Yeshiva Floor Hockey League
The varsity hockey team won the championship of the metropolitan yeshiva high school athletic league myhsal hockey league in the year 2001 in the school s 4th year of existence.
Yeshiva floor hockey league. There are also 12 girls teams which play in the spring season. Yjhshl 2019 2020 season metropolitan yeshiva junior high hockey league. In all drs boasts 13 teams which compete in basketball floor hockey bowling fencing softball tennis wrestling soccer flag football and volleyball. The metropolitan yeshiva high school athletic league myhsal or yeshiva league is a high school athletic league consisting of 36 modern centrist orthodox and two pluralist yeshivas in the new york metropolitan area it includes the sports of basketball hockey volleyball soccer baseball tennis and softball the league and particularly its sport of floor hockey was described by the new.
Mayer schiller a hasidic rabbi who in the 1990s coached yeshiva university high school to six consecutive league championships is recognized as the progenitor of the yeshiva floor hockey scene. However as coach abecassis beautifully put it these kids were never burdened by it they embraced it. The ducks traded bailey to the ottowa senators who sent bailey down to binghamton in the american hockey league. Standings pos p w d l f a pts pct 1 hebrew academy of long beach lions.
Yeshiva league hockey rankings shouldn t sar be number 1. The teams play in the metropolitan yeshiva high school hockey league which includes 18 varsity and 15 junior varsity teams for boys. At first this would seem to put extra pressure on the team. Being pioneers of yeshiva teams competing in this ice hockey league the players understood that they were not just representing their school but the jewish community as a whole.