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All-Star Moments, State Champs & What’s Next

• John Lim • Season 1 • Episode 17

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In Episode 17 of The Winning Moments Show, we close out an unforgettable Section 1 basketball season — from emotional goodbyes to all-time performances — and officially turn the page to spring sports.

We break down the Senior All-Star Game, including a dunk contest that shocked everyone and a three-point shootout that went down to the wire. Then we dive into the All-Section selections, highlighting elite talent like Jake Pampalina, Brandon Burrell, Anthony Ficarrotta, and more.

On the girls side? DOMINANCE.

We’re talking state champions, historic runs, and programs setting the standard across New York — including Tapan Zee and YMA making serious noise.

Plus, we show love to the coaches, athletic directors, and behind-the-scenes grinders who make this whole thing go.

And now… it’s time for SPRING.

Lacrosse, baseball, softball, golf, tennis — we’re covering it ALL. But we need YOU. Send in highlights and let’s keep building something special for these kids.

This isn’t just a show — it’s a movement.


00:00 Intro
00:27 Spring Show Kickoff
03:49 Section 1 Awards & Basketball Wrap
07:21 Senior All-Star Game (Dunks + 3PT Contest)
22:10 Boys All-Section Breakdown
42:23 Girls State Championship Recap
56:23 Shoutout: ADs & Community Impact
01:01:16 Spring Sports Expansion Announcement
01:04:21 Outro

Send us your highlights, your stories, your moments at TheWinningMoments.com so we can spotlight these athletes the way they deserve. - @winningmoments.com

SPEAKER_01

And welcome back to the Winnie Moments Show. Our first spring show, Coach. Absolutely. I don't know why Coach is wearing a fur jacket over there.

SPEAKER_00

It's because it's like 48 degrees with a wind chill.

SPEAKER_01

I'm fighting spring. It's t-shirt time now, Coach. T-shirt time. Guns out. Fighting t-shirt. We have an amazing show for you guys. Uh today we want to talk about uh this is a this is a little bit of a sad show, I would say, coach.

SPEAKER_00

Yes, yes, it is. I mean, it's the end of basketball season, and but we are we do have right on our doorstep the beginning of spring sports. And I'm we're excited for that. We're excited to be covering that. Um we're gonna definitely need our coaches and our and our and our administrators, our ADs from around section one to make sure that they get the information to us that we can report on it and we can uh bring our kids um the proper due, give them the proper due that they deserve for the hard work that they put in.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, technically we're we're we're behind. These kids have already been rocking spring sports for about two weeks now. Yep. Uh thank God that basically everyone in section one is traveling. Rumor is they're all traveling to the Bahamas next week. A lot of them are. So yeah. But yes, we are uh I want to give a shout out to basketball. So all of the kids and the coaches and the ADs, uh everyone involved, section one, the entire organization, uh our counterpart right now is taking the the the day off. Uh well-deserved. Well-deserved day off. Well deserved. Who's not here with us today? Him and everybody else made this basketball season so special, and that's how the winning moments started. Absolutely. It was basketball. We hopped into it and we embraced it, and you guys embraced us. And I couldn't be more grateful uh for you guys. As coach said, we are moving the show to all spring sports. So we will not be covering just one sport moving forward. We'll be covering all spring sports. People think we have a huge crew behind us, but we don't.

SPEAKER_00

We have two outstanding individuals, Claudio, our executive producer, and then Justin, who's uh who's his assistant executive producer as well. They do a phenomenal job, and we're very grateful to have them with us. Yeah, and Kevin handles a lot of the and then Kevin Devaney. We uh you know, listen, we uh I I want to say this personally Kevin Devaney for him to do what he's done for us, it's very special. Um, you can tell his heart and and and is sincere and he cares about the kids in section one, and um just enjoyed working with him, you know, this this during the winter time and look forward to working with him on a continued basis. So he's fantastic.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, I mean he's the hardest working man in section one. And uh some of the interviews that we'll get uh with Kevin, his reporting uh might or might not be while he's hard at work on the golf course as an avid golf.

SPEAKER_00

He loves the links. He loves the links. There's nothing wrong with that. I think he I think it's well deserved for him to get out there and hit the ball, chase that ball around a little bit. Nothing wrong with that. Maybe that's our new t-shirt. Love the links.

SPEAKER_01

Love it for Kevin, love the links. They might not let it in every country club in Westchester, but we'll give it make a small little logo. Love the links. I like that. I like it, I like it. Love the links. Well, listen, I mean, I just got to spend the night with Kevin uh at the awards dinner for the Section One Boys. Yeah. Uh congratulations to all of the kids that were all section, all class, uh, the academic award, which I completely.

SPEAKER_00

Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Uh there were so many ones.

SPEAKER_00

Bill Tom, Bill Tom Sr., former Croton Harmon coach, legend, legendary Croton Harmon coach. Um he's the one that that brought the Court of Excellence to Section One. Phenomenal uh award, phenomenal achievement, and um continue. I you know, but obviously excellence on the basketball court, also excellence where? In the in the classroom. I mean, excellence everywhere.

SPEAKER_01

Those kids got up there and there was crazy. How about the resume? I felt lazy. I felt lazy and unaccomplished. Every time they called a new kid, it was like, okay, not only is he smart, not only does he play basketball, not only does he volunteer, but some of them actually coach. Some of them built an app. Like I'm sitting here, like, man, I know.

SPEAKER_00

It's crazy.

SPEAKER_01

I looked at my son, I'm like, hey, buddy, uh, do you know how unaccomplished I feel right now listening to these kids?

SPEAKER_00

It's amazing what the kids have done, their GPAs, all the things that they do. The community service is is unbelievable. Some of the things they do, and and uh, you know, to serve the community in our area um and to serve underserved communities as well. It's a it's an amazing accomplishment to make the court of excellence. It's a really big to-do and a really big deal, absolutely.

SPEAKER_01

And listen, before we talk about that that evening, that's why sports is so important, and that's why this show is so important to us. We want to highlight all of the kids that don't normally get highlights. Highlights are meant for college and pro, but high school sports is so important for shaping the future of kids' lives. Amen. Right? Whether you play sports going forward, and some of these young men will, and some of these young ladies do, or you just go to college, right? Knowing that you have this how it is to be a team, a team member, a team player, work hard, the ethical teach sports teaches you so much in life. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. So you know, you have to you have to uh interact with people, you have to be, you have to um work for the collective success uh of a group. You have to learn how to sacrifice maybe some of your individuality for the betterment of the team and the program. So all those things carry on with you once you leave high school and leave high school athletics. And for many of our kids, you know, we we're very lucky. A lot of our kids are gonna go play collegiately at some level, um uh, you know, in in basketball. Uh however, not everybody is. So a lot of people, as we talked about before, and we've discussed this, it's a finite amount of time in high school. Yeah, four years. How do you want to remember it? And I hope that we're doing something where the kids that don't get a chance to play collegiately, they can look back on our show and and and pull up an episode and say, I remember when I was on the show, or I remember when you know I got interviewed, or I remember them giving us a shout out. That's a memory that lasts forever.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, it's so great to see the kids. I the bunch of kids are wearing the bracelets, right? That we gave them out for the championship side. So it's been a blast. It's been a blast. And yes, we will change the the set next week and you'll have a different version of this. But since it is still March Madness, coach. It is. Okay, and we still have a little bit of basketball left. I want to talk about the the senior All-Star game. Okay. Yes. I want to talk about this. These they did a great job of not only having these kids have their last game and get to play this year, they got to play with all different people uh from different classes.

