Rye Neck Girls’ Basketball Panthers Hold Off the Tigers and Make the Playoffs
By Mitch Silver Here’s the kind of game it was: the best ball handler on the floor and the game’s high scorer, Taylor Brenneman, played for the other team, Pawling, last year’s Class C Sectional semifinalists. Her point total for the Tigers was more than double Rye Neck’s top two. And the Panthers, playing on […]
Rye High Indoor Track Athletes Train Hard and It Shows
By Melanie Cane Marek Nowak, Grant Myerson, and several other members of the Garnets’ Indoor Track team have seen great success this season. Despite placing second overall to Harrison in the Section 1, League II-C meet at The Armory on January 14, many of the Rye boys were league champions. Nowak won the 1600 […]
Rye Country Day Girls’ Basketball Wildcats Topple Vikings
By Melanie Cane Like a revolving door, Wildcat Girls’ Basketball coach Scottie Nails frequently substituted three to four players at a time throughout their home game against King January 23. Somewhat frustrated by his team’s occasional complacency and lack of hustle, Coach Nails wanted to keep the Wildcats on their toes. Early in the game […]
Rye Country Day Boys’ Squash Wildcats Topple Two on Way to Nationals
By Mitch Silver It’s feast or famine for the Rye Country Day Boys’ Squash team. Feast first: The Grandview Avenue Boys swept through King 7-0 a week ago and followed that up the next day with a 5-2 win up at Trinity-Pawling. Earlier victories over Charterhouse School U.K. (7-0), Hackley (4-3), Masters (5-2), and Rye […]
Rye Country Day Boys’ Hockey Wildcats Refuse to Win the Hard Way — Twice.
By Mitch Silver A week ago, Rye Country Day led the Fordham Prep hockey team by 3-1 in the middle of the game. The home side was clearly the better team at even strength. Three days later, they were up on the Harvey School 2-0 after one. Again, they were in the […]
Holy Child Basketball: Gryphons Top Columbia Prep in Best Game of Season
By Melanie Cane In their 72-58 home victory over Columbia Prep on January 24, the Gryphons put on a show of talent and intensity, and a wide range of play execution. Coach Mike Clancy called it their best effort of the year. Holy Child hit the court running and quickly jumped out to a 17-7 […]
National Football Foundation Honors the Chabot Boys
The Westchester Chapter of the National Football Foundation, which has been honoring gridiron scholar-athletes for 45 years, singled out a football-playing Rye family when it chose its Golden Dozen team for 2017 at Westchester Country Club two weeks ago. Billy Chabot, the featured running back for the Rye Garnets, was named as one of […]
A Tradition Filled with Color (iro 色)
As part of their curriculum in Japanese Culture, Rye third graders take part in a festive celebration. The children learn calligraphy, play traditional games, and sample Japanese foods, all while wearing authentic kimonos. Milton and Osborn schools held their 17th annual events last month and Midland is scheduled to celebrate theirs in the spring. […]
Daisy Steinthal Has Her ACT Together
Daisy Steinthal, a junior at Convent of the Sacred Heart, earned the highest possible ACT score of 36. It is quite an achievement, as fewer than one-tenth of 1 percent of students who take the ACT earn a top score. ACT consists of tests in English, Mathematics, Reading, and Science, each scored on a […]
Kids’ February Break Escapes
Crime Scene Investigation Chemistry Lab Kids playing golf Ceramics Compiled by Janice Llanes Fabry <<Rye Library’s Law and Order>> The Rye library is offering <<Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) Workshops>> for ages K-5 from 2-4. On February 20, the focus is fingerprinting; on February 21, it’s all about secret codes; on February 22, it’s […]