Track All Stars
June 23, 2010, North County News, Page S11
Pentathlon
First Team
Dylan Schuck, Kennedy Catholic
800 Meters
First Team
Jessica Kendzor, Kennedy Catholic
100 Meters
First Team
Danielle Asaro, Kennedy Catholic
2,000 Meter Steeplechase
Second Team
Breeda Mannion, Kennedy Catholic
Triple-Jump
Second Team
Jesse Aprile, Kennedy Catholic
400 Meters
Second Team
Jessica Kendzor, Kennedy Catholic
110 Meter Hurdles
Second Team
Michael Campobasso, Kennedy Catholic
4X400 Meter Relay Team
Second Team
Kennedy Catholic (Jessica Kendzor, Danielle Asaro, Breeda Mannion, Katherine Kastberg)
200 Meters
Third Team
Danielle Asaro, Kennedy Catholic
400 Meters
Third Team
Anthony Djerdjaj, Kennedy Catholic
Sunday, June 27, 2010
North Conty News: Coach of the Year - Larry Elliott and Jake Bergmeier, Kennedy Catholic
Track All Stars
June 23, 2010, North County News, Page S11
Boys
Coach of the Year
Larry Elliott and Jake Bergmeier, Kennedy Catholic
Coach Larry Elliott and Coach Jake Bergmeier co-coach both teams and led the boys back to prominence in Section 1. The Gaels placed third in a tough league and placed an impressive sixth at the Class B sectional meet. The team also placed well at the Somers Lions Club Meet and the Mamaroneck Relays, winning trophies at both meets. Dylan Schuck won the County Title in the pentathlon with an excellent score of 3,005. Elliot and Bergmeier had three individual champs at the Class B Sectional meet with Jesse Aprile (triple jump), Schuck (pentathlon), and Michael Campobasso (110-meter hurdles). The team also sent Campobasso (hurdles) and Schuck (pentathlon) to the state meet. Jesse Aprile also almost made the team. Both Schuck and Campobasso medaled in sixth place at states in their events respectively. In addition to their success with the boys, Jessica Kendzor and Danielle Asaro also qualified for states giving Kennedy four athletes at states.
*Please note, this online article has been corrected as it had an error in the newspaper version. Campobasso was not mentioned for earning a medal at the State meet. (Coach Bergmeier)
June 23, 2010, North County News, Page S11
Boys
Coach of the Year
Larry Elliott and Jake Bergmeier, Kennedy Catholic
Coach Larry Elliott and Coach Jake Bergmeier co-coach both teams and led the boys back to prominence in Section 1. The Gaels placed third in a tough league and placed an impressive sixth at the Class B sectional meet. The team also placed well at the Somers Lions Club Meet and the Mamaroneck Relays, winning trophies at both meets. Dylan Schuck won the County Title in the pentathlon with an excellent score of 3,005. Elliot and Bergmeier had three individual champs at the Class B Sectional meet with Jesse Aprile (triple jump), Schuck (pentathlon), and Michael Campobasso (110-meter hurdles). The team also sent Campobasso (hurdles) and Schuck (pentathlon) to the state meet. Jesse Aprile also almost made the team. Both Schuck and Campobasso medaled in sixth place at states in their events respectively. In addition to their success with the boys, Jessica Kendzor and Danielle Asaro also qualified for states giving Kennedy four athletes at states.
*Please note, this online article has been corrected as it had an error in the newspaper version. Campobasso was not mentioned for earning a medal at the State meet. (Coach Bergmeier)
Saturday, June 19, 2010
Roy Arnesen, North County News: Kennedy’s Campobasso, Schuck Medal
North County News, June 16, 2010, Pg S11
Kennedy picked up two medals at the New York State Track and Field Championship, with senor Dylan Schuck and sophomore Mike Campobasso both placing 6th in the Division II competition. Campobasso qualified for the finals of the Division II 110 meter hurdles final with a time of 15.90 to qualify in the sixth position in the trials. In the finals, Campobasso earned a state medal with a sixth place finish in a time of 16.01. His goal going into the state meet was to win a medal and he started that he knew he could do it if he just ran near his best.