SPEAKER_00

Much better format. Uh, my son was fortunate enough to play in the in the senior game four years ago with Jalen Savage, his teammate, uh uh Nazareth All-American, and and just finished his career at Nazareth. And it was it was split up, but it was split up like by you know, multi-class. Yeah. I love the three-team thing. So if you could talk about that and tell the people how they've changed it, everybody seemed to really have l really loved it. Um, the format the way it is now, the new format.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, listen, credit, credit to them, credit to Anthony Nicodemo, to John Aguilar, uh, to everyone that was part of that that organization that put that together. What I loved about it was that my son, who played, right, he's a class B kid, Sebastian, he got to play with on the same team with people he never would have played with, right? Because even in AAU, you're you're not even playing with all of these kids because there's so many AAU teams. Right. In this case, the three-team format was great. I mean, listen, they could add a four-team, no problem if they had enough kids, but mixing the classes, right, where Sebastian got to play against uh Jake Pampolina. It's funny because I'm sitting next to next to Jake's dad, Carl, right? And we're just laughing and talking about life. And uh, you know, he was telling me about some good news he just got.

SPEAKER_00

And we're gonna discuss we're gonna discuss that a little in a little bit. We're gonna talk about it.

SPEAKER_01

I was gonna talk about he he he got a raise at work and said he'll take us out to dinner, but you know.

SPEAKER_00

Oh, we're talking about Jake or we're talking about Carl. Carl, it's about Carl, right?

SPEAKER_01

So I'm sitting next to Carl and we're talking about it, right? Because my son, my son actually goes, Dad, that uh number two over there, right? He he's such a good baller. And I'm like, Yeah, come with me. So I sit, I introduce Carl to my son Sebastian, and we're talking, uh, and Carl's laughing about whatever. And I say to Carl, I'm like, listen, man, you know, uh, I'm so happy for you guys, and and and it's fun to watch this thing. And you know, Jason to be in the three-point contest, we'll talk about, which was epic, by the way. Um, and this is Sebastian, whatever. And Sebastian's like, ah, he's a really good player. Now, Sebastian passed the ball almost every time he got the ball to the open man. I had to walk past him and say, hey, listen, man, this is an all-star game. That ball is not coming back to you. The next time you get it, shoot. So he gets it, he drives, and I'm literally sitting next to Carl. We're just talking back and forth, and Sebastian scores on Jake, and I'm like, yo, Carl, you see, this is this is Manoe Mano right now, okay? You're paying for dinner tonight. Um, but no, all seriousness, the format was phenomenal. Uh, the ability for these kids to play with other kids they wouldn't be able to play with, right? From from all different schools, that was great. Five minutes on, five minute subs. Awesome. That was awesome. So you knew what you were doing, what you got. And then the three-point contest. The three-point contest and the slam dunk on contest. I thought, okay, the three-point contest is probably gonna be better than the slam dunk contest. I was wrong. I was wrong. First of all, this is a high school slam dunk contest. Okay, this is a high school slam gun contest in a region that we don't have 40 kids dunking the basketball every week. Right. So we had four guys in this contest. In the finals, it went between Joseph Holness and Dylan Halaka. Okay? Now Joseph Holness is 6'9. Yes, he is, every bit. 6'9, wingspan. I mean, listen. Long. He could have put me on his shoulders and I could have dunked the basketball. Long, absolutely. Super long. And then you got Dylan, who's 6'4? 6'5, 6'4, 6'5, right? Okay, depending on what stat, what you want to read, right? In AAU, he's 6'7. In high school, he's 6'5, right?

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. Um going to Catholic University, by the way. Going to a really good program in DC. Really good program.

SPEAKER_01

This kid, not only did he can he jump out of the gym, but his creativity on the dunks that he did, alley oops to himself, like it was it was so fun to watch. We put it up on Instagram. We will be putting it up on Instagram on the Winnie Moment show. But he was the winner of the slam dunk contest. It's awesome. Him and Holeness went at it. Holeness was doing some amazing reverses. Right. And Dylan was like, all right, I see your reverse. And here's my reverse off on Alley Oop. I was like, crowd votes for the winner.

SPEAKER_00

Right.

SPEAKER_01

Okay. Crowd went bananas for Dylan. So congratulations, Dylan Matt. It was fun to watch. You gave us so many amazing winning moments this season. And again, at the dunk contest, it was amazing for that winning moment. And congratulations to you for that.

SPEAKER_00

That's awesome.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah. Now I want to talk about the three-point contest. Okay. Okay. Because I was wondering how they were going to run this three-point contest. There's no racks, no balls, so forth. So basically, they took five balls. So you're around the rim, all right, around the horn, and they were on the floor. And two rebounders. And every time the kid shot, and you went from, you know, the corner to the so forth, they put the rebounders had to put the ball back on the floor. Right behind them. Right. Right. Well, not even behind them. So what happened was you hit round robin, right? So one shot from the corner, one shot from the wing, top of the key, bam, and you keep going back and forth. You keep running back and forth. Okay. Oh, that's a little bit different. A little bit different. And you had to pick the ball off off the ground. So for all you shooters out there, okay, it's almost like shooting off the dribble. Because you're picking it up and you're going as opposed to taking it from the rack and moving. So the speed mattered, the accuracy mattered. Okay. Round one. Round one, we had already set the stage. It was only really one round, right? So the one round of everybody going. Scores are 12 to 15. Westchester versus Rockland finals. Jake Pampolina and a kid you know well, who told me he was gonna win. Okay. Jackson Thomas.

SPEAKER_00

Who has shot the ball well his entire career, either in high school or AAU, you know, and at a horse Greeley High School, um, young man who we've known a long time in his family. And I'm not surprised that he wasn't, I'm not surprised that he was representative of representing the Westchester side of Section One.

