001[Music] thank you I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all thank you so just a quick run through uh what we're going to do we are going to have a couple of speakers we're going to have some opening remarks a welcome some special Awards and then the team presentations and then at the end of the program our female and male athlete of the year so there's a lot to do we're also going to have a fantastic dinner and we are looking forward to a great night of celebrating our seniors all right so guys if you could just give me a second again just want to welcome everybody to uh our senior dinner
002I can't believe it's June uh I can't believe that that all of you are seniors it really has uh flown by these last four years um this senior class is is special for a lot of reasons but you know thinking about it on the uh on the car ride over here I was talking to my daughter Angelica about you know this class and and what event and you know she reminded me that this was the your freshman year was the coven Year and that March is when you know everything everything's shut down you lost a shot at your uh your first opportunity to play a Spring sport and that was rough and then the soccer uh your second year the sophomore year uh you come in and it was just so much unknown you know
003we didn't know if the team was gonna have to shut down for quarantine we didn't know if our opponent was going to shut down and quarantine there were days that we would have two different opponents you know we'd lose a game because of a shutdown and then we'd pick up you know team and maybe we were home maybe we were away maybe it was a far distance maybe it was a close distance maybe they came to us it was just so much uncertainty and you know the way that these athletes and these coaches handled themselves uh shown later on especially in their Junior and Senior year the resiliencies that you show um your hard work that you put in your perseverance your dedication to your sport in many cases your dedication to multiple Sports so
004it really says a lot about you and before we move on this is being live streamed so I do want to thank all of your parents and your family for the opportunities that they gave us to be a part of your life and and to watch you compete and you know the best part of my day is you know watching watching all of you athletes compete so I thank you for for that opportunity hopefully before we graduate in a couple weeks you're taking time to thank your coaches uh our athletic trainers uh our staff um you know we've got we've got we've got the best coaching staff I say this every year and I really do mean it we have the best coaching staff in the state you have the best athletic trainers in the
005state um and that's why we do so much um I'd like to acknowledge our our Board of Education I know our board president Jim Smith is going to speak later on and introduce everybody but I want to thank them for their support um you guys know what this looked like when you're a little kid growing up in Clifton and you looked at your Fields you know what it looked like two years ago and you look at our Fields now and and everything that we have and anytime we need something we get it which whether it's additional coaches uh because you know participation's been so high we get it whether whether we need uh supplies we get everything so we thank our board of education for that also like to thank our Central Administration Dr robitosi
006and and his administration for being just always extra supportive of us uh they're active in in on our lives they're at the president games they're always engaged we appreciate that uh Mr hamda and our and our vice principals want to thank them for everything that they do you know Mr Hobbs is always awesome when I ask them you know if we can do something we get out early for state tournament yeah absolutely you know those are good for kids yes and as long as the answer is yes to that question then he makes it happen so thank you Mr Honda with that uh Dr robitosi is running late so I am going to ask our next speaker Mr Hamden to come up and give a welcome foreign [Applause] hello everybody and welcome to our senior
007athletic awards dinner it's so great to see all of you here first off I want to congratulate all of our graduating seniors if everybody can just give give each other a round of applause you know I was thinking of what would be the the thing that connects all of you in this room what is it that makes you all special and I thought about this in terms of the students the trainers the coaches the Board of Ed our Administration and there's one word really that best describes what you all have and it's commitment you guys have commitment to one another and when I say that I'm talking about the students the commitment that you have to your team and to your coaches is something that is not seen very often the commitment that your coaches
008have to you there is no population there is no person that comes to me more often advocating for students more than a coach advocating for one of their players and I'm not just talking about something on the field I'm talking about things off the field too it's unlike anything I've seen and that's that commitment that the coaches have towards their kids the commitment that the trainers have the the endless hours that they put in and of course the commitment that our board of education has and the Relentless support that they have for our athletics department so essentially what I'm trying to say here is that's what sets you apart that's why everybody in this room is going to be successful and that's what's going to make you guys great so again I thank you guys
