E VE NTS AND RE CAP
GLOBAL EDUCATION PROGRAM
This fall was a busy one for the Global
Education Program. Started in 2016, the
program gives Fordham Prep students
opportunities to raise their awareness of
the world outside their own environment.
Participants expand their worldview and
become true global citizens by interacting
with peers from across the globe, caring
for the earth, and immersing themselves in
other cultures. This is accomplished both
by visiting other countries and welcoming
others to the United States. The program
prepares Fordham Prep students to enter
a world that is evermore interconnected.
In September, the Prep welcomed two
students from Istituto Leone XIII, a Jesuit
high school located in Milan, Italy, for a
full semester of study. The students have
lived with a host family, been enrolled in
a full academic schedule, and have taken
part in multiple community activities. In
November, eight of their schoolmates came
to the United States and participated in
the first part of an exchange between the
two schools. During the week, the visitors
attended classes, went to a Knicks
game, toured St. Patrick’s Cathedral, The
Empire State Building, Times Square, The
Botanical Gardens, and many other NY
sites with their host brothers and their
families. Fordham Prep students will take
part in a reciprocal visit to Milan during the
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February break. This is the second year
this exchange has taken place.
Also in November, six students and
two faculty members from Fordham
Prep spent a week in Dublin, Ireland,
at Clongowes Wood College, Ireland’s
oldest Jesuit School. This is the third
year of this partnership. During their trip,
Fordham Prep students attended classes,
experienced traditional Irish music, hiked
in the Glendalough valley, and led school-
wide prayer. Students from Clongowes will
come to New York and visit with students
from the Prep in April of 2020.
Fordham Prep has also increased its
allocation of resources to the Global
Education Program this year. In September,
the school officially christened the new
Global Education Conference Room.
The room, replete with new furniture,
photographs of excursions past, and a
state of the art video conference system,
allows students to engage with their peers
from around the world without leaving the
Rose Hill Campus.
In the second semester of the school year,
the Global Education Department will be
sponsoring trips to Guatemala, Tanzania,
Italy, China, Costa Rica, and Rwanda.
Read the complete article at
fordhamprep.org/news
PLAYING
DOUBLE
DUTY
“While many members of the Fordham Prep
faculty and staff took some well deserved
rest over Labor Day weekend 2019, school
counselor Charlie Cipriano was at his
second job. Mr. Cipriano is a goalie for
the Chaos Lacrosse Club of the Premiere
Lacrosse League (PLL), a professional
lacrosse league founded in 2019.
Mr. Cipriano was a high school All-
American at Herricks High School,
setting the national record for career
saves by a high school goalie at 1,366.
He then attended and played Division I
lacrosse at Fairfield University. During his
collegiate career, he was a two-time team
captain, two-time Eastern College Athletic
Conference (ECAC) Goalie of the Year,
an All-American, and more importantly, a
Scholar All-American.
Mr. Cipriano joined the Fordham Prep
Counseling Department in 2016 and
also joined the coaching staff of the
Varsity Lacrosse team where he’s lent
his expertise as the team’s goalie coach.
He helped lead the Rams to a New York
CHSAA ‘AA’ title in 2018 and during his
tenure, has coached All-American Stephen
Zupicich ’19 (Ohio State). When asked
about his time thus far at the Prep, ‘Cip’
said he is thrilled to be at Rose Hill. “It’s
an absolute honor to be working with the
young men of Fordham Prep, to be part of
the Counseling Department and to be able
to play a small part in the journey of our
students as they grow and mature.”
FALL
SPORTS
RECAP
The fall athletics season was a very
successful one for the Rams. It was filled
with team honors, individual successes, and
historic feats. This made it one of the most
memorable in fall seasons in recent years.
The Varsity Soccer team began their
season winning their first 14 matches. In
the process, they claimed the CHSAA New
York Archdiocesan Championship. During
the playoffs, the team defeated rivals
Xavier and Regis to advance to the CHSAA
New York City Championship, their first
championship game appearance since
2017. In front of an enthusiastic crowd,
the Rams defeated Iona Prep 1-0 to claim
the school’s fifth City Championship.
With the victory, the team advanced to the
CHSAA State Semi-Finals to take on St.
Anthony’s High School of Long Island. In
a thrilling match at St. John’s University,
both teams were held goalless after
regular time and two overtime periods.
Therefore, the match was to be decided
on penalty kicks. After the first round
of kicks, the score was still tied at 4-4.
Unfortunately, after the second round of
penalty kicks, St. Anthony’s, the eventual
CHSAA state champions, edged out the
Rams by a margin of 9-8.
The team finished the season with an
outstanding 17-2 record. Throughout the
fall, the Rams were consistently ranked
as one of the top all-boys high school
soccer teams in the nation by USA Today.
They peaked in the rankings at number
20 the week of October 15. After the
season, Head Coach Pete McNamara was
honored by United Soccer Coaches as the
New York State Coach of the Year in the
Private/Parochial Division. Six members
of the team were selected to the CHSAA
All-Division squad, seniors Colin Marmet,
Lewis Govan, Miguel Negrete, Teddy
Tsoubris, and Ben Follana and junior Matt
Ragde. Govan, Negrete, and Tsoubris were
also selected to play in the Mayor’s Cup,
an all-star game where the best players in
the CHSAA take on those from the PSAL.
The 2019 Cross Country season was filled
with both individual and team success and
an historic treble in the CHSAA New York
City Championships. The triumvirate of
senior Niall Ryan, junior Eamonn Sullivan,
and sophomore Myles Hogan consistently
turned in outstanding performances
throughout the course of the season, none
more thrilling than in the City Championship
race. The trio of harriers finished first,
second, and third, respectively, a feat
that no other coach in the league could
recall happening. By doing so, the Rams
claimed a championship not expected by
many. This was the team’s first New York
City championship since 2013.
Fantastic individual performances were a
hallmark of the team’s season. A week
after the city championship, Hogan went
on to capture the individual sophomore
Catholic New York State championship.
Sullivan took the individual title at the
Purdy Invitational earlier in the fall. Senior
Justin Jordaens was also victorious in the
CHSAA Bronx Championship in October.
The victory in the City Championship
qualified the team to participate in the
New York State Federation Championship,
a meet that includes Catholic, public, and
private schools. Niall Ryan’s seventh
place finish, one that qualified him for
an All-State designation, helped lead the
team to finish the meet in fifth place, the
highest finish in this meet in the program’s
storied history.
The Varsity Football team finished their
season with a 3-7 overall record picking
up wins versus Xaveiran and St. Francis,
the latter in both the regular season and
playoffs. The team fell in the CHSFL
AA semi-finals to eventual champions
Chaminade. Seniors Owen Lefredo and
Sean Halbert were both named to the
CHSFL All-League team. Both players as
well as classmate Tom Petti were invited
to play in the prestigious CHSFL Senior
Bowl.
The fall crew season was highlighted by
the program’s participation in the renown
Head of the Charles Regatta in October. A
large number of freshman also joined the
team this fall. The program participated
in five races during the fall and will now
spend the winter preparing for the highly
competitive spring season.
The Fordham Prep Bowling team finished
the year in second place in their CHSAA
division with a number of impressive
victories over Xavier, Cardinal Hayes,
Christ the King, St. Francis Prep, Bishop
Loughlin, and Cardinal Spellman.
And the freshman swimming and diving
team won their first CHSAA title since 2011!
SPRING 2020
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