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Whitman’s Athletic Mind In Motion Honored

?This past Monday night, 75 Walt Whitman High School student athletes were honored for the winter sports season. The Minds in Motion Awards were presented to varsity athletes who maintain a 90 plus average during their sports season. Of those scholar athletes who received the honor were, Jocelyn Addeo, Kate Appenzeller, Elizabeth Archer, Kate Barnosky, Jake Barotta, Tyler Brown, Scott Burger, Jacqueline Candela, Ernest Capasso, Bilal Cheema, Michael Ciccarone, Nicholas Colapinto, Matthew Collins, Christopher Deluca, Elizabeth DeMarco, Elizabeth DeMonte, Dylan DeNuzzo, Craig Diana, Joseph DiRocco, Sara Donatich, William Elsbeck, Gregory Fevola, Alicia Frank, Sharise Graham, Brittany Greene, John Grudens, Krista Hannaford, Patrick Harriott, Luke Harris, Jacob Jones, Douglas Judd, Regina Keane, Brendan Keegan, Michael Keegan, Stacy King, Danielle Kozlowski, Melanie LaMorte, Richard Laucella, Jared Levy, Emily Mannisto, Chelsea McManus, Paige-Ann Melinis, Jillian Melnick, Ryan Mesloh, Lily Michelson, Michael Milanese, Caitlin Miller, Thomas Miranda, Brian Muller, Anthony Negrelli, Diana Palka, Salvatore Pezzino, Aseef Raihan, Kimberly Rauseo, Christian Rocanova, John Roselle, John Rouse, Justin Saslaw, Jenna Scudieri, Lauren Scumaci, Tamer Sergany, John Servinskas, Ajmal Sharif, Ryan Sheridan, Bianca St. Louis, Meagan Stachurski, Nicholas Thode, Elizabeth Tomaselli, Steven Varvaro, Nicholas Vitale, Peter Werner, Stephen Williams, Nicholas Wilson, Benjamin Windisch, and Arifa Zaidi.
The athletes were integral parts of Whitman’s boys and girls winter track, girls and boys fencing, boys and girls basketball, boys bowling, and wrestling teams.

Two individual athletes also found themselves honored for not only their stamina on the field, but in the classroom as well. Whitman’s top two scholar athletes from the winter sports season were male scholar athlete Peter Werner member of the boys track team with a GPA of 96.8, and top female scholar athlete member of the girls track team Alicia Frank with a GPA of 98.8.
New York State Scholar Teams were acknowledged as well during the evening. The girls winter track team made their mark with a 95.1 overall team average, while boys winter track team followed close behind with 94.5. The girls fencing team had an overall average of 91.9, the boys fencing had a 91.2 and the girls basketball team scored with a 91.0.

Additional sports awards were distributed throughout the night for most valuable players and other categories for each winter team. The 5th Year Awards were taken home by James Kaden for wrestling, Salvatore Pezzino for boys bowling, and Ryan Sheridan for boys track. Marcella Rodriguez took home the 6th Year Award.