La Salle Academy is honored to announce that two senior students have been named finalists for two prestigious full-tuition college scholarship programs. Kristian Olvera ’19 is a semi-finalist for Posse and a finalist for Questbridge and Christopher Sanchez ‘19 is a finalist for Questbridge.

Posse and Questbridge recruit high-achieving students from diverse backgrounds and provide support for them throughout their college experience. Both programs bring together small, diverse groups of talented students to train them to become our world’s future leaders. Kristian and Christopher both completed extensive applications and interviews as required by Posse and Questbridge.

“Both boys have been working very, very hard to complete the demanding application process. This is not easy, and I am very proud of them for making it thus far.” said Ms. Cernaro, La Salle Academy’s College Guidance Counselor.

If accepted into these programs, Kristian and Christopher will be matched with one of the top universities in the country, such as Vanderbilt University, University of Wisconsin, Lawrence University, Lafayette College, Yale University, Stanford University, and Princeton University. These stellar students have also applied to schools like Villanova University, Harvard University, University of Notre Dame, Case Western Reserve University, Colgate University and NYU.

Congratulations and good luck to both Kristian and Christopher!

Friday, November 2, 2018 – La Salle Academy’s now famous annual trip/weekend jaunt to Salem, Mass., with the junior English class and the indefatigable Ms. Pat Toney, was another great success this year. Each year, the juniors read The Crucible as part of their English course and Ms. Toney takes then on  a weekend to Salem to immerse them in the history lesson that is the Salem Witch Hysteria. They visited many sites, including Rebecca Nurse’s Homestead and the Witch Dungeon Museum. The group returned from Massachusetts after learning that hunting witches is very much alive and well.

La Salle Academy is proud to announce an honor bestowed upon two members of the school’s faculty.

Ms. Sandra Sanchez, Guidance Counselor, and Ms. Rosalie Cernaro, College Advisor – both members of La Salle’s Guidance Department – have been named as President and Vice President, respectfully, of the New York City Catholic Secondary School Counselors Association for the 2018-19 academic year. This elite organization is

“… a group of caring professionals who are committed to promoting the intellectual, social, emotional and spiritual development of adolescents within the Catholic tradition. We continually seek to share and exchange ideas through regular meetings and professional development opportunities that will enhance our productivity and effectiveness as counselors.” – New York City Catholic Secondary Counselors Association Mission Statement

This is an extraordinary honor for these two dedicated Lasallians, both of whom have called La Salle home for the last few years.

“They are both part of the new vanguard of highly recruited and elite educators at La Salle who dedicate themselves to the caring and covering of the ‘whole life of the child’ at our La Salle. Sandra and Rosalie couldn’t be more center-stage to our Lasallian successes.” -Dr. Catherine Guerrieo, President of La Salle Academy

In addition to teaching Psychology as an elective, Ms. Cernaro is the College Counselor at La Salle Academy. In the last three years, she quadrupled the amount of college financial aid and scholarships given each year to our seniors and in 2018, she guided our students to reach a 100% college acceptance rate.

Ms. Sanchez – who started her career in education and service as a Lasallian Volunteer a decade ago – has become a true leader within our La Salle Academy community and a centrifugal force of our recent successes at La Salle. Ms. Sanchez accepted this position, saying

“We will be bringing school counselors together from across the five boroughs of NYC on important topics that affect school counselors in the city, specifically in Catholic education. This is an honor for both of us!  And we are also keeping it Lasallian! We look forward to serving and helping our fellow school counselors across the city and most of all representing La Salle Academy!”

La Salle Academy congratulates both Ms. Sanchez and Ms. Cernaro for this incredible honor and the extraordinary work they continue to do on behalf of the young men of La Salle Academy.

LSA JV Baseball Win Big in Late Innings
Thursday, April 19, 2018 –The La Salle Academy JV Cardinals used two big innings to break open a close game for a 17-5 victory over St. John’s Prep on a chilly day at Elmjack Little League in Queens.

The Cardinals batted around in the fifth and sixth innings plating five and seven runs respectively, which put the game out of reach and secured a victory for Angel Espinal in relief of Elijah Bridgett. On offense, La Salle’s 3-4-5 hitters (Espinal-Eddy Caba-Bridgett) went a combined 6 for 14 with eight RBIs.

Varsity Baseball Victorious in Early Season “Home & Home” vs. St. John’s Prep
Wednesday, April 11, 2018 – Queens, NY – Playing on back to back days the La Salle Academy varsity baseball earned a league victory with a 20-3 four inning knockout of St. John’s Prep at Elmjack Little League.

The Cardinals got off to another slow start, failing to score, in the top of the first, but made up for it in a big way batting around three times in two innings (twice in the fourth inning) and putting up a 14 spot in the fourth.

Julian Nieves, got the win striking out seven over three innings of 2-hit ball. The offense was paced by Nicholas Brito (3 for 3, 2B, 2 RBI), Ethan Rosario & Jimmy Muniz, who each had two hits.

Friday, April 13, 2018 – The La Salle varsity baseball team finished off a perfect week of CHSAA ‘A’ division play with a convincing 17-0, five inning win over St. John’s Prep on Randall’s Island.