Senior Dylan Schuck also won a medal with a sixth place finish in Division II pentathlon, with a score of 3005, just a few points off his personal best. Schuck ran a time of 16.36 in the 100-meter hurdles and cleared 5-4 1/4th in the high jump. He also had a very solid leap of 20-2 1/4th in the long jump and a personal best throw of 38-6 ¾ in the shot put. Schuck finished his day with a clocking of 4.52.13 in the 1500 meter run. Schuck, who thought he could compete for a top three medal going into the meet, scored well in every event in a very deep field. He placed 17th overall in Federation scoring (overall for Division I and II and private schools)
Danielle Asaro of Kennedy Catholic recorded two personal bests in the state meet in the 100- and 200-meter dashes. In the Division II 100-meter race, Asaro dashed to a personal best time of 12.88, which put her in 12th place. The junior recorded her second personal best time of the weekend with a clocking of 26.37 in the 200-meter dash to place 14th in Division II.
Jessica Kendzor of Kennedy Catholic placed ninth in the Division II 400-meter dash with a time of 59.14, coming within 1.26 seconds of a medal. Kendzor, a senior, had an ambitious schedule, as she only had 45 minutes of rest between the 400-meter dash and the 800-meter run, for which she also qualified. Kendzor raced to a time of 2:19.144 in the 800-meter run, which placed her 13th in Division II and 25th overall in the Federation competition.
Kennedy picked up two medals at the New York State Track and Field Championship, with senor Dylan Schuck and sophomore Mike Campobasso both placing 6th in the Division II competition. Campobasso qualified for the finals of the Division II 110 meter hurdles final with a time of 15.90 to qualify in the sixth position in the trials. In the finals, Campobasso earned a state medal with a sixth place finish in a time of 16.01. His goal going into the state meet was to win a medal and he started that he knew he could do it if he just ran near his best.
Senior Dylan Schuck also won a medal with a sixth place finish in Division II pentathlon, with a score of 3005, just a few points off his personal best. Schuck ran a time of 16.36 in the 100-meter hurdles and cleared 5-4 1/4th in the high jump. He also had a very solid leap of 20-2 1/4th in the long jump and a personal best throw of 38-6 ¾ in the shot put. Schuck finished his day with a clocking of 4.52.13 in the 1500 meter run. Schuck, who thought he could compete for a top three medal going into the meet, scored well in every event in a very deep field. He placed 17th overall in Federation scoring (overall for Division I and II and private schools)
Danielle Asaro of Kennedy Catholic recorded two personal bests in the state meet in the 100- and 200-meter dashes. In the Division II 100-meter race, Asaro dashed to a personal best time of 12.88, which put her in 12th place. The junior recorded her second personal best time of the weekend with a clocking of 26.37 in the 200-meter dash to place 14th in Division II.
Jessica Kendzor of Kennedy Catholic placed ninth in the Division II 400-meter dash with a time of 59.14, coming within 1.26 seconds of a medal. Kendzor, a senior, had an ambitious schedule, as she only had 45 minutes of rest between the 400-meter dash and the 800-meter run, for which she also qualified. Kendzor raced to a time of 2:19.144 in the 800-meter run, which placed her 13th in Division II and 25th overall in the Federation competition.
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
Chuck Slater, North County News: For State Track, Kennedy has the Numbers
Taken from June 9th, 2010, North County News, Page S7
When it comes to advancing to state competition in the ultra-competitive world of high school track and field, any team would be proud to send two representatives. This weekend, however, little Kennedy Catholic is sending four athletes – in six events - to face the best the state has to offer in the Binghamton suburb of Vestal.
