Finley Spring Season Sports Begin on Monday

The J. Taylor Finley Middle School spring sports season will begin on Monday, March 24.

Students can choose from among the following sports: Softball, baseball, girls’ track and field, girls’ lacrosse, boys’ track and field, boys’ lacrosse and boys’ tennis and a combined girls’ gymnastics team with Oldfields, which will practice at Harborfields High School.

Tryouts will be held the first three days of practice. Home and away games and meets will begin on April 9 and will be scheduled throughout each week. The season will conclude on or about June 5.

In order to participate, students must be cleared by the school nurse through Final Forms, the new online registration system deployed by Huntington UFSD. As of Monday morning, about 700 student-athletes have been registered for grades 7-12.

Parents must visit the online Huntington UFSD Final Forms site: https://huntington-ny.finalforms.com. The Parent Playbook available on the district website provides detailed directions on how to enroll as a parent/guardian as well as how to register student-athletes. Contact Nicole Haas in the athletic office if you need help: 631.673.2017 or nhaas@hufsd.edu.

For information about expired physical exams and getting cleared/requalified for participation send a message to school nurse Kay Khokhar at kkhokhar@hufsd.edu.

Monday’s tryouts are as follows:

• Girls’ lacrosse, boys’ lacrosse, girls’ track, boys’ track, softball: 3:00-4:30 p.m.

• Baseball: 3:00-5:00 p.m.

• Girls’ gymnastics: 3:15-5:00 p.m. at Harborfields High School

• Boys’ tennis begins on Tuesday (March 25) with practice from 3:00-4:30 p.m.

Individual sport coaches can be contacted as follows:

Baseball: Thomas Tantillo – ttantillo@hufsd.edu

Softball: Ellyn Byrnes – ebyrnes27@gmail.com

Boys’ Lacrosse: Travis Smith – tsmith@hufsd.edu

Girls’ Lacrosse: Hildi Stanford – hstanford@hufsd.edu

Boys’ Tennis: Andrew Marcy – amarcy@hufsd.edu

Boys’ Track: Christopher Helmke – chelmke@hufsd.edu

Girls’ Track: Tim Madden – tmadden@hufsd.edu

Girls’ Gymnastics: Kelly Maisch - maischk@harborfieldscsd.org

Questions: Send a message to District Director of Athletics Jim Hoops at jhoops@hufsd.edu or call 631-673-2018.