The victory improves the Cardinals overall record to 3-4 as they remind undefeated in the division. Franklin Olivares got the start and picked up the win.

Varsity Baseball Grinds Out Victory over Loughlin
Wednesday, April 18, 2018, Brooklyn, NY – It was a grind, but in the end the La Salle varsity baseball team came away with a 9-6 victory over Bishop Loughlin at American Legion Fields, to improve to 4-0 in the CHSAA ‘A’ division. Senior, Julian Nieves, went five strong innings to pick up his second victory in as many starts as junior, Franklin Olivares, picked up the save with two solid innings of his own.

The Cardinals jumped ahead 2-0 in the first inning thanks to an opposite field base hit and sacrifice fly by Adrian Santos and Franklin Padilla, respectively. However, the Lions roared back to take a 3-2 lead in the bottom of the inning, thanks to four errors by the Cardinals defense. The errors were a theme for La Salle as they committed a total of 10 for the game. Fittingly, it was La Salle capitalizing on a Loughlin error in the top of the fifth inning to grab the lead and that fueled the victory for the Cardinals.

With the score tied at three, two outs and a man on third, Nicholas Brito (2 for 4) hit a soft pop up on the third base line that was bobbled then dropped by Loughlin opening the flood gates to a five-run inning for La Salle.

No Hitter Sparks Cardinals to 5th Straight Victory
Friday, April 20, 2018 – The La Salle Cardinals made it five straight CHSAA wins with a 10-0 6-inning knockout of Sacred Heart on a chilly day on Randall’s Island. The victory improves La Salle’s record to 6-4 overall and 5-0 in the division.

The Cardinals were led by the junior duo of Franklin & Franklin. Franklin (Olivares) pitched a complete game No-Hitter with 10 strikeouts against one walk. Franklin (Padilla) had two hits and two RBIs, including the game winner single up the middle in the bottom of the sixth.

The Cardinals jumped out to 7-0 lead after two innings on a combination of small ball, Sacred Heart miscues and opposite field base hits by Adrian Santos (1 for 4; 1 RBI) and Cristobal Rivera (2 for 3; Sac Bunt). The Irish only managed to get things going in the top of fifth, but with the bases loaded, Olivares got a lazy flyball to center to end the threat.

NEXT UP:La Salle travels to Bergen Beach in Brooklyn to face St. Edmund Prep on Tuesday, April 24th, first pitch is 4:30pm.

When: Thursday, March 15, 2018, 5:30pm to 7:30pm

Where: Club 101, 101 Park Avenue, New York City

Monday, November 20, 2017 – Brother Dennis Lee, the Provincial of the Brothers of the Christian School District of Eastern North America (DENA), was generous enough to spend the entire day at La Salle on Monday, November 20^th.  Brother Dennis met with our senior leadership, addressed our student body in full assembly and stayed quite late for the Board of Trustees’ Meeting.

During the Assembly, a few La Salle Academy students presented on what they are thankful for this year. Following the student presentations, Brother Dennis educated our students about the Lasallian association. Our students were “all ears” as the Provincial spoke about the importance of coming together in unity with one another despite the differences we may have.

Brother Dennis’ show of faith in this school and it’s dynamic trajectory at the present was made quite clear by his decision to spend the day at La Salle a mere two months into his new leadership term, which is quite a statement indeed. La Salle is grateful for his leadership, and his love of our boys and our very own La Salle Academy mission.

On Tuesday, November 14^th, the bowling teams faced Cathedral Prep for the second time in a row and the results proved almost identical to last week.

The JV suffered their 2nd loss of the season, dropping their record to 6 – 2. Jimmy Falcon led all scores with a 182 high game and he was followed by his teammate who had a 170 game with a 508 3-game series.

The varsity went on to win their match and moved their season record to a perfect 8 – 0.

The leader of the varsity team scored a 256 high game and a 681 3-game series while Anthony Alvarez added a 248 game and Chandler Hayer a 224 game.

The Cardinals face Xaverian High School on Tuesday, November 21^st at 4pm at Whitestone Lanes.

COLLEGE REPRESENTATIVE VISITS

FALL 2017

(all visits take place in the 3^rd floor Academic Support Center unless otherwise specified)

