2nd Annual Dinner Dance Award Winners
Congratulations to all our award winners, your continued commitment to the Three Village Soccer and Stony Brook Travel Teams is greatly appreciated.
Girls Coach of the Year – Coach Mark Nash
Mark Nash is a motivator. His enthusiasm for the game is contagious and his coaching and love for his players is palpable. Spend just a little time watching him coach and you will see someone who loves the game now perhaps more than he did when he started at the age of eight as 
a scrappy center forward who moved on to become a goalie, anchoring his team for a tie in the East Anglican Quarter Final.
His career in coaching began at the age of 15 when he took a he took a job with Pitney Bowes as an assistant to the coach.
At 16 he joined the local men’s team where he excelled and was then asked to join the prestigious Maypole program at the age of 20. Eventually he was called up to play for the Essex Intermediate League with FC Norte.
He earned his coaching badges from the English football association and then moved to the United States to begin as a coach for Stony Brook in 2004.
Mark has gone on to receive his NSCAA and advanced diplomas in coaching and is currently the directory for the Academy program. In 2009 received the Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association’s Coach of the Year. After wining four consecutive division titles, his team, Stony Brook Academy was invited the following summer to travel back to his native England to play in the coveted Umbro Cup.
The dedication and tireless work ethic that Mark embodies has taught the young women of Stony Brook Academy the skills they need to help them to become a powerhouse in club soccer.
Congratulations Mark on being awarded Girls Travel Coach of the year.
Boys Coach of the Year – Mark Lugris
This amazing man who loves to coach more than anything in the world is liked and respected by everyone in the club. He was born in the Bronx, and played soccer at Fordham University. He was a two time MVP,All-MAAC, and ALL MET selection for Fordham and was named best sweeper for the 80’s. He was a three time All State Defender and Tri-State defender of the year in 1982.
Mark Lugris was drafted by our very own Cosmos, Played Professional soccer for the Dallas Sidekicks and was a member of the Puerto Rican national World Cup Qualifying Team.
What coach Lugris has learned throughout his soccer career he has instilled in his young players. He has taught them the skill, tactics, teamwork, and dedication to themselves and to the team what it takes to succeed. He has made the Stony Brook Knights proud of their accomplishments on and off the field. Over the course of the last year The Stony Brook knights have been very lucky to have what we think is one of the best coaches you can have as a young player. He is not just a coach he is a role model. We would like to congratulate Coach Mark Lugris as the Boys Travel Coach of the Year.
Travel Team of the Year - Girls U-14 Stony Brook Academy
Within the last year, this team has come together and has defined what it means to be a team. They have become a family on and off the pitch. The tireless practices of honing their skills have paid off in their 2010 campaign.
The 2010 season has seen this girls’ team become a semifinalist in the Baltimore Mania Girls Under Armour Tournament, a semi-finalist in the New York East State Cup, Champions of the Annual Fc-Delco cup, and Champions of our own Long Island Soccer Shootout.
This Girls team is one of our North East Regional Premier teams as well. They are as we speak ranked 7th in the state, 27th in the region and believe it or not 68th in the whole nation.
CONGRATULATIONS to the girls travel team of the year the Stony Brook Academy.
Travel Team of the Year – Boys U-15 Stony Brook Knights
As far as Teams come this boys’ team wasn’t even on the map a couple of years ago. They have grown together and have learned the skills, tactics and fight it takes to become a top level team. This North Eastern Regional Premier Team has had an amazing 2010 campaign. The boys were a semifinalist in the Columbia invitational Memorial Day Tournament, a finalist in the spirit united kickoff classic, and then became champions of the 32nd East Meadow Tournament sponsored by Covanta, and Champions again by winning the coveted 2010 Maps Fall Challenge. They have moved themselves all the way up to be ranked 10th in the state of New York. CONGRATULATIONS to the 2011 boys travel team of the year the Stony Brook Knights.
Girls Most Improved Team - Girls U-14 Stony Brook Academy
The definition of improvement reads; something that has been made enhanced, Progress in development. When a team comes together and improves as a whole it is something special. As a 
team improves each aspect of the team improves from player to player from player to coach from team to everyone else they play. No team has met this challenge more than the Girls U-14 Elite.
This past season has seen the Stony Brook U-14 elite grow as a team on and off the field. Their dedication to each other to become the best they can be for themselves, the coach, and the team has made them grow into one of the best U-14 girls teams in Long Island Junior Soccer.
Coach Dan Balzan has instilled the work ethic and effort it takes to improve as they have. At this time we would like to congratulate the Girls U-14 elite for winning the Girls Most improved Travel team of the year.
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