Also honored was the boys varsity baseball team and coach Rich Smith, pictured here with Athletic Director Nancy Kalafus, who was chosen to receive the 2009 Sportsmanship Award by the Nassau County Umpires Association for all 57 Nassau County school districts. Congratulations to Garden City’s coaching staff and players for being recognized for their outstanding sportsmanship! Congratulations to the Garden City Public Schools’ coaching staff who were recently honored with two sportsmanship awards. Nassau County athletic officials from all sports annually choose ten teams of the 57 competing Nassau County school districts to receive sportsmanship awards. Garden City’s entire varsity coaching staff was voted as one of the “top 10” recipients of the 2009 Sportsmanship Award.

Pictured here with their award are Garden City High School coaches (left to right): Rich Smith, varsity baseball coach; Reid Sclafani, varsity wrestling and varsity girls golf coach; Erin McKinstry, varsity boys tennis coach, varsity assistant gymnastics and junior varsity girls tennis coach; Charlie Cuzzo, varsity girls cross country and varsity spring track coach; Scott McAuley, varsity girls soccer assistant coach and junior varsity girls lacrosse head coach; Mike Heedles, varsity girls soccer head coach, middle school girls and boys basketball coach and junior varsity boys assistant lacrosse coach; Paul Cutter, varsity boys soccer assistant coach, strength and conditioning coach, and girls varsity golf assistant coach; Marissa Reichman, varsity softball head coach, and Garden City Athletic Director, Nancy Kalafus.