West Hartford’s Hall High School held its annual Sports Awards ceremony on June 2, 2015, and have announced the following recipients.
Photo credit: Amy Melvin
Senior Awards
Dale Harper Award
“A senior who exemplifies the highest standards of sportsmanship both on the field and in the classroom.”
Devon Aldave and Alyssa Freiman
Army ROTC Scholar-Athlete Award
“A senior who has demonstrated excellence in academics and athletics.”
Robert Parra and Kathleen Keegan
Distinguished Athlete Award
“A senior who has demonstrated exemplary citizenship, is a role model for younger students, and exhibits leadership while performing as a varsity athlete.”
Hayden Souza and Jenna Behan
Carey Award
“The most outstanding athlete in the senior class.”
Ari Klau, Jack Monnes, Ogadinma Ikani, and Mackenzie Molodetz
Warrior Award
“A senior who has shown the most improvement and dedication.”
Neil Kelley and Erin O’Brien
Carol O’Malley Award
“A female student-athlete in the senior class who exemplifies leadership and sensitivity.”
Savannah Dubay
Dave Deacon Award
“A male multi-sport senior who displays outstanding competitiveness and sportsmanship.”
Joshua Weisenberg
Kagan Family Lacrosse Award
“A senior lacrosse player with 3 years of high school lacrosse, a GPA of 2.5 or better, good sportsmanship, positive role model for other players, and has mentored, coached, or refereed the youth town leagues.”
William Witter and Christine Taylor
West Hartford of Baseball Scholarship
Samuel Dobbins
Lance Corporal Lawrence R. Philippon Memorial Award
Owen Macca and Patrick Russell
Franklin Robinson Jr. Sportsmanship Award
“A multi-sport student-athlete who displays a high level of sportsmanship, shows empathy for those less fortunate, is highly committed to their sport(s), has good citizenship and is in good academic standing.”
Samuel Dobbins and Catherine Gadue
Spirit of Hall Award
“A senior student-athlete who has good sportsmanship, commitment to their team and sport and has a hard work ethic.”
Max Aronow, Benjamin Gross, Andrew Zinzarella, Sydney Gellerman, Kelley Mantz, Kaitlin Rogers, and Anna Zinzarella
THREE-SPORT ATHLETE AWARD WINNERS
Seniors who have played the same sports for three years, including as a senior.
- Devon Aldave – Cross Country, Indoor Track and Outdoor Track and Field
- Jenna Behan – Field Hockey, Basketball and Lacrosse
- Ethan Burstein – Cross Country, Indoor Track and Tennis
- Helen Chavey – Field Hockey, Indoor Track and Outdoor Track and Field
- Catherine Gadue – Field Hockey, Basketball and Lacrosse
- Sydney Gellerman – Soccer, Indoor Track and Lacrosse
- Stephanie Gold – Cross Country, Basketball, and Outdoor Track and Field
- Benjamin Gross – Cross Country, Indoor Track and Outdoor Track and Field
- Gillian Hixson – Cross Country, Indoor Track, and Outdoor Track and Field
- Monica Keeley – Cross Country, Indoor Track, and Outdoor Track and Field
- Ari Klau – Cross Country, Indoor Track, and Outdoor Track and Field
- Grant O’Connor – Cross Country, Indoor Track, and Outdoor Track and Field
- Kaitlin Rogers – Soccer, Indoor Track, and Lacrosse
- Christine Taylor – Field Hockey, Indoor Track, and Lacrosse
TWO-SPORT ATHLETE AWARD WINNERS
Seniors who have played the same sports for three years, including as a senior.
