- By Dan Veaner
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Varsity Boys Swimming & Diving Team
"On behalf of all the student athletes and coaches I'd like to thank our school administrators, our Board Of Education, our buildings and grounds department, our transportation department, all the fans and all the parents for your support this winter," said Athletic Director Ed Redmond. "It was an outstanding season."
Athletic Director Ed Redmond
The gym was filled with cheers as Redmond and the coaches honored the Booster Club, Varsity Boys Swimming & Diving, JV Cheerleading, Varsity Cheerleading, JV Girls Basketball, Varsity Girls Basketball, JV Boys Basketball, Varsity Boys Basketball, Varsity Girls and Boys Indoor Track, Varsity Girls and Boys Bowling, and the Varsity Wrestling Team.
Redmond encouraged the athletes to continue striving for excellence. "This year as an athletic program we finished fourth this year overall in sportsmanship in the IAC. We slipped two notches from the fall so we need to improve on that for the spring. I'm hoping that perhaps in the spring we can bring home the Sportsmanship Award."
 JV & Varsity Winter Sports AwardsMarch 14, 2007 Contributed by Cheryl Doucett and Coaches Winter Athletic Awards night was held on Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 7:00 in the high school gymnasium. One hundred sixty student/athletes received either JV or Varsity certificates for their chosen sport. Varsity pins were distributed to each varsity player, Varsity L’s were given to athletes that completed their first varsity sport season. Most Valuable and Most Improved plaques, as well as Coaches Awards were distributed to individual Varsity Athletes. Varsity Wrestling – Kyle Dake – Most Valuable Wrestler Varsity Wrestling – Jon Glennon – Outstanding Freshmen Wrestler Varsity Wrestling – Curtis Fenner – Coaches Award Varsity Boys Swimming – Hans Roser – Most Valuable Swimmer Varsity Boys Swimming – David Bandler – Most Improved Swimmer Varsity Boys Swimming – Sterling Gell – Coaches Award Varsity Boys Swimming – Aaron Mychack – Coaches Award  Varsity Cheerleading – Rebecca Drake – Coaches Award Varsity Girls Basketball – Randi Lyn Randall – Most Valuable Player Varsity Girls Basketball – Megan Palladino – Most Improved Player Varsity Boys Basketball – Sam Burns – Most Improved Player Varsity Boys Basketball – Chris Reukauf – Coaches Award Varsity Girls Bowling – Sara Johnson – Keggler Award Varsity Girls Bowling – Rachel Strohman – Keggler Award  Varsity Boys Bowling Team Varsity Boys Bowling – Jon LaRock – Keggler Award Varsity Boys Bowling – Kyle Christopher – High Average Award Indoor Track & Field – Jeff Swayze – Most Improved Runner Indoor Track & Field – Rusty Landon – Coaches Award Indoor Track & Field – Jeremy Petak – Coaches Award Indoor Track & Field – Ryann Cretney – Coaches Award Indoor Track & Field – Anna Mapes – Most Improved Player NYSPHSAA Scholar Athlete Team Award Two of our Varsity Teams qualified for the Scholar Athlete Award. To receive this award a varsity team must have an over-all average of 90 or above from a designated number of student/athletes that participated in a varsity sport of their choice. The teams that qualified and the team composite-grade point average are listed below: Varsity Wrestling The Lansing Wrestling team ended it's 2006-2007 season in historic fashon. The trio of Jon Glennon, Curtis Fenner, and Kyle Dake participated in the NYSPHSAA State Wrestling Tournament conducted March 2nd and 3rd in Albany at the Times Union Arena. Fenner, a senior, qualified for his first State tournament as at large bid after placing second in the section IV state qualifier at 145 pounds. Curtis went 2-2 on the tournament, needing just one more win to place.  Kyle Dake Freshman Jon Glennon also qualified as an at large participant placing third in the section IV tournament. Wrestling 140 pounds, Glennon had a great tournament winning his first 2 matches before losing to eventual state champion Dave Perrrigo of Govenour. Glennon came back after the loss and placed 4th ahead of section IV 140# champion Justin Wolcott of Waverly. Sophmore Kyle Dake competed in his second consecutive State Tournament and accomplished what no Lansing Wrestler had ever done. He went undefeated, 43-0, gave up only 2 points in 2 separate matches, and was Crowned NYSPHSAA 112 pound State Champion. After pinning Mike Gomez of Locust Valley in the final, the NYS sectional wrestling chairman voted Kyle the Division 2 Most Outstanding Wrestler. This performance netted Lansing a 8th place finish as a team in the State Tournament. Varsity Girls Track & Field Kayla Arrison Lindsay Eisenhut Anna Mapes Colleen Trowbridge Ryann Cretney Heather Hummel Chloe Ryan Team overall average: 94.058 Varsity Girls Basketball Cassandra Smith Kendal Dean Megan Palladino Randi Lyn Randall MC Barrett Rachael Palladino Katie Fenner Team overall average: 91.724 Varsity Boys Swimming qualified All-American Automatic Coach: Reed Dewey Four of our Varsity Swimmers; Jake Sangren, Hans Roser, Aaron Mychack and Sterling Gell qualify for All-American Swimmers. They qualified All-American Automatic (AAA) in the Medley Relay, with a time of 1:37.18. It was one of the fastest times in state history and shattered the old Section IV and IAC research records. Hans Roser was also All-America Automatic in the Breast Stroke with a 58.73. Jake Sangren was All-America Consideration (AAC) in the 100 Backstroke with a time of 53.22, they hit AAA time a week later in Boston, swimming a 52 mid. AA indicates they are in the top in the USA. AAA insures a substantially high rank within the top 100. These four athletes are the best in the USA. Hans Roser will be ranked among the top 30 in the breast at Junior Nationals next week. Jake Sangren is ranked 42nd in the back stroke. |
The Teams |
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