Six games, five or fewer goals allowed, six wins. The 6-0 Scarsdale boys lacrosse team is relying on stingy veteran defense, a multitude of yo…
For a day, everyone was a varsity rookie.
With zero returning varsity hits, lacking an elite starting pitcher and not yet having a solidified defense through two games, things have been a struggle on the field for the Scarsdale softball team with a pair of losses to Eastchester, 18-4 and 15-0.
Of the four local golf teams, the Edgemont girls find themselves most impacted by a season off for COVID-19 and largely changed roster dynamic. Coach Mitch Shapiro calls it “almost a complete rebuild” with some “promising young players.”
With upgrades and construction scattered over the last 15 or so years, Scarsdale coach Rich Clark doesn’t remember the last time the track and field program hosted a full varsity meet at Butler Field prior to April 28 for the season opener against Mamaroneck. It was a momentous day for the R…
Since the late 1990s, the John Jay-Cross River boys lacrosse program has been one of the best in the country, supplying Division I lacrosse teams with top talent and perennially competing for Section 1 titles. For the first time since 1997, however, Scarsdale beat the two-time defending champs.
With wins in 3 of 4 tiebreaks, the Scarsdale boys tennis team survived its first challenge of the season, topping Edgemont 5-2. Both teams came in with uncertainty — Scarsdale returning three players and Edgemont being without 2 of their top 3 players — and both teams showed they have what i…
After not having a spring season due to COVID-19 and then sitting out last fall due to injury, perhaps no one was more excited to return to the field this spring than Scarsdale girls lacrosse captain Victoria Wilson.
Despite losing out on last spring, the Edgemont boys golf team returns a core lineup of veterans, but through four matches it’s sophomore Ben Tran who has shot the team’s lowest round.
Joy Jiang finished her high school career among the elite Scarsdale swimmers with six individual Section 1 titles, plus one relay title, and all three relay school records, and the 100 backstroke record.
Coming out of quarantine with two days to prepare for the season finale, it was a bumpy ride for the Scarsdale football team last week as opponents were being decided Wednesday night and then Tappan Zee was trying to switch the game. On top of that, the Raiders were without four two-way star…
With the goals to play without any COVID-19 stoppages and to go as deep in the season as they could, the Scarsdale girls volleyball team certainly reached that destination. Though in the end they would have liked just one more set. And they came awful close to achieving that.
The Scarsdale boys volleyball players and coaches thought they were playing for the Section 1 title against Suffern, but they might have been playing for the title against Clarkstown North in the next match. Either way it doesn’t matter because the Raiders dominated by sweeping both matches …
Three down, one to go for the Scarsdale girls volleyball team.
Approaching the end of a unique regular season of cohorting squads for the varsity team, Scarsdale’s girls volleyball coaching staff got together and started doing some mixing and reshuffling to find even more balance as the postseason approached.
Despite the last year of her life being completely out of whack — no club diving for three months, high school diving being sandwiched between and overlapping with gymnastics and lacrosse, among other things — Scarsdale senior Maddie Seltzer didn’t let a pandemic keep her from making some mo…
Trevor Koch didn’t need to join the Scarsdale football team to understand how important the back-to-back games against White Plains and Mamaroneck were. Through soccer, basketball and lacrosse, Koch knows all too well the crosstown rivalries are intense.
Using four different lineups in a 3-1 Section 1 Division 1 semifinals win over No. 4 East Ramapo, the No. 1 Scarsdale boys volleyball team showed its depth in advancing to the finals against Suffern for the second straight year.
Two days after beating Mamaroneck, the Scarsdale football team found out about a positive COVID-19 case on the team on Monday, April 12. The Raiders are quarantined for 10 days and will be released Wednesday, April 21, giving them three days of practice before playing their final game of the…
In the final match of the 2019 season — the Section 1 finals — the Scarsdale boys volleyball team took its first-ever set against Suffern. Suffern then went on to win the next three to take the title. That little victory four years in the making was the spark the Raiders needed coming into t…
Late summer is when girl swimmers have usually taken some time off before getting back in the water for both high school and club swimming. With both club and high school in full swing now, finding that balance has been key.
It may have been the second time Scarsdale and Edgemont girls volleyball were going head-to-head this season, but with Scarsdale bringing a different cohort this time around — the Panthers won 3-1 the first time — it was like an entirely different matchup. In a sort of rematch, the Raiders w…
In a football season with a six-week schedule, no playoffs and no guarantees due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there were two games that stood out clearly on Scarsdale’s final schedule — White Plains and Mamaroneck — in Weeks 3 and 4. Those two games are what the Raiders will truly measure their…
As the season goes on, dissecting the decision to have separate competing cohorts on one team has become fascinating to Scarsdale girls volleyball coach Ann Marie Nee. And seeing the boys team have to quarantine for 10 days made her even more confident with the decision to adapt during a sea…
The senior class owns seven school records — three relays, two diving and two individual swimming events — for Scarsdale girls swim and dive and although the records were set between their freshman and junior years, the team is just heating up through four meets this season. Coach Barney Fol…
The defense was there, but so were the turnovers on offense. In a 14-0 loss to Suffern, which features West Point-bound Clevmer Lubin, the Scarsdale football team walked off the field with a sense of pride in knowing they were capable of the win.
