Déjà Vu All Over Again: Darien Football Edges New Canaan 28-21 for FCIAC Championship

Leave it to the career state record holder to leave his mark when it counted the most. With Darien leading New Canaan 28-21 in the waning minutes of the fourth quarter of the 2015 FCIAC Championship at Stamford’s Boyle Stadium, Darien defensive end Mark Evanchick dropped Rams quarterback Michael Collins for his first sack of the game, forcing a turnover on downs and all but clinching the conference title for the Blue Wave. The Rams would get one more shot to tie the game, but a New Canaan fumble was recovered by Darien at midfield with 1:08 left in the game, sealing the championship for the Wave. It was the second consecutive year the Blue Wave topped the Rams for the FCIAC title, having won last year’s contest by the same 28-21 score. It was also Darien’s fourth straight Turkey Bowl win, as New Canaan has not won the annual Thanksgiving Day matchup since 2011. “We hadn’t really been tested, but we were tested today,” Darien head coach Rob Trifone told NewCanaanite.com.

Turkey Bowl Essentials: A Breakdown of the New Canaan-Darien 2015 FCIAC Championship

When it was generally accepted that last season’s FCIAC Championship would probably be the last in conference history, most agreed that the heart-stopping contest between New Canaan and Darien was a fitting end to a storied history of title games. Fortunately for area high school football players, coaches and fans, the Blue Wave’s 28-21 win over the Rams last Thanksgiving would not be the final chapter—the FCIAC was able to work things out to salvage the conference championship game, the 50th in league history. And wouldn’t you know what two teams would end up facing each other in the Turkey Bowl in 2015? Yep…you guessed it. The stage is set once again as the league’s most bitter rivals will face off Thanksgiving morning at historic Boyle Stadium in Stamford.

New Canaan High School 1st Quarter Honor, High Honor Rolls

Congratulations to all of these students, and many thanks to the administration for supplying this list. Below, please find each grade’s high honors and honors lists, with students listed alphabetically for each category. Grade 12 High Honors

Kelsey Allen
Daniel Annulli
Sophia Bozzella
Sara Brindisi
Aidan Buck
Caroline Busch
Olivia Buzzeo
Kathryn Callahan
Brett Capone
David Carratu
Amelia Carroll
Chase Casali
Andrew Chalon
Matthew Chan
Justin Clark
Claire Conley
Emily Conley
Taylor Corbett
Theodore Crowley
Jennifer Daly
David Dayya
Alejandra Deambrosio
Mark DeFranco
Connor DeMayo
Julia DeNey
Cameron Devitt
Amanda Dobbin
Matthew Donaldson
Katharine Donovan
Benjamin Durkin
Abigail Farley
Jacob Freedgood
Katharine Freiberg
Robert Fusek
Joseph Gelhaus
Ethan Geller
Nicholas Ha
Arthur Hall
Eleanor Hersam
John Hetherington
William Hooks
Olivia Hunsinger
Jane Isherwood
Andrew Jahns
Sean Jensen
Elizabeth Kaliff
Grayson Kane
Kaitlin Karr
Sydney Kazlauskas
Charlotte Kilbride
Audrey Kirkpatrick
Joshua Klapper
Daniel Korsun
Katharine Kuchinski
Daniel Kushner
Samuel Larson
Peter Lavieri
Jennifer Levine
Rafael Lovas
Spencer Loweth
Meredith Luchs
Brian Maccalla
Innes MacKenzie
Katherine Marciano
Isabel Marshall
Gretchen McCarthy
Katherine McMahon
Kyle Mettler
Cara Michael
Claire Moyle
Abigail Neugeboren
John O’Neill
Richard Oehmler
Kaylee Paladino
Charles Pitteway
Philippa Prior
Nicholas Ranieri
Lincoln Read
Jane Reed
Christopher Reik
Regina Rivera
Chloe Rosenberg
Katrina Saitta
Kaitlyn Sandvik
Emilia Savini
Isabella Savini
Alec Schnapp
Jordan Smith
David Strupp
William Tingley
Peter Trahanas
Miles Turpin
Darrell Valenti
Ellie Von Oehsen
Emily Walshin
Lauren Weingarten
Hailey Wheeler
Alexandra Whitaker
Erin Williams
Mary Wise
Catherine Wright

