High School Zone: Hudson Valley NY
Some of the top junior varsity programs in the Hudson Valley will be preparing for the start of the season at a round-robin preseason scrimmage event at John Jay High School in Cross River on Sunday, March 23. You can check out the schedule here. Have a recruiting commitment to report? Send an email to […]
Rob Dean is best known in Section 1 in New York’s Hudson Valley as a football standout. The senior at Our Lady of Lourdes in Poughkeepsie was a two-year starter at tight end and linebacker, helping the Warriors win a Section 1 title. Dean’s college future is at lacrosse. That future will be further south […]
No. 1-ranked Rochester Institute of Technology and Western New England University, two of the nation’s top Division III programs, will be battling it out at a neutral site on Saturday when they meet in a noon game at Iona Prep in New Rochelle, N.Y. Both teams have players from the NY/NJ/CT tristate region. You can […]
Alex Weber, the former standout attackman at the University of Pennsylvania who now coaches the varsity team at Harvard Westlake High School (Calif.), produced and directed “COMMITTED,” a documentary on lacrosse recruiting videotaped this past summer at Maverik Showtime National Lacrosse Recruiting Spotlight. You can watch the trailer here. Lacrosse has taken Alex Weber to […]
Giants coach Tom Coughlin addresses Iona Prep players at the Quest Diagnostics Training Facility in East Rutherford, N.J., as Iona Prep coach Rick Trizano, right, looks on. For New Rochelle, N.Y.-based Iona Prep, the scheduled start of practice earlier this week wound up being a perfect storm of problems. “Due to the weather issues we […]
Having launched its varsity lacrosse program in 1996, Somers High School is a relative newcomer on the Hudson Valley lacrosse landscape when compared to such established programs as Yorktown, John Jay and Mahopac. But it didn’t take the Tuskers long to emerge as one of the elite teams in Section 1, as they won four […]
Hudson Valley heavyweight John Jay has one of the most impressive streaks in the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region. The Indians have advanced to the Section 1 title game 10 straight years. Getting beyond that point has been a challenge, though, as JJ must defeat Yorktown in order […]
UMass Athletics You’d have a hard time trying to name a freshman who’s had a bigger immediate impact at the Division I level than Nick Mariano. The attackman at UMass, an All-American for Yorktown last year, is putting up big numbers and is one of the main reasons the Minutemen are 3-0. For more, check […]
We recently released our inaugural Tristate Top 100 preseason player rankings. While there were no precise numerical rankings for each player, they were ranked in groups of 10, beginning with the first group of 10 (Players 1-10) and ending with the final group of 10 (Players 90-100). Our reason for doing that is to underscore […]
And we’re off. At least, rankings-wise, that is. Once the 2014 varsity season gets under way just over a month from now, we’ll be posting updated rankings each Sunday. Now, to get things started, here are our preseason rankings. Feel free to post any questions or comments about the selections here. Without further ado, we […]
Bryan Cahill’s roots were planted just outside the nation’s tradition-rich and proud home base of lacrosse, Baltimore. He’s now playing in the heart of the nation’s No. 1 hotspot for the lacrosse, the New York/New Jersey/Connecticut tristate region. Next up for the Class of 2015 midfielder at Trinity-Pawling School (N.Y.): a college career at the […]
The Red/Gray Preseason Classic, hosted by Somers High School in New York’s Hudson Valley, has emerged as one of the premier multi-team scrimmages in the tristate region. This year marks the event’s sixth season. Action is set to get under way on Saturday morning, March 22. That day marks the first test of 2014 for […]
