Two days after playing their first game of the season, 12 Scarsdale High School varsity boys basketball players were notified by school offici…
Too little snow and too much snow are typically factors that negatively impact a high school ski season. This year there was another factor in the mix: COVID-19.
In its heyday, which was the first three years of the program’s existence, Scarsdale boys bowling was one of the kids of the Southern Westchester Bowling League, winning league titles in 2007 and 2008 before Edgemont took over and went on a string of three straight titles. This was back when…
As divers go, Scarsdale senior Eddie Eforo would be considered recreational, in that he dives in the summer for the town team and in the winter for the high school team. He’s got football and other activities, plus swimming, to occupy the rest of his time.
A new quarantine scenario arose for Scarsdale High School on Tuesday, Feb. 16. In an email to parents, district administration alerted the community that an unspecified team was ordered to quarantine retroactive the last date of contact, which was at practice Wednesday, Feb. 10.
For the Scarsdale boys swim and dive team, keeping competitive relies on a cycle of young talent joining each year. After a bit of a dry spell a few years ago, this year’s junior, sophomore and freshman classes have really brought the Raiders back closer to the elite level by providing depth…
The first meet of the Scarsdale gymnastics team’s season was solid, but the second and third meets were a truer reflection of the team’s talent.
Basketball and ice hockey were given the go-ahead for full contact practice and competition by the Scarsdale Board of Education Feb. 8, Monday night — actually Tuesday morning when the school board meeting finally ended — while the other two winter high-risk sports, wrestling and cheerleadin…
High school swimming has 11 events, three relays and eight individual events, while diving has 6- and 11-dive formats. Last year as a junior, Justin DiSanto hit state cuts in seven individual swimming events, showing his diversity as a swimmer as far as both stroke and distance. But what he’…
Scarsdale ski captains are used to working with teammates in pods, so cohorting this season was an easy adjustment for Raider senior captains Jane Schmelkin, Caroline Cavalier, Cole Zoland, Hayden Claussen, Noah Jaffe and Jackson Dean.
XXXXX. Through five frames, Scarsdale senior Brad Kauffman was bowling the game of his life to start out the season at Bowlerland on Friday, Jan. 22. On the sixth frame he picked up a spare on the five-pin, but couldn’t mark the next two frames.
Scarsdale swimmers Justin DiSanto and David Zoota started the season in championship form. Senior DiSanto hit last year’s state cut times in the 200 individual medley and the 100 freestyle, junior Zoota in the 100 butterfly and 100 breaststroke, and they set school records in 3 of the 4 events.
After 11 seasons, Scarsdale girls soccer coaches Mindy Genovese and Kiera Fox are still trying to win the big one on the field. There have been upsets, overtime games, seasons decided on penalty kicks and most recently their first appearance in a final, which, of course, went to overtime in …
Since Tim Tyler became Scarsdale High School’s certified athletic trainer in the fall of 1999, the athletic department has increased its offerings to student-athletes and upgraded its indoor and outdoor facilities, including many years of rented lights and now permanent lights at Butler Fiel…
The Scarsdale boys soccer team may not have made the finals, but they sure played like finalists against the top Class AA team in Section 1.
The season that almost never happened turned into a most memorable one for the Scarsdale girls soccer team. For the first time since the spring of 2005, the Raiders found themselves in a championships game.
After a season racing locally in small-scale meets, Scarsdale took advantage of racing in the Section 1 Southern Westchester Large Schools regional championships as both teams took first place, earning section title plaques at Milton.
In a time when athletics have often been canceled, postponed or face uncertainty, three Scarsdale athletes had much to celebrate Wednesday, Nov. 11, when they signed Letters of Intent to participate at the Division I level next school year as part of National Signing Day.
In a season where almost nothing went as planned, the Scarsdale field hockey team has a lot to take away from the fall of 2020. No. 1 is a sense of normalcy.
Rematches and revenge. That’s what the Section 1 regional postseason is all about for the Scarsdale boys soccer team. Well, the quarterfinals and semifinals at least.
With Mount Vernon on the final day of the regular season, the Scarsdale girls soccer team knew it had one more hurdle to clear in their quest for an undefeated league championship season, and that was rival New Rochelle just one day earlier.
After opting not to return for soccer his senior year after breaking his fibula last year, Shan Daniel was told that joining the Scarsdale cross-country team would be great for his track 800-meter training. Little did he — or anyone — know the sprinter would quickly make an impact as a dista…
Though it wasn’t the finals of the New York State Championships, it sure felt that way to Scarsdale High School senior Zoe Tucker. Winning the Section 1 Southern Westchester Large Schools doubles tournament with sophomore teammate Natalie Hu was, in this COVID-19 season, the pinnacle of success.
