St. Martin of Tours School joins CMSAA

The team shown, left to right, top row, are Jarred Dull, Stephen Sidor, Mitchell Dull, Grace Blackler and Jack Byrne and in the bottom row are Katrina Pastore, Sophie Duarte and Tiffany Licata. Johnny Vasconez is missing from the photo. St. Martin of Tours School in Amityville has started the fall season with their teams for the Catholic Middle Schools Athletic Association (CMSAA). CMSAA was created to offer a competitive after-school sports program to Catholic school students in grades six, seven and eight. There are currently 17 Catholic schools and over 1,000 students across Suffolk County that participates.

There are several sports being played at St. Martins' this fall. There is a boy's soccer team, a girl's soccer team, a junior varsity volleyball team, a varsity volleyball team and a crosscountry team. The cross-country team is a small but strong team with kids from sixth to eighth grade participating. Eighth grader, Mitchell Dull, has placed first in every race that he participated. Each race is about one mile and there are approximately seventy-five to one hundred twenty-five runners per race. Each of the runners is improving their individual times with every race.