Terry Singletary

@maddiebecerra4 Yessir Maddie 💪🏽 👏🏾

Here are some of my highlights from this past weekend’s live period. I’m continuing to develop my game and compete at a high level against strong competition. youtu.be/5lzqBGDcytY

@GamecockWBB @dawnstaley You're a class act Coach 👏🏾 👏🏾

The mission is unchanged – let's grow our game 🫡

@lexi_tomaselli @RITG16unational @ashley3waters @TerrierSoftball Congrats Lex!!!!!

Super proud to be inducted into the Spanish, Science, Math, and National Honor Society tonight! @RITG16unational @ashley3waters @TerrierSoftball

@KDJmedia1 Thanks for sharing that really sad story but you and @nickybonura did an amazing Dad honoring Jack and his Dad!!!!! Bravo 🙏🏽 👏🏾

In all my years of broadcasting, I'd never gotten emotional on air until tonight. It was impossible to hold back the tears. Jack Piccione of Tappan Zee lost his father suddenly last Sept. 1. Matthew Piccione died of a heart attack minutes after playing pickleball with friends. He was 51. Over the last three years, I got to know Matthew Piccione fairly well. One day back in 2023, he asked coach George Gaine for my number so he could call me just to say thank you for calling out Jack's contributions during Tappan Zee's championship run. Jack was a role player who averaged maybe 5 points a game as a freshman. But he started and never came off the court. "I know he doesn't score a lot of points," Matthew Piccione said. "But you are one of the only people who appreciates what he does for the team." Matthew Piccione kept a very low profile at games and reinforced in his son to be the emodiment of all the things that make Tappan Zee basketball different than any other program in the state. Play unselfish. Defend. Be coachable. Defend. Draw charges. Pass. Sacrifice for your teammates. And, of course, defend some more. Nobody in the history of Tappan Zee basketball since I have been covering has ever played that role better than Jack Piccione. He's the best best defensive player in the program and is on an elite level of players I've been around in Section 1. When Matthew died in September, I worried about Jack. I wondered what his senior season might be like. The person most responsible for instilling and reinforcing the values that made Jack great was now tragically gone. Tonight, Jack Piccione scored 5 points in the Section 1 Championship game. FIVE. Yet not only did his team because of his performance, I had the honor of handing him the MVP Trophy to prove it. In the final 90 seconds of the game, I shared the story of Matthew Piccione and his passing. You will hear the emotion in my voice. It's genuine, not because of any relationship I had with him. You just can't be a sports parent and not relate to loving your child and always wanting what's best for them. Because here's what I am going to tell you. And I really want all parents to read this and remember it: Your kids' youth - not just athletics, but all of it - is short and it's precious. You don't get this time back when it's over. It goes way too quick. And some don't even get to see it to the end. You have a choice: You can spend this period of their lives stressing about how many points they score, what awards or accolades they receive, begging people to vote in the online poll for Player of the Week, emailing the coach and complaining about playing time or lamenting the number of shots they get in a game. Go ahead. You can make all of that important for yourself and your child. Trust me, you won't be alone in doing so. Or you can do what Matthew Piccione did. Sit in the stands and enjoy watching your children compete. Teach them that it's team above all else, stress what it means to sacrifice and ensure them that, when you do those things and have success, the feeling of hanging a banner will far exceed any of the personal accolades think are important. And, sadly, God might choose that you won't be around to see it all anyway. Matthew didn't get to give his son a hug after he won tonight. And Jack didn't get to see the pride in his father's face. Think about that. If you are a parent, try to put your child in Jack's shoes. If God forbid your child was confronted with the same tragedy, you'd want them looking back on this sacred period of their lives the way Jack will forever recall them with his dad. Tonight was complete validation for Jack Piccione and all of the things his father always told him. Jack scored 5 points and won the MVP on his way to becoming the most decorated basketball player in Tappan Zee history. Nobody has ever won more in a TZ uniform than the most unselfish player they've ever had. He wouldn't trade his career with anyone, either. Take a moment to listen to myself and Pleasantville coach Nick Bonura from tonight's @SportsEngine broadcast of @TZeeAthletics @TZhoops

@CoachRicOHS @OSSATHLETICS Great game Coach and Pride!!!

survive and advance! 33-29 win over Rye to advance to the Sectional Finals for the 1st time since 2019! Amaya Yancey 12p Claire Schnecker 7p 8r 4b 3s 2a Ty’Asia carver 7p 2s 3r Kinya Green 3p Lola Bailey 2p Sophia Torrieri 2p 3a 2s #RollPride #Ontothenext @OSSATHLETICS

Not done yet boysss!!!! Great effort and Congrats Dec!!!!

Let's goooooooooo!!!!!!

@PVilleAthletics @MrPalumboPHS Let's goooooooooo Congrats fellas 👏🏾

Alex, Ciaran, and Frankie…Section Champs!! 🥇💪🏽

3 of the Goats and I was so blessed to have played for 2 of these men and work for all 3!!!!! And to have that at my wedding was absolutely amazing!!!! Love you Coaches 💚

What an honor to have 2 of 3 of the Pleasantville Football Coaches at our wedding!!! I played for 1 and worked for both!!!! Thank you Coaches for helping me become the man I am today!!!!! Love you both 💚 #Blessed #GOATS

@BecerraKristin Yessssssss

@TerrySingletar8 Early wedding present!!

Let's goooooooooo boyssssss

@CoachRicOHS @OSSATHLETICS @KDJmedia1 @StephenHaynes4 W

68-33 win at Greeley Claire Schnecker 21p 16r 7s 4a Kinya Green 19p 4s Ty’asia Carver 13p 6s 3a Sophia Torrieri 8p 7a 4s Amaya Yancey 5p 5r 3a Lyla Strippoli 2p #RollPride @OSSATHLETICS @KDJmedia1 @StephenHaynes4

@PvilleGirlsBall Let's goooooooooo

Come out and support your Girls Basketball team as they open the season with a home game vs. Clarkstown South! 6:00 PM tip-off 🏀

@pvilleboysball That's a good looking crew 💚

Awesome team dinner tonight before a big weekend of hoops. Go panthers!

@SecOneAthletics @PVilleAthletics Congratulations Coach!!!!! So awesome

Congratulations to Pleasantville AD, Dan Iorio. @PVilleAthletics

@TD22TD @BraydenR2_ Congratulations Coach!!!!

This is the moment, that caps all moments! From helping out of ACL surgery, praying with him after shoulder injury, to hugging him after winning our First Section Title! #FamilyFirst @BraydenR2_ #HollowHit #WeDidIt #3moretogo

@lexi_tomaselli @TerrierSoftball @ashley3waters @Bcard22 @alliebrewster7 @thunderjam134 @BobRossiRITG @RITG16unational @Frank_Lieto @ExtraInningSB @SoftbalAmerica @sgiuliano7 @PVilleAthletics @PvilleVSoftball @lohudsports @KDJmedia1 @LoHudSoftball Congratulations Lexi!!!!!

Go Terriers❤️🐾 @TerrierSoftball @ashley3waters @Bcard22 @alliebrewster7 @thunderjam134 @BobRossiRITG @RITG16unational @Frank_Lieto @ExtraInningSB @SoftbalAmerica @sgiuliano7 @PVilleAthletics @PvilleVSoftball

@PVilleAthletics @Pville_football @MrPalumboPHS GREAT DAY TO BE A PANTHER 💚

Thanks for all who came out to support this special group of young men and their families. Overall great event and well deserved victory. 🏈💪🏽 @Pville_football @MrPalumboPHS

@BecerraKristin Hellllllll yeah 🔥