Grade 11 High Honors

Bhaskar Abhiraman
William Ahrens
Rachel Annulli
Jackson Appelt
Brittany Barber
Olivia Barden
Andrew Bauersfeld
Kaylin Bean
Melissa Beck
Matthew Berger
Elizabeth Bochicchio
Graham Braden
Meghan Brady
Shannon Bucci
Caroline Budd
Jackson Butler
Jason Campe
Lauren Carlson
Gregory Catalano
Lauren Catalano
Jennifer Ceci
Julia Charkales
Amy Chu
Faustino Cortina
Courtney Coutts
James Crovatto
Madeleine Culpepper
Edward Dahill
Emma Dahill
Drew Davis
Camaren Dayton
Trevor De Ghenghi
Abigail Deery
Shea Delehaunty
Spencer DeVito
Catherine Ellsworth
Laura Endres
Angelina Fagundes
Daniel Fairchild
Katharine Ferguson
Mariana Ferreira
Paige Freyre
Casey Gallup
Luis Gonzalez-Miranda
Annalee Greenspon
Anne Greer
Jefferson Grigsby
Francesca Guynn
Quinn Hays
Tyler Hill
Jack Hoelzer
Robert Hoover
Kimberly Hynes
Graham Jameson
Carolyn Kemp
Molly Keshin
Rachel Keshin
Samuel Klearman
Joshua Kloud
Jason Kurtzman
Katherine Kurz
Katherine Kushner
Alexander Lambrinos
Caroline Leeber
Ellen Ludtke
Dana Lurie
Anna Lysenko
Grace Manges
Kelly McClymonds
Connor McDevitt
George McMahon
Alexander Merjian
Lauren Meyers
Britney Millington
Rajon Mitchell
Alexandra Nesbett
John Norton
Ryan O’Connell
Maria Oliveira
Sofia Paloka
Austin Pelli
Michael Pelli
Samantha Pepe
Thomas Philipson
Charlotte Pratt
Trescher Prins
Jack Rechtermann
Bailey Reehl
Cameron Rhind
Robert Rocco
Tess Rosenberg
Carroll Rudman
Graham Russell
Ryan Russo
Holly Santero
William Santora
Kyliemae Schaffer
Camryn Schlim
Rebecca Serven
Weston Shanley
James Shapiro
Andrew Shizari
Sandra Sigurgeirsdottir
Madeleine Smith
Patrick Song
Michael St. George
Samuel Stoner
William Sturcke
Avery Sturm
Gabriella Sulpizi
Michael Svagdis
Tyler Sweeney
Michael Talamo
Ashley Tedford
Margaret Tensen
Claire Tierney
Natalia Tomczak
Fredericka Trahanas
Carolyn Valenti
Daniel Villeneuve
Russell Walker
Riley Ward
Charles Wilson
Peter Windas
Margaret Wise
Katherine Zaborowska

