Everyone loves winners. That includes City and State officials and local Boards of Educations. Don’t believe us? Just ask any of the 26 members of the Rye Girls Varsity Soccer 2023 Class A State Final Championship team.
First, the City of Rye sends proclamations:
Then, The Board of Education extends props when the champs received the Rye Recognition of Excellence Awards from Superintendent Dr. Eric Byrne at the Tuesday, December 5th board meeting. On hand to congratulate the girls were County Executive George Latimer, Lisa Urban, chief of staff to New York State Assemblyman Steve Otis and Rye Mayor Josh Cohn:
Then on Thursday, December 14th, State Senator Shelley Mayer and State Representative Steve Otis came to present the girls with New York State Assembly proclamations:
See all the MyRye.com coverage of the team in their run up to becoming State champs.
The members of the team are (in alphabetical order):
Bowyn Brown
Parker Calhoun
Karenna Chader
Ava Cross
Claire Curran
Joy DeSanto
Della Goodman
Isabel Harvey
Charlotte Keenan
Lyla Keenan
Meredith Kenny
Alli Koford
Tessa Labovitz
Phoebe Lee
Reese Lejuez
Clare Nemsick
Shira Rand
Sage Ruttenberg
Mary Sack
Sophia Shoemaker
Paige Vanneck
Maddy Walsh
Sienna Wardle
Mali White
Lucy Wyckoff
Samantha Yeh
