Huntington 102 Begins Preparations for Fall Football

Huntington 102 has begun preparing for the fall season. This will be the 102nd season that Huntington High School has fielded a football team. The coaching staff recently attended a clinic in Connecticut and will soon participate in a second one in New Jersey.

Huntington 102 will return a talented roster led by quarterback Jacob Guzik, running backs Titan Elysee and Yasir Jones, receivers and defensive backs Vince Pupillo, Frank Algieri and Jack Kamenstein, linemen Banny Soc Concua, Wilver Lopez, Ethan Lawless, Edgar Castro, Kenneth Gilhuley, Zachary Matthews, Will Peters, Erick Anariba and Jean Riboul as well as placekicker Robbie Campbell, QB/DB Henry Gerberg, WR/DB Kevin Reyes, RB/LB Chase Northrop and WR/DB Ryan Donovan.

Numerous other promising young players who also saw time on the varsity will also return including Justin Agyeman, Rasiere Blizzard, Michael Bonilla, Ben Burke, Patrick Hassett, Zayvion McCoy, Dylan Michaelson, Luis Orrego, Daniel Paiz, Wesley Preville, Joseph Rivers and Charles Rosselli.

The coaching staff will once again be headed by Ronald E. Wilson and feature assistants Kevin Graham, Antoine Swain, Dareus Smith, Christopher Taylor and Anthony McDonald and volunteer assistants Malcom Eugene and Fred Fusaro, a 1961 Huntington graduate who went on to a Hall of Fame career as Sachem High School’s head coach.

After retiring from teaching, Mr. Fusaro began a stretch as the John H. Glenn High School assistant coach (he resides in East Northport) and helped that program win numerous league and county titles as well as multiple Rutgers Trophies for being the best team in Suffolk.

Conditioning and training is expected to commence soon at the high school. A weekly evening intramural program for sixth and seventh graders will begin shortly and be held in the Finley Middle School gym.

The county seeding meeting is scheduled for Monday, March 24 at 7 p.m. at Patchogue-Medford High School. Tentative schedules will be released the following day.

Huntington officials have already held discussions about scheduling at least one home game at night and possibly a second game.

Wilson said that everyone associated with Huntington 102 is on the same page. “We are all going to work hard to bring home a championship,” he said.