Competing for the Gaels in the small-school (Division 2) showdowns will be Jessica Kendzor in the 400- and 800-meter runs, Danielle Asaro in the 100- and 200-meter dashes, Michael Campobasso in the 110-meter hurdles and Dylan Schuck in the pentathlon.
And any or all of the Somers school’s representatives could wind up on the Division 2 medal stand. Schuck off his overall performances looms as the favorite in the pentathlon. Kendzor is no worse than #2 in the 800.
“I’m kinda confident with all of them,” said Larry Elliott, the co-coach with Jacob Bergmeier, in what has been a resurgent year for the Gaels’ track program.
Kendzor, who is a regular at state competition indoors and out as well as in cross-country, has spent her time at Kennedy amassing high marks and high performances. She has written rewritten and again revised the school’s running records and currently holds *eight of them: 300, 400, 800, 1,000, *1,200, 4x400 *(indoor), 4x400 *(outdoor), and the *3.0 mile (XC). The Lehigh-bound senior, who plans to study environmental engineering, won the D-2 state qualifier 400 in 58.96, but actually ran better in the 800, with a personal-best of 2:14.52 in losing to longtime rival Henrietta Miers of Bronxville by a quarter of a second.
“Jessica has been very focused this year,” Bergmeier said. She would sometimes let things bother her. And, I think in college, where she will be working out with some kids better than her, she will improve even more.
But first comes states this weekend. And it’s not who – Miers – but when the 800 is held that concerns Kendzor.
My two events are 50 minutes apart, with the 400 first,” she said. “I’m a little nervous about that. But if I want to go out with a bang at the end of my senior season, I’ll have to deal with it.
“Jessica has a really good shot at the 800,” Bergmeier said.
Kendzor actually had nine school records until recently.
Asaro, who surprised everyone with a 26.53 victory in the 200 at state qualifier, had claimed the 200 mark.
“She blew them away in the 200,” Elliott said.
“She’s a front-runner,” Bergmeier added. “She thrives on hearing those footsteps.” The diminutive junior, Bergmeier said, is “always smiling. When she won that 200, she burst out laughing. She’s short in stature, but not strength.”
“I’ve really worked on my form; on what I needed to do on turns,” Asaro said. “Making the 100 is really what I was aiming for (second in a qualifying time of 13.12). Winning the 200 was shocking at first; when it sunk in, I was excited. Winning (at states) would be amazing.”
Asaro has turned a 12.2 100 and a 26.1 200.
Also “very surprised and extremely excited” was the youngest member of the Kennedy quartet, Campobasso. The sophomore captured the 110-meter hurdles in 15.89 seconds.
“He’s one of the most driven and dedicated kids you will ever meet,” Bergmeier said of the 100-plus student who plans to study engineering at MIT. “His abilities are incredible-he’s a former ranked gymnast and keeps getting better.”
While his time is out of medal range, Campobasso is undeterred.
“Everyone has a chance on any given day,” he said. “My goal is to go under 15 seconds (medal territory). If not this year, then next.”
Schuck, the slashing halfback and determined linebacker who turned games around in leading Kennedy to the football playoffs, shows equal versatility in track and field. While he won the state qualifier with 2,851 points in the five events of the pentathlon, he has a personal best of 3,009. The 6-1, 185 lb-pounder has had efforts that would have made states individually in the long jump – which he did as a junior – the 110-meter hurdles and is quite fast in the 1,500 meter run, the bane of many pent-athletes.
“He is tremendously strong, “ Bergmeier said.
Which makes it something of a surprise that his lowest-scoring event has been the shot put, where the two-sport athlete bound for Union College has a 34-9 best.
“We’ve been working on his shot put,” said Elliott who brought in an outside shot put coach to help Schuck last week. “Right now, we’re hoping for something close to 40 feet.”
If he gets it, the gold medal should follow.
“Just making states is such an honor,” Schuck said, “and I’m going with great teammates.”