Grade 10 High Honors

Alexandra Allen
Carson Allsteadt
Griffin Arnone
Carl Henry Asker
Jillian Augustine
Samantha Axon
Henry Baer
Sarah Bazata
Lauren Berardino
Cameron Blair
Josephine Bossidy
Amelia Boyd
Grace Brady
Cali Brannan
Tyler Brennan
Sydney Britt
Gianna Bruno
Caroline Callahan
Caroline Callahan
Lauren Capone
Caroline Challe
Leigh Charlton
Eric Cimino
Nathaniel Clay
Erik Cohen
Benjamin Conley
Erin Corbett
Paulina Cortina
Lucas Crawford
Michael Dayya
Brooke Deane
Mackenzie Deane
Lily Decker
William Dooley
John Dunn
Caroline Eno
Anne Farley
Eliza Farley
Wesley Farley
Benjamin Fishman
Zachary Fishman
Brooks Gammill
Olivia Germann
William Gervase
Abigail Graham
Sophie Graham
Michael Grise
Caroline Grogan
Kyle Hagan
Grant Hanauer
Spencer Handler
Charlie Hane
Samuel Havard
Dylan Healey
Robert Hynes
Wenjun Jiang
Kelsey Johnson
Shafer Jones
Zoe Jones
Cole Kammerer
Kyle Karr
Kaitlin Kearns
Sydney Kend
Sean Knight
Annabelle Krystman
Nicholas LaMorte
Jacqueline Lampert
Catherine Levine
Noah Levine
Katherine Lindberg
Cassidy Little
Katherine Lydon
Chloe McAuliffe
Elizabeth McCarthy
Danyel Meahan
Katherine Mettler
Isabela Montano
Andreas Moor
Camden Nelson
Annaleah Neugeboren
Jacqueline Newlin
Regan O’Malley
Logan Otis
Julia Ozimek
Eva Pace
Kaitlyn Piotroski
Martina Radoslavov
Spencer Reeves
Katherine Reiss
Thomas Richardson
Isabella Rocha
Maria Rucci
Robert Russo
Hayley Salvatore
Maeve Selvaggi
Jackson Selvala
Ayla Senna
Peter Sensbach
Owen Shin
Joshua Siegel
Emma Smith
Rachel Smith
Fatima Sonday
Zoe Spencer
Emma St. Raymond
Luke Stewart
Sarah Street
Lauren Sturm
Caroline Sweeney
Amy Tan
Alana Tonghini
Cristobal Toro
Florencia Toro
Jasper Tucker
Alexander Urbahn
Megan Waldron
Morgan Walling
Rebecca Walshin
Grant Wang
John Warner
Abigail Weiss
Nicole Weiss
Anouk Werthmueller
Dylan Wietfeldt
Kent Williams
Jackson Yancy
Alexander Zarikos

Grade 9 High Honors

Aurelio Alvarez
Kelly Barker
Erin Bean
Lenore Belodeau
Margaryta Bilokin
Lauren Bisceglia
Caitlin Blair
Jessica Boolukos
Catherine Bopp
Margaux Brennan
Kevin Brunner
Whitney Bryant
Andie Carroll
Matthew Chalon
Ethan Chau
Caroline Cioffi
Adam Colton
William Comyns
Brielle Connelly
Lucy Coutts
Oliver Crookenden
Patrick Crookenden
Christian D’Virgilio
Reid Dahill
Alexandra De Ghenghi
Taylor DeVito
Nathan Dobbs
Emily Dowdle
Jessica Eccleston
Gray Farley
Griffin Fill
Eileen Flynn
Victoria Furlan
Skylar Gagne
Emma Garner
Patrick Granito
Elizabeth Greer
Clark Grigsby
Griffin Grise
Bridget Haley
Kacy Haydu
Ryan Hernandez
Amanda Hill
Erik Hoets
Kayla Homan
Katherine Jahns
Robert Ker
Delaney Kliavkoff
Meghan Kloud
Samantha Kortekaas
Tyler Kortekaas
Sophie Lamaker
Ryan Levene
Benjamin Levin
Tyler Liffmann
Maximilian Lindeis
Jennifer Loomis
Daniel Lu
Edward Manges
Christina Marciano
Theresa Marciano
Solomeya Marynovych
Caroline Mayock
Kaleigh McCarthy
Grant Mellinger
Jia Yao Mize
Kaitlyn Mulcahy
Aiden Murphy
Emily Murphy
Katherine Murphy
William O’Neill
Jackson Oehmler
Aditya Ogale
Liam Orr
Ann Pakhayev
Jordan Paterson
Kendall Patten
Jessica Penman
Lance Phillips
Max Plum
Kathleen Reeves
Candelaria Reyes
Jonathan Richardson
VeNae Rosdahl
Kiera Russo
Emily Ryan
Benjamin Sarda
Dylan Shane
Emily Shizari
Christian Sibbett
Nathan Sibbett
Michelle Siegel
Chloe Sigg
John Slattery
Katherine Sloan
Alexis Smith
Celia Sokolowski
Sarah Spadaccini
Erin Spiess
Meera Srinivasan
Chloe Stanley
Chloe Stein
Alessandro Sulpizi
Julia Tamburro
Natasha Tchir
Elizabeth Tedford
Caroline Thompson
Elaina Tiller
Katherine Unger
Nicole Vanderlee
Gwenan Walker
George Wang
Julia Weitz
Conor West

