Fall sports awards night celebrates athletic success

Blair held its annual fall sports awards night Wednesday, November 14th at 6:30, congratulating specific team members on their accomplishments and celebrating the success of the fall sports teams as a whole.

Athletic Director Dale Miller gave an opening speech about his pride in Blair's sports teams' success this year. He also said that Blair athletes are not just physically successful, but exemplify dignity and class on the field as well. "Our athletes are not only competitive on the field, but our athletes show very good sportsmanship. Win or lose, we are winners here at Blair High School," Miller said.

Another point of emphasis in Miller's speech was the academic prowess of Blair's athletes. Miller said that approximately 60 % of Blair's athletes receive scholar athlete awards, meaning that they had a 3.25 or higher GPA. Miller added that about 60 to 75 athletes receive all-As awards.

Miller was unable to hand out the scholar-athlete and all-As awards at the banquet, however, because the school has not yet issued report cards. He said that he would deliver those awards to the athletes' first period teachers as soon as report cards were given out.

The athletic awards given on the evening were Most Valuable Player (MVP), Most Outstanding Senior (MOS), the Coaches' Award (CA), and Most Improved Player (MIP).

AWARDS:

Varsity Football:
MVP- Alimamy Jabbie
MOS- James McCrae
CA- Alfonso Angus
MIP- Akmed Jah

Junior Varsity (JV) Football:
MVP- Hansel Cedeno
CA- Justin Roman
MIP- Perry Smith

Varsity Boys' Soccer:
MVP- Zachary Palmer
MOS- Eliot Stein, Sampson Geeplah
CA- Alieu Terry
MIP- Akieal Williams

JV Boys' Soccer:
MVP- Dennis Soza
CA- Alex Berger
MIP- Michael Sindall

Varsity Girls' Soccer:
MVP- Erika Pelz-Butler
MOS- Elana Eisen-Markowitz
CA- Aynesleah Sinclair
MIP- Kyra Alvez-Moats

JV Girls' Soccer:
MVP- Marianne Epstein
CA- Rebecca Feiden
MIP- Olivia Bevacqua

Varsity Field Hockey:
MVP- Amanda Wallace
MOS- Katie Jentleson
CA- Ashley Moyer
MIP- Leslie Auerbach

JV Field Hockey:
MVP- Caroline Kuttner
CA-Tiffany Sy
MIP- Colette Richards

Varsity Tennis:
MVP- Vivian Wang
MOS- Nisha Aggarwal
CA- Jennifer Alyono
MIP- Alia Halabi

Varsity Boys' Cross Country:
MVP- Eitan Halper-Stromberg
MOS- Jossi Fritz-Mauer
CA- Ruben Galbraith
MIP- Gabe Morden-Snipper

Varsity Girls' Cross-Country:
MVP- Laurel Jefferson
MOS- Hayley Wynn
CA- Sarah Yousefnejad
MIP- Julie Chiplis

Varsity Volleyball:
MVP- Amanda Hsiung
MOS- Tracy Lin
CA- Christi Chew
MIP- Emily Ramsay

JV Volleyball:
MVP- Rebecca Cho
CA- Kate Selby
MIP- Ram Goheure

Varsity Golf:
MVP- Ben Payes
MOS- Michael Coe, Liam Bowen, George Bartlett, Aaron Covert
CA- Joshua Richardson
MIP- Daniel Hill