Here’s a rundown of the All-Section 1 selections, including honorable-mention selections, as well as a look at the all-Americans, academic all-Americans, Scholar-Athletes and class and overall Section 1 coach of the year for the 2010 season.
Section One coach of the year
Jim Lindsay, Lakeland/Panas
Section One
Assistant coach of the year
Matt Garcia, Lakeland/Panas
Class A coach of the year
Jim Lindsay, Lakeland/Panas
Class B coach of the year
Tim Schurr, John Jay
Class C coach of the year
Brian Kuczma, Putnam Valley
Academic all-Americans
Greg Smyth, John Jay
Louis Sobel, Mamaroneck
Ryan McGee, White Plains
Scholar-Athletes
David Benudis, Mamaroneck
Jeff Hassen, Scarsdale
Harrison Kane, Ossining
Derek Koelsch, Yorktown
Remy Lieberman, Yorktown
Tim Meyer, Brewster
Andrew Nicol, Brewster
Adam Tanne, Horace Greeley
Cole McCormack, Rye
All-Americans
| NAME | SCHOOL | GRADE | POSITION |
| John Brandofino | Mahopac | 12 | Attack |
| Mike Daniello | John Jay | 11 | Attack |
| Jameson Pickel | John Jay | 12 | Defense |
| Ryan Fitzgerald | Putnam Valley | 12 | Attack |
| Bobby Sincero | Hendrick Hudson | 12 | Goalie |
| Andy Fazio | Lakeland/Panas | 12 | Defense |
| Shawn Honovich | Lakeland/Panas | 12 | Midfield |
| Conor Prunty | Lakeland/Panas | 11 | Midfield |
| Kevin Interlicchio | Yorktown | 12 | Attack |
All-Section
| Name | School | Name | School |
| Greg Petre | Somers | Brian Bauersfeld | Scarsdale |
| Erik Pfiffner | Somers | Dan Leventhal | Horace Greeley |
| Matt Deiana | Somers | Nate Becker | Horace Greeley |
| Eddie Schurr | Somers | Cameron Stephens | Fox Lane |
| John Bello | Somers | Matt McDermott | Hendrick Hudson |
| Michael Collins | Rye | AJ Small | Hendrick Hudson |
| Christian Bonaventura | Rye | Greg Mooney | Nanuet |
| Cole McCormack | Rye | Connor Ferguson | Mamaroneck |
| Stephen Burke | Yorktown | Doug Eich | Pelham |
| Joey Porcelli | Yorktown | Conor Fraylick | Pleasantville |
| Remy Lieberman | Yorktown | Eric Hammershlag | Suffern |
| Tyler Schuldt | Yorktown | Kevin McNally | Suffern |
| Justin Mabus | Yorktown | Andrew Nicol | Brewster |
| Jamie McCulloch | Ossining | Tim Meyer | Brewster |
| Timothy Curran | North Salem | Dan O’Gorman | Putnam Valley |
| Ryan McGee | White Plains | John McLean | Putnam Valley |
| Michael Trapp | White Plains | Kevin Christopher | Putnam Valley |
| Joe Wood | Bronxville | Brendan McCrudden | Putnam Valley |
| Chris Walsh | Bronxville | Shane Kelly | Putnam Valley |
| Forrest Walter | John Jay | William Fallo | Lakeland-Panas |
| Jake Weil | John Jay | Robert Caffrey | Lakeland-Panas |
| Jimmy Morris | John Jay | Chris Monteferante | Lakeland-Panas |
| Will O’Donnel | John Jay | Okie Bernabo | Mahopac |
| Greg Smyth | John Jay | Chase Thompson | Mahopac |
| Daniel Lohrfink | Byram Hills | James Burke | Clarkstown South |
All-Section Honorable Mention
| NAME | SCHOOL | NAME | SCHOOL |
| Robert Belger | Lakeland/Panas | Bryan Bergstol | Suffern |
| Zach Salvia | Brewster | Mario Allegra | Suffern |
| Jesse Troy | Arlington | Matt Oliverio | Scarsdale |
| Joe Delia | Arlington | Jeff Hassan | Scarsdale |
| Connor Lindsey | Arlington | Dave Massi | Eastchester |
| TJ Foley | Mahopac | To Cirillo | Eastchester |
| Kevin Carey | Mahopac | Norman Greenfield | White Plains |
| Johnny McGuigan | Mahopac | Luke DAlessandro | Hastings |
| Joey Bonitatibus | Yorktown | John Bucci | Sleepy Hollow |
| Derek Koelsch | Yorktown | Peter Crissara | Irvington |
| Logan Bagarozy | Putnam Valley | Jack Near | Bronxville |
| Kyle Fanning | Hendrick Hudson | Charlie McCormick | Bronxville |
