March 16.2016
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, The RHS Advanced Latin Academic Team won the Northern Regional championship competition at Princeton on March 15 and will advance to State finals against the Central and Southern regions in April. RHS racked up 935 out of a possible 1200 points, the highest score seen by the club advisor Catherine Venturini in her 16 years of coaching in New Jersey. The superb players and their areas of expertise were: Peter Psathas, Team Captain: Latin grammar, syntax and vocabulary; James Psathas, Greco-Roman history; Charlotte Kahan, Greco-Roman civilization; Anthony Tokarz, Greco-Roman literature; and Sophie Simpson, Greco-Roman mythology. Team support was provided by Poyani Bavishi and Desiree Bottigliero.
