After 18 months, Lycée Athletics is back. This fall, 240 athletes and 20+ coaches on 15 sixth-grade, middle school, JV and Varsity teams took part, covering cross-country, soccer, volleyball and tennis.
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Author: John Burpoe, Athletic Director
John Burpoe has been working in education for thirty years, and joined the Lycée team in 2012. Previously, he held the same position at Friends Seminary and Xavier High School. John received a master’s degree from Fordham University School of Education. He enjoys running during his free time.
Three Cheers for Athletics!
Being on an athletic team here at the Lycée Français de New York you experience a number of ups and downs. There are good days and bad days. It is how you pick yourself up and meet the next challenge that defines you. One of the enjoyable parts of my
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Go Lycée!
Cross Country: Varsity Girls finished in second place at the NYCAL Championships. Middle School Team finished second overall in the regular season. Soccer: 6th Grade Boys undefeated season Middle School Boys: Second place NYCAL regular season Junior Varsity Boys Soccer: NYCAL Regular Season and Tournament Champions Varsity Boys: Took
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Basketball vs. Trevor Day School
Our 6th graders girls started out slow by game roaring back in the second half only to fall short. The team showed great spirit and improvement over the course of the game but ultimately lost the game. Final score 9 – 14. Our 6th graders boys lost a hard fought
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Fall Season Highlights
Once again, we traveled to Camp Pontiac for preseason training. This year we took seventeen teams and 211 students to the camp in upstate New York. Our aim is always to give students an opportunity to build relationships with their peers, as well as work on their skills for the
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LFNY Lynx Show Team Spirit and Pride this Winter
As the weather starts to warm up, it’s a clear sign our winter athletics season has drawn to a close. We will certainly miss the camaraderie and spirit of our coaches and players on these teams, but we celebrate, too, another exciting season in sports at the Lycée Français de
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Fall 2015 Athletics Recap
What an exciting fall season in sports. It’s great to see our competitive sports program booming. To kick-off the fall season, 255 students from sixth-to-twelfth grade along with their coaches headed to Camp Pontiac (see photo slideshow above) in upstate New York for a week of pre-season practice and team-building.
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Take Me Out to the Ball Game!
The 2014 MS Co-ed Baseball Team. If you walk by the gym on any given afternoon this spring, you might see a sport being played that is brand new to the LFNY: baseball! Starting this spring, the school created a middle school co-ed baseball team, made up of students in
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Great season for the Varsity Soccer teams!
For the first time, the varsity boys’ soccer team participated in the NYCAL league this fall when they competed in the ISAL league before. This year, the LFNY team took on many new schools in their league, including: Loyola, Trevor Day, Calhoun, Columbia Prep, and Browning. The team played an exceptional
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A Week of Team Spirit at Camp Pontiac
What a great time we had at Camp Pontiac this year. Our annual trip to Copack, New York took place from August 27th to August 30th. The camp is open to students from sixth to twelfth grade who play in our fall competitive sports teams. We had record participation this
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