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📢The RIIL will host a FREE Fall 2024 RIIL Leadership Experience w/ RIIL partners R.I. Army National Guard & iHeartRadio for high school student-athletes!
🗓October 16, 2024
⏰8:30am-1:30pm
📍Camp Fogarty, E. Greenwich.
🖐Interested students should contact their principal or AD!
The RIIL offers its deepest condolences to the family and friends of Dan Mazzulla, who impacted countless lives over the past three decades as a coach of multiple high school and middle school sports, as well as the town of Johnston’s Director of Parks and Recreation.
Narragansett principal Dan Warner“ringing the bell” as he leaves Denver Medical Center w/ his new kidney. “The hospital's tradition is for all recipients and donors to ring the bell upon leaving the hospital,” explains Warner’s friend Gerry Foley. Wishing Dan all the best!
RIIL sends thoughts & prayers to 5-yr-old Isaiah Hazard, who just a few weeks ago was diagnosed w/ Transverse Myelitis resulting in full paralysis from the neck down. NK Jaguars Youth Football League asks RI HS teams to show their support as he prepares for the long road ahead.
The RIIL wishes all the best to Bishop
@HendrickenHawks
/
@UMich
grad Kwity Paye heading into the 2021 NFL Draft. The 2016 RIIL Super Bowl MVP & 2016 R.I. Gatorade Player of the Year - among many other awards he's won - is projected to be selected in the 1st round.
@OfficialKwity
Congratulations to Classical’s Robert Palazzo, who has been selected as the 2020 National Track & Field Coach of the Year by the NFHS Coaches Association.
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@ClassicalHSPVD
@NFHS_Org
Who says staying home has to be boring? Introducing the RIIL Driveway Trick Shot Challenge...Mike Lunney will go 1st & he's calling out the whole state! Now show us your best driveway trick shots & challenge your friends🏀
Tag
@RIIL_sports
#RIILStrong
#hope
⚓
@mlunney
@NFHS_Org
2017 Burrillville H.S. grad and hockey goalie Bryan McConnell is a member of USCG Ceremonial Honor Guard that accompanied the body of former President George H.W. Bush into the National Cathedral.
PHOTO/BRYAN MCCONNELL
MVP Nate Lussier scores on QB sneak and runs it in again for 2-pt. conversion w/ 38 secs left, as
@lasalleacadri
ends
@HendrickenHawks
7-year reign as RIIL State Champs.
Thoughtless act of vandalism on fallen soccer teammate's memorial only serves to prove that the Toll Gate community is stronger than ever.
As one player wrote: "I am so proud of how quickly everyone came together to fix this, we are forever one team and forever
#gistrong
💜💜💜"
The Beisel family after
@ebeisel34
finishes her historic swim from Matunuck to Block Island. Her time: just under 5:30. And over $130k raised for cancer research in her dad’s memory
#blockcancer
. See her story on
@NBC10
Very happy to report that Narragansett principal Dan Warner's long-awaited kidney transplant was successful. Everyone at the RIIL wishes him well as he continues his recovery.
#giftoflife
Remembering Maddie Potts today, a young lady whose sudden passing on Sept. 24, 2017 while playing a sport she loved profoundly affected the RIIL community and far beyond.
In honor of
#Forever11
, be kind to one another today.💙
#maddiementality
September is BRAIN ANEURYSM AWARENESS month. Our daughter Maddie died in September💔. She was 17, Capt of her teams & athlete of the year. So please, be kind, reach out, put others before yourself & think of Maddie. Bc that’s always what she did 💙
#maddiementality
®
#Forever11
®
Excited to announce the nominees for the RIIL Student-Athlete of the Year Awards, presented by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island. Stay tuned! Finalists will be announced soon!
@BCBSRI
@NFHS_Org
National Federation of State High School Associations
FINAL, Game 3 of RIIL Division I Boys Hockey Championship, presented by Ortho RI: La Salle 5, Bishop Hendricken 2
Rams claim first state title in four years.
So this happened at the RIIL Girls XC State Meet yesterday . . . And she said yes!💍 Congratulations to La Salle coach Kelly Martin and her now-fiance (and new La Salle wrestling coach) Robert Raso.
