A-Game Sports Staff

Jose Alberro was born and raised in Puerto Rico. As the son of a former major leaguer, Jose was introduced to baseball at an early age and spent most of his youth travelling with his dad, playing baseball in different parts of the world.

Jose started his college career at Monroe College where he was a pitcher, third baseman, catcher and outfielder before transferring to Nyack College.

Immediately after graduation, Jose became a volunteer coach for the Nyack baseball team, where he worked with the catchers and outfielders, before beginning his work with the Nyack softball program as an assistant coach, helping develop infielders and outfielders. Jose now works as the pitching coach for Caldwell University in New Jersey and has spent the last two years working with youth programs and travel teams in Rockland and Orange County as a private instructor.

Vaughn Anderson played high school basketball at Iona Prep, and then went on to play two years at Buffalo State College. From Buffalo State, he transferred to Manhattan College on an academic scholarship and graduated with Honors in the field of Exercise Science. Vaughn is well known in NY state as one of the top basketball trainers on the youth elite AAU circuit. Vaughn has coached at New Rochelle High School, Iona Grammar, Mount Vernon Jr. Knights, and Mamaroneck Middle School.

Kaitlin Bonk, currently the Little Athletes Academy director, started her volleyball and softball career in Upstate New York, where she participated in four years of varsity softball and three year of varsity volleyball, named Captain of both for her junior and senior years. Kaitlin played volleyball and softball briefly for Southern Connecticut State University and then transferred to play softball at the University of Hartford in Connecticut. While at the University of Hartford, she assisted in founding the Men’s Club Volleyball team, in which she had the opportunity to coach the Club division 1 program until she graduated in 2013. As a Student-Athlete, she worked with many local youth organizations and assisted with other organizations while home in New York. In addition to playing and coaching experience, Kaitlin has a Master’s of Science degree in Sports Management, a Graduate Certification in Athletic Administration, and formal training and experience with sports medicine.

Madison Carlo was a 4 year varsity softball starter at Sacred Heart High School in Yonkers where she caught, pitched and played infield. She started coaching right out of high school for the Yonkers Federation as a 10U coach for Bryn Mawr. In 2016, Madison co-founded the Yonkers Blaze Sports Association, which has both travel and tournament softball teams and AAU basketball. Prior to coming to A-Game, Madison was a 12U and 14U coach at Proswing of Port Chester. In 2019, she started coaching for Maria Regina High School in Hartsdale as their head JV coach.

William Cawsey, Director of Nothing But Net Basketball Academy, grew up in New York City and played basketball for LaSalle Academy and Pace University. Bill has over 25 years coaching experience in Connecticut and Westchester County. He has had the privilege of coaching many Collegiate All-Stars as well as NBA star Donovan Mitchell through his years at Greenwich Basketball Association. Bill has an enormous passion for the game as well as teaching children the proper fundamentals and to have fun. His focus on being a team player is by far his #1 goal on the court and off. Bill emphasizes to his clinics that “everyone starts as a team, plays as a team, and finishes as a team.” Bill has been the Director of Basketball for the Town of Greenwich Youth Programs since 2005. He has also coached for the Greenwich Public Schools K-12, Whitby School, and Hi 5 Sports.

Thomas Cosentino is a 2016 graduate of Westlake High School, where he earned three varsity letters under head coach John Consorti. A team captain his senior year, he was selected to the All-State, All-Section, and All-Tournament teams. Thomas also earned Second-Team All-County honors while a member of the Wildcats. Tom spent all four years at Ithaca and made an immediate impact as a freshman, logging 35.2 innings and making the most appearances out of any pitcher on the staff. As a sophomore, he threw 28.2 innings and led the Empire 8 conference with a 1.26 ERA. As a junior, he threw 43.2 innings for a 2.68 ERA and a 5-1 record. Thomas was named an Empire 8 all conference selection. In Senior year, he was named Liberty League pitcher of the week in his first start before the season was cancelled due to Covid-19.

Lule Dyasi has been coaching and training athletes for over 20 years. He played soccer at a championship level for many teams with accomplishments that include being a Hyundai nation cup finalist, a Budweiser Cup champion and a Los Albos (Honduras) champion in the NESSL. Lule’s love for playing the game is reflected in how he trains and coaches his students.  He instructs players at all different levels of soccer, from recreational to professional. Lule holds a USSF national license to coach and truly loves working with anyone that is willing to better themselves on and off the field.

