Michael Rabasca didn’t intend to spend life in soccer but has held some unique positions at the game’s highest level. He credits Sachem coaches Frank Schmidt, Jack Mahoney, Claude Amollobietta, Joe Davidson, and Pete Montalbano […]
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Sachem Conversation: Deanna Lytell, Daughter of Walter C. Dunham, Sachem’s Founding Superintendent
Walter Dunham was Sachem’s original school chief when the district was centralized in 1955. He served the Lake Ronkonkoma School and Gatelot Elementary children as a sixth-grade teacher and principal for 15 years before the […]
Tim Clouser, Sachem Basketball Coach During Pivotal Hoops Era of 1970s, Dies at 80
Tim Clouser only coached in Sachem from 1968 to 1978, but he led the boy’s basketball program to one of its most successful stretches in school history. His players credit attention to fundamentals, and an […]
ACTOR, SACHEM ALUM JOE MARUZZO GIVES WORKSHOP with DRAMA STUDENTS
Joe Maruzzo remembers the exact moment in the 1970s when he was inspired to be an actor. He was lying on the stage at Sachem North when he looked up, and the word “home” vividly […]
SACHEM ALUM Madison Apicella named NE10 Player of the Week
Madison Apicella picked up this season where she left off last year. She earned her first NE10 Player of the Week honors recently after being named NE10 Player of the Year in 2022. She was […]
Hailey Rhatigan on Cover of Lacrosse Magazine
Sachem alum Hailey Rhatigan is on the cover of the latest issue of Lacrosse Magazine. Featured on the top right, celebrating after winning the NCAA Division I women’s lacrosse championship with her Northwestern teammates, Rhatigan […]
Sachem Conversation with Joe Amplo
The latest “Sachem Conversation” is with Sachem alum and Navy lacrosse coach Joe Amplo. Amplo helped Sachem lacrosse win a Suffolk County lacrosse championship in 1995 and played at Hofstra University before embarking on a […]
Sachem Conversation with Karen Ferguson Dayes
The latest “Sachem Conversation” is with Sachem alum and former USWNT player and current Louisville soccer coach Karen Ferguson Dayes. Ferguson Days was an inaugural inductee of the Sachem Athletic Hall of Fame and is […]