Spencerport teams qualify for award

Six of the seven Spencerport spring athletic teams qualified for the NYSPHSAA Team Scholar Athlete Award during the spring season. In order to qualify, a team must have a team grade point average of 90 percent or above.

The teams that qualified, their grade point average and coach include: Girls Lacrosse - 95.622 - Amy Nesbitt; Girls Track and Field - 94.756 - Linda Pringle; Softball - 91.476 - Deborah Milner; Boys Tennis - 94.622 - John Gentile; Boys Track and Field - 92.152 - Jamie Schneider; Golf - 90.705 - Tom Etsler.

The student-athletes who qualified for:

  • Girls Lacrosse: Emily Knight, Katharine Kalamaroff, Katelyn Smith, Stephanie Snyder, Diana Hemm, Amanda Brandt, Cassandra Moyer, Regina Martuscello, Katelyn Clark, Katelin O'Connor and Christina Mangione. Additional girls lacrosse team members with a GPA equal or greater than 90 percent: Karen Stevens, Laura Stultz, Tricia Zambito, Jennifer Alessi and Lauren Parkhurst.
  • Girls Track and Field: Danielle Beilman, Sandra Goettelman, Nicole Dunshie, Sarah Templeton, Maura McGuire, Heather Cassidy, Karina Spicer, Tracy Webster, Laura Uschold, Victoria Foos, Jennifer Katz and Stephanie Johnson. Additional girls track and field team members with a GPA equal or greater than 90 percent: Elyse Benamati, Mary Charles, Amanda Ritzel, Alicia Stadtmiller and Sarah Skelly.
  • Softball: Sara Daggett, Rebecca Scroger, Elizabeth Paoletti, Melissa D'Agostino, Caitlin O'Brien, Kelly Schweikert, Shannon Elliott, Jamie Pinto, Mariesa Gianni, Christina Sullivan and Carolanne Crist.
  • Boys Tennis: Zachary DeRuyter, Jason Dorofy, Mark Blankfield, Jordan Patterson, Brian Colon, Christopher Wolfe, Joseph Sirianni, Dimitrios Kostarellis and Gregory Markant.
  • Boys Track and Field: Ryan Bloom, Andrew Decker, Nicholas Lowe, Sean Brinkman, Philip Weise, Michael SanFilipo, Brian Ruf, Christopher Somers, Lyle Pavia, Michael Burgstrom, Peter Moore and Donald Hampton.
  • Golf: Christopher Farnsworth, Daniel Otto, Christopher Clapper, Jason Knight, David Chong, Joseph Zaccaria and Christopher McFarlane.

Spencerport had 19 of its 24 varsity teams qualify for this award in the 2003-04 school year.