Academy Street Student Keira Rooney Earns Top Scores in NFL Punt, Pass and Kick Competition

Academy Street Elementary School fourth-grader Keira Rooney is one step closer to winning the NFL’s Punt, Pass and Kick Competition, as she earned top scores in the New York State championship held before a New York Jets game at MetLife Stadium this October.

Select winners from the state championship will advance to compete nationally at this year’s NFC championship game in February.

Rooney, who was a finalist in the Long Island Championship, participated in the competition through the school’s physical education department. Academy Street’s third through fifth-graders took part in the annual program, which tested their ability to properly kick a football the furthest.

Six Academy students – fifth-graders Brendan Most and Hannah Woolsey, fourth-graders Keira Rooney and Ryan Costa and third-graders Ben Morris and Taylor DiBiasi – were named Suffolk county winners and competed in the Long Island Championships at the Annual Oyster Festival in Oyster Bay.

Photo provided by the Bayport-Blue Point School District: Keira Rooney is pictured with physical education teachers Greg Zaleski, Rich Campisi and Tim Mullins, the director of physical education, health and interscholastic sports.