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Ultimate Athlete Magazine
Letter from the Editor
Dear Readers, Finally digging ourselves out of our snowcovered driveways can mean only one thing: it’s time to take things inside to catch up with some of the best basketball teams on the island where the action is as hot as ever! In this jam-packed issue, we feature the St. Anthony’s girls basketball team who has been making big strides for the past few years. Following the team’s Class A Catholic title win last year, we revisit with Friar nation to see how this team is going to defend its title under the leadership of coach Ken Parham. Also, be sure to read about Amityville’s boys basketball program that is set to make a possible long run in the playoffs under the tutelage of long time coach Jack Agostino. We also mixed things up a bit with features on Brentwood boys fencing and Rocky Point cheerleading. For those of you missing the battle on the gridiron, we spotlight Long Island’s championship football teams: Freeport, Bellport, Lynbrook and John Glenn. While you enjoy this issue of UA magazine, don’t forget to click on our videos and watch UA Insider episodes that bring you behind the scenes and right into the action of the teams, fans, players and schools that make up the very best of Long Island high school sports. For those of you who want to own a piece of any of our feature videos or articles, be sure to visit our UA online store where you can purchase anything from DVDs of our UA insider episodes to articles, posters, banners, pictures and much, much more! Well, don’t let me hold you up any longer! Turn the page and enjoy another ultimate issue of UA magazine.
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Paul Corace N.J. Comanzo
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14 St. Anthony’s Girls Basketball
18 Amityville Basketball
24 Baldwin Basketball
28 Sports Psychology Foul Shooting
32 UA Training
Muscles You Can’t See
38 Empire Challenge
2011 Game Announcement
38 Harborfields Basketball
42 Half Hollow Hills West Basketball
48 John Glenn Wrestling
54 Brentwood Fencing
58 Lucie B’s Jump N’ Fun Jump Rope
60 Rocky Point Cheerleading
2011 LONG ISLAND FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS
62 John Glenn
Division IV Football Champions
66 Lynbrook
Dvision III Football Champions
70 Freeport
Division I Football Champions
74 Bellport
Division II Football Champions
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Long Island Lutheran’s Jordan Allen drives to the hoop in a recent game against Rice.
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Bellport’s Travis Houpe finds a hole in Garden City’s defense durring the 2010 Long Island Class II Championship game.
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