Editor's Note: This article was written and submitted by representatives of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District.
Rob Kaefer has been selected as Newsday’s 2012 Coach of the Year for the
District’s Girls Aquatic Team.
Kaefer has been teaching in the District for
19 years and this is his 17th year coaching the girls swim team.
He started coaching both the boys and girls teams due to his own love of the
sport.
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He swam for Wantagh H.S. where he qualified as All-County
each year, as well as for the State Championships in multiple events. He then
went on to swim for Stony Brook University where he qualified as
All-Metropolitan.
This is the first time that Kaefer was selected by Newsday as a Long Island Coach of the Year, but the second year that he was selected as
swim Coach of the Year by the Nassau County Girls Swim Coaches
Association. This was also
the first year that Kaefer coached the girls swim team to their first ever
Conference 1 Title.
Dennis Ringel was also selected as Newsday’s 2012 Coach of the Year for
the John F. Kennedy High School Boys Volleyball Team.
Ringel has been with the
Bellmore-Merrick CHSD since September, 2005 and is a Health and Physical
Education Teacher at Kennedy and Calhoun High Schools. He is a graduate of Lock
Haven University and received his Masters Degree from Stony Brook University.
Ringel has led the boys’ volleyball team to a 23-0 undefeated season, capturing
the Nassau County Championship (fourth in the last five years) the Long Island
Championship and the New York State Championship, the only boys’ team from Long
Island to win a state title.
Ringel has previously coached the Mepham High School Girls Volleyball
team to Conference Championships. Some of Ringel's graduates include one American
Volleyball Coaches Association High School All-American, six first-team
all-state honorees, one State MVP, four county MVPs, and one district MVP, all
of whom have gone on to play at many top colleges and universities.
Kaefer, Ringel Named Coaches of the Year
(Credit: Bellmore-Merrick CHSD)
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Dan DeLilla May 18, 2013 at 10:40 pm
So Lu Scala never had any children so it might be safe to say you have never been to a PTA meeting…Read More or a School Board meeting or a budget presentation so then you would have no idea how the money is spent good or bad. I'm sorry that your neighbors make more than you but like anything else you get what you pay for there are educational requirements for teaching and administration jobs, I'm sure you would be happy if all the school personnel could be replaced by minimum wage earners or better yet we could close all the schools after all you have been out of school for 40 years so you don't need them anymore, but thats not how it works. Why is always the uninformed that speak loudest and longest?
Lu Scala May 17, 2013 at 08:49 am
I never had any kids.. and am the last kid who went to to the Bellmore Merrick school system.....its…Read More been almost 40 years since I was a Mempham grad..and it is very disharting to hear that my many many high tax dollars..are not enought for these kids I have been sororting all these years!!! Who is getting all the money??? Its all bull.. aI live inbetween teachers.. how is it they can afford high end cars, housekeepers, landscapers, ect??????... the money is being spent in the WRONG WAYS TO THE TEACHERS, AND MOST OF ALL THE ADMISTRATION, THE SCHOOL BOARD ECT... I AM CALLING FOR A MASSIVE AUDIT AND GET0 per year.. they afe not worth any more then that.. THE MONEY BACK FROM ANYONE WHO WAS PAID MORE THEN $75,00....
patti May 16, 2013 at 08:28 pm
A bit of a surprise considering kids come home with a supply list a mile long (and average $40-$75).
Michael Ganci (Editor) May 14, 2013 at 01:34 pm
Can you edit above and add photo? Then I will post to top news! Thanks! MG