NYSG Girls'00 Ranked Number One
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Three Scarsdale athletes learned last week that they are members of the number one youth soccer team in their age group in the United States. Julia Dohle, Olivia Higgins and Allison Stafford, all seventh graders in Scarsdale, are part of the NYSG Girls' 00 team that is undefeated and has not lost a game in over a year. The girls were first exposed to soccer through participation in the Scarsdale Youth Soccer Association.
New York Soccer Club (NYSC) is a highly competitive youth soccer organization that is dedicated to bringing the highest levels of coaching and leadership training to student-athletes in Westchester and southwestern Connecticut. Players are selected each spring in a highly competitive process. The NYSC Girls '00 team practices from late summer through the end of the school year, with three to four practices per week, regular weekend games and participation in out-of-town tournaments. Games are played against youth soccer teams in the mid-Atlantic and northeast.
This past Memorial Day weekend the team competed in the 2014 EDP (Eastern Development Program) Cup in Hammonton, New Jersey, just outside Philadelphia. In a thrilling championship game, NYSC Girls '00 defeated the #1 ranked team in New Jersey, the South Jersey Elite Barons, 1-0 on a last minute goal. As a result of this tournament win, the team's national ranking catapulted to the #1 ranked Girls 13 and under soccer team in the United States. The ranking is based on points that are tied to the level of competition the team faces and its success on the field.
Allison Stafford plays center defense, Olivia plays right defense and Julia is the goalkeeper and all are on the starting team. Allison hopes to continue to play competitive soccer with her teammates at Scarsdale High School and in college.
Grad Bag Collecting Goods for College Kids in Need
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OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE OLD" is the message Grad Bag advocates as it begins its third year. Grad Bag is a green initiative to collect, recycle and redistribute dorm room items that are often thrown away. Grad Bag is poised to gather, clean and package comforters, sheets, towels, lamps, fans and hangers to stock soon-to-be dorm rooms of incoming freshmen who may not have the means to buy them on their own.
Once again, Grad Bag is partnering with Let's Get Ready at their pre-college orientation in August for students who start college in the fall. Let's Get Ready is an organization which harnesses the energy of college student volunteers to act as tutors and role models, providing free SAT prep, college guidance, financial aid workshops, and mentoring for high school students.
Building on the success of Grad Bag's inaugural event in August 2012, Grad Bag has expanded the effort. From a grass-roots collection, Grad Bag is now working with a few colleges that will assist with collecting on-site.
Grad Bag was founded by Liz Gruber and Tara Tyberg in 2012. When moving their children out of their college rooms Gruber and Tyberg realized that there were a lot of dorm room items that college kids no longer have use for once they have graduated but are in fine condition. The pair contacted their friends and neighbors-parents of recent college graduates- to gather items that would otherwise be thrown away. At the LGR orientation each student selected items from the Grad Bag collection and left with bags full of gear, ready for college.
The program's recycling efforts equip college freshmen with all the essentials for dorm life that most of their classmates enjoy, allowing them to begin their college experience with confidence. As a green initiative, Grad Bag is looking out for the future of these students and for the future of our planet.
Grad Bag is still looking for donations. If you know a graduating college senior...Don't throw out those extra long twin sheets, desk lamps and storage containers!!! Grad Bag is also looking for volunteers in June and July to help package the items and get them ready for distribution.
For more information or pick-up, contact: [email protected], [email protected].
Greenacres Donates 500 Meals for Midnight Run
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The bagged meal drive for Midnight Run at Greenacres School on May 15th brought 500 lunches for New York City's homeless population. The school's students donated the bagged lunches which were donated to Midnight Run in Dobbs Ferry for distribution in NYC. To learn more about Midnight Run, visit their website.
Here are Greenacres' fifth graders at work:
Noah J. and David A., along with fellow Greenacres Elementary fifth graders, load meals for Midnight Run. Teacher-in-Charge Cindy Sansone coordinates the effort.
Fifth graders Thomas Z. and Zachary S. load meals that will be served by Midnight Run to homeless men and women in New York City.
Fifth graders at Greenacres Elementary in Scarsdale helped load over 500 lunches they prepared to be distributed by Midnight Run.
Article by Midori Im, photographs by Eva Romas Wilson
Attention College Students: Scarsdale Foundation Offers Scholarship Aid
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Students who graduated from Scarsdale High School and/or live in Scarsdale and who have completed their first, second, or third years of college are invited to apply to the Scarsdale Foundation for tuition assistance. For the 2013-2014 academic year, the Foundation awarded $100,000 of need-based grants to 27 students attending private and state-supported colleges.
Applications should be submitted online on the Scarsdale Foundation's website, scarsdalefoundation.org (click on the College Scholarships link). Completed applications must be submitted by Friday, June 6, 2014. Late applications will not be accepted. Inquiries regarding scholarship applications should be directed to Beverley Sved, [email protected], 472-8245, or Jackie Irwin, [email protected], 472-2311.
The Foundation welcomes contributions from the community to augment the funds available for distribution each year. Contributions may also be donated to a specially earmarked Scholarship Fund of the Scarsdale Foundation, with monies to be used for 2014-2015 recipients, enabling the Foundation to carry on the Scarsdale tradition of helping our students in need to pursue a college education. Donations may be made online by visiting the Foundation's website or mailed to the Foundation at P.O. Box 542, Scarsdale, NY 10583.
For more information regarding the work of the Foundation, please contact Foundation President Richard Toder at 723-6291 or visit the website, scarsdalefoundation.org.
Why Teens Act as They Do and What You Can Do About it
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Raising adolescents today is a more challenging job than ever before. Parents are often perplexed about how to navigate daily experiences, and are frequently left exasperated and at odds with their middle school aged kids.
Dr. Anthony Wolf, child psychologist, author and speaker, will talk about the phenomenon of adolescence – how as part of normal psychological development teenagers contract a temporary "allergy" to their parents on Thursday May 8 from 7:30 to 9 pm at the Scarsdale Middle School Band Room. In his presentation, Dr. Wolf will describe how teenagers today are different than in the past - more outspoken, less obedient. Dr. Wolf will address some of the challenging dynamics that arise when raising teens; issues like how bratty behavior at home almost always has another much more civilized side that adolescents show to the world outside, and how that side is the far better indicator of who they are and who they will become. With wit and humor, Dr. Wolf will present useful and also not very useful ways of dealing with today's 
teenagers that can make a real difference in day-to-day interactions.
There will be a brief PTA business meeting before Dr. Wolf's presentation.
About the Speaker:
Anthony E. Wolf Ph.D., a practicing child psychologist, author and speaker has written many parenting books, including I'd Listen to My Parents if They'd Just Shut Up: What to Say and Not Say When Parenting Teens, and Get Out of My Life, but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the Mall, a Parents Guide to the New Teenager.
Dr. Wolf received his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the
City University of New York and completed his undergraduate work at Columbia College. For the past twenty-five years he has been in
private practice seeing children and adolescents in the Springfield, Massachusetts area. In addition to writing five books, Dr. Wolf has published numerous articles in such magazines as Child Magazine, Parents, and Family Circle. He has appeared on national television including The Today Show, Fox Morning News, CBS Morning News and The View. Contact information: [email protected].
Thursday, May 8th
7:30-9:00 pm
Scarsdale Middle School Band Room
