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 2024 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: Nicholas Hohn at nhohn@metroymcas.org or call 973-758-9622.

Congratulations to our 2024 Honorees

YMCA Person of the Year
Julie Morrow

College Athlete
Jenna Rogers
Shane Griffith

Thomas L. Della Torre Special Achievement
Tom Curry

Richard Poor Service to the Community
Cory Doviak

Inspirational Adult
Mike Simmel

Service to Youth
Jenny Jurjevic
Tom Gallione
Mike Nangle

Special Achievement
Rob Ortiz
Manny Bernardez

Assistant Coach
Mike Petruccelli

Inspirational Student Athlete
Anthony Edson

Female High School Student – Athlete

Samantha Serrano • Academy of the Holy Angels
Christina Allen • River Dell High School
Layla Giordano • Northern Valley Old Tappan High School
Abigail Dennis • Northern Valley Old Tappan High School
Bree Cooney • Ridgefield Park Jr. Sr. High School

Male High School Student – Athlete

Jack Small • Northern Valley Old Tappan High School
Deron McLaughlin • Park Ridge High School
Ryan LoCicero • Don Bosco Preparatory High School
William Kirk • Ramsey High School
Peyton Seals • Ramapo High School

J. Barry Stanford Special Achievement

Juliana Brophy • New Milford High School
Taylor Miller • Northern Valley Demarest High School
Erin Fahy • Cresskill High School
Amanda Polyniak • Pascack Valley High School
Isabella Gabay • River Dell High School
Maya Giordano • Northern Valley Old Tappan High School
Grace McQueeney • River Dell High School
Cole Hughes • Park Ridge High School
Ryan Ford • Bergen Catholic High School
Ayden Jones • Hackensack High School
Benjamin Garcia • Don Bosco Preparatory High School

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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, 2024. 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, 7.5" wide by 11" high for the 'paper' Event Journal.
Preferred Due Date: October 25, 2024. Late submissions accepted and will be inserts if Journal has already been printed.

Ticket Information

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

Sports Award Banquet 2024

Honoring our Athletes; Strengthening our Community

Team Members