009for coming out tonight I truly do and keep being committed because that's what's going to get you guys places at this point at this time I'd like for you guys to give a round of applause to Mr Smith who's going to be coming up to speak and I thank you thank you yep tonight [Music] on behalf of the Board of Education we are so proud of each and every one of you for the dedication the devotion and the representation that we make as a Clinton athlete being a Mustang is definitely a privilege that you have and the baby you must say he doesn't leave when you graduate you are always a Mustang if you leave you'll be coming alumni you must say that is what makes Clifton different than many other towns we are united
010we are dedicated your devotion and your hard work surely comes through the board supports you in every way and with the board mat a few years ago we said you know some of our facilities are not up to far in fact foreign was probably one of the worst spaceful fields around the board got dedicated we looked at ways we could improve and now we have a state of New York baseball and softer field as Woodrow Wilson at the high school brand new tennis tennis courts fighting when we were told we needed because by now we can host tournaments so again the board went out brought the architects in see how we could get five Forts and amazingly they did that the band the band had their bag sealed it was full of dishes and couldn't
011get the grass to grow or whatever the board saw that and he said we have to put a new field up there as well to the coaches we are so proud of your representation and the work that you do for Clifton without you these kids would not be here without you many of you that are moving on and moving on into sports somewhere else that's the cause of your coaches that's the cause of the dedication that they made to you please make sure to thank your coaches but you know nobody else nowhere wants to be anywhere else on Friday nights when our football team takes the field or on Saturdays or other days when our soccer team takes the field or a lacrosse scene or our cheerleaders this year they've been brought it home wrestling
012basketball volleyball fields [Music] and oh sorry yes I can feel my gosh but anyhow there's a couple more seconds guys and I'll be done so what I think maybe split screen different than everybody else is your dedication and it reminds me of this story real quick that I'll tell you about a church that needed somebody every day to ring the bells and the bells were way up at the top of these staring room stairs so now we take people coming to apply to ring the bell every Sunday and they interviewed they see how they ring the bell and there's one guy that comes up and he has no arms but he's dedicated and he wants to have that job and they say to the guy how could you possibly bring this value out of the
013arms so he show up with him he let us down the stairs because I'm running up and boom hits the bell with his face he says wow this is pretty amazing you did a great job can you show us again so again dedication you go down boom hits it with his face he says this is great so every Sunday you go up run up those stairs hit the valley of his face now he's getting a little bit of space to get a little bit deformed okay so he's having a little struggle get up the stairs he gets up the ring the bells and falls down and all these people come around they're like the score man this poor man does anyone know who he is about [Music] his dedication don't give up don't let anything
014stop you from succeeding because you can and you will so now I'd like to introduce my fellow members of the board that are here okay uh we have Dr Lucy Danny Mrs food ambassador Mr Adam Paris Mr Anthony Santiago [Applause] and Mr Richie Maria [Applause] as I started this site saying how proud We Are we truly are proud to be aboard that supports your sports and always remember it's a great day to be a Mustang thank you all thank you for president trip uh before we move on with the appreciation Awards uh this is an exercise we carry out every year if you're a coach and you're and you're an uh alumni just stand up please thank you guys we won't ask what year you graduated but uh I just I just wanted to show
015the seniors and and the parents watching at home the families watching at home just how much Clifton Athletics means to people that you know the people who just stood up the men and women who decided to come back and teach here decided to come back and Coach here that Clifton really is a special place and I think more than half of our staff is is alumni so this one that means uh that means a lot okay our first appreciation award and I'm not going to ask her to come up because she did have a couple surgeries this year I'll deliver uh it goes to miss martial Miss marcione is hands down the most important foreign is hands down the most important uh person in this department um without her we're not sitting at this dinner