*Last Updated 11/8/17*

9/19 – Quinnipiac U at 12:30pm

Bryant U at 1:30pm

9/20 – Penn State at 10:30am

Catholic U at noon

LeMoyne College at 1:30pm

9/21 – St. John’s College (MD) at 10:30am

9/22 – Five Towns College at 10am

Manhattan College at 10:30am

CUNY at noon

9/25 – U of Bridgeport at 9:45am

LaSalle U at 11:30am

9/26 – College of New Rochelle at 9am

Villanova U at noon

9/27 – Fairfield U at 11:15am

9/28 – Wheaton College at 11am

Johnson & Wales U at 12:30pm

9/29 – St. Joseph’s College (Bklyn.) at 9am

John Jay College at 1:30pm

10/2 – Marist College at 9am

St. Bonaventure U at 11:15am

St. Joseph’s U  (Penn.) at 1:30pm

10/3 – Stonehill College at 9am

The College of St. Rose at 1pm

10/4 – St. Francis College  (Bklyn.) at 11:30am

10/5 – Gettysburg College at 8:15am

U Conn at noon

Auburn U at 12:45pm

10/6 – U of Buffalo at 10:30am

10/10 – Hofstra U at 8:30am

Marymount Manhattan College at 9am

Hartwick College at noon

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical U at 12:45pm

Seton Hall U at 1:30pm

Baruch College (CUNY) at 1:30pm

10/12 – Babson College at noon

10/13 – SUNY at Albany at 10am

Adelphi U at noon

Ursinus College at 2pm

10/16 – Mount St. Mary’s College at 10am

Syracuse U at 1:30pm

10/17 – Iona College at 8:15am

Concordia College at 9am

Trinity College at 10:30am

St. John’s U at 1pm

10/18 – SUNY at Geneseo at 8:30am

College of St. Elizabeth at 9am

Cooper Union at 1pm

10/19 – SUNY at Oswego at 8:30am

LIU – Bklyn. at 10:30am

10/20 – Niagara U at 9am

10/24 – St. Thomas Aquinas College at 10:30am

Regis College at 11:15am

Mount St. Vincent College at noon

SUNY – Jefferson at 1:30pm

10/25 –Pace U at noon

St. Anselm College at 1pm

Dean College at 1:30pm

SUNY at New Paltz at 2pm

10/26 – Fairleigh Dickinson U at 10am

Berkeley College in the following classes:

Period A – room 410

Period B – room 406

Period C – room 510

Period D – room 303

Period F – room 304

Period G – room 504

Period H – room 302

10/27 – Molloy College at 9:45am

Barry U at 12:45pm

10/30 – Utica College at 8:45am

U of New Haven at 11:15am

11/2 – John & Wales Culinary School cooking demo during period C in room 510

Vaughn College of Aeronautics & Technology at 1:30pm

11/7 – U of Buffalo at noon

11/8 – Emmanuel College at 8:15am

California College of the Arts during period C in 510

U of Scranton at 11:45am

11/13- Montserrat College of Art at 8:30am

Academy of Art U – periods C, D, F in room 510

Morehouse College at 1pm

11/14- LIU Brooklyn from 10am to noon for on-site acceptance

11/15 – Wagner College at 12:30pm

11/17 – CUNY Macaulay Honors College – period F in room 405

11/20 – United States Naval Academy at 8:30am

This weekend La Salle Academy was out in full force throughout New York City.

On Saturday, October 21st, we welcomed 650 prospective students, parents, grandparents, and siblings to our campus on 215 E 6th Street for our annual Open House. Potential future Cardinals in 6th, 7th, and 8th grade and their families began lining up at our doors at 9:40 am, twenty minutes before our scheduled start time of 10:00 am, to visit La Salle. Attendees had the opportunity to explore the school – now three full floors of classroom space! – meet current students, parents and alumni, and even speak with the full faculty and staff on board at La Salle about what our 170-year institution will provide for their sons that other schools won’t be able to and why it truly is the next best step in their boys’ academic careers. A special thank you to the Parents Association and alumni for volunteering their time for this major recruitment event!

Saturday night, La Salle attended the Michael T. Carroll Yorkville 9/11 Memorial Dinner Dance at Our Lady of Good Counsel Church in memory of alumnus Michael Carroll from La Salle’s class of 1980. This fundraiser – with close to 300 attendees –  is done each year in honor of Michael Carroll, FDNY, LaSalle Class of 1980, who was killed that fateful day on 9/11 at the World Trade Center. Two of our students who receive the scholarships in his name attended to thank the guests for their continued support and scholarship money they provide to the young men at La Salle. The pictures below are of all the LaSalle alumni who come back to support the event every year and remember their friend.

And the appearances didn’t stop!

Bright and early on Sunday morning, four of La Salle’s Campus Ministry students along with Campus Minister Terence McCorry, Music Director Jon Abrams and the Development Team traveled to Our Lady of Angels Chapel at St. Anthony’s High School in South Huntington for the 2nd Annual William F. DeSpagna ’46 Memorial Mass to remember deceased alumni, family and friends of La Salle. About 40 guests, inclusive of alumni and their families and friends of La Salle attended the Mass and breakfast reception that followed.

We wound down the weekend with a trip to Staten Island to attend St. Peter Secondary School’s Centennial Dinner on Sunday night. St. Peter’s is one of Lasallian partner schools, and we came to provide support to “the family” out in Staten Island. Eight students sauntered around cocktail hour, meeting every Brother Brother Dennis Lee, both Auxiliary Provincials (Brother Thomas Casey and Brother Rich Galvin), Brothers on our Board like Brother Francis (below) and of course, His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan, who will be visiting La Salle in a little over a week to celebrate Mass for All Saint’s Day.

One student said to His Eminence, “We need more space at La Salle… will you help us?” to which he responded, “I will try my hardest. You guys are hard to say no to.”

There is no rest for the weary here at La Salle Academy. More space at 6th Street means more boys entering La Salle in the fall which means more need for scholarships. We are La Salle and we never stop.