- Danna Alnajjar – Cross Country and Outdoor Track and Field
- Max Aronow – Cross Country and Outdoor Track and Field
- John Cassidy – Indoor Track and Outdoor Track and Field
- Ariela Castagno – Soccer and Lacrosse
- Taylor Coursey—Cross Country and Indoor Track
- Samuel Dobbins – Football and Baseball
- Savannah Dubay – Indoor Track and Outdoor Track and Field
- Alyssa Freiman – Indoor Track and Tennis
- Jacob Graber-Lipperman – Cross Country and Indoor Track
- Kathleen Graulich – Field Hockey and Lacrosse
- Alexander Healy – Cross Country and Indoor Track
- Ogadinma Ikani – Football and Wrestling
- Neil Kelley – Football and Baseball
- Owen Macca – Football and Lacrosse
- Victoria Martin—Indoor Track and Tennis
- Mackenzie Molodetz – Basketball and Lacrosse
- Erin O’Brien – Soccer and Basketball
- Gabriella Palmeri – Swimming and Diving and Gymnastics
- Abigail Rosenthal-Baxter – Indoor Track and Outdoor Track and Field
- Patrick Russell – Football and Lacrosse
- Joshua Singer – Basketball and Baseball
- Matthew Skwiot – Football and Baseball
- Hayden Souza – Football and Lacrosse
- Samuel Turner – Basketball and Baseball
- Joshua Weisenberg – Soccer and Baseball
- Paul Zeuschner – Cross Country and Golf
- Andrew Zinzarella – Cross Country and Baseball
- Anna Zinzarella – Field Hockey and Softball
Hall 2014-2015 Highlights
FALL 2014
League Champions
Boys Cross Country – CCC West
Champions
Ari Klau – Class LL State Champion – Boys Cross Country
Tara Tiernan – State Open Champion – 200 Free – Girls Swimming
All American Honors
Jack Monnes – Boys Soccer
All New England Honors
- Ari Klau – Boys Cross Country
- Jack Monnes – Boys Soccer
- Grant O’Connor – Boys Cross Country
- Chantelle Swaby – Girls Soccer
CHSCA All State Honors
- Helen Chavey – Field Hockey
- Maria DiBella – Girls Swimming
- Kathleen Keegan – Field Hockey
- Ari Klau – Boys Cross Country
- Jack Monnes – Boys Soccer
- Grant O’Connor – Boys Cross Country
- Rob Parra – Football
- Chantelle Swaby – Girls Soccer
- Tara Tiernan – Girls Swimming
CHSCA Academic All-State Honors
- Helen Chavey – Field Hockey
- Kathleen Keegan – Field Hockey
All CCC West League Honors
Boys Cross Country – Devon Aldave, Benjamin Gross, Jonathan Kaback, Ari Klau and Grant O’Connor
Girls Cross Country – Alyssa Freiman and Elizabeth Salzman-Fiske
Field Hockey – Helen Chavey, Kathleen Keegan and Christine Taylor
Football – Sam Dobbins, Jason Gilbert, Mark Kasumba, Neil Kelley, Rob Parra, and Hayden Souza
Boys Soccer – Jack Monnes, Chris Murphy, James Peterson and Joshua Weisenberg
Girls Soccer – Kyanna Alleyne, Kaitlin Rogers, Sophia Pascon and Chantelle Swaby
Girls Swimming and Diving – Annie Alquist, Maria DiBella, Kelley Mantz, Quinn Mitchell, and Tara Tiernan
Girls Volleyball – Elena Pevar
CCC Fall All-Academic Team – A GPA of 3.0 or higher for the 1st quarter.
Cheerleading – Kylee Colbert, Laura David, Ilana Humphries, Jenny Kha, Sydney Lyons, Sarah McGuinness and Mackenzie Molodetz.
Boys Cross Country – Devon Aldave, Max Aronow, Grant Bannister, Ethan Burstein, John Cassidy, Raymond Fagan, Jacob Graber-Lipperman, Benjamin Gross, Alexander Healy, Thomas Jelly, Jonathan Kaback, Samuel Katten, Ari Klau, Grant O’Connor, Benjamin Sandstrom, Noah Schulman, Jacob Scott, Steven Soto, Paul Zeuschner and Andrew Zinzarella.
Girls Cross Country –Danna Alnajjar, Haley Applebaum, Emma Considine, Taylor Coursey, Rachel Dembo, Julia DeMichele, Giselle Epstein, Alyssa Freiman, Stephanie Gold, Mikayla Gordon-Wexler, Eleanor Gray, Gillian Hixson, Monica Keeley, Taylor Lloyd, Abigail Rosenthal-Baxter, Amelia Rosenthal-Baxter, Elizabeth Salzman-Fiske, Kayla Staley, and Sophie Wheeler.