Nicole Goodrich (Director of Remote Learning) is a native of Queens, NY and a graduate of St. John’s University. She came to New Rochelle 25 years ago to be the Director of Children and Family Services at the New Rochelle YMCA. While with the YMCA, Nicole started afterschool programming in all 7 of the New Rochelle public schools, growing their programs from 12 children to 250. Deciding to open, own, and operate her own center in 2001, Nic of Time became a successful early childhood education and afterschool program for the past 20 years in the community. Nicole joined the faculty at Our Lady of Perpetual Help School in Pelham Manor as the Pre-K Assistant Teacher in 2013. Over the past 7 years she has served as an experienced, trusted and valued champion of education, helping develop the minds of countless pre-kindergarten students that have come through OLPH’s doors. She has been involved in curriculum development, classroom management, technology assistance, group teaching, and one on one learning. Nicole has worked with students in all grades academically, and has over 28 years of teaching and directing experience.

Mike Green has been the Varsity Assistant/Modified Lacrosse Coach at Pelham Memorial High school since 2013 and Varsity Assistant Cross Country Coach since 2017.

In 2018, he was part of the coaching staff for the Pelham Varsity Lacrosse team who won the NY Class C Section 1 Title in a dramatic overtime win over Rye. In the following game, the team won the NYS Regional Championship against Glens Falls which led to his team finishing 3rd in New York State. During his 7 years of coaching, he has developed players that have gone on to play Division 1 and Division 3 lacrosse across the country including Notre Dame, Boston University and Georgetown. Throughout his career, his players have found success on the field as well as in the classroom with dozens of Academic All-Americans. He is a graduate of the University of Kentucky and earned his Masters Degree in Education from Pace University.

Mike has been a full time Special Education Teacher at Pelham Memorial High School since 2013.

Yvonne Hartridge graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School, and during her senior year led her team to a New York Archdiocesan Championship win. She then continued her academics and athletics at Corning Community College and The Univeristy of Maine-Presque Isle. She was a four year starter at both institutions, playing first base and the outfield. During her time at Corning her team competed to regionals both years and were conference champions in 2018. During her 2019 season, at UMPI her school became apart of the Northern Atlantic Conference, and she helped lead her team into the first NAC conference tournament appearance. In her final season at UMPI she was selected as a nominee for Woman of the Year and was the UMPI Owls Al Arman “Make A Difference” award winner. Yvonne graduated from UMPI with a B.S. in Exercise Science with a concentration in Occupational Therapy and was awarded the Outstanding Exercise Science Major Award.

Amanda Heyde was born and raise in Westchester County, NY. As a physical education teacher and lifelong athlete, sports are in her blood. She started coaching youth soccer in high school and has been coaching ever since.

Amanda started her college career at Hofstra University where she was a field hockey goalie and a soccer defender. Amanda played 4 years of D1 field hockey and took her 5th year on the soccer team. Throughout grad school Amanda played club lacrosse until she finished her Masters degree.

After gradution, Amanda started coaching Varsity Girl’s Lacrosse. Soon after landing her first teaching job Amanda was coaching Field Hockey, Track, Girl’s Lacrosse, Basketball, and soccer in various seasons. Amanda also coached club lacrosse for Top Side, and House of Sports. Amanda has a wealth of experience on many different fields and has continued to coach all throughout the county.

Brooke Kane grew up in Shirley, Long Island, playing softball since a young age. Brooke played for William Floyd High School as a four-year varsity starter earning MVP and other coaches awards. She also played on two showcases teams, LI express and LI Anthem, traveling around the states to different showcases. Brooke went to Monroe college and started on the mound for them for two years, pitching 196 innings with an overall 142 strikeouts. She graduated from Monroe college with a Bachelors Degree and then received a Masters Degree from Kings Graduate School. Brooke then went on to return to the Monroe College softball staff as an assistant and a pitching coach, and has been there since 2018.

Nicholas Kovoor has been involved with soccer since he was five years old. As he got older, he developed an interest in Track and Field, and joined a track and field program at the Armory, in Manhattan. Competing all throughout high school in both sports, his desire for improvement grew very strong. He quickly reaped benefits of increased strength, increased speed, increased flexibility, decreased required recovery time needed between training sessions, increased work capacity, increased explosiveness and power, and most importantly the confidence to attack any physical challenges with courage and consistency.