Actually, Kennedy has had five standout athletes who helped the boys’ team finish first in their league indoors and third outdoors, while the girls finished second in both. But senior Jesse Aprile, hoping to wind up his high-school career at states, just missed out. He was a half-inch short of winning the D-2 long jump qualifiers (automatic berth) and five inches short of the qualifying distance. He also missed the triple jump by those same five inches.
“He was heartbroken,” Kendzor said, sympathetically.
*Corrections made
When it comes to advancing to state competition in the ultra-competitive world of high school track and field, any team would be proud to send two representatives. This weekend, however, little Kennedy Catholic is sending four athletes – in six events - to face the best the state has to offer in the Binghamton suburb of Vestal.
Competing for the Gaels in the small-school (Division 2) showdowns will be Jessica Kendzor in the 400- and 800-meter runs, Danielle Asaro in the 100- and 200-meter dashes, Michael Campobasso in the 110-meter hurdles and Dylan Schuck in the pentathlon.
And any or all of the Somers school’s representatives could wind up on the Division 2 medal stand. Schuck off his overall performances looms as the favorite in the pentathlon. Kendzor is no worse than #2 in the 800.
“I’m kinda confident with all of them,” said Larry Elliott, the co-coach with Jacob Bergmeier, in what has been a resurgent year for the Gaels’ track program.
Kendzor, who is a regular at state competition indoors and out as well as in cross-country, has spent her time at Kennedy amassing high marks and high performances. She has written rewritten and again revised the school’s running records and currently holds *eight of them: 300, 400, 800, 1,000, *1,200, 4x400 *(indoor), 4x400 *(outdoor), and the *3.0 mile (XC). The Lehigh-bound senior, who plans to study environmental engineering, won the D-2 state qualifier 400 in 58.96, but actually ran better in the 800, with a personal-best of 2:14.52 in losing to longtime rival Henrietta Miers of Bronxville by a quarter of a second.
“Jessica has been very focused this year,” Bergmeier said. She would sometimes let things bother her. And, I think in college, where she will be working out with some kids better than her, she will improve even more.
But first comes states this weekend. And it’s not who – Miers – but when the 800 is held that concerns Kendzor.
My two events are 50 minutes apart, with the 400 first,” she said. “I’m a little nervous about that. But if I want to go out with a bang at the end of my senior season, I’ll have to deal with it.
“Jessica has a really good shot at the 800,” Bergmeier said.
Kendzor actually had nine school records until recently.
Asaro, who surprised everyone with a 26.53 victory in the 200 at state qualifier, had claimed the 200 mark.
“She blew them away in the 200,” Elliott said.
“She’s a front-runner,” Bergmeier added. “She thrives on hearing those footsteps.” The diminutive junior, Bergmeier said, is “always smiling. When she won that 200, she burst out laughing. She’s short in stature, but not strength.”
“I’ve really worked on my form; on what I needed to do on turns,” Asaro said. “Making the 100 is really what I was aiming for (second in a qualifying time of 13.12). Winning the 200 was shocking at first; when it sunk in, I was excited. Winning (at states) would be amazing.”
Asaro has turned a 12.2 100 and a 26.1 200.
Also “very surprised and extremely excited” was the youngest member of the Kennedy quartet, Campobasso. The sophomore captured the 110-meter hurdles in 15.89 seconds.
“He’s one of the most driven and dedicated kids you will ever meet,” Bergmeier said of the 100-plus student who plans to study engineering at MIT. “His abilities are incredible-he’s a former ranked gymnast and keeps getting better.”
While his time is out of medal range, Campobasso is undeterred.
“Everyone has a chance on any given day,” he said. “My goal is to go under 15 seconds (medal territory). If not this year, then next.”
Schuck, the slashing halfback and determined linebacker who turned games around in leading Kennedy to the football playoffs, shows equal versatility in track and field. While he won the state qualifier with 2,851 points in the five events of the pentathlon, he has a personal best of 3,009. The 6-1, 185 lb-pounder has had efforts that would have made states individually in the long jump – which he did as a junior – the 110-meter hurdles and is quite fast in the 1,500 meter run, the bane of many pent-athletes.