Field Hockey – Sophia Altimari, Jenna Behan, Helen Chavey, Lydia Chelli, Melissa Fraistat, Catherine Gadue, Caroline Grant, Ava Hucker, Kathleen Keegan, Kailey Kennedy, Adrienne LaForte, Josephine Lynch, Alessandra Mitrano, Olivia Moran, Laurine Polak, Emily Rossini, Christine Taylor, and Anna Zinzarella.
Football – Theodore Blaschinski, Kyle Conlon, Samuel Dobbins, Evan Duzan, Tyquan Eason, Nathan Edelstein, Jason Gilbert, Neil Kelley, Connor Moss, Harrison Newman, Robert Parra, Patrick Russell, Matthew Skwiot, Hayden Souza, Tyler Strickling, Griffin Tyler, David Van Doren, Jordan Weinstock, and John Wells.
Boys Soccer –Jake Bauman, Samuel Bunin, Kyler Cubbage, Noah Del Coro, Maxwell Drazen, Noah Drazen, Jake Gilden, David Kerzner, Patrick King, Thomas Knox, Gabriel Lichtenstein, Jack Monnes, Christopher Murphy, Jair Perez, Santiago Persano, James Peterson, Zachary Principe, John Punt, Jeremy Rausch, Caleb Ritter, Connor Sandstrom, Anthony Speranza, Andrew Swain, Farukh Tashmuhamedov, Kevin Tracy, and Joshua Weisenberg.
Girls Soccer – Kyanna Alleyne, Charlotte Apter, Melanie Binkhorst, Cammie Cho, Sydney Gellerman, Claudia Hess, Melissa Levin, Chloe Li, Sonia Livingston, Hannah Merritt, Grace Miller, Shannon Murphy, Erin O’Brien, Cristina Palmeri, Sophia Pascon, Emily Remicio, Kaitlin Rogers, and Chantelle Swaby.
Girls Swimming and Diving – Antonia Alquist, Sarah Berman, Grace Coll, Aiyanna Coulter, Maria DiBella, Jessica Figgie, Callie Henderson, Abigail Kock, Leah Kochen, Kelley Mantz, Alexa Meller, Quinn Mitchell, Gabriella Palmeri, Rachel Pinsky, Shaina Schnog, Kelly Tiernan, Tara Tiernan, Yoshino Toi, Caroline Turner, and Jeanne Wang.
Girls Volleyball – Emily Bobruff, Michelle Brook, Katie Daglian, Kim Kha, Sophie Kulowski, Nina Mirontchik, Elena Pevar, Sheyla Rosado, Erica Rothenberg, and Morgan Shearin.
WINTER 2014-2015
League Champions
- Boys Indoor Track – CCC West
- Girls Indoor Track – CCC West
Champions
- Ari Klau – State Open Champion – 1600m
- Ogadi Ikani – State Class L Champion – 220 lb. Wrestling
CHSCA All State Honors
- Jamie Hodge – Gymnastics
- Ogadi Ikani – Wrestling
- Ari Klau – Indoor Track
All CCC West League Honors
- Boys Basketball – Daniel Brocke
- Cheerleading – Xiana Albino and Jenny Kha
- Gymnastics – Jamie Hodge
- Indoor Track – Devon Aldave, Helen Chavey, Ari Klau, and Grant O’Connor
- Boys Swimming and Diving – Reid Beukeboom, Nathaniel Bidwell, Matt Cashman, Peter Hoyle, and Jordan Polun
- Wrestling – Ethan Bravin and Ogadinma Ikani
CCC Winter All-Academic Team – A GPA of 3.0 or higher for the 2nd quarter
Boys Basketball – Matthew Berson, Daniel Brocke, Gabriel Lichtenstein, Daniel Roth, Joshua Singer, Samuel Turner, Michael Verrengia, and John Wells.
Girls Basketball – Jenna Behan, Melanie Binkhorst, Marie Cotter, Catherine Gadue, Alexa Gellerman, Stephanie Gold, Lani Gordon, Madison Mandyck, Mackenzie Molodetz, Erin O’Brien, Caroline O’Keefe, Amber Raisner, and Jessica Sillman.