Grade 12 Honors

Krishen Adalja
Elena Aliapoulios
Connor Ashley
Rhian Ball
Amanda Bauersfeld
John Bemis
Sean Berry
Jonathan Betack
Rachel Beyer
Joseph Bonsanti
Luke Brand
Tanaijah Carrafiello
Madeline Castle
Berlin Charles
Emma Clay
Kyle Clements
Hunter Collins
Michael Collins
Katelyn Conner
Taylor Cowser
Liam Curtin
Jessica Dantas
Gwen Davidson
Matthew Demko
Jack Dinnie
Kyle Dolphin
John Donaldson
William Duplock
Griffin Edmonds
Meghan Egan
Tyler Ferraro
Emma Flynn
Hannah Fox
James Franzis
Caroline Garrity
Alexis Gelston
Kendall Genzburg
Katherine Gervase
Caroline Gordon
Catherine Granito
Asa Gray
Quentin Gress
Ryan Gress
Sheena Gupta
Rachel Hardy
John Havard
David Havens
Kenneth Herzog
Albert Huang
Catherine Hughes
Chase Jansen
Zoe Jensen
Madison Kane
Morgan Kaplan
Lewis Knox
Julia Koller
Kelsey Krolikowski
Brooke Leddy
Reid Lewis
Bennett Link
Leanne Macaione
Bridget MacKimm
Kelly Makela
Alyssa Malner
Maxwell Marsh
Carlos Mauleon
Ryan McGough
Paige Meintzer
Lindsay Miller
Isabella Montgomery
Jeffrey Murphy
James Neville
Christian Newlove
David Noonan
Michaela O’Hara
Elizabeth O’Hare
Schuyler O’Mahony
Kirsten Ostling
Sarah Panella
Griffin Paterson
Samantha Penman
Claire Perry
Anthony Pirrone
Madeleine Pla
Nicole Pla
Isabel Pollish
Isabelle Porter
John Powell
Ryan Radecki
Jane Reddan
Julianne Reilly
Christopher Reiss
Thomas Reynolds
Ryan Rigione
Mary Ripley
Dewlin Rosdahl
Maharshee Roy
Kieran Schaney
John Shannon
Kyle Smith
Samantha Sorbara
Samantha Stewart
Justin Swift
Peter Swindell
Mary Taylor
Nicholas Thorkilsen
Jarrett Torromeo
Kristen Weisenseel
Margot Weiss
Benjamin John Wells
Andrew White
Thomas Williams
David Wilson
Charles Wood
Victoria Worcester
Madeline Zomb

Grade 11 Honors

Dillon Abate
Lauren Achille
Sarah Aguilera
Sterling Ames
Dariush Amir-Aslani
Ellery Baran
Austin Bell
Leighton Belmont
Sofia Berg
Matthew Bisceglia
Liam Blair
Tiernan Brady
Carly Bryant
Matthew Burger
Alexander Butenhoff
Claire Campbell
Haley Conde
Abigail Condon
Katherine Conese
Morgan Connelly
Andrew Cronin
Abigail Crowley
John Cunney
William Curren
Kavya Dagli
Hailey Daniel
Maggie DeFrancesco
Allison Demers
Matthew DePalo
Peter DeSantis
Thomas Diamond
Dominika Dojnikowski
Troy Dunnam
Austin duPont
Kimberly Dyrvik
Emma Eisenberg
Alexandra Esposito
Matthew Evans
Maria Fagerstal
Wesley Fales
James Freyre
Madeline Friedland
Ricardo Garay
Alice Gelhaus
Harry Gelnaw
Kimberly Genuario
Casey Gertsen
Andrew Gibbens
Thomas Gilio
Christopher Greene
Edward Greenspon
Eliza Haney
Christopher Harte
Humza Hasan
Maisie Henesey
Caitlin Hevesy
Edward Holappa
Brooke Holland
Nicole Howard Krog
Trevor Jones
Abigail Ker
Nicholas Khzouz
Andrew Knight
Caroline Knightly
Trevor Konspore
Leila Koochek
Emma Korman
Matthew Krueger
Austin Leopold
Scott Luntz
Emily Lynch
Richard Magnus
Katherine Malling
Isabella Marciano
Sebastian Mauleon
Caroline McCauley
Julia Means
Francis Mendoza
Ryan Mennitt
Dylan Miles
Hazel Montano
Liam Mooney
Adrianna Morina
Andrew Morris
David Morse
Aurelie Moutran
Caileigh Murray
Siobhan Naughton
Isabel Neeleman
Bradley Newton
Michael Nikolla
Emma Nolan
John O’Connor
Thomas O’Dea
Brendan O’Halloran
Kameron Ong
Margaret Owen
Haley Paddock
Abhinav Pal
Daniel Warren Park
Joseph Peiser
Tessa Piontkowski
Giuliana Ponterotto
Alexandra Poteet
Siena Potenza
Hugo Potter
John Pugliese
Chiara Rapuano
John Reed
Molly Rochlin
Thomas Root
Alexander Rosenberg
Brooks Rosenberg
Margareta Ross
Edward Rudman
Elizabeth Rudman
Avery Salomon
Brian Sandor
Matthew Schlegel
Caitlin Schultz
John Serena
David Siegel
Paige Skyrm
Evelyn Smith
Stanislaw Sokolowski
Alexandra Soro
Maximilian Soyref
Henry Spangler
James Stanley
Madison Starr
Justin Stemerman
William Stoner
Ronja Svensk
Lucian Tamburro
Clare Tedesco
Gwyneth Thalacker
Sarah Van de Graaf
Jack Webster
Sophia Welch
Spencer Williams
Isabelle Yee

