Holy Cross High School Knights took to the gridiron for the season opener at Senator Michael J. Tully Park on Friday night, 7:00pm, September 9, 2017.
A picture is worth 1,000 words. When one of the Knights’ captains, Justin Felder, scored a touchdown with the help of his fellow Knights, his Mom, sporting his jersey # 24 shared with the crowd, “He did just what I taught him to do!”
Yes he did!
Knights – 41
Mavericks – 8
Congratulations to senior classman, Patrick Morrissey, for making 1st team All City, to junior classman, Ryan O’Hagan, for making 2nd team All City, and to junior classman, Jaylen Palmer, for receiving an Honorable Mention! In addition, congratulations to Varsity Baseball Coach, Steve Adams, for being awarded the Joe Geary Memorial Award at this year’s North Shore Umpires dinner. Great job this season, gentlemen!
On Monday, May 8th, our freshmen, juniors, and sophomores were given a gift sponsored by Holy Cross’ Fendt family, which includes Mr. Brian Fendt ’04 and Mr. Christopher Fendt ’05. This gift was guest speaker Chris Herren formerly of the Boston Celtics (2000-01) and the Denver Nuggets (1999-2000). While Herren’s professional career peaked in the early part of 2000, his health, personal, and family life was completely deteriorating due to an addiction to oxycodone, which escalated to heroin. His message to students:
“Ask yourself why… why do you need to take something? Why are you not enough…?”
Herren highlighted how his days of addiction took everything from him and how it far surpassed the needs of his own family. Completely sober from both drugs and alcohol since mid-2008 Herren has successfully “refocused his life to put his sobriety and family above all else. He attends meetings daily to support his substance free lifestyle and often speaks before groups trying to overcome addiction to share his experiences and road to sobriety.” The very next year, in 2009, Herren reached a one-year milestone of sobriety! Inspired by this, he started his own basketball athlete development company, Hoop Dreams alongside Chris Herren, Inc. Fast-forward eight years, Herren has been involved with the training of hundreds of basketball players, which include a roster of top prospects in New England.
When he’s not working with athletes-in-the-making, Herren shares his struggles to audiences with the goal to change the life of “just one person.” Herren’s powerfully personal memoir, Basketball Junkie, was released in 2011 “followed by the Emmy nominated ESPN Films documentary, Unguarded, directed by Jonathan Hock.”
Today, Herren and wife Heather reside in Portsmouth, RI with their three children.
We would like to thank Mr. Herren and the entire Fundt family for making the very special afternoon a possibility and inspiration to us all.
NON-PROFIT INFORMATION
In addition to his two basketball player coaching organizations, Herren is the founder of The Herren Project—a nonprofit “dedicated to providing treatment navigation, educational, and mentoring programs to those touched by addiction and to educate people of all ages on the dangers of substance abuse. In 2012 The Herren Project launched a national anti-substance abuse campaign, Project Purple, to encourage people of all ages to stand up to substance abuse.”
For more on Chris Herren, please click here!
Media inquiries: Teresa Augustyniak, Director of Communications and Marketing; taug@holycrosshs.org
Photo sources direct links:
https://hattersherald.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/chris-herren-900×820.jpg; https://cbsboston.files.wordpress.com/2011/07/chris-herren.jpg?w=300
SAVE THE DATE!
It’s Holy Cross’ Annual Basketball Awards Dinner! Join us on Thursday, May 4 at 6:30 p.m. in our main cafeteria! Tickets are $25 per person and are now on sale at the Business Office! For questions, please call 718-886-7250 and ask to speak with Keith Goggin, Athletic Director at extension 517 or Assistant Athletic Director, Tim Gilvary at extension 561.
The Butler Did It: Acquistas win by a nose By Dylan Butler in June 2003 is a review of Queens’ soccer families and their athletic careers.
“So who is the top soccer family in Queens? I’ve pondered that question for some time, and after careful consideration I am prepared to give my list of the top four.”
Click here for entire article!
CHSAA CITY CHAMPIONSHIP NEWS: FRESHMAN
Congratulations to the Freshmen Basketball Team on advancing to the CHSAA City Championship! At the February 28 home game, the Knights defeated Archbishop Molloy 59-47 to advance to the finals. Holy Cross will face the Bishop Loughlin Lions for the title. The game will be played on Saturday, March 4th at Archbishop Molloy at 5PM. General admission to the game is $5.
BROOKLYN-QUEENS (BQ) CHSAA PLAYOFF NEWS: VARSITY
Best of luck to our Varsity Basketball players as they begin their quest for the BQ-CHSAA City Championship Wednesday, March 1 in the Intersectional City Playoffs. The Knights will compete against the Cardinal Hayes Cardinals tonight at 6PM at St. Francis Prep. The winner of this game will head to the CHSAA Quarterfinals on Sunday, March 5th at Fordham University where they will play Mount St. Michael at 4:15 PM.
To obtain updated CHSAA Basketball League playoff details, please visit the CHSAA website Playoff Information Box in the upper right corner of the site.
LET’S GO KNIGHTS!
“The Freshman students at Holy Cross write. They write often, and they learn to write well. By the midpoint of the year, they have had many different experiences in both reading and writing. They are proud of what they have accomplished as am I.”
~ Mr. Michael Donohue, English Chairperson
Read more: https://issuu.com/michaeldonohue8/docs/grade9honorslessonsessays
Our athletic apparel has gotten an upgrade this year—not only in the redesign of our logo, but with our apparel partnerships, too!
Holy Cross High School is pleased to announce our relationship with both Under Armour (UA) and Metro Team Outfitters (MTO)! This baseball season, we will have fresh, new apparel on and off the field. Be sure to support your Knights at the upcoming games beginning in March, and, start off the spring season right by picking up your new Holy Cross Under Armour athletic wear!
Thank you to all who make our athletic programs possible! We are truly excited to work with these two esteemed incorporations now and in the future.
LET’S GO KNIGHTS!
Holy Cross’ last hockey game of the season was on Monday, February 6. Here are some photos to download compliments of our very own photographer and alumnus, Dominick Totino. Enjoy!
Link: https://dtphoto58.smugmug.com/02-06-17-HC-Hockey-SFP/n-NCRxDq/