Cheerleading – Kylee Colbert, Jennifer Curtis, Jenny Kha, Sydney Lyons, Sarah McGuinness, and Caitlin Skarzynski.
Gymnastics – Hannah Baxer, Emma Brody, Callie Henderson, Jamie Hodge, Olivia Jacquier, Ashley McDonald, Cristina Palmeri, Gabriella Palmeri, Rachel Pinsky, Hope Raney, and Rachel Schunder.
Boys Ice Hockey – Caelan Booth, Kevin Carr, Kyler Cubbage, Jacob Herz, Richard Mitchell, and Benjamin Sandstrom.
Girls Ice Hockey –Mikayla Gordon-Wexler and Alessandra Mitrano.
Indoor Track and Field – Devon Aldave, Max Aronow, Connor Blodgett, Collin Burkhard, Ethan Burstein, John Cassidy, Patrick Cassidy, Vinh Dang, Raymond Fagan, Jacob Graber-Lipperman, Benjamin Gross, Alexander Healy, Jonathan Kaback, Grant O’Connor, Olaleye Onikuyide, Heath Pitt, Robert Silverman, Steven Soto, Sovannarith Touch, and Alexander Walshaw.
Girls Indoor Track and Field – Ashleigh Albee, Danna Alnajjar, Helen Chavey, Cammie Cho, Taylor Coursey, Savannah Dubay, Alyssa Freiman, Sydney Gellerman, Alyson Graff, Claudia Hess, Gillian Hixson, Carolynn Humble, Monica Keeley, Josephine LaForte, Isabella Livingston, Taylor Lloyd, Victoria Martin, Shannon Murphy, Natalie Nordyke, Kaitlin Rogers, Abigail Rosenthal-Baxter, Elizabeth Salzman-Fiske, Julia Silverman, Kayla Staley, and Christine Taylor.
Boys Swimming and Diving – Michael Barzach, James Cashman, Olivia DiPoi, Noah Drazen, Sean Ennis, Schuyler Fica-Goetzel, Nikolas Gianoulis, John Hosey, Peter Hoyle, Matheus Kloss, Jonathan Peikes, Jordan Polun, Anthony Poon, Viktor Shcheglov, Nathan Silverman, Michael Stambler, Andrew Swain, and Jakob Woods Weber.
Wrestling – Ethan Bravin, Joshua Cherny, Natan Cohen, Alper Ozdemir, Eli Perry, Daniel Sheridan, and Clark Stan.
SPRING 2015
All-Academic Honors
- Jenna Behan, Lacrosse
- Lydia Chelli, Lacrosse
- Mackenzie Molodetz, Lacrosse
CHSCA All State Honors
- Max Aronow – 4x800m – 4x800m Class L Champion
- Savannah Dubay – 200m Class L Champion
- Jonathan Kaback – 4x800m Class L Champion
- Neil Kelley, Baseball
- Ari Klau, Track – 4x800m Class L Champion
- Grant O’Connor, Track – 4x800m Class L Champion
All CCC West League Honors
- Baseball – Neil Kelley and Danny Roth
- Softball – Anna Zinzarella
- Boys Golf – Christopher Butler
- Girls Golf – Janet Alquist and Michelle Dicke
- Boys Lacrosse – Hayden Souza and William Witter
- Girls Lacrosse – Cammie Cho and Mackenzie Molodetz
- Boys Tennis – Ethan Burstein, Bryce DellaBianca, Geoffrey Diehl and Adam Sonntag
- Girls Tennis – Marina Tinone
- Boys Track and Field – Max Aronow, Connor Blodgett, Patrick Cassidy, Jonathan Kaback, Ari Klau, and Grant O’Connor
- Girls Track and Field – Helen Chavey, Alexx Chambers, Savannah Dubay, Claudia Hess and Julia Silverman
- Boys Volleyball – Steven Jacobsen
CCC Spring All-Academic Team – A GPA of 3.0 or higher for the 3rd quarter
Baseball – Derek Berube, Francis Byrne, Timothy Dickson, Samuel Dobbins, Callan Finn-McMahon, Ian Henderson, Patrick McHale, Dylan Rosenbaum, Danny Roth, Joshua Singer, Samuel Turner, Joshua Weisenberg, and Andrew Zinzarella.