SPEAKER_01

I wasn't surprised either. I was surprised that he was wearing sweatpants, okay? I saw that in the picture wearing sweatpants. Saw that. Then we go to the finals. And in the finals, okay, Jackson hits his last shot, uh, the buzzer beater, to tie Jake Pampolina. 15-15. Okay? So they just went 12 for 15. Then they did a minute shooting, okay, 15 for 15, to go to overtime. Then the overtime switched where, okay, pick one spot now. Pick whatever your favorite spot is. Okay, Jake picked top of the key, Jackson picked the right wing, and then you get two rebounders, and you're just feeding the ball. Feeding the ball, feeding the ball. So now you know you're gonna get more shots up. Okay. Same one minute on the clock. Jake is destroying Jackson. Jake is on fire for moment one. Jackson has to be down by like six, seven threes, like literally embarrassing Jackson. Oh boy. Then Jackson hits nine in a row. Nine in a row. I don't think he hit the rim. He um he's capable. I don't think he hit the rim. He can shoot the ball. Just rhythm. Bam, bam, bam. Nine too. He can shoot it. Like we always say, that's why they play the game. There has to be a winner. Jake Pampolina wins. 16 to 15. Unreal. In overtime. In overtime. 16 to 15. And Jackson missed the game tire in that case, right? The equalizer at the buzzer. But nine in a row. It was such an amazing thing to watch. These two young kids put on such a great show for us.

SPEAKER_00

Awesome. That's great. That's great for both of them. And it's great. Great for the all-star game. Great for that atmosphere to create an environment. Yeah. And an event, make it an event, which is what uh LHBCA has done. They've made that thing an event. It used to be all conference. The first game was six o'clock, all section, second game. I love the fact that they're putting all conference, all class, and all section together.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

I love that.

SPEAKER_01

This format was amazing. I wasn't, I didn't wasn't at the last format, uh, but this format's amazing. I was, yeah. It's it's a great way to do it. To the organizers, I pray you guys keep it this way. Uh I think they will. This will also bring out fans. I think if people knew how this was going to be and and the videos that that we shot, and you get to see that, you'll see them all over Instagram and on our YouTube channel. I think you'll have actual fans that'll come out. Uh the stands were were half-packed, but you left fans come out because it was actually entertaining as opposed to a typical all-star game.

SPEAKER_00

I think it's just it sounds it sounds much better.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, it was. It was. So that was uh still I'm fighting for that last piece of high school basketball.

SPEAKER_00

I know you are because Seb's, you know, Sebs made a decision to go to school and um and we're happy about his decision. Uh he's going to Lynn University. Down to Florida. He goes down to Florida, yeah. Um, Southeast Florida, beautiful place, great school. Not far from your daughter? No, not far from the Florida Atlantic University, a me award. And um who love who loves it so much, I don't think we'll she'll be back. But uh, you know, that's another story for another time. But Sebastian says the same thing. Sebastian, listen, going to a great school, he had a great run, and you of course you want to hold on to every moment, John. I get it. Yeah. Because, you know, as parents, you know, it's it comes to an end of something. It's hard to see the end of something and then the beginning of something else. Sometimes the transition is very difficult.

SPEAKER_01

It is, it is. And I'll have the all-star conversation where I was joking around with uh Coach Aguilar and I was like, hey, can you put me in three-point contest? He's like, that might be kind of fun. I'm like, yeah, man, put me in three-point contests. Like, I'll I'll you know, I'll show up. I'll represent, I'll represent okay. The winning moment show. I'll represent us. Well, let's not say that, because the winning moment show does a lot better than than I would have represented. Because after I saw these kids shooting, I was like, Yeah, I would have come in third to last. Like, I mean, they were just lighting it up. So it's really fun to watch. It's awesome. Uh, great last, great way to end their their high school career. Careers, absolutely. And then we had the dinner. Then we had the awards dinner. Who was host who host was host who hosted who is the MC? Well, listen, you had multiple MCs. Uh Nicodemo, Anthony Nicodemo did a great job of putting that together.

SPEAKER_00

He always does a nice job with the coaches, basketball coaches association.

SPEAKER_01

And the coaches I was sitting with said uh this is one of the better years because we happen to be ahead of schedule. They were ahead of schedule in the awards. Uh the coaches' speeches, you know, for all the coaches of the year, they uh I mean, listen, they're coaches. You expect them to give a good speech, right? And they did not disappoint at all. That's fantastic. You feel inspired after these coaches get up there, of course. They're humble, uh, they're they're they're different than they are on the court, right? As I would call uh Coach Ward over here Spider-Man. If you've never seen him uh uh coach an AAU game, uh Spider-Man. He's got low, low, low, low sensor, low low center gravity, yeah um, which is great. But yeah, to get these, see these guys in their elements.

SPEAKER_00

Uh I think they're tremendously I'm I think they're tremendously grateful to be named Coach of the Year in the in the section. I think they're tremendously grateful to have that a special group that allows them uh the opportunity to coach kids to their best of their abilities and then to have that collective success. And I think they're really grateful for that. And uh, you know, uh we've we had some group, everybody that made Coach of the Year um, you know, deserved it. And of I, you know, there's probably a couple of cases in in our classes and section one where it could have been one guy or the other. But I think for the most part, um we got it right. I think the coaches that were section coaches of the year in their class, I think for the most part those are the people that should have won, should have been named coach of the year.

SPEAKER_01

Now, not that we're in any position to recommend uh some changes, but uh Anthony, I think we should make a change. We should make a new award next year. Okay, this should be the hardest working you can make a coach or athlete, hardest working athlete or coach of the year in section one, and it should be called the Kevin Devaney Jr. Award.

SPEAKER_00

I I'm I'll go with that because listen, I mean, you know, he put that thing together as the MC. I don't think people realize the volume of work that Kevin does. And Kevin Devaney. He's not a human. He he's it's crazy how he's so tied in, and it's crazy how knowledgeable he is about all the teams and even the teams upstate, and he does that because he's part of not uh the selection process for all states, so he has to know the teams and the players upstate as well, and throughout the throughout the state in all the classes, and for him to have that encyclopedia style volume, you know, encyclopedia style brain to understand that it's very impressive. And we're we should we should be very grateful that we have him as a resource in section one.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, say listen, he he's the hardest working person in section one, hands down. He remembers things like you talk about a sponge from like 20 years ago. Absolutely. Uh not to mention, this is not to mention again, this award should be the Kevin Kevin DeVaye Jr. award. Sure. Uh three kids. Yeah. Career. This is not his career. This is not his career. He has his day job. He has a day job.

SPEAKER_00

His wife, yeah, you know, Donna teaches, and and and you know, they've got the three kids, and you know, they have a young family. They're very, you know, their youngest is in the seventh grade, and you know, they got two more younger than I mean their oldest is seventh grade, and then they got two younger, you know. They've got a Daria, the oldest, and then they have uh Devin and then Dylan, and they're all under 12.

SPEAKER_01

Well, say, coach, you can't you can't just age the girls that quick in that scenario. You gotta look, you know, you can't you can't say they're that old.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, they're you know, they're young kids, and they're a young family, and um it's amazing what he does.

SPEAKER_01

So well, listen, definitely, definitely we we're gonna nominate uh Kevin's uh award. There should be a Kevin Devaney Jr. award for the hardest working athlete in Section One. That would be uh that would be amazing. That would be amazing. Okay, and uh listen, the winning moments will fund the plaque, so don't worry about that. Anthony. We'll we'll cover the budget side. Here you go. Okay. Absolutely. Well, let's talk about uh some winners that night, right? For the all-team section one all team first team. First team. So uh Ratimi.