Grade 10 Honors

Caroline Addeo
Nathan Aliapoulios
Anenya Ansh
Andrew Baker
Emma Barker
Anthony Benevento
Benjamin Bernstein
Nicoletta Bonsanti
Nathaniel Bozzella
Karlie Bucci
Olivia Buckley
Charles Burns
Grant Carlson
Caroline Castle
Isaac Chou
Alexandra Clay
Elizabeth Colwell
Jack Conroy
William Crane-Morris
Nicholas Crovatto
Kendall Curtin
Seamus Curtin
Kyle DeMayo
Braeden Dial
Catherine Doytcheva
Katharine Fatoullah
Timothy Ferm
Chase Fichtner
Bridget Forstl
John Frey
Alexander Galvan
Samuel Garner
Christina Gehnrich
Elizabeth Gehnrich
Jane Gesing
Victoria Gray
Eugene Grogan
Meredith Heaney
Clare Herzog
James Hirai
Brandon Hruska
Anne Johnston
Josiah Jones
Cassidy Kane
Gillian Kane
David Kelly
Katherine Kennelly
Danielle Klapper
Lorelei Knadler
Matthew Knight
Catherine Koennecke
Max Koschnitzke
Reilly Krug
Nichole LaBadie
Emma Leddy
Julianna Leung
Robert Loonie
Elizabeth Luchs
Dominic Maitino
Emily Malner
Sean Manzella
Alyssa Marotta
Isaac Marshall
Nicole Martin Alarcon
Molly Mazabras
Erin McGoldrick
Quinn McMahon
Freia Mierendorf
Zachary Miller
Grant Morse
Riley Mottolese
Eden Neleman
Jake Neuberger
Alexandra Neugeboren
Rosemary O’Neill
Anika Orndahl
Alexander Orwicz
Rachel Panzano
James Parmelee
Samuel Parmelee
Jessica Parrino
Derek Perone
Allison Pitts
Andrew Pohle
Elizabeth Pohle
Alexander Popov
Sophie Price
Ethan Reid
Grace Riley
Kiara Roeder-Yika
Timothy Scranton
Skylar Severance
Jake Sloane
Lauren Smith
Grace Stearns
Chase Strupp
Kai Takizawa Clancy
Lauren Thompson
Michael Tuffy
Isabella Vigliotti
John Volpe
Clare Wagner
Ashley Walker
Kendall Webb
Andrew Weitz
Lucy Wilks
Sophie Wood

