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LWA's Abe Castillo touches home for a run in the PSAA championship game.

Lawrence Woodmere Academy entered the PSAA baseball championship game at MCU Park in Brooklyn on May 20 a considerable underdog against unbeaten Bay Ridge Prep, which won the regular-season meeting between the teams by a couple of touchdowns. more

By Tony Bellissimo | 5/27/14

Junior Wesley Gladstein is a key ingredient for Lawrence Woodmere Academy, which hopes to challenge for the league top spot.

LWA relies on fundamentals

Spring’s late arrival has made getting acclimated on the diamond difficult for the young Lawrence Woodmere Academy baseball team in 2014. Throw in the fact that the PSAA season is relatively short, and getting in any type of groove has been downright impossible. more

By Andrew McClure | 4/29/14

Senior Alex Kompogiorgas, center, is leading Lawrence Woodmere Academy at the offensive end of the floor.

Defense sets tone for LWA

Though lacking some of its traditional firepower after graduating more than 80 percent of last season’s offense, Lawrence Woodmere Academy’s boys’ basketball program is finding putting 70 points on the board isn’t mandatory when it comes to getting into the win column. more

By Tony Bellissimo | 1/28/14

Freshman Jake Ellowitz provides steady defense at shortstop and helps set the table on offense for the Tigers in the No. 2 spot.

LWA continues baseball success

Lawrence Woodmere Academy is enjoying another successful campaign on the baseball diamond and could be destined to continue a rivalry with Brooklyn Friends in this week’s playoffs. more

By Tony Bellissimo | 5/14/13

Junior Alex Kompogeorgas hit five three-pointers and scored 17 points in Lawrence Woodmere Academy's recent win over Evangel.

LWA rolls into postseason

Lawrence Woodmere Academy rolled into the PSAA boys’ basketball playoffs after finishing the regular season with a perfect mark of 12-0, however coach Jeff Weiss believes all four teams advancing to the postseason has a shot at the title. more

By Tony Bellissimo | 2/13/13

Senior Rokas Lapsys, center, is averaging better than 20 points per game for the Tigers, who raced out of the gate with nine wins in 10 games.

LWA races to 9-1 start

Though Lawrence Woodmere Academy may not stack up to most of its competition on the basketball court in terms of size, the Tigers boast plenty of other attributes that make them tough to beat. more

By Tony Bellissimo | 1/8/13

Sandy’s blackout illuminates what we’re thankful for

“A hundred-year storm” was I phrase I heard politicians and meteorologists use to describe this mysterious Sandy. With the memory of Hurricane Irene still fresh in my mind, I figured that once again these warnings were an exaggeration, nothing more than a precaution. more

Amber Garrick | 12/12/12

Everyone needed in ongoing storm recovery

The effects of Hurricane Sandy continue to dominate the headlines, yet it’s an encouraging sign to see the shifting focus from the long road ahead to the current progress being made, particularly on the local level. more

Jenny Lu | 12/12/12

Lawrence Woodmere Academy junior Tristan Braverman, center, who has autism, credited his parents, Steve and Stacy, for providing him with early-intervention therapy as a child, which greatly improved his social skills.

He doesn’t allow his autism to define him

Tristan Braverman, a junior and a varsity basketball player at Lawrence Woodmere Academy, used to blend in with the rest of the student body, but after being featured in the May/June issue of ESPNHS magazine, his teammates and fellow classmates learned something about him they didn’t know. more

By Ann Friedman | 5/24/12

Junior Jakob Cayne led the Tigers on the mound and at the plate.

Playoffs an achievement for LWA

As the rest of the IPPSAL baseball teams played makeup games that extended the regular season by a few days, Lawrence Woodmere Academy played the waiting game as far as its playoff fate was concerned. more

By Tony Bellissimo | 5/23/12

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