016um you know buses scheduling um communicating with officials communicating with coaches handling um the companies that we deal with our vendors handling pretty much any issue that that comes up so just want to thank Ms marcione and we really learned a valuable lesson this year when she was out with surgery so the coaches are certainly happy too because I was in a much better mood but then he came back so yeah oh yeah [Applause] I probably should have left the microphone standing all right our next appreciation award goes to someone who really never says no whenever whenever uh the department needs something hey we need a last-minute score key for at softball we need a site manager for hockey uh we had two coaches with Colvin and they needed somebody to fill in at a
017swim meet that was at 7 30 at night on a Wednesday I think it was um you know this guy does he does anything that we ask he's great with the kids I'm not gonna let him rap again like he did in the talent show when he comes up here but uh Mr sarzano come on up [Music] thank you Steve here we go all right now we're going to get into our MVPs we go season by season obviously fall winter than spring uh we'll stop somewhere in the middle to eat all the food is going to be in the Next Room there's there's two Buffet lines with two sets of cafes with two lines so we'll be able to move in and out when you come up uh coaches you may want to come over
018here there's a step uh MVPs will come up you may want to come over here there is a step there's no step on this side so just some housekeeping first up is uh cross country you're going to ask coach pop this to come on up [Applause] going rate hello everybody it's a pleasure to be here again I'd like to thank every senior member of our cross country team boys and girls and I'll be up later to talk about voice track but I also want you as everyone had spoken already has done to look around because in the last couple of weeks your high school students for the last time and some of you may never see each other again after graduation um but as was said earlier you're a Mustang for life but please make
019sure the right end of the Mustang for the rest of your life all right um thank you that's behind us now I I get to be up here for cross country so that's both boys and girls both the boys and girls who are League champions they work really hard to keep that the street they've got going kept the way it is boys also run won the county for the third year in a row and I get to honor both a girl MVP senior and a boy MVP senior our outstanding boy even though there were a great number of talented dedicated seniors really put together an outstanding season [Applause] thank you Sean well done much deserved okay interestingly enough the boys team had a lot of seniors the girls team had one senior so they have
020a lot of people coming back but the one girl senior we had is the best cross-country Runner in the history of Clifton High School all right that's a Remy Dubai [Applause] great job very proud thank you thank you [Applause] all right coach [Applause] good evening everybody um first and foremost this night is about you guys our senior athletes right so I uh I love this night it's all about you guys and uh we're here to celebrate you so uh thank you for for all that you've done for us over the last four years um I know I had our own dinner right so we celebrate our football players at our dinner however um I'll do all the guys that we are losing this year we have six six uh young men going on to play
021college sports of those six uh four are going to college for free so I think that's a really really big deal um our MVP um you know a three-year starter for the most part uh he played you did play as a freshman so we you know for you could say he's a four-year player for us there's nothing that he can do and he might have done things that he didn't want to do but he just did it anyway because that's the kind of guy that he is um there's there's nothing I wouldn't do for him that's why I'm here tonight my other my oldest son he's got a baseball game right now and I can't I'm dying waiting to go but I would never take this away from you Joseph Gable [Applause] s foreign [Applause]
022gymnastics [Music] [Applause] had a very successful season posting two very well-deserved wins after a very very long drive they also posted a pixie plate finish at the Championships uh first of all I'd like to just thank coach shackle for all of her help she's been my absolute backbone for the last two years I'm sorry I don't want to make a crap um from getting practices started before I get there to ride on a bus with the girls sometimes craziness um you know I'm I'd be lost without her so thank you so much the team would have been successful without the contributions and hard work from our two senior captains Amelia pachowsky and Anna Crespo these ladies are two of the hardest working athletes I've ever had the pleasure of coaching Anna joined the team her
023junior year and it was an instant fit and his personality has always been a fan favorite never failing to make any of us smile her hard work and dedication over the past two years earned her second team all-county honors on floor exercise this past season I'm so glad that she joined the team last year and I was able to work with such a great person and we'll be continuing her education at Eastwood college for ultrasound technology Amelia has been on the team since her freshman year she was in the starting lineup every meet eventually making her way up to the all-around Amelia has always been reliable dependable taking on a leadership role for sophomore year her condominator has always been a staple on the team and I can't thank her enough for that anytime I