Attending college at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, he recognized how many other individuals had the same mindset on how important strength training is for young athletes. Upon graduating he became certified through the NSCA as a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, and has since helped young and old alike in improving athletic performance, quality of life, and confidence through strength and conditioning.

Grant Neary is presently the Associate Head Baseball Coach at Division 1 Iona College where he coaches the infielders, hitters and 3rd Base on game days. He comes to Iona from McDaniel College in Westminster, MD. In his first year as Head Coach at McDaniel, his squad stole a program-record 65 bases in an offense that also produced 48 doubles, 18 triples and six home runs. His first season was highlighted by a 10-5 win over No. 6 Swarthmore on Apr. 6, marking the highest ranked team ever defeated by the Green Terror. His second season was off to an 8-4 start before the spring 2020 was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Neary spent the previous six seasons as the assistant head coach at NCAA Division I New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT). At NJIT, he ran the offense as the 3rd base coach and worked with the hitters and infielders. During his tenure as the Offensive Coordinator and Hitting Coach there were 22 individual offensive school records broken. The NJIT Baseball program also posted the highest single season winning percentage in the Division I era and set school records for Team Batting Average, Stolen Bases, Slugging, On-Base and Fielding Percentage in that same time span.

Prior to his time at NJIT, he served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator at Division II Bloomfield College in 2012. In addition to a focus on recruiting, he also developed the defensive skills and offensive plan for all position players. Bloomfield advanced to the Quarterfinal of the Central Atlantic College Conference tournament and finished with a 22-21 overall record that season. Six players earned all-Conference honors, two garnered all-Region honors and two were Rawlings Gold Glove Award recipients.

Neary spent the previous three seasons prior to Bloomfield at the City College of New York as associate head coach and recruiting coordinator and then was named head coach for the 2011 season. In 2010 and 2011, Neary led CCNY to the conference tournament. He coached 12 players to all-conference honors and one National Strength and Conditioning All-American during his time at CCNY.

He began his coaching career at Watchung Hills (N.J.) high school and was part of a coaching staff that lead the program to a Sectional State Championship in 2005.

He was a first-team all-state baseball player at Bridgewater-Raritan (N.J.) High School before multiple shoulder injuries and subsequent surgery ended his college playing career.

Neary graduated from Kean in 2003 with a degree in physical education/adult fitness, earned his master’s in exercise science and health promotion from California (Pa.) and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist. In addition to his baseball background, he won both a national and a world championship in powerlifting.

Yolanda Nyero was an assistant field hockey coach at Mercy College and is currently the Head Varsity Field Hockey Goalie Coach of The Masters School of New York team since 2014.

Nyero was a member of the Mercy College field hockey team during the 2011, 2012, and 2013 seasons. During the 2013 season, Nyero saw action in 17 games, starting 12 and led the team with 16 points, four assists and a .794 shot-on-goal percentage. She tied for the team lead with six goals.

Prior to attending Mercy College, Nyero was a soccer goalie for 12 years, attending numerous training camps dedicated to individual improvement of goalkeeping. Nyero was the Carlisle High School Varsity Soccer Goalie, earning All-Conference honors in 2010 and 2011.

Nyero currently resides in Dobbs Ferry, N.Y.

Paulina Perkovich is from Baltimore, Maryland, and played both Varsity Field Hockey and Lacrosse at her high school, Notre Dame Prep. She also played for H2O Field Hockey Club, NEMS Lacrosse Club, and was a member of the Brine National Team for Maryland. She is currently a Senior Captain of the Division 1 Lacrosse team at Iona College. Paulina is majoring in Marketing and Finance in Iona’s Business School.

Vincent Ricasio is from New York City. He was an all star goaltender at the South Kent School (South Kent, CT). He was a co-founder and player of the Brooklyn Men’s Lacrosse Club, as well as a member of the Philippines national lacrosse team. He is currently the Head Coach of Boys Varsity Lacrosse at the Keio Academy of NY. Previous coaching duties include Poly Prep, Collegiate School, and St. David’s School, along with Doc’s Youth Lacrosse and the Brooklyn Admirals. Vincent is an administrator of Boulder Brook Men’s Lacrosse Network, Board Member and Coach of Pelham Youth Lacrosse in Westchester County.

