B.B. Trojans and Lady Trojans come out to shine at sports award banquet in country club setting

June 5, 2024 at 10:08 p.m.

From left, Andrew Rogovic, Kyra Mak, Sydney Goldberg and Seth Low won Blind Brook High School’s top senior athletic awards. (Courtesy photo of Kimberly Saxton)

The stars in Blind Brook High School's scholastic sports galaxy came out to play last Thursday (5/30). And without a game being played, the glitterati turned the Tamarack Country Club in Greenwich, Conn., into a virtual planetarium filled with local All-Stars being feted during the school's end-of-the-year sports banquet.

Before the last dish was cleared and the curtain came down on the past sports year, 78 student-athletes had received recognition for making various All-Section, All-Conference and All-League teams.

The best of the best

And four graduating seniors were named as the school's best of the best student-athletes.

It was a veritable moveable feast of award presentations that charted the course of successful athletic events and spotlighted the school’s most shining moments in 11 different varsity sports.

The number of awards won condensed those accomplishments into the recognition received by the honorees, the best of the best Trojans and Lady Trojans as announced by Blind Brook Athletic Director Kimberly Saxton.

The top-tier roster

Let's take it from the top in this Who's Who of Blind Brook's starriest sports heroes and heroines:

*The outstanding senior athlete awards went to two profiles in courage: Andrew Rogovic and Sydney Goldberg. Despite gutting his way through a blister-plagued season on his pitching hand, ace baseball pitcher/shortstop Andrew Rogovic threw 90 miles per hour heat that attracted Major League Baseball scouts and still made the All-Section and All-League teams. And versatile swimmer Sydney Goldberg made the All-Section and All-League swim team even though Blind Brook doesn't have its own swim team.

*The outstanding senior sportsperson awards went to lacrosse All-League defensive standout Seth Low and basketball point guard and LAX standout Kyra Mak, who made the All-League team in both sports.

*Blind Brook's seven All-Section standouts included volleyball players Fernanda Julian and Oriah Rosenfeld, soccer player Nicholas Palacios, basketball player Kendall Konigsberg, golf's Max Pullitzer, LAX's Tyler Taerstein and swimming's Sydney Goldberg.

*The Blind Brook All-Conference selections included volleyballer Ella Rosenfeld and hoops stalwarts Noah Brookman and Eli Zimmerman. And the All-Section Honorable Mentions list included soccer player Martin Otero, softball's Isabella Montesano and baseball's Andrew Rogovic.

And when it came to the All-League selections, 45 Trojans and Lady Trojans were named to those talent-filled teams including:

VOLLEYBALL: Fernanda Julian, Oriah and Ella Rosenfeld

SOCCER: Nicholas Palacios, Martin and Joaquin Otero, Eli Zimmerman, Kayleigh Curran, Alexandra Maniscalco, Veronica Pallotta, Jordan Sternschein and Anna Vnenchak

CHEER: Hailey Mallah and Ava Muoio

TENNIS: Carly Heinberg and Zoey Possick

BASKETBALL: Kendall Konigsberg, Kyra Mak, Bailey Estep, Eli Zimmerman, and Noah Brookman

SOFTBALL: Isabella Montesano and Charlotte Florin

TENNIS: James Perlman and Daniel and Hunter Greenspan

BASEBALL: Andrew Rogovic and Zachary Schneider

LAX: Tyler Taerstein, Michael Berman Annunziata, Chase Katz, Daniel McRedmond, Seth Low, Ethan Leland, Tomokazu Yamano, Christopher Stumpf, Madeline Campbell, Tatum Korpi, Eliza Barnett, Kyra Fischer and Alexa Muoio

GOLF: Tyler Gold, Max and Jacob Kulekofsy

SWIMMING: Sydney Goldberg

The All-League Honorable Mentions included soccer's Luka Cuk, Alexandra Beatty and Ava Shaw; the basketballers Ryan Stiler and Tyler Taerstein; hockey's Mikayla Newman and LAX standouts Kyra Mak and Marissa Savner

Gina Carlone was named Coach of the Year in both volleyball and softball. And the team awards went to volleyball's Oriah Rosenfeld and baseball's Andrew Rogovic, both chosen as League Player of the Year; hoops sensation Kendall Konigsberg, the League MVP, and cheerleaders Hailey Mallah and Jordana Esterow were honored with the team dedication award.

So there was a lot for Blind Brook to cheer about. But all good things must come to an end, even at an awards banquet in a country club setting.

And the stars didn't always light up the sky during a year that saw Blind Brook drop football because not enough players came out to guarantee the team could play safely, and then the school had its initial merger plans turned down by Section 1 when its AD (Sexton) tried to line up its players so they could play with another nearby, similar-sized and academically-oriented school. But the important thing to note is that Blind Brook never quit and is still pursuing a grid merger with another school so its interested footballers can play and meet Section 1 requirements next season.

Just as when the school discovered problems with its playing fields, it moved on to solve them and arranged for involved B.B. teams to play elsewhere until their own fields were ready.

But through it all, the local stars, known and unknown, still came out to play. And the Blind Brook student-athletes’ All-Star power never dimmed. So, all in all, it still turned out to be a very good year because the Trojans and Lady Trojans made the most of their time to shine.