Iona Prep’s Cross-Country Scholar-Athletes Receive Gaffney Award

NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y. (December 15, 2016) –Iona Prep’s Cross-Country team has earned the coveted Gaffney Award for the Fall season, with a team GPA of 92. The award is presented each season to the team with the highest GPA and is named for Brother Gerard M. Gaffney, the former teacher, school president, and moderator of the hockey, football and baseball programs; Brother Gaffney died in 2008. Of note, the GPA for Iona Prep’s entire group of 224 eligible athletes—including all levels of the fall baseball, football and soccer programs—was 90. The award was established in 2006 and continues to serve as an incentive for students to balance academics and athletics, while striving for excellence in each area.

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Junior Nick Mingione and sophomore Finn Bannon, members of the Iona Prep Varsity Cross-Country Team, pose with their new team scholar award shirts.

Reaccredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges & Schools in 2015, Iona Preparatory School K-12 sits on 37 acres of suburban green in New Rochelle, N.Y., where it educates young men to be moral and ethical leaders. Iona Preparatory School is a Catholic community inspired by the charism of Blessed Edmund Rice as expressed in the Essential Elements of a Christian Brothers Education. We develop young men into moral and ethical leaders who are dedicated to Christian service and who strive for spiritual, intellectual and physical excellence. Iona Prep was recently named as Westchester’s only all-boys Catholic school to make the “NY top 100 private schools list” on niche.com. For more information, please visit IonaPrep.org and to hear our story, visit IAmIonaPrep.com.

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