February 2, 2000
Robyn Bramoff, a Pierson High School senior, became on Friday the second female player in that school’s history — a long one, dating to the early 1900s — to score 1,000 career points.
“It took her a while to get there — she was nervous,” Pierson-Shelter Island’s coach, Gary Hull, said in reporting the news Monday. “But she got through it.”
Needing 41 points last week to reach the 1,000-point mark, Bramoff scored 24 on Jan. 26 during a 58-28 win over the Ross School, and 17 during P-SI’s 67-41 win over Greenport Friday, a game played at Shelter Island High School.
“She scored her 1,000th with 1 minute and 41 seconds left in the third quarter,” Hull said. “She faked, drove the lane, and pulled up for a six-foot jumper. I took her out then, gave her the ball, and she gave flowers to her grandmother, who comes to all of her games.”
Katie Browngardt, whose number 25 jersey is the only one at Pierson ever to be retired, is the only other Lady Whaler to have scored 1,000 or more points. Larry Foden, who coached Browngardt in the mid-1980s, also witnessed Bramoff’s milestone.
February 10, 2000
A few local triathletes have not been idle this winter. Three of them — Lars Svanberg, Scott Bradley, and Kyle Cashin — have been training for the New Zealand Ironman that is to be contested on that country’s north island on March 4, and Tom MacNiven, who recently was named an all-American by Inside Triathlon magazine, is gearing up for the world championships in Perth, Australia, to be held April 29.
. . . As is the case with most top triathletes, MacNiven began as a swimmer, coached “by two of the best there are. My high school coach was an Olympic gold medalist, and my college coach [at Southern Methodist University] now coaches this country’s Olympic women’s team.”
“I swam competitively from the age of 4 through 21. In college, I swam the 100-yard breaststroke, the individual medley, and the 200 and 400-yard freestyle. It got to the point where I swore I’d never follow another black line again!”
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The big news of the week in local basketball was the Ross School girls’ 56-41 win over Greenport Tuesday. It was the first win of the season for Barry Cox’s charges, and it featured a 30-point game by his sophomore point guard, Shalyn Hopson. Needless to say, it set a school record. Only Amanda Brown (35) and Sonya Russell (32), both East Hampton High School graduates, have exceeded that total locally.
Hopson also had five assists and three steals. She went 12-for-16 from the foul line.
. . . Cox, the school’s athletic director, can’t wait for the new Ross gymnasium to be completed. He had hoped it would have been ready for the basketball season. “We’re hoping for a May dedication,” he said.