SPEAKER_00

Ratimi is CISO. Unbelievable player. Um I don't I don't think he's made a decision on college. Six foot four, great, great uh build, strong kid, very skilled. Um, and took Clarkstown north to a place they've never been and hadn't been in 41 years. So, I mean, just a great kid to watch play. Um, loves the game, has great passion. Somebody's gonna get themselves a really good college player at whatever level that he ends up going to.

SPEAKER_01

A hundred percent.

SPEAKER_00

And I think his best basketball's ahead of him as well.

SPEAKER_01

Oh, I totally, I totally agree. So they so for all of these players, uh speaking of the hardest working man, Kevin put together a little montage video of that with also his reporting, right? Which I joked. I was thinking remember we joke around, we we joke around when we're not in front of the camera, we're we're prepping for the show. And one of the jokes that I made is like, hey, listen, you know, like they have uh Lee Schriver is like the the voice of the NFL, right? Yeah, like God's voice of the NFL. Yeah, absolutely. Kevin Devaney, right, is God's voice for section one sports. So he put together this great video, which you guys can find on uh the their on uh Game Day One's YouTube channel. So on the Game Day One YouTube channel, uh Kevin, don't make me a liar, I'll text you after this. So by the time this show is up on Sunday, it's already up there. But he did these great videos that he's gonna put up there. Um and just watching where Timi like to put it together, the way this kid attacks the rim is just I mean, he's really fun to watch.

SPEAKER_00

And then Pete Well deserved. And he started shooting the ball a lot better the latter part of the year from the three-point line, which made him an even more difficult uh cover, you know, a more difficult uh defense. So I yeah, I he's gonna be good. And uh I'm looking forward to seeing where he goes and who gets him.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, yeah, let us know. Uh Will Plunkett.

SPEAKER_00

Oh. Does it all. The unassuming tough guy. He's tough as nails. He's tough as nails. Um going to Binghamton to play Division I baseball and a program that won the America East and went to the NCAA regional last year. Uh, they have a beautiful facility up there, state of the art at their level, mid-major. A lot of a lot of major um P4s would like to have that baseball facility. He's gonna be a fan, he's an outstanding baseball player, unbelievable basketball season, unbelievable basketball career, would certainly be a college-level basketball player. Oh, yeah. Not um uh obviously do uh not Division I, but he would be a college-level basketball player someplace. But baseball, it we're we're we're gonna be talking a lot about Will Plunkett this spring. We will and Mamarinic High School Baseball, uh, their baseball program, who has traditionally been one of the best in our section. He's such a good kid, too. He's a great kid, and his dad's dad's a fantastic man, and we'll you know, we're looking forward to continue talking about Will this spring.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, he'll give us a lot of winning moments for sure. Then we got uh Aaron Woodbury.

SPEAKER_00

One of my favorites, six foot four, length six, six, six, seven, um, does it all. I'm looking forward to seeing what he looks like in two years in a college weight program with nutrition, you know, to to he is he's not even close to what he's gonna be. And he's pretty damn good right now. He is pretty damn good.

SPEAKER_01

He's he's points in his career.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, you know, over a thousand and and all and just defends you, chase down blocks, you know. He's got he's got great length, um, great young man, you know, yes coach, no coach. Every time I see him, he makes a point of saying hello, personable, family's great people, the Woodberries are great people. Um his brother was an outstanding player, Eric, who's now at Mount St. Vincent. I think Aaron Woodbury, he's being under-recruited. I don't want to talk, I don't want to jinx anything. I hope that he gets recruited at the level that I think he should go to, be that as it may, to have an opportunity to play college basketball. Only six out of a hundred get that chance. Wherever he goes, he's going to be really, really good. If he stays injury free, builds that body up, he's gonna be a different cat in about a year and a half, two years. Best basketball's ahead of him.

SPEAKER_01

He's got he's got that mid-range. That mid-range, I think, is one of the most underrated shots in basketball right now. Uh, but it's one that that will carry you in many places because it opens up the drive. The mid-range opens up the drive.

SPEAKER_00

He's gonna need to be, he doesn't shoot it bad on catch and shoot right now. He's gonna have to shoot it more efficiently, and that'll come with time, and that'll come with uh a repetition. But yeah, I'm looking forward to seeing him. Um you know, he had a great year. He's had a great career at Woodlands, th uh, three goal balls, yeah, two Final Four appearances in the state uh semifinal state championship, got to the state regional this year, went to the Elite Eight. What an unbelievable career, both individually and collectively from a team aspect. He's had an an amazing run at Woodlands, and it's unprecedented in our.

SPEAKER_01

I think he's the only the he he is the only uh and him because uh coach rapport said it, him and Sebastian Benitez. Benitez were playing together, so they're the only ones that I believe I could be wrong about this. This is the problem when I don't have Kevin here gonna tell if I'm rolling out. I know where you're going. They're the only two kids that uh have a three-peat of gold balls. Yes. I don't think any I don't think that's ever been done before in the middle of the state.

SPEAKER_00

I think they're I think they're the f I think they're the only two kids in the history of section one, certainly in the history of Woodlands, to have to win three consecutive gold balls. Yeah. And and then they may be on a very short list of players in our section, certainly at Woodlands, to go back-to-back state final fours.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

Which is incredible. And then get to and then get to the so final four, state final, and then the lead eight. I mean, so they've represented the section well. Aaron's represented section well, and and we're looking forward to seeing his decision from a from his college decision where he ends up going to as well.

SPEAKER_01

Listen, I just want to uh see him and uh him and Eric play one-on-one. Let's let's put that together.

SPEAKER_00

I don't think I don't think Mr. and Mrs. Woodbury want to see that because uh that would cause um a disturbance in the household. So harmony, it's harmony, yeah. There won't be any harmony. I know those two kids really well. They're very competitive.

SPEAKER_01

I love it. So then we have uh Jake Pampolina.

SPEAKER_00

Just what a nice young man. We had him on in studios, parents, you know, his dad and family's fantastic people. Um great young man. I mean, broke the Rockland County scoring record on the boys' side. What he's done for Suffron, not only from in the basketball community, but in the community at large, and bringing the people together uh at Suffer, New York. It's a it's an incredible accomplishment, incredible achievement. You can't help but to root for him. And you know, and what we didn't mention this on the show, I'll mention it now. He made the Philippine uh junior national team at the 16U level, Gilas, Philippinas, Filipinos. Gilas is the name of their team, G-I-L-A-L-L-A-S. Um, I follow uh uh shockingly, I follow Philippine. No, it's shocking the Philippine Basketball Association. It's a great league. There's a lot of former uh uh NBA players in that league. They they love their basketball in the Philippines. The only reason he couldn't stay there for and he was gonna be in the FIBA World Championship, representing the or the A or the qualifier in Asia, but he couldn't keep going back and forth, you know, getting ready for a senior year, I think, because of the wrist as well. But um, he's gonna have an international career.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, well, I mean the problem is Carl didn't get the private jet ready, you know, to fly him back and forth the most important thing.

