New York NCSY Hosts 7th Annual Community-Wide Basketball Tournament.
The winning team of this year’s 5-on-5 tournament proudly displays their trophies.
New York NCSY hosted its annual community-wide basketball tournament on Sunday, April 21 in the Five Towns. The winner of the 3-on-3 tournament was Approved Funding, with players Kenny Sicklick, David Jesselson and Jared Solomon. The winner of the 5-on-5 tournament was Lightwave Energy, composed of players Jared Stein, Shelby Rosenberg, Yisrael Feld, Yosef Rosenthal, Eitan Potash and Yehuda Guttman. Before the championship game, Leah Moskovitch of New Rochelle won the raffle for two round trip tickets to Israel.
The games began at 9am and were held in various gyms around the community, including Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns & Rockaway (HAFTR), Stella K. Abraham High School for Girls (SKA), Davis Renov Stahler Yeshiva High School for Boys (DRS), Life Fitness and Lawrence High School. After a long and exciting day of 3-on-3 and 5-on-5 games, all participants gathered at Lawrence High School for a lunch catered by Shula’s Pizza and the final rounds of the tournament.
The goal of the tournament was to build awareness and gain community support for NCSY programming. Money raised from the tournament went towards providing scholarships to study in Israel post-high school or attend an NCSY Summer Program.
NCSY is the international youth movement of the Orthodox Union.
Rabbi Aryeh Lightstone, Regional Director of NY NCSY explains, “Each year the level of competition improves, the enthusiasm is greater and the community support has become stronger. It has really been an honor working with our outstanding basketball committee and dedicated NCSY professional and lay staff in putting on the most popular Jewish basketball tournament.”
This year’s tournament attracted more than 200 basketball players from across New York and New Jersey. Children were treated to entertainment including arts & crafts, a moon bounce and a baseball-slugging booth. Food was also available for purchase from David Kay of Prime Time Caterers. Carol Rhine, COO of NY NCSY, reflects, “The tournament was extremely successful, not only as an enjoyable Sunday event for the community, but, more importantly, it help raise much needed scholarship dollars for our precious Jewish teens.”
To view pictures from the tournament, visit newyork.ncsy.org. For information about New York NCSY programs, please call Carol Rhine at 516.569.6279