024needed her she's always been there all of her card work over the last few years also earned her second Team all County honors on ball I've been fortunate to have been able to work with such a smart and talented individual the past four years she will be attending Rutgers Newark in the fall majoring in graphic design now they're my only two seniors and it is very hard to put a decision on who my MPP is because they both work so hard and given me everything that I've Ever Needed so this year's MVP for gymnastics is [Applause] thank you thanks coach thanks Dustin coach [Applause] [Music] soccer team but also to older seniors that we have over here for dinner our seniors this year were not on each which will be attending East Stroudsburg University can
025you get him out of the bus [Applause] cane University [Applause] see them all and our last senior is Leila Flores Saint Francis University this year mvpe will go to the player who met the team since freshman year with most goals she became a captain of sophomore year to her natural Talent she will continue her education and soccer career at St Peter at St Francis University Leila Flores thank you mom got this one do I go this way yeah [Music] congratulations thank you coach [Applause] and we move on to coach limbrick and boys soccer hello everyone uh first I'd like to thank the Board of Education Administration my staff which is here today koshervedi coach brajo Chris Flores all Clifton High School alumni and then of course all the seniors tonight and all the contributions you
026have uh done for our Clifton Athletics uh this year's team and I will brag a little bit about this whole four-year group because they've done amazing things for this city um led by 11 seniors we finished 16-2-1 winning the big North Liberty Division and reaching both at the state county and the state sectional championship games um the season ended as the number two ranked team in North Jersey and number 10 in the top 20 State overall this remarkable group of seniors amassed in four years and that's what they shortened uh covet year an incredible 66 wins seven losses and three ties three Liberty division championships two for state county championships one state sectional Championship one overall group four undefeated state championship ranked four consecutive years in the top 20 in the state and ranked twice
027as National in the cup 25. I'd like to ask the seniors to stand as I call their names as particularly proud that all 11 are going on to higher education Danny agudo Caldwell College Lucas University Omar Flores New Jersey City University Axel Gonzalez Kenny linaris Seton Hall University Benjamin nelkin Felician College Stephen osda Brown University where we're taking Gap year to pursue soccer in Europe Dylan Perez from Montclair State University Kareem pesticking Seton Hall University and the ksrc New Jersey Institute of Technology this year's MVP four-year starter team captain All-State and Dylan Perez [Applause] congratulations um I also am honored to award the Fernando Rosa scholarship each year this is going to be our seventh year the boys soccer Alumni Association decided to create a scholarship in the name of the late great boys soccer
028coach Fernando Rossi the association of goal is to keep memory keep his memory alive and kicking for a person who made a tremendous impact on hundreds of young men that played for the maroon and Greta an educator in Clifton public school system for nearly 30 years coach Ross has taught Italian and Spanish passionately while serving as The Italian Club supervisor as the leader of the boys varsity soccer team for 23 years he amassed a record of 353 wins and 95 losses 51 ties he was inducted into the Clifton High School the Passaic County and the New Jersey Hall of Fame with his teams winning 12 Passaic County championships 10 League championships three state sectionals and one group four undefeated state championship team the financial support will help senior soccer players to continue their post-secondary education
029which was one of the core values stressed by this great educator and Coach to date 25 fighting Mustangs over the past seven years have greatly benefited from over thirty thousand dollars of contributions to alumni and the Clifton Community Coach Rossi's Legacy goes far beyond the playing field we all have a tremendous respect for a man who taught us much much more than soccer you he was our mentor and our friend this year's recipient of the Fernando Rossi scholarship for two thousand dollars is Dylan Burns [Applause] thank you coach next up is girls tennis coach Cole [Applause] [Music] good evening everyone I too would like to congratulate the seniors this evening and wish you all the best and your future endeavors the girls tendency to say oh I also forgot to thank my assistant coach Ann
030Tate and Coach Parisi a big help this year this year's team uh finished with a record of seven and eight we had a great time we got better as the season progressed and you're looking for bigger things next year but uh I'd like to announce the eight seniors that played tennis this year they are Monique Abdallah Dana a ref South Seville Assaf Lauren Trevino's Tiana Fletcher Megan giara Millo and Emily Arantes this year's senior MVP goes to Fatima [Applause] congratulations thanks coach Cole Next is girls volleyball coach Rodriguez [Applause] we have [Music] hi um first of all I'd like to thank God Mr Fila you and I uh coached pretty well together and create a great friendship uh Mr uh Rodriguez can't be here so he sent me a little message uh he said I'm