| Cody Triccoli | Hendrick Hudson | Brendan Morris | John Jay |
| Greg Bardwell | Ossining | Zack Waldman | John Jay |
| Chris Wood | North Salem | Andrew Larrabee | Byram Hills |
| David Pojman | Croton | Jordan Pollack | Byram Hills |
| Jake Danehy | Mamaroneck | Hunter Bastian | Horace Greeley |
| Peter Conley | Mamaroneck | Adam Tanne | Horace Greeley |
| Sam Christiansen | Mamaroneck | Alex Aponte | Pleasantville |
| Conor Morris | Fox Lane | Sean Brown | Pleasantville |
| Anthony Grasso | Fox Lane | Zach Colangelo | Pleasantville |
| Tyler Esposito | Nanuet | Mark Paul | Tappan Zee |
| TJ Dertinger | Nanuet | Brian Jennings | Wappingers |
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Congrats to all, including and perhaps especially, the Scholar Athletes and academic AA’s!
that a boy matzoh
No love for Yonkers? Geez.
Otherwise, congratulations to all on your outstanding seasons.
Seem like solid picks – what are there 47 all-sections judging by what I counted… Someone said there were only gonna be 40??? Did they expand the number??
Congrats all! Thanks Joe for getting this printed.
Count again, laxtime. There are 50.
Congratulations to all.
Congrats to all!!
Kudos to those winning academic awards – very tough to mix both sports and schoolwork. They obviously did it well.
coach jim coach matt three kings thank you guys for a great year. all the rest of you athletes congrats. enjoy your summer and be safe.
Question — can you be an Academic All-American and All-American? Ex: If Smyth was an All-American would he still be eligable for the Academic All-American?
Does anybody know what the criteria are for either of the academic honors, Academic All-American or Scholar-Athlete?
So if it’s 50 that’s the same number of all sections as last year so they didn’t cut the number.
Section picks went from 65 to 50. Cannot be both Academic AA and AA. Top ten finishers based upon GPA, standardized test scores, references, essay and playing are awarded AAA–first three get scholarship money and last seven do not. Chapter calls the last seven scholar athletes but I think US Lax calls all ten AAA.
Mush ~
Get your facts straight on this one
– Academic All-American awards are only given to seniors
– Coaches do not exactly nominate anyone.
– The HV and US Lax process is almost exactly like the college application process,
– The student athlete has a lot of work to do on their own.
HV Lacrosse has this clearly defined on their website…..
http://files.leagueathletics.com/Text/Documents/1921/22572.doc
Who was the last JJ athlete to be an Academic All American prior to Smyth, this season?
There is no set criteria for scholar athletes. There is an application form to fill out etc with accomplishments etc.
It blows my mind that you cannot be both an All-American and an Academic All-American/Scholar Athlete. I think it sends a bad message that you can have a stud on the lacrosse field who is deemed an All-American and the same kid can excel in the classroom but cannot receive the honor of being an Academic All-American/Scholar Athlete. To me it makes no sense. I would think that we would want to promote the fact that there are kids who are gifted athletes and students. After all we honor them as All-Section/All -Section Honorable Mention players and as Academic All-Americans/Scholar Athletes.
So they cut the # of all sections by 15.
It is strange that a player would not be eligible for both awards — if they are deserving of it.
if an athlete was eligible to win both AA and academic AA, do you think smyth could have pulled it off this year?