“He is tremendously strong, “ Bergmeier said.
Which makes it something of a surprise that his lowest-scoring event has been the shot put, where the two-sport athlete bound for Union College has a 34-9 best.
“We’ve been working on his shot put,” said Elliott who brought in an outside shot put coach to help Schuck last week. “Right now, we’re hoping for something close to 40 feet.”
If he gets it, the gold medal should follow.
“Just making states is such an honor,” Schuck said, “and I’m going with great teammates.”
Actually, Kennedy has had five standout athletes who helped the boys’ team finish first in their league indoors and third outdoors, while the girls finished second in both. But senior Jesse Aprile, hoping to wind up his high-school career at states, just missed out. He was a half-inch short of winning the D-2 long jump qualifiers (automatic berth) and five inches short of the qualifying distance. He also missed the triple jump by those same five inches.
“He was heartbroken,” Kendzor said, sympathetically.
*Corrections made
Saturday, June 12, 2010
Schuck & Campobasso Medal to Lead Dynamic Kennedy Catholic Foursome to Make a Statement at the State Championships in Vestal
The JFK Roving Reporter, Armory Track
Sporting newly modified marine-style haircuts and matching v-neck black shirts, Dylan Schuck and Michael Campobasso were given instructions by Coach Elliot to make a statement by example in their events. And that, they did! Both Kennedy athletes medaled at the State Meet in Vestal, New York. Dylan Schuck placed sixth in the pentathlon and Michael Campobasso placed sixth in the 110 Meter Hurdles. Both athletes stood on the podium and were awarded NYS championship medals for their effort.
Jessica Kendzor turned in two fine performances in the 400 and the 800. Jessica finished 9th in the 400 Meter dash finals. From the 400 Meter finish line, she dashed to the clerk's booth to check into the 800 Meter run. 45 minutes after she finished the 400, she ran the 800 Meter finals and finished 11th.
Danielle Asaro made a mad dash to the finish line in the 100 Meter and 200 Meter races. She crossed the line 12th in the 100 Meters. Just a few events later, she ran the 200 Meters and finished 14th. In both cases, she ran amazingly fast.
Friends (Ms. Kastberg, Catherine Kastberg, Laura Kastberg, Anthony D., State Pole-vault Champion Carissa Leonardi, Legendary Libby Lazarre, her dad Steve & family, joined Kennedy Catholic family members, Coach Elliot, Coach Bergmeier, and Sister Janet in support of KC's exceptional track athletes. The Kennedy Catholic Track family celebrated Friday night at a Japanese Steak House (Hibachi style) and Saturday at Roscoe's Famous Restaurant in Trout City USA.
Sporting newly modified marine-style haircuts and matching v-neck black shirts, Dylan Schuck and Michael Campobasso were given instructions by Coach Elliot to make a statement by example in their events. And that, they did! Both Kennedy athletes medaled at the State Meet in Vestal, New York. Dylan Schuck placed sixth in the pentathlon and Michael Campobasso placed sixth in the 110 Meter Hurdles. Both athletes stood on the podium and were awarded NYS championship medals for their effort.
Jessica Kendzor turned in two fine performances in the 400 and the 800. Jessica finished 9th in the 400 Meter dash finals. From the 400 Meter finish line, she dashed to the clerk's booth to check into the 800 Meter run. 45 minutes after she finished the 400, she ran the 800 Meter finals and finished 11th.
Danielle Asaro made a mad dash to the finish line in the 100 Meter and 200 Meter races. She crossed the line 12th in the 100 Meters. Just a few events later, she ran the 200 Meters and finished 14th. In both cases, she ran amazingly fast.
