Final Signing Ceremony at Greenwich High School Honors “Great Athletes and Amazing Citizens”

In the last of four signing ceremonies this year, on Monday Greenwich High School honored several scholar-athletes who are continuing their sports at D3 colleges next year.

Present were Victoria Liu, Drew Falla, Michael DeLuca, Lauren Civitillo, MK Savio, Sophie Roth, Kelsey Roth, and Samantha Ings.

After Interim Director of Athletics Peter Georgiou announced each athlete and the school they will attend, GHS principal Ralph Mayo congratulated them.

Mayo thanked the parents. “I know what it’s like to be a parent of an athlete,” he said. “All that driving.”

“I’ve been involved in this athletic program as a coach since 1976, and I know how hard it is to be an athlete here and to be an athlete in college because I played lacrosse in college. It’s another job,” he said. “They have their job of going to school, but they also have that job every day after classes of getting to practice, and then trying to catch up on their studies after practice.”

Mayo said students were not only great athletes but amazing citizens.

“They are just a great group and I’m going to miss them all.”

Barallon, Anthony	Rugby	Queens College
Belmont, Evan	Swimming	Monmouth University
Civitillo, Lauren	Cheer	University of Miami
DeLuca, Michael	Track & Field	Manhattanville College
Dorsey, Matthew	Soccer	Stockton University
Falla, Drew	Football	Endicott College
Gatherer, John	Rugby	Penn State University
Hernandez, Jorge	Football	Plymouth State University
Ings, Samantha	Swimming	Bryn Mawr College
Insinga, Vincent	Football	Endicott College
Liu, Victoria	Swimming	University of Chicago
Maglakelidze, Ioane	Water Polo	Fordham University
Meier, Jean-Benno (JB)	Rugby	University of Louisville
Nguyen, Lara	Rowing	MIT
Pennella, Alexandra	Soccer	Brandeis University
Roth, Kelsey	Lacrosse	St. Lawrence University
Roth, Sophie	Lacrosse	Gettysburg College
Savio, MK	Lacrosse	Franklin & Marshall College
Tauber, Cecelia	Lacrosse	Williams College