031really sorry I couldn't be here on the uh on a special night to celebrate with you all I am watching the live stream so that makes me a little bit better I would like to thank you for all your dedication and commitment thank you for all the great memories and for sticking together through the bad and the good times like a family I really enjoyed being able to teach you a bit about volleyball and about life while we're also learning from you I wish you all the best in your future endeavors and that was from coach Rodriguez uh volleyball consisted of Mrs Alberta not on the Campos Mary Claire Davey Soleil Thief Angela Gonzalez Elizabeth Lazar Christians Patel Barbara Rios Perez Diana Ramirez inshara Shaquille Allison and Sarah Torres and MVP is he is Mary
032Claire again [Applause] all right we're gonna we're gonna round out all and begin winter at the same time and as coach Hershey first thing I saw she just got married you come off man uh represent Sidelines here and then competitions here meeting everyone I would like to start off by thanking my coaching staff Samantha Saga Sarah post and Lawrence Nell for all of their commitment and dedication this season I would also like to thank Tom Mulaney Laurie marcione and the Clinton Board of Ed for all of their support I am proud to announce that the clips and varsity cheerleading team had another incredible year we had an overwhelming interest in trials and were able to pick a team of 37 athletes who worked tirelessly from August through February our co-ed varsity team ranges from freshman
033to seniors who participate in sideline football cheer in the fall followed by a competitive season in the winter while the team enjoys the exciting and successful season of football they also anxiously await their very own competition season in preparation for the season the team attends tumbling classes stunt clinics and choreography camps they competed in the big North Community Conference local competitions and attended the njcca state championship the cheer team ended their regular season with a record of 7-1 and earned the title of the big North Liberty division champions for a second year in a row they also earned the title of 2023 state championships in the intermediate co-ed division the cheer coaching staff had very high expectations for this season and the team surpassed them we will greatly miss our seniors and all of their
034talents I would like to quickly recognize all of our seniors Jonas Arias [Applause] Captain Nicole liner Andrea Moran Captain Jacqueline Lee and Captain Camilla Vasquez [Applause] there's a full nvp in Nicole Lightner [Applause] please don't fall [Music] and this year's winter MVP is Jonas [Applause] [Music] thank you coach next up is coach Purvis with the boys and girls bowling [Applause] foreign [Music] board of education for the beautification of Clifton schools and the athletic venues I think we're all very lucky to at least be getting you back in this next year um we have two all-time recipients that are non-senior athletes so I'd just like to give them a round of applause we have a third place finish for the boys in the big Liberty division third place uh County championship for the boys as well
035uh five of six senior athletes all moving on to higher education with four students receiving partial or close colleges our seniors that could not be here with us tonight Virginia Reyes Kayla Eunice Kiera Eunice Tyler Murray Makai laws Damien ramosar who's here with us tonight and our MVP is Makai Wallace thank you nice and our female MVP was Selena [Applause] all right next up is uh girls basketball and Coach Whitford going through family first touch wings so uh that's where she is so we'll give her a pass on that she asked me to speak about her team uh girls basketball came a long way uh over the season uh we had some struggles early on but they continue to persevere and and work hard they really kept it together girls and boys uh basketball we're
036giving the sportsmanship award by the officials Association so that tells a lot about the way they conducted themselves and none of that would be possible without the leadership of Natalie Lee foreign basketball [Applause] I first want to thank our admin and the board of ed for the tremendous support the boys basketball program gets we were very lucky this year to have a great group of seniors [Music] a very tight-knit group of guys and one of the most enjoyable species that we that I've had as coach uh we won 17 games we won a state tournament game this year we also won a game last year with these guys as Juniors and they've really helped grow in the program and continue to take the program to new heights um I just want to give him a
037shout out we have Justin Blackman who's going to continue playing basketball Community College we have DJ Burrell Aidan pachado 80 separagic Elijah Vaz and Lou Vega who will have a chance to play at Felicia College next year um I also want to shout out for tremendous managers that we had senior managers uh Jason Urena and Natasha Roche and our team MVP is Louis Vega [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] thank you coach up next to talk about the restaurant [Applause] [Music] congratulations teams uh first of all our team went 21-4 this year we equal the record with the most wins ever I'll be worth 2023 North Jersey dual teams champions uh 2023 Passaic County Champions first time in 50 years which [Applause] which team was led with Ronnie Devin Andrew Salman and of course Joe England all