Friends (Ms. Kastberg, Catherine Kastberg, Laura Kastberg, Anthony D., State Pole-vault Champion Carissa Leonardi, Legendary Libby Lazarre, her dad Steve & family, joined Kennedy Catholic family members, Coach Elliot, Coach Bergmeier, and Sister Janet in support of KC's exceptional track athletes. The Kennedy Catholic Track family celebrated Friday night at a Japanese Steak House (Hibachi style) and Saturday at Roscoe's Famous Restaurant in Trout City USA.
Saturday, June 5, 2010
Entergy – North County News – “Athlete of the Week” – Danielle Asaro
North County News; June 2nd, 2010; Back Cover
Danielle Asaro
Kennedy Catholic High School
Junior
Track
Events: 100-meters, 200-meters
Kennedy Catholic’s Danielle Asaro qualified for states in both the 100-meters and 200-meters at the State Qualifier Meet at Arlington High School last weekend. She placed first in the 200-meterswith a time of 26.53 and second in the 100-meters in 13.03.
Note (Pick up a copy of the NCN & see the great picture of Danielle Asaro, courtesy of Tim Fulton).
Danielle Asaro
Kennedy Catholic High School
Junior
Track
Events: 100-meters, 200-meters
Kennedy Catholic’s Danielle Asaro qualified for states in both the 100-meters and 200-meters at the State Qualifier Meet at Arlington High School last weekend. She placed first in the 200-meterswith a time of 26.53 and second in the 100-meters in 13.03.
Note (Pick up a copy of the NCN & see the great picture of Danielle Asaro, courtesy of Tim Fulton).
Friday, June 4, 2010
Roy Arnesen, NCN: Nine North County Athletes Reach States
Taken from: North County News; June 2, 2010; S19
Boys
Kennedy Catholic also qualified two athletes for states in Division II. Dylan Schuck, a senior, won the pentathlon with a score of 2,851 points. Schuck scored well in all 5 events. He clocked 16.66 for the 110-meter hurdles, threw the shot put 34-4 ¼, high jumped 5-3, long jumped 19-7 ½ and ran the 1,500 meters run in a time of 4:47.97. Another Gael, Michael Campobasso won the Division II 110-meter hurdles in a time of 15.89 to also qualify for states.
Kennedy Catholic very nearly had three athletes at states, as senior Jesse Aprile placed second in the Division II long jump with a leap of 20-1 ½. He also ran well in the 100 meters, clocking 11.67 in the finals for a fourth-place finish.
Girls
Kennedy Qualifies 2 Girls
Four North County athletes qualified in six events.
Kennedy Catholic’s Jessica Kendzor and Danielle Asaro both qualified for states in Division II in two events. Kendzor placed second in the D II 800-meter run in a personal best time of 2:14.52, which was just .26 from first place, and well under the standard to earn a trip to states. She came back on day 2 to win the 400-meter dash in a time of 58.96. She is ranked third in the state in Division II in the 800-meter run and is ranked eighth in the 400-meter dash.
Asaro placed second in the D-II 100-meter dash with a time of 13.03 to earn a ticket to states. She came back on day two to win the 200-meter dash in a time of 26.53.
She is ranked 14th in the state in the 100-meter dash and 17th in the 200-meter dash.
Kennedy almost added two more athletes to their state roster. Asaro, Breeda Mannion, Catherine Kastberg and Kendzor placed second in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 4:14.10. Their season best time just missed the second place-qualifying standard of 4:07.74.
Boys
Kennedy Catholic also qualified two athletes for states in Division II. Dylan Schuck, a senior, won the pentathlon with a score of 2,851 points. Schuck scored well in all 5 events. He clocked 16.66 for the 110-meter hurdles, threw the shot put 34-4 ¼, high jumped 5-3, long jumped 19-7 ½ and ran the 1,500 meters run in a time of 4:47.97. Another Gael, Michael Campobasso won the Division II 110-meter hurdles in a time of 15.89 to also qualify for states.
Kennedy Catholic very nearly had three athletes at states, as senior Jesse Aprile placed second in the Division II long jump with a leap of 20-1 ½. He also ran well in the 100 meters, clocking 11.67 in the finals for a fourth-place finish.