SPEAKER_00

I think between it was it was it was it was it was it had to keep going back and forth. And then with the wrist issue, uh you know, they couldn't do it, but you'll see him in a in in the Philippine national uh uniform. He's gonna be in a and then uh I just love his moxie. I you know, uh I love how hard he plays. He loves the game. He's a grinder. Yep. Coach Scott Wright did a great job in developing him. He's also worked very hard on his own, as we know, and um just excited for him. And you have some news about him that you're gonna be able to do that.

SPEAKER_01

Well, I think the news is already broken.

SPEAKER_00

Well, I don't I I did not know that till this morning.

SPEAKER_01

Yeah, well, yeah, I think uh I think uh Jake already put it out. But uh, this young man will be going to Tennessee Tech to play basketball.

SPEAKER_00

So there's a story behind this, and I forgot the most important thing. It's amazing how this worked out. So Jake wanted to go to St. Thomas Aquinas College across by him, division two power, national power when Tobin Anderson was there. The current coach has done a great job as well. I'm I'm it was his main assistant. I I remember for next week's show, and Tobin Anderson, for those people that are are not familiar, Tobin Anderson built the program of stack. And I forgot this the other the other week uh last week was that Fairley Dickinson took Demetrius Robertson, a young man from Sumter, South Carolina, the two guards to Fairleigh Dickinson, and they beat Purdue in one of the greatest subsets of all time. Tobin Anderson can coach his tail off.

SPEAKER_01

He can.

SPEAKER_00

And he's a great developer of players. And then he went to Iona. Things didn't work out, but he's he not it was no nothing on him. He he did it, he did the right thing. He did a great job there. Tobin got the Tennessee Tech Tech job. Jake has dreamed about playing for Tobin. Yes, he was gonna play. Iona was where he was gonna go. That's where he was gonna go. So for Jake to have the opportunity to go to Tennessee Tech and play for Tobin Anderson, what a great situation. So happy for Carl, so happy for Mrs. Pampolina, so happy for uh that young man who's worked very hard.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. And I gotta give credit to his mom because uh, you know, Jake's a phenomenal shooter. And as you know, a coach like catch and shoot and shooting is about your footwork. Make sure your feet are set. Yep. And uh his mom is a world-class ballerina and she teaches it, and she uh she's the woman, she is the human and the woman behind Jake's amazing footwork. That's fantastic. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I love me some people in TV.

SPEAKER_00

I love I love I love I love the backstory, particularly when it pertains to applying it and helping their kids out and then becoming successful.

SPEAKER_01

Absolutely. Now we move down to the next young fella who is, I mean, he was also on our show and also a great kid and great fit, comes from a great family. Oh, yeah, absolutely. Uh Anthony Figaro.

SPEAKER_00

The all-time boys, section one, all-time scoring leader. Um, broke it this year. Uh, took a Cinderella Dobbs ferry team to the section final and came within one belt one shot of tying it, you know, taking it, either winning it or it went to overtime. It was the most exciting game of the tournament. Yeah. You couldn't pick a better side ending of the tournament game. Four-year guy. Yeah. Four-year guy for Coach Petrillo. Um, had an astonishing last two years statistically. Uh just loves the game, loves the process. His his um cousin, Coach Snow, the JB coach at Bronxville, obviously has had a lot to do with his success. The people at um uh Northeast Elite as well, and then Coach Kuba at Riverside Um Select, you know, and then us when we were when he was really young, we help, we help, but he's he loves the game. He has such great passion for it. Um I'm so happy he's going to St. Thomas Aquinas. He's going to a place where he's gonna step. He has an opportunity if he does the things that we talked about earlier with the lateral quickness, um, with making catch and shoot open shots, gotta make those open shots, and then be able to shot fake, two dribble, pull up, and then use your floater and all that. If he does all that, I think he's gonna get on the floor sooner than later, and he will impact winning on the floor for St. Thomas Aquinas. And and by the way, how crazy a following did Dobbs Ferry have? How many young kids were in the upper deck and and now they dream about being Anthony? You know what I'm saying? That's the kid, that's the kid, you know, all these kids from these communities, these young kids, and I hope they understand the older kids, understand the impact they have as role models. These are idols to these young kids. Yep. Anthony, I mean, all in Dobbs Ferry, who doesn't want to be, if you're a young kid, I want to play like Anthony Ficorata, right? I want to I want to be Anthony, I want to be the next one, you know? And not just Dobbs.

SPEAKER_01

I mean, him breaking that that record, which I think was forty, forty three years. It's crazy. I mean, that that's it's insane. He averaged 37.1 points per per game this season.

SPEAKER_00

I mean, yeah, and and and and and and listen, you know, those kids all accepted their role, and they and they knew what they had in Anthony as their teammate, and they did what was necessary to bring success to their team, to their town, to the program.

SPEAKER_01

Right.

SPEAKER_00

And those kids will not be forgotten either. No, no, not at all. So so Anthony, but Anthony was you know, Anthony was the machine.

SPEAKER_01

Destiny vs. Dynasty, though. It was another Destiny vs. Dynasty, in that case, Dynasty I was like, Dynasty one, but yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_00

But and and and Coach Petrillo has done a great job of developing him, and he's been very creative. Scott's been very creative in getting Anthony the ball in the places that he needs to on the floor. Um, and I want to make sure he, you know, that Scott's recognized. But Anthony, like I said, there was so many young kids up there in that in the upper deck that they were all sitting together and they were, you know, they want to be Anthony Fricarata. So it's I'm excited for him. I'm excited for his future, and um, I'm looking forward to seeing him play next year as a as a college as a college basketball player.

SPEAKER_01

It's funny you say that because the next gentleman, Mr. Basketball, uh Brandon Burrell, when uh Coach Carver was was giving his speech about him, he said those exact words. There are young kids right now in Marinak that want to be Brandon.

SPEAKER_00

And Will Plum both Brandon and Will, but particularly but in the basketball, of course, Brandon. Yeah, I mean I mean, listen, and I've said this to every you know, I've said this to Ty, and I've said we've talked about it on this show or off off air. I've I saw him play two times prior to this year. Both times we're in the county center. Both times, you know, obviously we're not we're not um as we're not impressive, you know. He he was you know, he forced it, he struggled, whatever, you know. This young man was sensational the next four times I saw him play. Oh, yeah, not not not not not good. Sensational. He was silky smooth in the next one. He was silky smooth. He was in in the county center for both games. He was silky smooth in the in the state regional um final at at Yorktown. I didn't see the semis. I mean, he was brilliant. Not not good, not very good, brilliant.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

He shot it off the bounce, attacked the rim and finished, and then made catch and shoot threes, three-level score.

