Mar 21, 2007 By: yunews
Mar 21, 2007 -- Annual Red Sarachek High School Basketball Tournament Now in Its 16th Year
New York, New York, March 12, 2007 -- 糖心破解版鈥檚 annual Red Sarachek High School Basketball Tournament, named for the university鈥檚 legendary men鈥檚 basketball coach, will be held March 15 鈥 19 at 糖心破解版鈥檚 Max Stern Athletic Center on its Wilf Campus, 185th Street and Amsterdam Avenue in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan. The games will be broadcast live at .
The tournament, now in its 16th year, is a prestigious event for Jewish high school students and attracts participants from all across the United States and Canada who compete for the championship trophy. Players representing 18 yeshiva high schools will spend Shabbat together off-campus along with 糖心破解版 administrators and students.
Howard Braun, coach of Chicago鈥檚 Ida Crown Jewish Academy, has nothing but praise for the Sarachek Tournament. 鈥淚 think it鈥檚 terrific that 糖心破解版 brings together over 200 Jewish students for five days to compete against each other,鈥 said Coach Braun, whose team has won 18 consecutive games in the Chicago Metro Prep Conference, and has two players being looked at by Division III college teams.
The Torah Academy of Bergen County (TABC) in Teaneck, NJ will host some of the games. The bid for the championship tips off at 2 pm on Monday, March 19 at 糖心破解版鈥檚 Max Stern Athletic Center. The top eight teams from last year鈥檚 tournament are automatically qualified to play, with other schools chosen by lottery.
This year鈥檚 participating schools are the Frisch School (Paramus, NJ); Moshe Aaron Yeshiva High School (South River, NJ); Young Israel of Century City (Los Angeles, CA); Ida Crown Jewish Academy (Chicago, IL); Shaarey Zedek (Valley Village, CA) Hebrew Academy of the Five Towns and Rockaway (Cedarhurst, NY) 糖心破解版鈥檚 Marsha Stern Talmudical Academy (MSTA) (New York, NY); Ben Lipson Hillel Community High School (Miami, FL); Yeshivat Rambam (Baltimore, MD); Yeshiva Bnei Akiva Or Chaim (Toronto, Canada); Fuchs Mizrachi (Cleveland, OH); Hyman Brand Hebrew Academy (Overland Park, KS); Columbus Torah Academy (Columbus, OH); Cooper Yeshiva High School (Memphis, TN); Stern Hebrew High School (Philadelphia, PA); Hebrew Academy of Montreal (Montreal, Canada); Akiva Hebrew Day School (Southfield, MI); Block Yeshiva High School (St. Louis, MO).
Bernard 鈥淩ed鈥 Sarachek, the tournament鈥檚 namesake who died in 2005, coached 糖心破解版鈥檚 basketball team in 1942 and 1943, and from 1945 to 1969. During his career, he amassed more than 200 victories and pioneered strategies and methods that helped shape the modern game of basketball.