Despite playing in a downpour Wednesday, the Scarsdale field hockey team played one of its best games of the season, winning 4-2 at home against Suffern.
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.
Having run cross-country and track since seventh grade, Scarsdale senior Alexa Doyle never imagined she’d have a season where she didn’t compete for her school.
After cancellations of matches and practices piled up due to COVID-19 contact tracing and rain, the Scarsdale girls tennis team returned to the courts Monday, Nov. 2, for the third time since the competitive season kicked off. Since it was only the third match to go with zero in-season pract…
Three penalty kicks in two games against Mamaroneck and Harrison have had an impact on the Scarsdale girls soccer team’s season, but the Raiders, through six games, remain undefeated at 4-0-2.
After going two days between their first and second games, the Scarsdale field hockey Raiders went nearly two weeks before game No. 3.
After not scoring for about 95 minutes of play against Mamaroneck and going another almost 75 minutes scoreless against Blind Brook, the Scarsdale boys soccer team got exactly what it needed from an unexpected player.
Wednesday, Oct. 21, was a difficult day for the Scarsdale girls tennis team. They didn’t quite know how to react to winning 6 of the 7 matches against Fox Lane by scores 8-0.
The Scarsdale girls soccer team hopes the warm-up is over. The three wins they’ve had in their first four games were by a combined 17-0 score. They’re ready for another challenge like their 1-1 double overtime tie with New Rochelle.
It was bad enough Cooper Cohen was going to have to watch his senior season of boys soccer at Scarsdale High School from the sidelines after tearing his ACL in August — now he can’t even do that.
For a tennis program with a history of dominance — Scarsdale’s girls won 117 straight matches from 1990-2000 — the 2019 season was one for the records books. The Raiders were 15-0, going 76-1 in regular season matches; won the Section 1 Team championship, still a relatively new endeavor; and…
There’s nothing quite like facing Mamaroneck under the lights, even if the outcome is a 2-0 loss on the opening day of the season.
With 15 minutes left to play and trailing league rival New Rochelle 1-0, the Scarsdale girls soccer team pushed Emily Yacoub up from the back and shifted Riena Parente Ribeiro higher in order to increase the team’s chance of scoring.
On Friday, Oct. 16, the Scarsdale Recreation Department notified The Scarsdale Inquirer that one day earlier it had adopted a policy that all participants in recreation programs must wear masks. Recreation programs and independent sports organizations (ISO) are being notified of the change, …
Two of Scarsdale’s top fall 2019 athletes earned high honors this month. Diver Maddie Seltzer was named a NISCA All America diver for her junior year and volleyball player Magan Chin, who won the Con Ed Scholar-Athlete weekly award as a senior, was chosen as 1 of 4 overall scholarship winner…
The spring of 2019 was a record-setting season for Scarsdale High School golf — both for the long-dominant boys and the newly crowned girls — and coaches Andy Verboys and Barney Foltman expected that to continue in 2020.
The closure of schools as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak has brought on more challenges than just adapting to new learning methods for Scarsdale high schoolers. Student-athletes have been forced to rethink their traditional ways of preparing for the spring season.
Coach Rich Clark was almost ready to pull out a second hand to count the number of legitimate potential New York State championships qualifiers from Scarsdale’s indoor track and field team this past winter. But in the end, only one advanced.
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.
Jayshen Saigal will be flexing his muscles in a Lehigh University basketball uniform next winter. And it will be just as apropos as when he did it in a Scarsdale High School jersey.
The familiar thud of a lacrosse ball bouncing off an outside wall of the gym. The sound of a disc whirling through the air at the turf field. Running shoes pounding the oval track.
Hayden Claussen doesn’t remember the early days of his skiing career — he was on skis so young that it’s just always been part of his life.
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.
With a 40-35 Suffern lead over Scarsdale with 6:08 left in the opening round of the Section 1 Class AA boys basketball tournament, it was anyone’s game as the Raiders chipped their way back from a 39-28 deficit to start the fourth quarter.
Making a team believe isn’t an easy thing for a coach to do, especially after a difficult season on and off the court. But when the Scarsdale girls basketball team, the No. 13 seed, went up 18-11 on No. 4 Albertus Magnus in the first round of the Section 1 Class AA tournament, no one believe…
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.
Dean Mancini’s four-year wrestling career was a marathon, not a sprint. That’s the message coach Jeremy Szerlip hopes his young wrestlers take away from what they saw Mancini achieve last weekend.