Article by Phoenix writer Amir Jeudy ’22: Every runner dreams of setting records, their names engraved in the history books. With other sports, performance is subjective to some degree. Track is a sport dominated by times, as a runner’s success is clearly recorded in the times they run. That’s why records are such an important…
Article by Phoenix writer Nicholas Cortese ’23 Congratulations to Kellenberg junior Olivia Spirakis who was named “NSCHSGAA Field Athlete of the Meet” at Sunday’s League Championship Meet for her clutch performing long jump and triple jump wins. Martine Demesueux finished second in the triple jump. Also crowned as league champions was the 4×400 relay team…
Article by Phoenix writer Amir Jeudy, ’22 Track and Field is a sport filled with uncertainty. Track athletes spend months training and improving, but no one knows if they’ve done enough until they compete. On May 16th the Kellenberg Girls Track Team squashed all uncertainty with a commanding win to capture the 2021 CHSAA Nassau-Suffolk…
Article by Angelo Tsassis, ’22: The COVID-19 Pandemic that is currently facing the world has had many effects on the way we live. One of the main effects is not being able to do some of the things that make us happy. Luckily, for many of the students-athletes at Kellenberg Memorial, one of these activities…
Click here for the Winter 2021 issue. Heart & Mind, the magazine of Kellenberg Memorial High School, is published twice a year and distributed to all alumni, parents, alumni parents, faculty, administration, and friends of Kellenberg Memorial. For questions regarding the magazine, please contact Mrs. Erin (Byrne) Cicalese ’98 at mrscicalese@kellenberg.org. Jazmine Fray ’15, who holds…
Article by Céili Donnelly ’20 The whole thing started because of an idea Sarah Killian ’20 and her mom came up with after seeing various birthday drive-bys and then the one organized by parents and students past Kellenberg back in April. She asked some of the seniors on the girl’s varsity track team what we…
Nicole Aponte is the 2020 recipient of the “GLIRC 2020 Scholarship Award.” GLIRC (Greater Long Island Running Club) is an organization with over 20,000 members who put on over 400 road races, triathlons, aquathlons, and track meets in a normal year. They amass hundreds of their members to volunteer to coordinate the staging of these…
By Newsday’s Jordan Lauterbach: Kellenberg’s Maureen Lewin figured she wasn’t going to break any records Saturday morning, but that didn’t matter much to her. It’s championship season and championship season is less about records and more about endurance. Toward the end of a long outdoor season, and an even longer school year, the top athletes…
Article by Newsday’s Jordan Lauterbach: There will be no spring season senior slump for Maureen Lewin. Nope, she’s here to leave her mark on the Kellenberg track program, and she isn’t wasting anytime wading herself into winning waters. Lewin won twice at the 51st Nassau Coaches Invitational Saturday at Cold Spring Harbor High School. Lewin…