SPEAKER_01

Um the funny thing is, I don't understand where this kid, when you say brilliant, like he's not that smart. I mean, he's only going to Harvard.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah. I mean, seriously. But I'm not talking about his classroom, uh, his classroom uh uh um endeavors and his classroom ability. I'm talking about his basketball ability. He's playing ball for the biggest. He would I know this kid. He's outstanding player. Um he will impact Harvard's winning. I don't know if it's on the floor initially, but he will impact winning every day in that program because of how hard he works, how much he gets after it. If he takes care of the ball at Harvard, if he can take care of the ball at Harvard, and if he and if he makes shots the way he did in high school, he'll be on the floor sooner than later at Harvard. You know, listen, there are four teams, and there's normally the four best teams in in the Ivy, Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Penn, are normally the four best teams in the world. See, we're getting we're getting a hate mail, Claudio, from the rest of the Ivy League. Yeah, well, they they'll get over it. Then get better. Then get better. Don't get me started. Yeah, get better then. But those are the four teams. Pennsylvania obviously got the that got the bid. Um, but Brandon Burrell, his shot efficiency and the percentage that he shot it at was well north of 55 or 60 percent. I'm sure Ty will tell me it's maybe even higher. But uh, but what Coach Carver's done with him and what he's done on his own and and in the programs, uh, he's just a fantastic kid. He's a great player, he's a well-spoken young man. Um, his parents, his father, Ryan's great guy, Mr. Burrell. I don't uh you know, they're good people, yep, and I'm happy for him, and I wish him nothing but the best. And you root all these kids on our list are really good human beings that you root for. They really are. And if you don't root for them, then you have a problem. True. You know, but but but Brandon's gonna be great at Harvard, and I think Tommy Amiker will figure out a way to to use him, implement him, and his staff will do that in the right way with the right system uh regarding how he plays.

SPEAKER_01

Right. If you got a problem with those things, you can uh go change the channel and watch the losing moments, which uh we currently are not part of. No, we're not. Or the learning moments.

SPEAKER_00

Absolutely.

SPEAKER_01

So, yes, congratulations to all those kids. Uh little shout out, two of the kids triple A. Yep. Two of the kids double A. Yes. And to my biased, because my uh my son played for Bly Brooke. Right. Uh two kids from Class B. Class B Class B. So so small schools representing significantly uh so it was amazing. Yes, congratulations to all of them. Absolutely. Now, as you know from this show, we do not just spend time talking about men's basketball, boys' basketball, we talk about the girls. And to the girls' credit, nine teams, nine teams travel to north, close to your favorite place in Binghamton. Uh you had you had Binghamton on the boys' side, you had Troy on the girls' side. We should we should probably start with the boys and then go to the girls. Well, I think, coach, we I think I think is the following. Because again, we're talking about the winning moments. Nine teams travel north.

SPEAKER_00

Right.

SPEAKER_01

Okay.

SPEAKER_00

Okay.

SPEAKER_01

Five boys' teams. Yep. Four girls. Four girls' teams. All the boys loose. No state champions from the boys' side. No. But four-hour girls.

SPEAKER_00

Four hour girls. Let's talk about the girls. Okay. We we so last Friday we discussed um Albertus Magnus. Albertus Magnus winning their third consecutive state championship.

SPEAKER_01

Yep. Shout out to Coach Buckley. Whose son, by the way, got an award at the dinner as well?

SPEAKER_00

He's all sectioned as a freshman. He has an opportunity. Joe has an opportunity to be a really good player. He's projected right now to be a college player. What level that will be will be predicated on a bunch of factors. Um how Coach Buckley uh handles him at the dinner table? No, I'm sure I'm sure there's not an issue with I'm sure there's not an issue with his son uh behaving a certain way at the dinner table. Not when you see the coach, I mean Mrs. Buckley as well. She's not they're not tolerating any nonsense.

SPEAKER_01

I've never met her, but when I see Coach, he's always he's always smiling, and I'm always like, okay, I'm safe. Because when he's not smiling, yeah, then there's an issue. There really is.

SPEAKER_00

I've known him for a long time since my jersey days. So he's he, you know, so credit, congratulations to Albertus. Three times now, three time state champion. Darren Rare Air as well, three goal balls, um, uh, you know, a section one basketball championships. Uh just amazing program that he's built. And um, you know, Shaker gave him all they could handle in the in the semifinal. And, you know, the the state final wasn't easy either. And they they were able to overcome it and get it done. And credit to the girls and and and uh coach Buckley and his staff over in beautiful Bardonia, New York. So very happy for the Falcons and uh and And you know, now we move on.

SPEAKER_01

We should have coach like be the official uh uh tour guide of of Rockland. New York. Yes. You know? So now move on. Now we got uh YMA. Well, let's go to NyAC right now. Let's go to NYAC. Okay.

SPEAKER_00

NYAC girls lost an absolute heartbreaker in the state semis. They had they have never ever done on the girls' side of Nyak in the history of the school what those young ladies and Coach Ferdillas did this year. It feels like it's a year of history. It's been it's a year listening. We couldn't have started this show at a better time in our area for high school basketball section one. And they lost a heartbreaker, um but they had a tremendous year. They got to the final four, they won the region, they won the basically they won the southeast New York region, got to the final four, lost the heartbreaker, but my goodness, they were fun to watch. And Kervis did a great job, his staff did a great job. Uh Rakh Mohammed, Casey Cummings, um just they just had a great year. So congratulations to them. But now let's talk about the next the next two. Let's let's start with YMA. State champs. Eli Moyes, coach Eli Moyce and his staff, those young ladies, uh, Mustafa, Gleason, Toro, um, both Mustafa's I mean um first. I think they're the first Yonkers City high school girls team to win a state championship. I'm pretty sure about that. They're gonna be, I think they're gonna be give given the keys to the city, or they are they're they're about it. They're about to be given the keys to the city. I think they're gonna have like a YMA Girls High School Basketball Appreciation Day from the City of Yonkers. They deserve that. Absolutely. Um it's astounding what he has built there. Tremendous um you know, situation that he's that he's built there. And and um credit to those girls, man. Winning the state championship. Fantastic, fantastic and um happy for them, and they're not done. No, they're not done. No, he's got a lot of young players, he's got a lot of young players.

SPEAKER_01

He was cool when we interviewed him at the county center for this, actually. He was so happy, like he's normally so serious, all right. At least when I've seen him so serious. In this case, he was like a giddy kid, like just talking about uh the the championship and how the girls played so well together, and then for them to win the states, like congratulations. Absolutely.

SPEAKER_00

Before we hit on the last, the other team that won the state championship. It was another team? Yeah, yeah. Yeah, but I want to talk about because they they hit were playing when we were on air last week. Tuckahoe girls lost a heartbreaking 56-54 uh game to Greenwich. It's not Greenwich, it's Greenwich in the upper part of the state. Um, I'm just saying it's not it's you know, because you live by Greenwich. Rybrook, New York borders Greenwich. So it's not Greenwich, it's Greenwich. Silvio de Salvatore, his staff, Rob, McQuaid, lost a heartbreaker. But all of them are back. I think Grace Stern, Darty, Madarazo, Julian, Juliana, um, Chloe, they're all back again next year, if you can believe it. And this is their third consecutive Final Four appearance, third consecutive goal ball, three regional championships. Silvio's done a remarkable job with them. And uh, I don't want to forget about them.

