The Rockville Centre Board of Education held an emergency meeting Monday night to respond to the protests that followed the trustees’ decision not to rehire South Side High School’s county-championship-winning girls’ varsity soccer coach, Jennifer Abgarian, and her assistant, Chris Aloisi — but a revote is not in the works.
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By Tom Carrozza
tcarrozza@liherald.com
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8/5/21
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Chants of "Why were the coaches let go? We don't know" could be heard throughout Shepherd Street and Long Beach Road in Rockville Centre on Wednesday as nearly 100 residents took part in a vocal protest in support of two girls' soccer coaches who were not brought back for the 2021-22 season.
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By Tom Carrozza
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7/28/21
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It’s time to play soccer again.
More than 100 children and their parents, coaches and trainers made their way to the fields at Baldwin Harbor Town Park on the windy morning of May 1 for a …
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By Bridget Downes
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5/6/21
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After helping lead Wellington C. Mepham High School’s girls’ soccer team to an appearance in the Nassau County Class A championship game as a junior in 2019, Briana Sayoc’s only …
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By Tony Bellissimo
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2/2/21
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This year might be a turkey, but that didn’t prevent three Long Island Junior Soccer League clubs with a long history in the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association from hosting their alumni games over Thanksgiving weekend, including the Oceanside United Soccer Club.
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12/18/20
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At a young age, Eligio Guarino fell in love with soccer while watching it with his father and grandfather. Now, at 17, he is playing professionally with the New York Cosmos Soccer Club.
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By Mike Smollins
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10/7/20
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About 40 residents gathered outside Stephen E. Tighe Memorial Park Monday evening to protest the village’s installation of an artificial-turf field there.
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By Briana Bonfiglio
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7/14/20
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After Bessie Lamonica lost her son, Rudy, a gifted soccer player, to bone cancer at age 17, she dedicated the rest of her life to ensuring that others could play the sport he enjoyed. She spent decades volunteering for the Oceanside United Soccer Club and the Long Island Junior Soccer League in his memory, and helped form the first girls’ soccer team in Oceanside.
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By Mike Smollins
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7/2/20
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When John Rogers was a kid, he was told he was too small to play soccer. But he never let go of his dream, and wound up making a name for himself playing semi-professionally in Europe. Now the …
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By Melissa Koenig
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2/27/20
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Dozens of soccer goals scored in the late 1960s still resonate across Oceanside more than five decades later.
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2/6/20
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