One year after her dream of playing with the U.S. Women's National soccer team in the World Cup was “taken away” from her, Northport native Allie Long has been selected to join the team for its upcoming campaign at the Rio 2016 Olympics in Brazil.

As a freshman at Cold Spring Harbor High School, Billy Lister was faced with a challenge that changed the course of his life: The left side of his body was paralyzed. He was diagnosed with a chronic brain disorder at age 15, and soon underwent a successful surgery to remedy it, but suffered a stroke just after his 17th birthday that affected the left side of body.

The family members of Sean Urda, an East Northport teen who was killed in a 2015 snow-tubing accident, is planning a soccer golf outing in his memory for Saturday, July 23, at the Dix Hills Golf Course.

Cameron Jordan, a two-sport athlete for Half Hollow Hills High School West, has committed to play football for Syracuse University.

A pair of local New York Mets fans recently got to test their knowledge against Mets baseball announcers Gary Cohen and Howie Rose in “Beat the Booth,” a television trivia game show. James Hawkins, 26, from East Northport, and Adam Yanover, 49, of Melville, were two of the four contestants to challenge Cohen and Rose for their crown.

With a 3-0 win over the Pleasant Valley Cobras earlier this month, the Dix Hill Hurricanes boys U-16 soccer team became State Open Cup champions for the third consecutive year.

A former Cold Spring Harbor Seahawk has been ranked as one of the nation's top freshman lacrosse players after his rookie campaign at Fairfield University.

Huntington High School’s four-headed monster of Lawrence Leake, Shane McGuire, Kyree Johnson, and Infinite Tucker, added to their already impressive year by winning another national championship while breaking yet another record, this time the state’s all-time 1,600-meter relay time.

From goaltender Devin Burdo, all the way up through the defensive line, middies and attackers, the Cold Spring Harbor boys lacrosse team was clicking Saturday during the Class ‘C’ state championship game, which ended with the Seahawks second consecutive state title.

While they’re nicknamed the Seahawks, it was more than just Cold Spring Harbor’s mascot that flew high Tuesday night.

Two Huntington High School track stars met at the Dennis Walker Championship Classic on Saturday. One of the stars, Infinite Tucker, is currently a senior at the school, and the other graduated as part of the Class of 1949.

A brother-to-brother connection has lifted the Walt Whitman Wildcats into the second round of Suffolk’s Division I boys lacrosse playoffs.

With the Haverford College baseball leading in the bottom of the fifth inning, they sent pitcher Stephen Ridings to the mound to face the John Hopkins University. Ridings, a St. Anthony’s High School grad, was called for a balk, tying the score at 2-2. Standing at 6-foot-8, 205 pounds, he pled his case to the umpire, but was sent away.

The Huntington girls lacrosse team honored its eight seniors on Monday afternoon prior to its game against visiting West Babylon, celebrating the careers and contributions of a group of talented teenagers.

The Upper Room Royals completed their first season under head coach Tom Femminella last month, securing a 19-6 overall record and third place in the East Region of the National Prep Championships in South Carolina.

With the initials “N.G.” and a breast cancer symbol stitched on the sleeves of their warm up shirts, and pink ribbons dangling from their hair and cleats, the Cold Spring Harbor girls lacrosse team honored the late Niki Gregory, a former longtime team supporter who died last October. Gregory, 62 at the time of her death, was a cancer survivor for nearly three decades.