Angela Robbins has had a passion for field hockey since she was in 5th grade. After graduating from high school, where she was a four-year Varsity Player, she went on to become a member of the Mercy College Field Hockey Team. With 14 goals, seven assists, and 35 points during her four years on the team, Angela ranked third in program history in goals, fourth in assists, and fourth in points. During her time at Mercy, she has earned numerous accolades including ECC offensive player of the year and ECAC second team ALL-Conference, to name a few. Angela graduated in 2019 with a Bachelors Degree in Exercise Science. Moving forward, she hopes to go to graduate school to pursue a career in physical therapy, with a concentration in pediatrics. Angela’s love for the game of field hockey continues and she enjoys sharing her passion with other young athletes that she coaches.

Teresa Rozycki is a native of Harrison, NY where she was a two-sport varsity athlete—playing both field hockey and softball, her true passion. She dedicated many summers to playing competitive softball.

Teresa graduated from Eastern Connecticut State University with an undergrad degree in Health and Physical Education, and recently graduated from Long Island University with her masters in Early Childhood and Childhood Education.

She has been coaching for five years and currently coaches the 16U Gold softball team at A-Game. She has also coached at the Rye Country Day School as the JV Head softball coach and has previously held the position as the Varsity Assistant softball coach at Greenwich Academy.

Currently, she is an elementary school teacher in the Bronx.

Margaret Scarcella is the mom of three girls, an occupational therapist and has been coaching softball to girls ages 8 – 18 for the past 15 years. She is a graduate of NYU, where she played basketball.

Margaret is currently the girls varsity basketball and softball coach at the Hackley School in Tarrytown, her alma mater. Her teams have been very successful in making the playoffs the last six out of seven seasons.

Margaret is enthusiastic and has a passion for the game which carries over to the teams she coaches. She believes in emphasizing the basics and the technical understanding of the game. She has run pitching clinics for girls ages 8 – 15 as well as various hitting and fielding clinics for all ages.

Margaret is from Yonkers, NY and currently resides in Greenwich, CT.

Alex Tejera attended Fordham University on a baseball scholarship where he was a four year letter winner, the starting SS for three seasons, and Captain as a Senior. They won their league all four years, making the NCAA Regionals twice. Alex was part of the double play combination that led the nation in double plays in the 1990–1991 season.

After Fordham, Alex played minor league baseball in the Dominican Republic (Winter Ball) and for the Northern League Sioux Falls Canaries in 1994. He played both SS and Pitcher.

Alex has since been the Assistant Baseball Coach at Woodlands High School (2000–2002), Head Baseball Coach of The Masters School (2002–2004), and Head Softball Coach at Rye High School (2004–present).

Mike Vecchione became the director of basketball at A-Game Sports in April 2019. In his current role, Mike is responsible for the oversight of all daily activities for basketball, including camps, training and travel teams.

Mike is currently the varsity boys basketball head coach at Rye Neck high school. He previously worked as boy’s varsity head coach at Gorton high school in Yonkers, NY and JV head basketball coach at Blind Brook high school in Rye, NY. Mike was the co-director of Sts. Peter and Paul CYO basketball program for 17 years and is currently coaching at Immaculate Conception in Tuckahoe, NY. Mike also has 10 years’ experience as a varsity head coach for baseball in Blessed Sacrament in New Rochelle, NY and Gorton high school in Yonkers, NY.

Mike is a full-time science teacher at Mount Saint Michael Academy in Bronx.

Aaron “The Problem” Williams played basketball at New Rochelle High School and average 18 points per game.  Afterwards, he walked on at SUNY Delhi and was named NJCAA “Player of the Year”. The award helped him get a scholarship to Delaware State University where he helped get his team to the NCAA Tournament for the first time in school history by hitting the game-winning shot in the conference finals. He has since gone on to a pro career that extends from the ABA here in the states, to FIBA and other professional leagues around the world, including Canada, The Dominican Republic, Russia and New Zealand.  In addition to still playing the game, Aaron provides basketball instruction to kids throughout Westchester County, teaching them to turn their “problems” into strengths.

Carly Young grew up in New Hampshire and has played lacrosse and field hockey since second grade. She has played for Brine All American Lacrosse and the Under Combine 120 team, and was an All-State Player for her high school. Carly was chosen for the Super Sophs All-State field hockey team and All-State field hockey for New Hampshire. She was also a member of the Seacoast field hockey team and New Hampshire Tomahawks lacrosse team. Carly currently plays lacrosse at Iona College as a Defensive Mid, where she is a Junior working towards here Criminal Justice Major with a Psychology Minor.