I truly believe that the idea is to honor as many different players as possible for the slots alloted. Why anyone would complain about their kid being named to only ONE All-America team shows you just how selfish and obsessive some parents are. I can fairly assume that there are likely dozens of HS varsity lax players in Section 1 with GPAs of 3.9 or better. Why we can’t name 12 different Academic All-Americans/Scholar athletes to the nine All-Americans, all of whom are outstanding examples of the types of kids coming out of schools today, without the same bitching/whining/complaining that parents feel entitled to is sad to see. These are the same parents who will be bitching about awards on Graduation Day too, why Johnny didn’t get the English AND the Math awards, instead of simply enjoying the day.
Even though you should be able to win both, I think there are very few kids if any that would even be stronly considered for both.
AA is picked before academic AA. Once you are picked for AA you are no longer considered for Acad AA. As for the Smith question, the answer is actually no since he did not get AA which was voted on first. Only kid who might have been a two way candidate this year was McCormick from Rye but I understand he was not put up for AA due to his injury. I like the point of LAxxxx that receiving any one of the nine AAs or ten Acad AAs is a true honor. Congrats.
?So if you are picked as an AA, you can’t win the money as an academic AA? That doesn’t seem fair. It’s better, then, not to be an AA first if you have a chance for the academic honors? Can the player choose which he’d rather receive?
Its some money but not huge bucks. Only goes to the first three in decreasing amounts–I think (not sure) 750, 500, 250. Think AA bigger deal on lax.
Lax novice I agree that it is nice to see many players receive awards. As to your point that they are trying to honor as many kids as possible they are still honoring some All-Section and Honorable Mention players with Academic accolades as well. I don’t think anyone is complaining I think it is more like why an All-American can’t be recognized for being smart as well. I agree with laxdog and laxxxxxx if they deserve the honor they should receive the honor. This year senior All-American list may not qualify for that honor but in the future I truly believe that we should re-think it.
I really don’t understand the obsession with this. These are subjective awards that are based on meeting very high standards, there is no “most deserving” objective criteria. Did you think they simply take the top 12 GPAs and call them Academic AAs? Even then you’d still have people whining that their guy took 4 AP courses and somebody with a higher GPA took 2, or none. So if you can define “deserving” other than “my son should win both” please just relax and appreciate the honor as they’re already organized.
By the way, the flip side of this are the guys who use “D1 recruits” to measure the strength of their team and program. There’s obviously top academic schools with D1 programs, like the Ivys. But I’d presume that most of the Academic AAs are going to similar top schools like Amherst, Tufts (D3 2010 champion) and others in D3 because its the best for the student-athlete’s future, and allows them to continue their lacrosse careers. That’s the way to best honor them, by recognizing that there are guys who have D1 skills but choose D3 because it’s a better road to their future, and not disparage their choice because it’s not D1.
Lax Novice brings up an interesting point. While many programs (or at least some of their supporters) brag about the number of D-1 recruits, each year in the region there are a number of top players who choose for educational reasons to attend an Amherst, Williams, Tufts, Middlebury, Washington and Lee, Wesleyan, etc. rather than a D-1 school. There are real academic differences between some of these schools and many D-1 schools, as well as differences in the educational environment as whole, and kudos should be given to the kids who achieve top academic activities as well as excelling in their sport and have the opportunity to make these choices. That is not to say that there are not, in addition to the Ivies, great D-1 schools with terrific lax programs and educational opportunities. But the fact that some of these kids are “not going D-1” does not mean that they can’t play at that level, but rather that they had the opportunity to choose a different type of school.
Congrats to Coach Lindsay and Coach Garcia!
laxerfan–agreed. Stern from JJ in ’09, Froats from Town in ’08–both recruited for solid D-I programs but opted for Williams and Wesleyan instead. The only two in this year’s group of Academics that I know were recruited for D-I programs (as oppossed to attending to a D-I school) were McCormack from Rye who is going to Cornell and Lieberman from Town who is joining Froats at Wesleyan. Something to be said for Ivy and Little Ivy.
so let me ask Lax Novice this — if you want to honor as many players as possible why are some players getting 2 awards?
Congrats all!
I like the way they did the coaches of the year by class. All are deserving but it would have been nice to recognize someone who did a good job from a non sectional title winning team. Thoughts?
Congrats all
Congrats all.