Heading into the vacation with a 7-0 record and rival Suffern up next on Tuesday, April 6, the Scarsdale boys volleyball team was firing on all cylinders and looking forward to what they hope will be a preview of the Section 1 finals later this month. Then COVID-19 struck.
Ryan Silberfein was just trying to help. And by doing so she made some history for Scarsdale High School varsity football.
Learning from high-risk winter sports, the Scarsdale volleyball program went in a unique direction for the high-risk fall 2 season. The Raiders, hoping to avoid season-halting quarantines, combined the 26 potential varsity and varsity B players to make one large roster, then split the roster…
One year ago, Drew Hill decided to switch from soccer to volleyball, despite having little experience in his new sport outside of physical education class.
Twenty-seven teams competed safely at the Section 1 winter cheerleading championships. Scarsdale High School was not one of those teams. And, as of now, the girls will not compete in the current fall 2 season either.
Scarsdale football’s new look offense clicked and the defense put up a shutout. It was a near-perfect opening day for the Raiders with a home 25-0 win over Port Chester Saturday.
The defending Section 1 Division 1 runner-up Scarsdale boys volleyball team came out looking like absolute fire against East Ramapo on opening day Monday. And while it wasn’t a perfectly clean match, it was a great starting point as Scarsdale, despite graduating six key players, has reloaded…
With a couple of minutes remaining in their season, and facing an insurmountable lead against White Plains, the Scarsdale girls basketball players were on their feet in the bleachers cheering on their teammates, who were still giving their best effort in the Section 1 Southern Westchester Gr…
Since this year’s senior class of Scarsdale swimmers and diver joined the team as freshmen, they have been the heart and soul of the team, keeping the Raiders competitive within Section 1 and New York State. Danielle Eforo, Joy Jiang, Julia Kushnick, Megan Lee, Helena Leroy, Anya Pabby and M…
Not only was Stacey Wierl inspired by the girls who played successfully and positively on boys varsity ice hockey teams over the years, but she was inspired by those who didn’t. When she saw former female youth hockey players not continue with the sport she knew she had to find a way to keep…
In a Section 1 wrestling first, the Scarsdale Raiders held an outdoor meet on Butler Field on Thursday, March 11. It was the first and last match of the team’s season.
When Maddie Seltzer was a Scarsdale High School freshman, she realized that if she didn’t join the gymnastics team there would be a piece of her life missing. Coming off the first of several stellar seasons as a diver, she surprised even her family by joining the team and it’s something she …
It was a great day to be a Scarsdale senior at the Section 1 Regional bowling tournament at Bowlerland. After completing a successful regular season in which the boys were league champs and the girls were a close second, it was one final chance to compete in a league that showed some parity …
With no giant slalom and atypical qualification criteria, the skiing postseason had a different look and feel to it, but the Scarsdale and Edgemont ski teams made the most of their opportunity to ski at leagues, and for those who advanced, sectionals.
The Scarsdale and Edgemont girls basketball teams met up for the first time in a decade last week. Both programs have changed tremendously since that time.
The Eastchester/Bronxville/Tuckahoe/Edgemont ice hockey team got one step closer to playing in its second championship game in a row, topping No. 7 New Rochelle 8-2 in the opening round of the Section 1 Southern Westchester regional quarterfinals on Wednesday March 10.
When Asher Krohn, now a Scarsdale sophomore, used to watch older brother Caleb play basketball for the Raiders, he didn’t quite understand the level and intensity involved in a varsity basketball. This year he learned first-hand.
With guidance changing often and without notice, athletic departments have been adapting on the fly all school year. After Westchester County and Section 1 changed guidance on spectators recently — two spectators per senior athlete at home and away games were permitted with school approval —…
In the most unique and challenging boys swim and dive season, Scarsdale senior Justin DiSanto and junior David Zoota managed to defy all odds to put together a combined six school records, four individual Section 1 titles and one Section 1 relay title in leading the Raiders to a runner-up finish.
On Thursday, March 4, as Scarsdale ice hockey coach James Synowiez was writing an email to parents about senior night, he found out he would have to change his message entirely. Due to players on Pelham testing positive during a quarantine following exposure to Suffern players who tested pos…
Graduating a go-to player can leave a team searching for answers. The Scarsdale girls basketball team is finding those answers every day and learning about the power of depth in finding success on the court in the post-Kayla Maroney era.
Quarantining for 10 days was hard enough, but returning to the court to play back-to-back games against Mount Vernon after just two days of practice was a tough task for the Scarsdale boys basketball team, which fell 63-36 and 74-37 on Tuesday and Wednesday.
You won’t find a tougher ice hockey schedule to start the season than Mamaroneck, Suffern and Eastchester/Bronxville/Tuckahoe/Edgemont, all Section 1 Division 1 semifinalists last winter, over a four-day span. They were Scarsdale’s first three opponents this year.
While masks, distancing and sanitizing are becoming more second nature for athletes, when in the heat of battle emotion can sometimes get in the way of important COVID-19 protocols. Scarsdale girls basketball coach Mike Blanco learned that the hard way on Tuesday.
