Standout performance Highland senior Bri Rozzi followed up her career-high 37-point performance against Red Hook with a 26-point game against Marlboro on Tuesday that made her the highest-scoring girl in school history. Said Rozzi the day after, “It was a proud moment for me.” Basketball dominance In the McDonald’s All-American Games nominees list released Thursday, [...]
Standout performances On Saturday, Warwick pole vaulter Kaeli Thompson cleared 13’3.5” at the Molloy Stanner Games to break a school and Section 9 record. Thompson will be pole vaulting at Duke next year. On Friday, Highland’s Bri Rozzi scored a career-high 37 points and added 15 rebounds in a 51-47 win over Red Hook. She [...]
As basketball season nears its conclusion, several seniors from the area are eclipsing the 1,000-point mark for their high school careers. I am working to meet with each of them to tell their stories, not only documenting the moment they scored their 1,000th point, but also describing the years leading up to the accomplishment. Standout [...]
As I noted in my introductory column, this is a space where I will be posting two times a week to highlight standout athletes, fill in extra pieces of my news stories that didn’t make print, and leave notes or thoughts on any other big local news items of the week that I didn’t have [...]
I’d like to share with you the moment I knew I wanted to become a sports writer. It was late autumn in 2013, and I had never before written a sports story. My journalism professor at the University of Georgia had tasked a group of us, around 10 students in total, to write a preview [...]
