westchester County, according to County Executive George Latimer, but it won’t be located in the Saxon Woods area, which features a golf course, trails and a pool complex in Scarsdale and White Plains.