038right Joe Abel is our MVP this year if you ever got a chance to actually come down to the matches you would see this bull stepping out of mat and most of the guys who did not survive more than 10 seconds I think he's got about 15 or 20 pins under 10 seconds which is almost impossible right uh Joe it was probably one of the best 21st century Clifton Mustang got ever Investments with uh if he wasn't for covet he would probably break more forehand's record with the most wins he was fourth in two thousand twenty one fifth 2022 third 2023 with a record of 41-1 the only loss he got was in quarterfinals which he Avenged later on in the tournament Joe also three times first demo cam four times First Team all League
039first team North Jersey Captain for two years and had over 100 wins he's career record was 125 and 18 losses I mean one of the greatest questions and one more thing that sadly I got to tell to the seniors of one of our assistance is retiring Freddie hamsey so Freddie you're going to be greatly missed thank you [Applause] yeah so unfortunately chance he couldn't be here he does when when he consistently does and works he's got another job and uh that's where he is and he's the only retiring as a wrestling coach thankfully he's still for the teenage and site managed to do all of that so you know they'll be around all right coach and ice hockey [Applause] like to thank our board event for all their support um yeah our seniors this year
040LED our team to a 12 10-2 record uh we played a silver cup championship game for the league we earned a state bid for the first time in maybe eight years a lot of this was due to the leadership of our senior group uh our senior MVP ended up the first team all-county first team Aldi uh he's a player but I got to watch from freshman year to senior Year my first year was his freshman year so it's been an absolute pleasure watching this athlete grow not only as a hockey player but also as a as a person our senior MVP is James strong [Applause] thank you congratulations [Music] all right thank you George all right coach boys winter track no coach West I'm sorry [Applause] I have um that's all good first off I
041want to thank uh all of the the coaches for winch's track boys and girls together so we have a coach post with rose coach give her a nice hand goes down here against coach uh coach chassis YouTube who's new to uh coaching for us his pole vault coach and I remiss if I did not mention the uh the architecture the architect I should say of the track program synonymous with track and Collective going up on 50 years of coaching one of the most successful coaches [Applause] [Music] athletes even fewer seniors um our indoor track athlete senior athlete of the year first team wall County and indoor first team Long County and cross country and state champion ready to do that [Applause] for boys also First Team all County I asked this is another individual when
042he was back in middle school to do a track and field and uh it is proven to be his greatest achievement so far Christian Gray [Applause] oh yeah thank you coach West [Applause] all right last but certainly not least [Applause] thank you good afternoon well both sides of the swim team gave it to her all this year we are losing 11 great swimmers this year and I want to wish them the best in their future endeavors inside and outside the pool I also want to recognize all the athletes who push through two of their four years being an athlete during a pandemic and getting back to a normal way of playing sports the challenges that you have overcome do not go unnoticed I have the pleasure of speaking about two great student athletes these swimmers
043are a true example of what hard work and dedication mean to the sport of swimming it has been a pleasure coaching these two athletes over the past four years having a front row seat to watching them grow as an athlete and as a person has been a joy it is my pleasure to introduce our 2023 swimming MVPs francoasti and Abigail shakey congratulations guys corporations congratulations [Music] all right I'm going to take a dinner break I do have a set of tables so please don't all go rushing up at once uh tables one two and three tables 16 15 and five [Music] oh my God [Music] um welcome everyone [Applause] [Music] table 17 and 14. [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] very much what's this song [Music] it's really interesting wow um [Music] enough all
044right hope all other numbers [Music] foreign [Music] thank you yeah [Music] um all right myself um [Music] I would say ego Bakery go upstairs [Music] hello um [Music] thank you foreign [Music] thank you to us [Music] hold on foreign [Music] all right thank you um [Music] if only foreign [Music] oh what is doing this is awesome everything this is thank you [Music] anyway now somebody else [Music] 's house [Music] I don't know [Music] thank you [Music] very much [Music] questions [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] congratulations [Music] thank you [Music] again foreign [Music] thank you [Music] very much thank you thank you [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] very much movies foreign [Music] thank you [Music] all right if you're going up for a second third fourth or fifth make you
