WPCSD Athletics Update - September 26
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The White Plains Tigers are in the heart of their fall season, with multiple students receiving player of the week nominations! Kingston Boykin, senior football player, was named a Week 3 nominee for USA Football’s Heart of a Giant award, presented by the New York Giants and the Hospital for Special Surgery (https://tinyurl.com/3nu6ux89). Junior forward Alexis Tighe was nominated for LoHud’s field hockey Player of the Week (https://tinyurl.com/4t9b8tff). Boys cross country also took home first place in the Suffern High School Invitational. Congratulations to all our student-athletes!
Kingston Boykin also has immense pride in his academics and responded to USA Football that the Heart of a Giant characteristic which best describes him is the classroom because “I am passionate about education and learning.”
Standout Team Performances
Girls Varsity Field Hockey
Won 5-0 on September 18 against Somers, 4-2 on September 20 against Nyack, and 4-0 on September 25 against North Rockland.
Girls Soccer
Earned a league win at Ossining on September 19, 1-0. They also won 4-0 against New Rochelle on September 25.
Varsity Football
Won 21-6 at Mount Vernon and plays at Roy C. Ketcham at 6:30 p.m. on Friday, September 26.
Summer Academy
Over the summer, 107 students registered for the Athletics Summer Academy. Students worked through three components, four days a week, for five weeks.
- Strength Training/Injury Prevention
- Speed training
- Academic (SAT/ACT/Study Skills/Nutrition/Physiology)
- Students tested sports drinks for electrical conductivity in an electrolyte lesson
- Students used a spirometer, height and chest circumference to compare measured and calculated viral lung capacity
- Students conducted a personal trainer case study activity. Designed diet and exercise programs for different types of clients.
- Students built and tested the force and distance traveled on devices to help with a bicep injury
- Dissected a chicken wing to examine and manipulate muscles and tendons. This gives students a closer look at the inner workings of the body, and how injuries happen and can be prevented.
- Worked on testing strategies and practice for SAT/ACT.
- Students learned time management and study skills. Aimed towards student athletes to give them strategies to cope with a busy and long daily schedule.
