Monthly Archives: January 2008

Warwick’s Pennings headed for Stanford

By Ken McMillan | Published: January 29, 2008 | Comments closed
According to school officials, Warwick distance standout Tori Pennings has decided to accept a scholarship offer from Stanford University. Pennings told the Times Herald-Record last week that she had narrowed her choices to Georgetown, Columbia and Princeton before embarking on the trip to Palo Alto, Calif. Apparently, she liked what she saw.
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Boys’ swimming standings 1.29.08

By Ken McMillan | Published: January 29, 2008 | Comments closed
Congratulations go out to Monroe-Woodbury for clinching the Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association boys’ swimming regular-season title with a perfect 11-0 record. It’s rather unfortunate that the title was actually decided on December 4, the first day of the Crusaders’ season — that’s when M-W beat New Paltz, 96-90. Both teams have gone unbeaten since then. I [...]
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Warwick boys relay also headed to Millrose

By Ken McMillan | Published: January 25, 2008 | Comments closed
The Warwick boys’ 3,200-meter relay of Mike Fox, Brad Ackerman, Ryan Florkiewicz and Greg Miniger will join squads from Somers and Shenendehowa in a New York versus New Jersey “Border Clash” event at the Millrose Games to be held Feb. 1 at Madison Square Garden. Warwick is the state’s top-ranked public school (No. 2 overall) at 7 minutes, [...]
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Pine Bush girls head to Millrose, V845 page

By Ken McMillan | Published: January 23, 2008 | Comments closed
The Pine Bush girls’ 1,600-meter relay team has qualified for the Millrose Games to be run at Madison Square Garden on Feb. 1. Alexis Grable, Nicole Rozario, Amber Passalaqua and Jessica Hennig won a qualifier race on Jan. 9 at Rockland Community College — beating a very strong Suffern squad — to earn the suburban spot [...]
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Pennings to race in Boston again

By Ken McMillan | Published: January 18, 2008 | Comments closed
Warwick distance standout Tori Pennings has received another invitation to compete in the prestigious Boston Indoor Games. Pennings will compete in the Girls’ Invitational Mile event on Jan. 26. Pennings competed at the 2007 event and placed 11th in 5 minutes, 1.40 seconds. Danielle Tauro of New Jersey won in 4:52.20.
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Indoor track and field top-10 leaderboard and standings

By Ken McMillan | Published: January 16, 2008 | Comments closed
The Section 9 indoor track and field leaderboard can be found by clicking here. Wednesday update: Matt Hemmer from Monroe-Woodbury contacted me. He says the girls’ times have been converted from hand time to fully automatic timing; it’s just that his computer doesn’t spit out an extra zero for times like 10.70. The girls’ results are [...]
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Boys’ swimming standings 1.15.08

By Ken McMillan | Published: January 15, 2008 | Comments closed
High school boys’ swimming standings OCIAA (through January 14) School   League   Overall   Streak Monroe-Woodbury   9-0   10-0   10W New Paltz   7-1   7-1   7W Kingston   6-2   6-2   1W Pine Bush   6-2   6-2   5W Newburgh   5-3   5-3   3W Middletown   4-3   5-3   2W Washingtonville   3-4   3-4   1W Valley Central   3-6   3-7   5L Minisink Valley   2-6   2-6   4L Roosevelt   1-6-1   1-6-1   1L Warwick   1-7-1   1-7-1   1T Cornwall   1-8   1-8   1L
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Okay, vacation time is over

By Ken McMillan | Published: January 15, 2008 | Comments closed
Now that vacation time is over, it’s back to work on the High School Insider Blog. By the way, if you are headed to Washington, D.C., for vacation, my advice is you visit the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum — there’s some really cool stuff in there, and an improvement over my last visit more than 25 years [...]
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