Softball – Grace Amato, Isabelle Amato, Leah Goldman, Madison Manning, Tess Michaud, Maria Porth, Ashlee Sanchez, Ryan Sandler, Molly Sullivan, Caroline Wisialowski, and Anna Zinzarella
Boys Golf – William Benshoff, Justin Bernheimer, William Burns, Christopher Butler, Ian Frank, Jack Hutensky, and Paul Zeuschner.
Girls Golf – Janet Alquist, Kathryn Barnett, Margaret Barnett, Michelle Dicke and Hayley Lemke
Boys Lacrosse – David Blakelock, Theodore Blaschinski, Kevin Carr, Evan Duzan, Pete Eze, Frank Fallon, Jack Fischman, Jacob Gershon, Benjamin Harney, Jack Kanaga, Jonathan Kochis, Alex Liu, Owen Macca, Christopher Monnes, Harrison Newman, Kenny Puerta-Perez, Benjamin Roland, Devan Roy, Patrick Russell, AJ Speranza, Lucas Vannie, Jordan Weinstock, Spencer Witter, and William Witter.
Girls Lacrosse –Jenna Behan, Lydia Chelli, Cammie Cho, Catherine Gadue, Sydney Gellerman, Gabrielle Gershon, Caroline Grant, Kailey Kennedy, Josephine Lynch, Mackenzie Molodetz, Natalie Nordyke, Erin O’Brien, Kaitlin Rogers, Emily Rossini, Christine Taylor, Christine Tulikangas, and Anna Welch.
Boys Tennis – Zachary Aldave, Michael Bennett, Matthew Berson, Ethan Burstein, Ryan Cudemus-Brunoli, Noah Del Coro, Bryce Della Bianca, Geoffrey Diehl, Nathan Graber-Lipperman, Kyle Hunt, James Leung, Adam Maidman, Seth Meisler, Nicholas Paul, Amschel Rothschild, Adam Sonntag, Michael Stambler, Cameron Tripp, Evan Weinstock, William Wright, and Jason Yip.
Girls Tennis – Diane Berlinsky, Elinor Cohen, Alyssa Freiman, Rebecca Fried, Aditi Joshi, Sydney Lyons, Elizabeth Maier, Victoria Martin, Caroline Monnes, Sierra Moore, Bethany Onyirimba, Jessica Schwartz, Dani Shoflick, Marina Tinone, and Natalie Wright.
Boys Track and Field – Devon Aldave, Max Aronow, Grant Bannister, Michael Barzach, Timothy Baxer, Connor Blodgett, Jacob Booth, Collin Burkhard, John Cassidy, Patrick Cassidy, Vinh Dang, Kyle Exum, Jacob Graber-Lipperman, Benjamin Gross, Alexander Healy, Samuel Katten, Christopher Keegan, Etan Klau, Johan Moni, Grant O’Connor, Olaleye Onikuyide, Heath Pitt, Robert Silverman, Steven Soto, Mason Stabile, and Sovannarith Touch.
Girls Track and Field – Kyanna Alleyne, Danna Alnajjar, Hannah Baxer, Scotia Bent, Helen Chave, Emma Considine, Savannah Dubay, Samya Epps, Stephanie Gold, Sarah Healy, Claudia Hess, Gillian Hixson, Carolynn Humble, Monica Keeley, Isabella Livingston, Taylor Lloyd, Sierra Lyles, Hannah Merritt, Emily Mohler, Shannon Murphy, Lindsay Penn, Abigail Rosenthal-Baxter, Amelia Rosenthal-Baxter, Julia Silverman, Taylor Teasley, Simone Watts, and Hannah Weisenberg.
Boys Volleyball – Elijah Burston-Lyles, Nicholas Calabrese, James Cassidy, Bradley Currier, Jordan Frank, Jacob Ginden, Steven Jacobsen, Matheus Kloss, and Adejah Valentine.
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