Port Washington Teams Win 2 Nassau Titles

PORT WASHINGTON, NY — Port Washington sports teams won two Nassau County titles: boys golf and girls track & field.

"I'm extremely proud of our student-athletes and coaches for the achievement that they have earned this spring," Nick Schratwieser, the athletic director at Port Washington, told Patch. "They've been working so hard all spring season since early March — some of them even before that — to achieve success. And to be at the top of the county in our class, it feels really good."

The boys golf team won the 2023 Nassau County Championship — the first golf county title for Port Washington since 1989.

The team will compete for the Long Island Championship on Tuesday against Comsewogue/Miller Place on Bethpage Black.

While the golf team found success for more than the past decade, a Nassau title was just out of reach — until now.

"To see our boys playing at such a high level on an extremely challenging course at Bethpage and do so well, it fills me with joy to watch them," Schratwieser said. "I was over there earlier this week, and to see the look on their faces, it was just amazing."

The girls track & field squad won the 2023 Nassau County Class AAA Championship — the fourth consecutive frack & field championship for the school's girls program. The team also won in winter 2022, spring 2022, winter 2023 and now spring 2023.

The team has been training in strength, conditioning, flexibility, agility, speed and quickness much of the past several seasons, according to Schratwieser.

"To see it translate to just a dominating few seasons is great to watch," he said. "Our coach, Jeremiah Pope, is incredible. He's done an outstanding job being a leader at practices, at meets, but also off the track as well and just being a really positive role model for the girls."