Winter Sport Wrap Up
What an impressive and busy Winter sport season here at St. Paul! We are so proud of all the hard work each athlete put into the season.
Congratulations to the boys and girls basketball teams on their great seasons.
Girls Basketball
Audrey Tice ’24 – All Iron / Nadia Riemer ’23 – All NVL / Zoey Rubins ’22 – All NVL Tournament Team
The girls basketball team finished the regular season 15-4 and qualified for the NVL & State Tournaments. The girls claimed another NVL Iron Division title and earned the #5 seed in the Class MM state tournament (15th year in a row they have been in the tournament), they advanced to the semi-final round before losing to Sacred Heart Academy.
Boys Basketball
Ben Bochicchio ’22 – NVL All Iron / Jamie Leggett ’23 – All NVL Team
pictured here with head Coach Phelps
The boys basketball team finished the regular season 14-6 and qualified for the NVL & State Tournaments. The boys earned the #9 seed in the Division III state tournament (15th year in a row they have been in the tournament) and lost to Norwalk HS in the first round.
Falcon’s Nest – Always our 6th man on the court. Thank you for coming out and supporting all of our teams this year! Keep it up for Spring!
Cheerleading
All NVL Team – (left to right) Brea Aldi ’22, Mia Mastrogiovanni ’24, and Devin Meurer ’22
All State – Devin Muerer & Mia Mastrogiovanni.
Competition Team – 10th place finish at the Class S State Championship. Tremendous season by the Falcons!
Indoor Track
All NVL – Tyler Turner / CT Class S – Long Jump Champion / CT State Open Runner – Up and All New England Qualifier. New England Championship – 5th place finish in the Long Jump (out of 31 jumpers).
Owen Wood – All-NVL for pole vault
Allie Barton ’23 – Class S and State Open Qualifier
NVLs – Boys’ 6th, Girls’ 9th
Class S – Boys’ 11th (out of 33 teams), Girls’ 24th (out of 30 teams)
State Open – Boys’ 21st (out of 47 teams)
Boys Swimming
Mikel Palaj ’22 is State Open champion in the 50 Free
All CCC Team – Mikel Palaj ’22, Nathan Stellmach ’22, & Davis Kroll ’23
Class LL All State – Mikel Palaj in the 50 Free & 100 Fly and Nathan Stellmach in the 100 yd breaststroke.
Class LL State Champion – Mikel Palaj in the 50 Free & 100 Fly.
Mikel Palaj, Nathan Stellmach & Davis Kroll qualified for the Open as members of the 200 Yard Medley Relay and the 400 Free Relay. Mikel also qualified in the 50 free and the 100 fly, and Nate in the 200 IM and the 100 breaststroke.
14th (out of 50) in the State Open
9th (out of 17) in Class LL
CCC runner-up
Wrestling
Congratulations to Mallory Sefcik ’23 – Girls State Champion Runner-Up
Bowling
Great job by the three St. Paul bowling teams who participated in the CIAC State Bowling Team Tournament! We received many compliments (which included a phone call to Mr. Dennehy from the director of the tournament praising our teams, families and community for our efforts), about the team’s skills, their sportsmanship and the fun our students demonstrated through the day! How our students and coaches carried themselves and supported one another did not go unnoticed.
Congratulations to Olivia Belfonti ’22 on being named the Connecticut Association of Athletic Directors’ female finalist for the National Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association’s scholarship!
