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HHH Board of Ed Gives Out Awards to Athletes
The boys volleyball team, the girls tennis and swim teams and others get awards at board meeting.
The handed out a number of awards at their last board meeting, at Elementary School.
The first award was for the Suffolk Zone Chapter of the New York State Associations for Health, Physical Education Recreation and Dance.
The seniors who received the award are those who have met criteria in six different areas of outstanding Physical Education Achievement including:
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Physical Education Achievement, Scholastically Sound, Outstanding Character, Physical Education Leader, School-wide activities as a "Leader" and Student Role Model.
The award was presented to one senior young lady and senior young man from each high school.
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At Hills East the recipients were:
Morgan Donovan and Mason Thorbjornsen.
At Hills West:
Tiffany Ejikeme and James Barone received the award.
Then the board gave out awards to the HHH girls swimming and diving team for making the New York State Qualifier. The girls receiving the awards were:
Imani Flynn
Kayleigh Toth
Rachel Dunaisky
Selina Ng
Next, an award was given out to one girl on the HHH East girls tennis team, who was a New York State Qualifier. The girl receiving this award was:
Samantha Elgort
On the New York State doubles team, awards were given to:
Carly Siegel
Zenat Rashidzada
Then the NYS boys varsity volleyball team, who were NYS finalists, received awards. Not all the members of the team were there, but all the boys received awards, including:
James Barone
Luke Birnbaum
Michael Degrazia
Jordan Fitterman
Jordan Flerx
Remy Janco
Christopher Kaimis
Cody Lau
Calvin Manchenko
Jared Sohn
Max Willinger
Denzel Williams
The HHH varsity girls tennis team were also Suffolk County champions, and so they received awards:
Malini Desai
Hannah Finger
Jessica Gersten
Danah Han
Sabeen Marghoob
Hailey Ozsvath
Zenat Rashidzada
Carli Rumstein
Lauren Salzano
Danielle Silber
Ashley Tekiel
Rachel Tucker
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