This year’s competitive drill team season has been a great one for the Riverhead HS NJROTC cadets. They won first place at the Mattituck drill meet in December. On Saturday, March 3rd, the Riverhead NJROTC Drill Team competed at William Floyd HS with 9 schools from New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Delaware.
The Blue Wave Drill Team came away with 10 trophies and the Overall 1st Place victory:
- 1st Place Armed Platoon led by Harold Hubbard
- 1st Place Varsity Color Guard led by Alison Miller
- 1st Place NS-1 Color Guard led by Aleki Lui – Cadet ‘Aleki Lui was honored as the first-year NJROTC student with the highest academic achievement out of the eight other schools that participated.
- 1st Place NS-1 Academic Team led by Ashlyn Whyard
- 2nd Place Unarmed Platoon led by Tom Kopp
- 2rd Place Varsity Inspection led by Leanne Weber
- 3rd Place NS-1 Inspection led by John Roca
- 3rd Place NS-1 Squad led by Abigail Wehunt
- Tug of War – 2nd Place led by Brian Weinhardt
- Overall 1st Place
Lt. Col. McCarthy commended his cadets for “an outstanding job” and noted that many of the students who competed in Saturday’s event were participating in a drill meet for the first time. “There was also an air rifle competition in addition to the drill competitions, so this was a fun meet for our cadets,” he said.
Riverhead’s team will compete in a North Rockland competition on March 24th and will then travel to Middletown, N.Y. in early May for the Area 4 Finals.
The NJROTC Chinese Auction fund-raiser at Riverhead High School is scheduled for April 21. It’s one of their biggest fund-raising events; so don’t miss it.
Source: Riverhead Central School District press release dated March 5, 2012
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