045run now because we're going to pick it up in a couple of minutes all right [Music] it's not bad [Music] foreign [Music] thank you [Music] thank you [Music] very much thank you all right [Music] exactly [Music] it starts after this um all right everybody we're gonna get started again uh round up our spring Sports our MVPs and then there's a Sunday bar so let's get through this continue to be a great audience before we do uh go back to the spring just want to acknowledge Mr Mecca and Vinnie on our live stream I want to thank them for for making this possible they certainly didn't have to be here they choose to come they know how important this dinner is uh for your families to be able to see and just also want to congratulate
046Mr Mecca on being the mascot media live stream teacher of the year Well reserved Mr back in his faithful sidekick Vinnie you're at pretty much every event we asked him to be at and we really appreciate that um Mr Mecca runs the live stream so any live stream that we've had of your games um our dinners our new board meetings uh Mr Beck is response Dash it does a great job and super responsible so thank you Mr Necker and Vinnie thank you so much [Applause] all right our first sport for the spring is girls outdoor track that's coach West I got that right here [Music] all right so the girls see is uh was recovering from code our numbers were have been down for the past few years but they're finally recovering uh we only
047have four uh seniors on the girls track team Nyla Flores let me do that Angelina Sanchez and Jimmy Roberts this year the girls track team was 4-1 for the year you know which like I said we're still recovering and uh hopefully in the future we'll be able to get back to where we once were from County Champions our MVP for Spring Track Janae Roberts [Applause] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] okay [Music] sorry thank you again [Music] see as you get older when you go to these energy you got to wear a jacket that you can walk up and sit button after you eat but that's all right anyway our voice tracking had a blessing of many scenes and they put together a season that was fairly exceptional finished second in League second in the county one
048dual meat loss they continued to work hard in fact both the boys and girls track teams are competing this weekend in a state group meet and with any good fortune we'll have a few of these people continuing to meet a Champions which will be next Wednesday it was truly difficult to pick one outstanding senior but this individual did a remarkable job during the season is exceptionally talented and in one particular event but he was willing to help the team in a number of other events in every meal Antonio bordamante [Applause] nice job proud of you thank you I'd like to just add [Applause] that the unsung heroes here are really our assistant coaches our assistant coaches not just in track in cross country but every single sport do a great job in adding to the
049program but yet they don't get much recognition at all one of the true reacts standing assistant coaches in our school is coach post who works every year and produces even from brand new kids to through the throws and they go on and win championships I greatly appreciate them [Applause] all right boy volleyball coach Alvarado is going to appreciate for Coach Rodriguez uh uh first let me congratulate all the seniors [Music] on Ministry and Boba World this year's MVP is Adam Luca [Applause] next is softball gonna ask coach Murdoch to come on up make it [Music] all right good evening everybody good evening Administration good evening um Board of Ed members as well as all of the seniors that are here tonight it is an honor as a former student athlete that Clifton and a softball
050player to be up here to announce our seniors I am going to just ask them to stand as I acknowledge that we have Jaylene ABIA great Gerudo Angie Gonzalez here's MVP is a four-year Varsity starter and she has contributed to this program immediately you will not only be missed but we wish you well and everything you continue to do so please put your hands together for Angie Gonzalez [Applause] congratulations congrats no problem [Music] all right I'm going to cover Ford coach Whitmore with uh boys tennis Boys Tennis had a I had a great year he does a great job getting numbers we fielded an entire Varsity AJ Lee team that hasn't happened in quite some time they also got to break in our brand new tennis courts so we're hoping our numbers continue to grow
051as our facilities improve and we're looking forward to watching your girls play on those new courts next year years MVP is Eggo feijo [Applause] all right I guess he's not here coach Christy grows across [Music] [Applause] [Music] all right I had three wonderful seizures this year Atlanta Natalie Lee and Kaylee Miller I want to thank these three for dedicating themselves and committing themselves to building the program with further Ado my senior MVP is our third career 100th goal scorer in our program history Kaylee Miller [Applause] [Music] Hotel [Music] thank you coach [Applause] good evening everyone uh thank you Administration Board of Education thank you very much for all your support this year being a first year head coach at High School um this senior um two years playing goalie seeing a lot of shots a
