History! It sometimes happens when you least expect it.
Addison Pitman became the first seventh grader in Sachem basketball history to score in a varsity game.
She is the first Sachem North player to perform in a varsity game as a seventh grader and the second in Sachem history after Danielle Cosgrove, who played for Sachem East in the 2012-2013 season when she was brought up from JV in the fourth quarter of a playoff game against Riverhead. Cosgrove, currently playing at St. John’s University, did not score.
Not even Nicole Kaczmarski, the greatest girls basketball talent to graduate from Sachem, has that on her resume. Kaz, who had her No. 23 uniform retired and played at UCLA, was on varsity as an eighth grader.
Pitman, who started the season with the JV squad and attends Samoset Middle School, scored two points in a 62-40 Sachem North loss against William Floyd on the road.
Between absences on the roster and Pitman’s drive to shine on the next level, the stars aligned for this cosmic moment in Flaming Arrows country.
Keep an eye on the Pitman name. Her brother Jack, a freshman, made his way to the varsity football team in a playoff game at Stony Brook’s LaValle Stadium by the end of the 2021 season too.
Incredible to think you can watch Pitman grow on the court over the next six years of her academic career … the next Kaz, Doherty, Cosgrove or Everson in the making.