Grade 9 Honors

Audrey Adl
Joelle Anselmo
Sergiy Babenkov
Allison Beck Kayla Beck
Mia Berg
Jackson Braden
Aiden Bramwit
Emily Bryant
Lauren Canet
Bridget Cleary
Aidan Coffey
Matthew Cosco
Olivia Cosco
Caroline Cronin
Luke Crowley
Elizabeth Cuoco
Katherine Cutler
Esha Dagli
Skyler Davidson
Jack DeFrancesco
Samuel DeNey
Jessica Dolby
Gabriel Drake
George Dumbauld
Julianne Dunn
Ava Edmonds
Carolyn Engel
Richard Ettinger
Maxwell Findlay
Olivia Flaherty-Lovy
Maxwell Fonss
John Gabriel
Briggs Gammill
Ella Goodman
Andrew Gordon
Charlotte Hamilton
Timothy Hardy
Maxwell Harrell
Morgan Hibbert
Holden Hobbs
Kendall Holland
Drew Jones
Andrew Jordan
Dylan Koproski
Michael Kotlyar
Ryan Krolikowski
Ryan Kurtzman
Ross Lawrence
Diego Lezcano Garcia
Andrew LoRusso
John Luther
Wyatt Lysenko
Elizabeth Marsh
Josephine Matyszewski
Caitlin McCarthy
John McCarthy
Christina McGough
Matthew McLallen
Anna Meli
Liam Mennitt
Katharine Miller
Sarah Murphy
Robert Naughton
Angel Negron
Ellen Nelson
Luke Nolan
Quintin O’Connell
Laurie O’Connor
Caroline O’Dea
John O’Hara
Jack O’Hare
Sean O’Neill
India Otero
John Peiser
Shane Pickering
Peter Radman
Alexander Rashad
William Rechtermann
Anna Reed
Emma Reilly
George Richardson
Layla Riddle
Jacob Ritz
Nicholas Roeder-Yika
Claire Ross
Grace Ruksznis
Luke Rwambuya
Thomas Saitta
Isabella Salant
Julia Salvatore
Nicolas Savini
Caroline Schuh
Sarah Seelert
Kara Simko
James Singer
Summer Sloane
Madeleine Sturcke
Ashley Sztam
Katie Tan
Gwynneth Tenney
Nathiya Vasantha Kumaran
Mikaylah Vindas
Brooke Volpe
Colin Welch
Emma Wheeler
Wyatt Wilson
Stephen Wronski
Alexandra Yee
Annie Zaffino

 

Eight NCHS Seniors Sign Early Letters of Intent To Play Sports in College

Five lacrosse players and three swimmers rounded out a group of New Canaan High School student-athletes who on Monday signed early Letters of Intent to play sports in college starting next year. What follows are photos from a signing ceremony overseen by NCHS Athletic Director Jay Egan (also a parent of a signee on this day), held at in the auxiliary gym at New Canaan High School. We also asked each student about what went into their choice of college. (Harvard-bound senior David Strupp’s letter could be called a “likely letter” in that the university, though it offers no athletics scholarships per se, can issue an agreement signifying that it’s committed to admitting a recruited athlete.)

Samantha Stewart, U.S. Military Academy at West Point lacrosse, with parents Terri and Michael: “When I was little, I always heard stories from my family about West Point. I have a really big military background in my family. So I was always interested in going to the service academies.

New Canaan Football Tops Ludlowe 42-7, Clinches Berths in FCIAC Championship Game and Class L Playoffs

 

The New Canaan Rams scored six touchdowns in the first quarter and cruised the rest of the way en route to a 42-7 victory over the Fairfield Ludlowe Falcons Friday night at Dunning Field. With the win, the Rams (8-0) punched their ticket to the FCIAC Championship game for the third consecutive year, also earning a spot in the Class L State playoffs. “This has been our goal from the beginning of the year,” New Canaan head coach Lou Marinelli told NewCanaanite.com. “To get back to the FCIAC championship game and put ourselves in a position to play for a State, so we’re right where we want to be.” The Rams were led once again by quarterback Michael Collins, who followed up last week’s record-setting performance against Trumbull by completing 12 of 19 passes for 220 yards and five touchdowns against the Falcons (2-6), all in just one quarter of action. New Canaan senior running back Matt Cognetta also had a big night, scoring the game’s first touchdown with a 53-yard run.