052lot more shots and many goalies see in a four-year career um as a mass a 56.7 say percentage um so we saved in about you know a little bit more than half that he's seeing um that boat of our defense Communicator them and decide MVP okay [Applause] congratulations [Music] all right coach Rivera baseball [Applause] [Music] and Jim Smith for all the support and the help I am getting our new Branch to feel that Woodruff so I want to thank you guys for that I also want to congratulate all the seniors and I wish you guys the best especially our faithful seniors Marcos from Kansas Rogers and Jeremy Sanchez I want to thank you for all you did for the last four years our senior NPP is a three-year starter uh it would have been a
053four-year starter but we lost a season due to covert two years in a row he's all in the first team All County First Team two years in a row he was elected to the senior All-Star game which is going to be played on this upcoming Monday at Diamond Nation uh anything from the top of many kitchen categories in the state in the county he will continue playing on a division two St Thomas Aquinas he's our captain and you're truly miss him our senior MVP Kyle Rogers [Music] thank you [Applause] [Music] thank you coach Rivera last and certainly not least not the newest sport to join the Clifton Athletic program the real Coach thank you girls flag football [Applause] [Music] Miller [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] and while all of you who are instrumental to our huge
054success this year there's one person that stood out into every single game the girl that I could turn to on both sides of the ball and no matter what I'm extremely honored to announcement [Applause] s [Music] all right great job coach great job uh athletes incredible audience congratulations to all the MVPs will certainly be missed uh this part of the night is when we honor our overall Clifton High School senior athlete of the year I will start with with ladies first this athlete is what every athletic director on the planet would love to have a three-sport athlete for all four years of her career granted you know missing one for Kobe but she was signed up and enrolled she's a 12th season athlete honors student you know that's exactly what we want in in athletics
055never an issue I actually had to have a separate uh budget for rings for all her individual sectional Champions so let's hear it for not only an exceptional athlete an exceptional young lady comes from an exceptional family Remy new back thank you [Applause] thank you all right picking these uh Award winners are never easy they're such a stable of quality athletes quality students um and really well we're really highly accomplished seniors our next athlete is a two sport athlete all four years impact player pretty much all for all four years State um finished stay Placer in wrestling which is incredibly difficult to do on the football team was a huge part of our sectional championship last year he just does anything you ask them to do never complains never heard all around tough guy but
056also in a Stewie both of these athletes of the year are also our Passaic County scholar athletes of the year so let's hear for Joe Abel [Applause] thank you very much you still actually his graduation I'm not going to put him in that position but uh as we end the night I just want to thank thank everyone here um for all that you do our athletes you're you're absolutely tremendous is you make this job uh really easy to be quite honest um we get to watch you compete at a high level you're so responsible to think things you accomplish in other clubs we've got robotic state champions that are athletes we've got a scholar athletes we've got Honor Society keep up we've got a little bit of everything so I appreciate that the coaches we
057thank you for your commitment uh you never turn off you're always there to answer the phone you're always working you're always finding ways to meet The Experience better for your athletes you put a tremendous amount of time tremendous amount of dedication and there's not one member of this staff that I would trade for anybody I really appreciate all of your efforts so let's give yourselves a round of applause and I would also like to thank you our high school administration or our District administration our foreign event for all that they do uh without their support none of this is possible there aren't many programs that that get what you get you know I had uh Trader Thomas came I was his daughter's team won a sectional uh sectional champion in softball and parents are fine
058Rings themselves that doesn't happen here um our board's committed to to rewarding good behavior rewarding success um your coaches are always looking to reward success so we hope that uh what you athletes have accomplished on the field you continue to accomplish in life whether you're going to college trade school the military no matter what you decide to do you you don't forget what you were taught here and our coaches certainly our teachers as well they teach by example they work hard they want you to work hard they're here six days a week seven if I would let them they uh they're they're here all the time time you're right you're with them so we appreciate everything that you do uh I appreciate the great four years that you've given us particularly your senior year this
059is a really enjoyable year it went by so quickly uh never any issues you know your incredible group so with that thank you and uh enjoy the Sunday bar and enjoy the next couple of weeks of your high school career foreign [Music] everybody got a conversations [Music]