Girls
Kennedy Qualifies 2 Girls
Four North County athletes qualified in six events.
Kennedy Catholic’s Jessica Kendzor and Danielle Asaro both qualified for states in Division II in two events. Kendzor placed second in the D II 800-meter run in a personal best time of 2:14.52, which was just .26 from first place, and well under the standard to earn a trip to states. She came back on day 2 to win the 400-meter dash in a time of 58.96. She is ranked third in the state in Division II in the 800-meter run and is ranked eighth in the 400-meter dash.
Asaro placed second in the D-II 100-meter dash with a time of 13.03 to earn a ticket to states. She came back on day two to win the 200-meter dash in a time of 26.53.
She is ranked 14th in the state in the 100-meter dash and 17th in the 200-meter dash.
Kennedy almost added two more athletes to their state roster. Asaro, Breeda Mannion, Catherine Kastberg and Kendzor placed second in the 4x400-meter relay with a time of 4:14.10. Their season best time just missed the second place-qualifying standard of 4:07.74.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Not a Dry Eye In the Place
Taken from The JFK Observer, Armory Track:
The annual Kennedy Catholic spring track dinner was held in the Lakeside Room on Tuesday, June 1st. Laughter permeated the room. Tears were in abundance. ‘Twas was a family affair.
As the emotion “runneth over,” athletes were honored with a cornucopia of medals, honors and plaques. Most Valuable Player Awards were bestowed upon Jessica Kendzor, Dylan Schuck and Jesse Aprile. The Most Improved Athlete Awards were awarded to Danielle Asaro and Anthony Djerdjaj.
The seniors were honored by the underclassmen in word and in gift. Sister Janet Meehan, longtime coach and longtime fan of track and field was there to wish her seniors well.
Jessica Kendzor thanked Mr. Jake Bergmeier for 4 years of genuine zeal, ardent enthusiasm, sincerity and encouragement. She noted that his discourse with her Lehigh University coach helped her to land a lucrative alumni track grant that will allow her to attend the college of her dreams. Eric DiNome complimented Coach B’s superb photography. Eric suggested that the track team members consider him as their wedding photographer. Brendan Page thanked Mr. Bergmeier for tips on running shoes and a bobbing head. Mr. B is also the authority on shoe matters for the team.
Tears flowing, Breeda Mannion thanked Coach Frank Mannion, her daddy. She gave her dad his due. She brought smiles to the crowd as she explained that thanks, in part to her dad, she WILL BE ATTENDING NAVY! In time, she will compete on the track against her longtime friend and running partner, Jessica Kendzor in the Patriot League.
Coach Elliot ‘s Top Ten once again met the controversial standards that he alone has set so high. He never fails to entertain. Jesse Aprile, however, upstaged his act, this night. Jesse stole the spotlight with a moving tribute to Coach El. In this author’s own admission, Jesse’s speech was the best that I heard in years. Coach Bergmeier hopes to acquire Jesse’s speech and frame Jesse’s words on the blog.
The Schuck family provided a DVD of season highlights put to music. Everyone enjoyed the jumps, throws, and runs. Even Coach Elliot was shocked and awed. There was a special clip about our seniors. Don Schuck caught many touching moments throughout the year and Debbie Schuck must have spent an inordinate amount of time to prepare the DVD. Many commented on the professional aspects of the DVD. Every track athlete will receive a DVD.
Finally, as an additional highlight of the night, Alex Cecere sat back and enjoyed while his brother, Hollywood-bound Zach and Stand-Up Comedian, Matt, announced this season’s Couples Awards. This year there were 2 couples. Couple #1: Michael Campobasso and Danielle Asaro. Couple #2: Danielle Asaro and Anthony Djerdjaj. Pictures are shown here so that you can cast your vote. Dial 555-1212; ask for information.
So it was. Not a dry eye in the place.
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