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Golf Tourney
The SUNY Sullivan Foundation will hold its 19th Annual Golf Tournament at the Tarry Brae Golf Course on Friday, September 21. The event, dubbed the “The Start of Something Great Tournament,” will raise funds for athletic scholarships.
Registration and lunch begin at 11:00 a.m. with a shotgun start at 12:30 p.m. JeffBank is once again the tournament sponsor. Chris DePew, SUNY Sullivan’s Director of Athletics and Dean of Student Development Services, will chair the event.
The entry fee for the tournament is $120 per person and includes a round of golf, golf cart, on-course refreshments, lunch, cocktails, a delicious steak dinner, and a golf gift. Friends of the college who are not available to play golf, are invited to attend the dinner at 5:00 p.m.; dinner tickets are $40 per person.
For more information, contact Hillary Egeland at 845-434-5750, ext. 4377 or email hegeland@sunysullivan.edu.
Sullivan Upgrades
Beginning this fall, SUNY Sullivan will compete at the NJCAA Division II athletic level in Men’s and Women’s Basketball. The college has been competing for a number of years at the Division II level in Baseball. Colleges participating in Division II athletics are able to provide scholarships to qualified students to help cover the costs of tuition, books, fees, and up to $250 in course-required supplies. Additionally, the move to Division II athletics will allow SUNY Sullivan to serve dozens more students, as the college will field junior varsity teams for each Division II sport.
SCCC Ranked No. 3
Suffolk County Community College’s athletics program has been named a the National Alliance of Two Year College Athletic Administrators (NATYCAA) 2017-18 NATYCAA Cup Award recipient, finishing third, for overall athletics program excellence. The college’s program was also recognized as the sixth best in the nation out of 650 two-year colleges.
The NATYCAA Cup Award was established in 2003 and recognizes, nationally, overall outstanding two-year athletics programs.
Since 2012, Suffolk County Community College has had two sixth place finishes, two third place finishes, one second place finishes and one first place finish.
Trainer Honored
Diana Carey’s (pictured above, center) contributions to Rockland Community College extend well beyond her care for the college’s student-athletes. As head athletic trainer for RCC, she tends to the treatment and rehabilitation needs of those student-athletes and provides coverage for all nine of the college’s athletic teams’ Region XV events on campus. But on any given day during the school year, she can also be found mentoring student volunteer interns in athletic training, teaching courses as an associate professor in Exercise & Human Performance, or carrying out fitness and wellness programs for students, athletes, faculty and staff. So it comes as no surprise that Carey’s work has been recognized by various organizations during her 18-year tenure at RCC. The most recent, and perhaps most prestigious acclaim to come her way is the 2018 Head Athletic Trainer of the Year in the Community College/National Junior College Athletic Association division, conferred by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association (NATA) Intercollegiate Council for Sports Medicine (ICSM). She will be honored at the ICSM’s awards breakfast on June 28 at the 69th NATA Clinical Symposia and AT Expo in New Orleans, Louisiana.
Gold Glove
James Mattera (West Islip, ‘16) was awarded the 2018 Collegiate Rawlings Gold Glove Award by the American Baseball Coaches Association.
Mattera was also voted First Team All Region XV and was a Third Team NJCAA All Academic Honoree with a 3.76 GPA for the 2017-2018 academic year.
He will be continuing his athletic and academic career at SUNY Farmingdale.
“Jimmy’s performance is not only outstanding on the field, but in the classroom as well. We wish Jimmy the best of luck in his academic and baseball career,” said Head Baseball Coach Brian Klammer.
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