Hamilton senior Sherilynne Chensam has always loved playing basketball but competing would occasionally become overwhelming to her. When she felt her passion for basketball slipping away, she took a two-year hiatus during her freshman and sophomore years.
Hamilton junior Brooklyn Harris has been excelling in both basketball and track and field. She is the reigning CIF City Section champion in the 400m and has also helped the Yankees girl’s basketball team be Open Division contenders.
With six seconds left in regulation, the Hamilton Yankees girls’ basketball team was tied at 44 with the Santa Margarita Eagles in the second round of the CIF Division II State playoffs.
The Westchester Lady Comets are now one win away from getting back-to-back City Section Open Division titles after they defeated the Hamilton Yankees 66-58.
Hamilton sophomore Jade Fort helped take the Yankees girls basketball team go on a deep run in the CIF Division I City Section playoffs.
Hamilton sophomore Kinidi Curl considers basketball to be a fun sport that has allowed her to meet new people. Not only does she hoop for the Yankees girls’ basketball team, but she competes in travel ball.
The Hamilton Yankees girls’ basketball team extended their winning streak to six games after defeating the LACES Unicorns 60-35. The win gives Hamilton a 12-4 overall record and LACES has a 11-7 record.
The Hamilton girls basketball team secured their third win of the season after they defeated the Kennedy Cougars 72-32.
Although it was difficult, learning how to be a hurdler was something that Susie Fowler was committed to doing. She had been running track since she was nine but began to learn how to hurdle during her high school years.
Hamilton freshmen Lindsey Black-Ross just started her basketball career with the Yankees girls’ basketball team. Her knowledge and experience with dance helped her as she gained more knowledge of basketball.
After their trip to the state playoffs last year, the Hamilton Yankees girls basketball team have been winning often and by large margins.
On a bright sunny day in Brooklyn New York less than a dozen people turned out to celebrate the life and legacy of NBA Hall of Famer, Connie Hawkins a stark contrast to a few months ago, in Brooklyn, when a crowd, in a torrential rainstorm, paid tribute to the late Biggie Smalls on the naming of a street in his honor. A Brooklyn politician who was scheduled to speak did not show up but that didn’t phase Isaiah Hawkins (brother of Connie Hawkins), Mel Davis (NY Knicks), Ted Gustus, Coach Ruth Lovelace (Boys & Girls High School), Ray Haskins (LIU, Alexander Hamilton High School) and Judith Brown (sister of ABA Great Roger Brown) who all stood outside Barclay’s Center fielding questions with only three media outlets, of which we were included.