HONORING Bergen County’s most outstanding high school student-athletes and community leaders.

STRENGTHENING OUR COMMUNITY with programs for youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. What we do every day provides us with opportunities to change lives and the Sports Award Banquet will enable us to help so many more people who rely on the Y.

MAKE YOUR GIFT TODAY IN HONOR OF YOUR HONOREE: Join us in recognizing our 2023 honorees with your attendance, a journal tribute, donation or sponsorship. When you are checking out please let us know who your gift is in honor of, on the 'donation' page please select an honoree or school to recognize with your gift.

PROCEEDS FROM THIS EVENT: support the Greater Bergen County YMCA's financial assistance programs that strive to make youth sports available to everyone in our community regardless of their ability to pay.

For Tribute and Tickets information and deadlines scroll to bottom of page.

For more information contact: Julie Morrow at jmorrow@metroymcas.org or call 973-758-9622 x1142.

Congratulations to our 2023 Honorees

YMCA Person of the Year
David Frazier

College Athlete
Kyle Teel

Thomas L. Della Torre Special Achievement
William Hartney

Richard Poor Service to the Community
Senator Paul A. Sarlo

Service to Youth
Christopher Brown, Nicholas G. Saingas Award
Colleen Malzahn, William Corcoran Award

Special Achievement
Mark Bitar II
Tony Gonzalez
Dan Sabella
Dan Vivino

Service to Community
John Nigro

Assistant Coach
Christine Massaro
Scott Moody

Female High School Student – Athlete
Sarah Batenhorst, Northern Highlands
Tori Criscuolo, Pascack Valley
Kate Meeks, NV Old Tappan
Rylie Theurkauf, Tenafly
Mackenzie Ward, NV Old Tappan

Male High School Student – Athlete
Brevin Cooney, Ridgefield Park
Jack Dugan, Westwood Regional
Alex Kranzler, NV Old Tappan
Jimmy Mullen, St. Joseph Regional
Dan Parisi, Don Bosco Prep

J. Barry Stanford Special Achievement
Ryan Applin, Bergen Catholic
Essam Assaf, Elmwood Park
Jack Attali, NV Demarest
Sara Capuano, Ramsey
Christian Carti, Bergen Catholic
Erin Ha, Academy of the Holy Angels
Tony Klar, Don Bosco Prep
Louden Mazzeo, Emerson
Kelvin Quevedo, Cliffside Park
Emily Sailer, Pascack Hills
Aidan Wallace, Bergen Catholic
Stephanie Yakoff, NV Old Tappan

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E-JOURNAL TRIBUTE INFORMATION (Athlete-Honoree Tributes and Event Tributes)***

send tribute in landscape mode, JPEG Format, 11" x 7.5" for our event scrolling journal.
Preferred Due Date: October 25, 2023. Late submissions accepted.

EVENT JOURNAL & E-JOURNAL TRIBUTE INFORMATION ( Sponsors, Journal Covers, Gold and Silver Tributes Only)***

send tribute in landscape mode, JPEG Format, 11" x 7.5" for our event scrolling journal. AND...
send tribute in portrait mode, PDF Format," wide by 11" high for the 'paper' Event Journal.
Preferred Due Date: October 25, 2023. Late submissions accepted and will be inserts if Journal has already been printed.

Ticket Information

Reserve by November 1, with your seat assigment request. Seating requests made after this date will be honored if possible.

Sports Award Banquet 2023

By Metropolitan YMCA of the Oranges

Sports Award Banquet 2023

Honoring our Athletes; Strengthening our Community

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