SPEAKER_01

No, not at all. And they're gonna be back. All right, first of all, how do you forget about him? He's Mr. Fashion for seconds. He's he's there's nobody that does fashion. No one is better.

SPEAKER_00

And and we have also my basketball son.

SPEAKER_01

This we know. And we have uh he he actually he's one of the customers for the locked-in sweatshirts. Yes, he is that we're very honored, and we have that shipping out for him as well. So Mr. Fashion will now rock then a locked in audio. I feel honored that that's the case.

SPEAKER_00

It's amazing that he doesn't have a clothes deal. He should be the first high school coach in our area to have a clothing, a clothing brand.

SPEAKER_01

He's a men IL clothing brand.

SPEAKER_00

Okay, let's we'll just have to make some custom clothes for him. So, but they're I'm excited for them.

SPEAKER_02

Yeah.

SPEAKER_00

They're gonna have another opportunity next year. They're gonna even be better than they were uh this past year. And every year, excuse me, they've gotten incrementally better. They will get they have they'll get better and they'll come back even stronger and better. And they had a shot at it, and I'm very proud of those girls. Very proud of that program in that community. So and now there's only one left. There's one left one out of the five. So one out of the five said on our show last week that Tappan Z girls, Dutchmen, should be given a plaque for being the best public school program in the state. Because the other three teams were all private school teams. We're not gonna go down. No, we're not doing it now. I'm laughing, but we're not doing it now.

SPEAKER_01

If Kevin, if Kevin was here, when Kevin hears this, we gotta put a little segment in it. We can get Kevin a call on the live right now, okay? Because the Kevin cook Kevin coach right now battle would be great. But yes, Kevin did say it.

SPEAKER_00

Kevin said, you know, they should be given a plaque for being the best public school girls basketball team in class A in the state. Yeah. Kind of like, and and I'm not trying to, I'm not trying to throw shade on anybody. However, however, however, it was, and I get where Kevin was coming from, and he'll be the first to admit it. We didn't think that they were gonna go up there, or a lot of people outside of our section, and a lot of people, and obviously the only people in the that thought they could win it was possibly the people that on this show, Kevin and the kid, and the and our section one people. The rest of the state thought that Tappen Z probably didn't have a chance against any of the three private schools. Any of them. So now guess what happens. That's why we play the game. Exactly. So now guess what happens? Here's what happens you don't get the plaque for best public school team in the state of New York. Nope. You get the plaque for being the best basket high school basketball team in class A in the entire state of New York.

SPEAKER_01

And I think I think to even to bring back Kevin's point, like the reason that that is so powerful is because if you're watching this show and you're not part of Section One, uh Catholic schools, private schools, Catholic schools, really, they can bring anyone they want in. Absolutely. They have an unfair advantage than the public schools. So, yes, I mean, it makes sense that there should be the Catholic school team should be state champs because they have the opportunity to recruit, bring things in like that. Like when I was in the Bronx, we had um oh what was his name? Uh Jared Lockhart. Jared Lockhart played for St. John's Elementary School. The kid could dunk, I think it was on I think it was on the cover of Sports Center. Uh sorry, it's not sports center, the cover of uh ESPN magazine at one point. He can dunk in eighth grade, dunk out the gym in eighth grade, and he ended up going to Mount St. Michael. Okay. And we all took the bus, and he got a car service every single day. Sure. Couldn't give scholarships back then, but you can give an academic, you know, scholarship, right? So, like, yeah, the Catholic schools have a different advantage. But boy, did they not account for a state championship player who, as she got older, became a coach.

SPEAKER_00

Well, you here's here's where this is at now. So I was when she was Riley Harrington. She and a young lady named Tara Gableman came to us for player development when they were in high school. Us meaning Chris Wardbaseb. Yeah, meaning our organization. I mean, some people don't know who you are. No, I know they don't. They just know me. I'm the podcaster now. That's crazy. It's crazy that I'm the podcaster. It's like sad, it's like sad in one, it's funny in one way, and it's kind of sad in the other that now, oh, you're the podcaster. Well, I still kind of coach once in a while. So Riley and Tara, when they were at Irvington, came to came to us for player development. We we were very close to Gina Marr's program, our organization was. Um, and Riley, Tara, and the rest of the girls at Irvington started that four out of five state championship run where they won like four out of five, four four state championships in five years or five and I forget what, but it was a great run.

SPEAKER_01

Epic.

SPEAKER_00

And and she was she they won the first one with Riley. Now it's Riley Chevrier. Um, teacher, educator over at Tap and Z, you know, mother, I think, of two children. And she now joins a list of I think only two. Drew Watson, who was at Alexander Hamilton as a player, won the state championship, was a state championship coach at Alexander Hamilton, Riley Chevrier now joins Drew Watson as one of only two people to win a state championship as a player and a coach. It's amazing. Insanity. It's insanity. Insanity. It's it's it's unreal. And and and as the St. Thomas Aquinas, a former student athlete, women's basketball team on Division II level. That doesn't matter anymore. But the college career. But that's where that's how she ended up in Orangeburg. She after she got done, she went to teaching in Orangeburg and coaching in Orangeburg. And what she's done with that program, it's amazing what she's done with that program. And they play fast, they play hard, they take care of the ball, they value it.

SPEAKER_01

Um I mean, they think if I went to one of her practices, I would throw up. You would be done. I would throw up. I would just throw up.

SPEAKER_00

You would absolutely be done. And I I would be remiss to talk to not talk about to not talk about Emma McHugh, Eve Girardi, Alyssa Sanchez, Devin Cooney, Diorio, my goodness, you know, Adriana. Oh my gosh. Um, who am I missing? Admin McHugh, I said. I mean, to search, they the list goes on. There's they're just they're so good. They've got young kids coming back. Um they're really, really fun to watch. They're gonna be very difficult again to beat in Section One next year. I mean, they've got the target on them. And um, you know, they just they just know how to play. They know how to do things the right way. I want to mention their her staff, Sarah Kukla, Daryl Flynn, her two assistants do a fantastic job, and they are all in over tappenz uh with regard to basketball. And once again, you want to talk about young ladies that that aspire to be, you know, Diorio, McHugh, CUNY, et cetera. They have that over there. Those young ladies aspire to be and play for Coach Chevrier and play in that Tap and Z women uh girls' basketball program. I mean, so that's in the tradition, of course. It's a tradition. And the send-off they got. I saw the send-off on X. They had this, they had the kids outside elementary school, both boys and girls. Let's we're talking about the girls right now. They had they were it was raucous, and the girls are walking out and the kids are cheering as they're getting on the bus to go to Troy. It was phenomenal.

