Athletes, Students Recognized by Board of Education

The Board of Education recognized the outstanding community service and athletic accomplishments of Sayville’s students at a recent meeting, which was held at Lincoln Avenue Elementary School’s .

principal Tom Murray presented Board of Education citations for community service efforts. Receiving the Presidential Bronze Certificate (50 hours of community service) was: Julia Cameron; Frankie Ferrara; Christine Guinessey; Ricki Ifferte; Rowan Mahoney; Emma Patterson; Patrick Smith; and Anthony Vetere. The Presidential Silver Certificate for 75 hours of community service was awarded to: Megan Gunther; Tara Litvin; Jill Mediatore; Erin Murphy; Kayla Stockert; and Meghan Westman. For 100 hours of community service, the Presidential Gold Certificate was presented to: Kerry Barrett; McKenna Butler; Diane Ferretti; Sierra Grayor; Aneri Kinariwalla; Alyssa Lofaro; Amanda Minutello; Emily Nowlan; Shreeya Panigrahi; Tanner Russo; Emily Sneddon; Sydney Teplitz; and Angela Vetere.

Athletic director presented the awards to the three championship sports team. “This was a very memorable year for Sayville sports,” he said. “All of our varsity teams made the post season and all were scholar athlete teams. Fifty student athletes received post-season honors. This is a wonderful community and when you come out to a game, you know you are in Sayville.”

The were the League Champions, Suffolk County Champions, Long Island Champions, New York State Class A Champions and New York State Scholar Athlete Team. The team included: Christopher Beni; Justin Bonamcio; Craig DeCesare; Eric Dulmovits; Dakota Edwards; Matthew Farrell; Sean Fullam; Richard Geiger; Joseph Hains; Robert Hammerle; Joseph Hauser; Kyle Heagney; Dylan Keane; Justin Liu; Brian Lutcha; Daniel Northland; Jonathan Paciorek; Travis Redding; Cameron Russ; Vincent Sakk; Corey Santangelo; Daniel Scheck; Christopher Siracusa and Jared VanBrunt.

The won the League Championships and the Suffolk County Championship and was named the New York State Scholar Athlete Team. The team included:  Samantha Bishop; Maria Boncore; Christina Cecere; Kelsey Clair; Lauren Estelle; Amanda Famularo; Amelia Gromling; Kayla Grossi; Madison Hoon; Brooke Iorio; Elizabeth Koehler; Linsey Lyons; Kimberly Marra; Molly McCauley; Emily Meier; Meghan Milani; Kaitlyn Mulry; Connie Nielsen; Amber Rose Petrillo; Kelly Santangelo; Alexandra Scribner; Dariann Sellitti; Emily Sellitti; Kristy Skepko; Nicole Tuminello and Olivia Coley-Bishop.

The won the Suffolk County Championship, Conference III, the Long Island Conference III runner up and was named New York State Scholar Athlete Team. The team included: Jeffrey Albergo; Matthew Ali; Robert Arraste; Christopher Bailey; Kevin Bethea; Alexander Blitman; Casey Boos; Zachary Brennan; Christopher Cannizzaro; Peter Carroll; Anthony Cavaliere; Jospeh Cook; Brandon Cunniffe; Joseph DeLuca; Thomas Dieckhoff; James Doller; Steven Ferreira; Patrick Fleming; Justin Fronckwicz; Benjamin Gudesblatt; John Haggart; Brian Hald; Thomas Hannan; Raymong Hermann; William Hudson; William Johnson; Thomas Krug; Nicholas Lanzillotto; Christopher Lorenzo; Dylan Mantello; Angelo Martino; Michael Matson; Ryan McKenna; Richard Millwater; Peter Morfogen; Sean Murphy; Robert Newell; Brendan O’Toole; Jesse Papa; Matthew Pesko; Michael Rahn; Spencer Ray; Robert Reyes; Bryan Rolon; James Rupp; Jake Sichenzia; Tanner Sterback; Joshua Tordik and Connor O’Neill.

Next up was a presentation of “Holidays Around the World” by some of Lincoln Avenue’s first grade students. After their presentation, the board members got to try out the new E-instruction class tool, where students use a remote control to log in answers to the questions presented on-screen.

In other news, the 2011-2012 school calendar is complete and now includes two conference days in May so teachers can complete grading of the state assessment tests. “Teachers would typically lose a week of instruction to try to grade the English and Math exams,” said Superintendent . “This way it will be one full day to grade English and one day to grade Math. We don’t have to worry about the costs of substitute teachers, it saves money and it is better for instruction. It is much more efficient,and it’s better for the kids. We’ll give it a try for next year and see how it goes.”

Budget discussions will continue at the next Board of Education meeting on Feb. 3 at 7 p.m.