@lasalleacadri
@NFHS_Org
VIDEO COURTESY/CHARLENE DELUCA
Excited to announce the nominees for the 2021-22 RIIL Student-Athlete of the Year Awards, presented by Blue Cross & Blue Shield of Rhode Island.
Stay tuned! Winners to be announced soon!
@BCBSRI
@NFHS_Org
On 11/12, soccer refs honor memories of
#11
&
#12
Officials wore armbands and ribbons in memory of Maddie Potts and Gianna Cirella during the RIIL Girls Soccer Tournament.
The RIIL extends its deepest sympathies to the family of Don Mezzanotte. The RIIL Hall of Famer guided the Pilgrim baseball team to five state championships & 12 divisional titles from 1963-78, then went on to become the winningest baseball coach in Providence College history.
And the winner is . . .
Congratulations to Credit Unions Spirit Challenge Champion - North Providence High School!
We hope everyone enjoyed participating in this friendly competition. The school spirit around Rhode Island was fantastic!
#RIILCUSPIRITCHALLENGE
#RIILStrong
#hope
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Best of Luck to newly-appointed Cumberland Athletic Director Marty Crowley, who stopped by the RIIL office for his "New AD" briefing. New to the AD ranks, but certainly not new to R.I. high school athletics. Sent Marty off w/ a RIIL Operation Clean Competition vest!
Rhode Island's motto is
#Hope
⚓ The RIIL urges everyone to remain hopeful & to have faith that we will get through this.
At this difficult time, we echo what your coaches have probably told you many times: Focus on the things that you can control.
#RIILStrong
@NFHS_Org
PASSAGES: Former RIIL Executive Director Richard B. Lynch “championed the cause of education-based athletics”
The RIIL is deeply saddened to announce the passing of Mr. Lynch, who made many contributions during his 46-year career in education & athletics:
La Salle senior Christina Kiser has earned a full academic scholarship to Bard College, where she will be a pre-med student and also plans to continue her basketball career.
The RIIL is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Christine Kavanagh, longtime Bay View educator & wife of La Salle principal/PCOA member Don Kavanagh. Offering sincerest sympathies to Mr. Kavanagh, their sons, extended family & the countless others whose lives she touched.
Keith Lawton has spent the past 33 years compiling the 88-year history of RIIL high school XC and T&F, dating back to the 1st RIIL XC season in the fall of 1932. Now he & his wife have made his volumes of research available to everyone. CHECK IT OUT:
The RIIL is shocked and saddened to hear of the passing of North Kingstown athletic director Dick Fossa. He was the consummate AD & an even better person. His love & passion for all students & colleagues was evident in everything he did. The RIIL offers its deepest condolences.
The RIIL welcomes Tom Marcello as the league's new Assistant Director. The Principals' Committee on Athletics unanimously approved his appointment earlier today, and he is set to begin his new position on Aug. 1.
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@PonagansetAD
@NFHS_Org
East Greenwich athletic director Chris Cobain - the newly-appointed president of the R.I. Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association - will serve as RIIAAA representative on the PCOA for a two-year term.
Burrillville football coach Gennaro Ferraro addresses his Broncos shortly after team defends its RIIL Division III Super Bowl crown: "I am the luckiest man in the world . . ."
It's
#AwardWinnerMonday
! Today we recognize Robert Palazzo, CMAA from Rhode Island for receiving an NFHS Citation. He is an athletic administrator and coach at Classical High School. Congrats, Robert! 👏🏻🎉
FINAL, RIIL Division I Boys Basketball Championship, presented by the Credit Unions of Rhode Island: NK 64, Hendricken 60. NK guard Ben Masse wins the Player of the Game.
#CUBC2019
@HendrickenHawks
@NoKingstownHS
A presentation by the R.I. Girls Soccer Officials to the sisters of Maddie Potts and Gianna Cirella at last night's Chariho-Toll Gate girls soccer game. The referees also presented flowers to both teams.
#FanOfSportsmanship
#Forever11
#GiStrong