SPEAKER_01

I want to give a shout-out. You talk about Tap and Z. And we talked about Rockland a lot on this side of it. Uh, I got to actually spend a bunch of time with uh Ryan McWilliams because he was the coach of uh Sebastian's team for the All-Star Games. Yes. Uh what an and coach of the year, too. I mean, phenomenal guy human being. Phenomenal guy. And the fact that 12 years ago he was on the court is even uh more phenomenal if that was the case, right? Yeah, um, but he was talking about, and I think it goes back to that tape Z culture, their athletic director, Bill Pila. I think Bill Pilla, their athletic director does such a great job of bringing this community together. Absolutely. Uh so you know, listen, a ADs don't get enough credit for what they do. No, he does Bill Pilla does a great job. Right. Putting these putting these things together, working with these coaches. I mean, you got a lot of personalities. I met I met uh an AD recently. Uh we we were we were hanging out with the AD. Uh Christoph, I would not not not pronounce him. Drisopolis. Drisopoulos.

SPEAKER_00

Yeah, yeah. Well, his last name is Drasopoulis. It's Christos Christos Drasopoulis.

SPEAKER_01

That's why they gave me three letters in my last name, so I don't have to worry about it.

SPEAKER_00

Such a good at a Briarcliffe phenomenal athletic and phenomenal athletic director.

SPEAKER_01

And I'm talking to him and I'm like, hey man, how many teams do you manage? 65 teams. Imagine 65 teams. 65 teams, 65 or so coaching staff, right? Like it's tremendous how much these guys have to manage and what they do. And it's a big shout out to them. And the I want to bring it up because she told me she actually had more. The Rye, where are we here? Albertus, Tuckerhoe, Rye. I'm missing the uh flyer here, coach. Double A. Double A. I don't have the double A. Hold on this double A.

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Okay.

SPEAKER_01

I want to make sure I say it correctly.

SPEAKER_00

Rye.

SPEAKER_01

Yep.

SPEAKER_00

So that's those that's the assistant.

SPEAKER_01

Oh no, we don't have it.

SPEAKER_00

We don't have the She just got she just got she just got an award. Uh the the Rye Athletic Director. Yes.

SPEAKER_01

Yes.

SPEAKER_00

Oh my goodness.

SPEAKER_01

We have to pull her name up. Pull her. We do this show basically live. We don't have any of the cuts yet. Absolutely. So right now, as we pull her name up here and Coach carries it through.

SPEAKER_00

But she um so it was Mike Galino won an award up there for uh if you go to Kevin's site, it'll Susan.

SPEAKER_01

Susan Reed. No, it's director of the Susan Reed.

SPEAKER_00

Susan Reed, who I got to meet up, uh I think Galino, and there was another one that won an award as well. We had three administrators that won the award up there.

SPEAKER_01

Yes. I don't know who the third one was. When I was talking to Susan, she has 83 teams. That's amazing. 83 teams. Yeah. So again, we talked all season about players, coaches. They're the ones playing the game and coaching the game. But without you athletic directors, most of that would not happen. So you don't get the credit you always deserve. But right now, we want to say thank you. Thank you for putting this community together. Thank you for keeping all of those coaches and teams in line because without that, we wouldn't have a show. So we're very grateful for each one of you.

SPEAKER_00

There it's yes, absolutely. And I and I'm gonna look for, I have to look for our third administrator because we want to make sure that we shout him out as well.

SPEAKER_01

And we're gonna keep the show rocking here. I feel like Kevin Devaney during the uh the night when the projector wasn't working, and I had to fix the computer to make the projector work so he could put on his beautiful presentation, which again will be on game day one while Coach Fines. Oh, he's got it.

SPEAKER_00

Coach, go ahead. So we had three administrators who were at the New York State Athletic Association, Athletic Directors, Athletic Administration Association Banquet Awards. Barry Suman, she was a chapter one athletic administrator of the year out of Mamarinic High School, Susan Reed, Rye High School, State Award of Merit, and then Mike Galino out of Byram Hills, the Dr. John Foley Professional Development Award. Three really, really prestigious awards. We've got really good um administrators and athletic directors that really want our kids to be very successful and excel um on the field and off. And those want to make sure that we recognized all three of those administrators for for winning prestigious awards upstate at the banquet Kevin hosted.

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Let's talk about how next week's gonna look. We are now moving to a format in which it'll be very much like the Young Sports Center, but for high school sports. So we are going to cover all spring sports to the best of our ability. We need your help. If you're watching the podcast, share this with a coach or an AD. We will have a link in this podcast below where you can now upload highlights to the winningmoments.com. You simply upload highlights, videos, images, just stories that we can cover. And this way we can make sure that every kid for every sport that puts on the uniform and creates these winning moments, we can give them them the exposure that they deserve. But we need your help for that. We can't do that part on our own. And starting next week, we'll cover lacrosse, boys and girls. We're gonna cover golf, tennis, uh baseball, softball, flag football. I think that's all the sports. I think I covered Claudio. We're probably missing one because I don't have it in front of me, but we're gonna make sure that all spring sports are covered. There's a tremendous amount of records that are that are in lieu right now of possibly being broken across all sports. We need your help with that. So please, the winningmoments.com. There'll be a highlight button. Click on it, upload the highlights there for your kids and any kids. Uh, we just want to celebrate these kids ongoing.

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Please, coaches, administrators, we have a lot of spring sports we want to cover. We cannot cover it, cover them all without your help. We definitely need your help. We will recognize your kids. We'll make sure that we recognize your teams as well, your collective, individual success, collective success. But the amount of sports that we want to cover here, we can't do it without your help. So please help us out so we can make this the best spring sports show. And as far as high school athletics go, athletics go, not just, not just locally, but we want to make it like one of the best in the nation. The only way it's gonna be one of the best in the nation is with your help, support, and you being getting the information to us.

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And that's why, that's why coach makes sure I I never, never miss anything. Gotta put the work in, right? That's it. What was that? What was the statement you said? Play play desperate. Play with urgency and desperation. Play with urgency and desperation. And I challenged him on that podcast. Why play with desperation? Urgency and desperation, where it is, is a winning formula to create winning moments. Absolutely.

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Absolutely. You have to you have to be that way. You're not that way. You're not going to be successful individually, and you can't be collectively successful if you don't play with that passion and that fire and that intensity. You will not be successful. Won't happen.

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So totally agree. So and that's our show. And again, we uh we look forward to next week. We'll have a different format. We're really excited about it. Uh many asked if we were gonna stop after basketball. Hell no. There's a lot more athletes out there, a lot more kids out there we need to celebrate. Please like and subscribe. Share this podcast with everyone that you can follow us on Instagram, YouTube, all that helps us gain more exposure for the kids. Because now, more important than ever, high school exposure, high school sports exposure is going to be paramount to these kids' futures between the transfer portal, between NIL, and between high school kids now being able to get their own NIL-like deals. This support is going to mean everything for them, and we're here to help.