Years of Birth - 1996 and 97
Coaches - Arūnas Čygas, Romas Marcinkevičius and Rima Dresher
Girls D - GOLD
Back: Coach Arūnas, Coach Rima, Sophia Herrera, Livija Čygas, Nida Nausėdas, Coach Romas Front: Julia Marcinkevičius, Alexa Turūta, Emma Harvey On floor: Daniele Dresher
Coaches - Arūnas Čygas and Romas Marcinkevičius
Years of Birth - 1995 and 96
Coaches - Alvin Kišonas and Kris Garbaliauskas
AUŠRA GIRLS 'D' Strike GOLD
Congratulations to our Girls D team for working hard all year, going undefeated and taking the top prize in Cleveland!
The scores were, Aušra 42 - Anapilis 20, Aušra 26 - Lituanica 18 and Aušra 22 - Žaibas 17 in the final.
Back row: Kristina Garbaliauskas (Asst. Coach), Alicia Dauginis, Leah Evershed, Olivia Kamaitis, Elena Zubrickas, Alvin Kišonas (Coach)
Front row: Daniela Sablinskas, Simone Pabreza, Justina Melkis, Erika Kišonas, (missing Victoria Tatarsky)
Years of Birth - 1994 and 95
Coaches - Alvin Kišonas and Kris Garbaliauskas
Aušra 2006 Girls D
Back Row: Coach Kristina Garbaliauskas, Emma Bubulis, Leah Evershed, Alicia Dauginis, Olivia Kamaitis, Coach Alvin Kisonas
Front Row: Justina Melkis, Claudia Weise, Daniella Sablinskas, Erika Kisonas
Our Aušra Girls D played hard en route to a 35 - 28 victory over a skilled Atom division Toronto Triple Threat Rep team on May 1st. Congrats to all girls on both sides for their efforts on defense and to Aušra for mounting a comeback in the final period to pull out the win. 7 of 8 girls put points on the board, notably Justina Melkis (13), Claudia Weise (8), Erika Kisonas (4), Emma Bubulis (4), Olivia Kamaitis, Daniella Sablinskas and Alicia Dauginis (2). Many thanks to TTT coaches Kate McPherson and Kate N.
The girls played again May 15th and lost an early 8-4 lead they had at the half, in a hard fought defensive 18-14 rematch. Justina Melkis scored (6), while Olivia Kamaitis, Daniella Sablinskas, Claudia Weise and Emma Bubulis scored (2). Thanks again to TTT for coming out and giving us another great game.
CONGRATULATIONS to two of our Aušra Girls D guards, Justina Melkis (#10) and Erika Kišonas (#13)!! Their still undefeated Humbercrest Hawks school team won the City of Toronto TDESSA Western Conference Championship for Grade 6 - Division 1 (large school) by convincingly knocking out a much larger John G. Althouse team 28 - 12 on December 14th at Runnymede C.I.. Humbercrest coach Alvin Kišonas is also the coach of our Ausra Girls D team.
They played valiantly for the City Championship at Ryerson University on December 21st but lost a very close one to a good South Conference champ Balmy Beach P.S. team. