The 20-21 Section XI boys and girls soccer schedules and playoff tournament are officially available on our website.
The soccer season will run from March 8 to April 8.
Tournaments will take place in April wrapping up on April 24.
Check all schedules.
Check the boys soccer bracket.
Check the girls soccer bracket.
Athletic sections across New York were treated to Zoom meet and greets with two New York Yankees players.
Catcher Kyle Higashioka spoke with dozens of students from the Free and Reduced Lunch Program of Section XI on Tuesday.
Pitcher Jordan Montgomery was on camera with Special Needs Unified and Pioneer students of Section XI in December.
Special thank you to Shelter Island Athletic Director Todd Gulluscio, broadcaster Kevin Devaney and player-agent-speaker Mark Leinweaver for coordinating,
Both were covered in the New York Post and on YES Network.
The shortened boys and girls volleyball season schedules are officially available on SectionXI.org.
Matches will take place between March 8 and April 16. Note they are listed under “fall boys volleyball” and “fall girls volleyball” on the schedule page.
The girls playoffs will run from April 17 to April 24, while the boys will have a tournament from April 20 to April 24.
The NYSPHSAA released a guide to “Return to Interscholastic Athletics”.
This includes, but is not limited to, new Virtual Cheer guidelines for Competitive and Game Day as well as Wrestling.
The first event for Northport’s “Athletics For All” program kicked off this week with more than 40 student-athletes.
The Long Island Nets, the NBA G League affiliate of the Brooklyn Nets, have launched “Team Up for Unity,” a new community program, presented by National Grid, aimed to combat racism in high school sports on Long Island, in partnership with Section XI in Suffolk County and Section VIII in Nassau County.
Through the “Team Up for Unity” program, the Nets, Section VIII and Section XI will provide high schools on Long Island access to information and helpful resources on diversity, equity and inclusion. These tools will be shared with coaches, student-athletes, superintendents, athletic directors, principals, Boards of Education and other school administrators to help them identify and combat racism in both their schools and athletic programs.
“Sports have historically played a powerful role in uniting people and often that has resulted in furthering social justice,” said Alton Byrd, Vice President of Growth Properties, BSE Global. “The Long Island Nets are proud to work alongside our partners in Nassau and Suffolk counties to combat racism in all forms, beginning at the high school level, and ensure equality is achieved across all of Long Island.”
“Interscholastic athletics is an educationally based program in our schools, and one of our goals is to cultivate the unique gifts and talents of all student-athletes free from racism and all forms of social injustice,” said Superintendent Henry L. Grishman, Nassau County Chairperson to Section VIII Athletics Committee. “’Team Up for Unity’ will allow our students to be educated in the areas of diversity, equity and inclusion in order to achieve this goal.”
“Our goal is to accept and celebrate all student-athletes through one of our most coveted educational platforms – interscholastic athletes,” said Jeremy Thode Principal/Athletic Director/Section XI Diversity Equity & Inclusivity Chairperson. “The voices of our student advocates are the most effective way to ensure positive and lasting change, and it is the perfect time for our future leaders of society to be the change agents. ‘Team Up for Unity’ will help to broadcast their voices.”
Schools registered with the “Team Up for Unity” program will have the opportunity to participate in equality and anti-racism events and trainings, including chalk talks with Long Island Nets players and staff on their experiences with racism and bias, and virtual conversations with local business leaders to hear how businesses are combatting social injustices and systemic racism/bias. Participating schools will receive posters and banners highlighting resources and organizations that students and employees can contact if they experience or witness racism or bias.
Administrators will also join quarterly panels hosted by Erase Racism, and anonymous surveys will be distributed to student athletes at participating schools in order to highlight the frequency of students’ experiences with racism and bias during Long Island high school sporting events. School administrators will also host student-to-student conversations as a way for student athletes to share their views and experiences with racism.
The conversations and panel discussions on how to recognize and address racism in both school and sports will take place via Zoom and are free to the public, even to those not participating in the “Team Up for Unity” program. The first of these monthly conversations will take place on Tues., Feb. 16 with Jackie Wilson, Executive Director of Diversity and Inclusion for BSE Global, the company which manages the Brooklyn Nets, Long Island Nets and Barclays Center.
“Team Up for Unity” is also supported by Minuteman Press of Levittown. For more information on the program, including a complete schedule of upcoming virtual events, please visit www.longislandnets.com/unity.
The New York State Public High School Athletic Association (NYSPHSAA) held its quarterly meeting of the Executive Committee on Wednesday, February 3rd via Zoom teleconference.
The Executive Committee additionally approved the following championship venues:
Committee voted on several key proposals important to the Association’s 787-member schools.
The four NYSPHSAA officers, acting on input from the 11 sections, section executive directors and member schools, announced the cancellation of the 2021 NYSPHSAA Spring State Championships. The decision will allow sections more time to schedule and conduct regular season contests.
Furthermore, the Executive Committee approved adding the language “including racial or discriminatory comments or slurs” to the Sportsmanship Officials card that is read at the beginning of each athletic contest.
The next meeting of the NYSPHSAA Executive Committee will be Wednesday, May 5th in Saratoga Springs.
The four NYSPHSAA officers, acting on input from the 11 sections, section executive directors and member schools, announced the cancellation of the 2021 NYSPHSAA Spring State Championships.
The decision will allow sections more time to schedule and conduct regular season contests.
Section XI is proud to celebrate February 3 as National Girls & Women in Sports Day (NGWSD).
We honor the thousands of girls and women who are past, present and future student-athletes, coaches, officials, trainers, administrators and supporters in our section!
NGWSD was started 35 years ago by the Women’s Sports Foundation. Learn more about their org here.
Section XI has released the spring football schedule for this unique shortened season.
There will be eight league champions crowned as well as four conference champions.
All varsity games have been scheduled and are available on the Section XI schedule page here.
On April 17 the top two teams from each league will crossover with the next league, these will be the semi-finals. On April 24 the winners of the semifinals games will play for the conference championships while the other two teams will play for third place.
