A Night Recognizing Athletic Excellence in Sayville’s Year-end Awards Ceremony

Congratulations to the following Sayville Athletes who were presented with Inspirational, Most Valuable Player, and Athletic Special Awards for their excellence in sports. These students have demonstrated the highest individual accomplishments throughout their High School careers and have earned recognition from their coaches, their teammates, and the Athletic Department.

Special Senior Athletic Awards:

Kelly Santangelo • The Marinus Buys Memorial Award for Most Outstanding Athlete

Julia DePompeo • The Buck MacKenzie Award for Service, Sportsmanship & Athletics

The Sayville Coaches:  Brendan Butler

The Outstanding Scholar-Athlete: Maria Bonacore

The William Costanzo Memorial: Steven Leshinger

Warren Collins Memorial: Molly McCauley

The Harvey Case Memorial: Holly Citeno

Gold-Key Award Recipients:

Maria Bonacore

Holly Citeno

Julia DePompeo

Kayla Grossi

Molly McCauley

Richard Millwater

Tyler Nolan

Jonathan Paciorek

Sarah Pellegrini

Kelly Salloum

Kelly Santangelo

Tanner Sterback

Maureen Taylor

Margaret Verspoo

MVP WINNERS        

The Most Valuable Boys Cross-Country Award • Sean Bonney    

The Most Valuable Girls Cross-Country Award • Margaret Verspoor  

The Carl Varone Track Award       • Sean Bonney   

The Paul Kelley Track Award        • Tyler Nolan

The Ron Smith Award         • Sarah Pellegrini

The Golden Sneaker Award • Kieran Harrison

The Betty Martin Field Hockey Award • Madelyn Vetrano

The Demi Bineares Scholarship Award   • Emily Crawford           

The Most Valuable Girls Soccer Award    • Dariann Sellitti           

The John Schroeder Scholarship Award-Girls • Kelly Santangelo

The Huron Smith Memorial Soccer Award-Girls • Kelly Santangelo

The Huron Smith Memorial Soccer Award-Boys • Daniel Scheck

The Most Valuable Boys Soccer Award  • Jared VanBrunt           

The Most Valuable Cheerleading Award      • Kristi Troha

The Cheerleading Leadership Award             • Kirstin Colon

The Most Valuable Baseball Award            • Nicholas Petrella

The Golden Bat Baseball Award                   • Michael Hewson     

The Baseball Scholarship Award                    • Kyle Van Duyne

The Most Valuable Softball Award               • Merissa Selts                                 

The Golden Bat Softball Award                       • Kathleen Maehr   

The Barney Pazourek Annual Football Award  • Joseph DeLuca             

The A.C. Edwards Award                                • Justin Fronckwicz

The Gerry Corrado Memorial Award                • Casey Boos                

The Jason Ruzicka Memorial Scholarship        • Casey Boos                

The Most Valuable Female Golf Award       • Shannon Haselton

The William Zeller Memorial Golf Award    • Kyle Burke

The May Hazen Girls Basketball Award       • Julia DePompeo

The Most Valuable Girls Basketball Award  • Amy Dean

The Major Merrill Wish Basketball Award   • Christopher Lowe & James Rupp                  

The Bud VanWyen Memorial Basketball Award • Richard Geiger

The Most Valuable Girls Volleyball Award   • Kayla Mergl           

The Stadtmuller Volleyball Award • Julia DePompeo

The Most Valuable Boys Volleyball Award   • Tyler Nolan

The Rookie of the Year Volleyball Award     • Kevin O’Neil

The Most Valuable Girls Swimming Award • Marisa DiNovis

The Most Valuable Boys Swimming Award • Matthew Hillsberg

The Otto Kubelle Memorial Girls Tennis Award • Lauren Bohman

The Otto Kubelle Memorial Boys Tennis Award • Jared Drzal                              

The Evelyn Stoll Girls Track Award             • Angelica Hernandez & Alexandra Russell

The Atalanta Girls Track Award                   • Breana Lindquist

The Gold Baton Award                                  • Sarah Pellegrini     

The George Rhodes Memorial Wrestling Award • Matthew Leshinger

The Jules Molson Memorial Award            • Steven Leshinger

The Most Valuable Bowler Award                • Christopher Beni

The Most Improved Bowler Award            • Melanie Drinkwater

The Most Valuable Girls Lacrosse Award    • Emily Meier

The Girls Lacrosse Defense Award                   • Elizabeth Koehler

The Most Valuable Boys Lacrosse Award    • Steven Ferreira

The Boys Lacrosse Gladiator Award             • Patrick Fleming                              

The Mitchell Cangelosi Scholarship              • Joseph DeLuca                   

Gilbert D. Bishop Memorial Scholarship        • Maria Bonacore