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ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Bishop Kearney High School is proud to announce that BK Selects will begin using the school’s redesigned logo, effective immediately.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass. — Perhaps the toughest thing to do in sport is winning a championship wire-to-wire.

 

Human nature makes it challenging to start at a high level and maintain it for the duration — let alone actually improve as a competitive season continues.

 

If you add on the compilation of expectations after several near-misses, the mountain becomes even steeper.

 

It turns out the BK Selects 19U girls team must be comfortable at high altitudes, as they clinched the first girls USA Hockey national championship in program history with an 8-0 victory over the North American Hockey Academy on April 6. The comprehensive win capped an astonishing 56-3-0 season that featured exactly zero (0) losses to USA Hockey opponents, while also ending a nine-year BK girls quest for the coveted golden plate. 

To be clear, we’re not talking about just any big game. We’re talking about a literal ‘must-win.’ As in: win, or the season is over.

 

While there’s no guarantee of a positive result, if a team has put in the work over the previous months to build the proper habits, it gives itself the best opportunity to execute in those biggest of games.

 

For the BK Selects boys 16U team, that season-defining moment arrived on March 16, in the New York state championship game against the Buffalo Jr. Sabres. 

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — The art and/or science of peaking for the playoffs is inexact.

 

That doesn’t mean it should be disregarded, either.

 

At the end of a competitive season lengthy enough to rival anything they’ll see in college or the pros, the BK Selects girls are back at work, preparing for what they hope is another two-team trip to USA Hockey Nationals in early April.

 

“Our girls do a great job throughout the year, learning to have a routine and a process, and through the year they grow that process,” said BK Director of Girls Hockey Cari Coen. 

 

“It’s a really big piece to (have) individual and team success,” she continued. “We talk about being a pro, right? That means taking care of everything you do, if it’s academically, socially or athletically.”

 

With the arrival of March comes the New York state tournament, with the 19Us set to face Buffalo’s Nichols School in a two-game series this weekend, while the 16Us will line up against the Rochester Jr. Americans, Syracuse Valley Eagles and Team Long Island.

 

After wrapping up the regular season last weekend, it’s down to this to see if the BK Selects girls play on.

UTICA, N.Y. — With all that the BK Selects boys have accomplished in just a few seasons of existence, it’s difficult to believe they’re still achieving some notable firsts.

 

But that’s exactly what the 18U and 14U teams pulled off Feb. 9 in the Mohawk Valley, as they each won the first NE Pack league championships in those age groups for the BK Selects program.

 

Over the span of four hours at the Utica University Nexus Center, the BK Selects 14Us defeated Mount St. Charles, 6-4, in their league final and the 18Us took down Pittsburgh Penguins Elite, 4-1, in their title game. 

 

Super Sunday, indeed.

Baltimore, MD – The stage was set, the competition was fierce, and the stakes were high at the New York City Dance Alliance (NYCDA) Baltimore Regionals. Among the many talented dancers vying for top honors, one name stood out: Nick Guarino, whose passion and dedication to his craft propelled him to a remarkable victory.

Nick attended convention dance classes and participated in the highly competitive Outstanding Dancer (OD) audition in the Senior category. As one of four male finalists, he faced an elite group of dancers, many of whom have aspirations for professional dance careers. At the awards ceremony on Sunday afternoon, the anticipation reached its peak as Nick was crowned Senior Male OD for the Baltimore Regionals, marking a significant milestone in his dance journey.

Rochester, NY─Bishop Kearney has earned the College Board AP^® Computer Science Female Diversity Award for achieving high female representation in AP Computer Science Principles (CSP). Schools honored with an AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award have expanded access to AP computer science courses for female students in their communities.

During the 2023-24 school year, 1,153 institutions achieved an AP Computer Science Female Diversity Award for CSA, CSP or both courses. Award contenders must either have reached 50% or higher female representation in one of the two AP computer science courses or have achieved a percentage of female computer science exam takers that meets or exceeds that of the school’s female population. Bishop Kearney was one of only 847 recognized for improving female representation in AP CSP.

ROCHESTER, N.Y. — With three months of the hockey season in the books and the calendar page having turned over to 2025, the BK Selects girls have plenty to show for their efforts.

 

As of the second week of January, the 19U team sits at 37-3-0 and is ranked second in the nation, while the 16Us are 28-8-4 and ninth. That’s a lot of tangible results, and great ones at that.

 

But as events over the past couple of months have reminded, the BK Selects experience is about much more than wins and losses, goals and assists, blocks and saves.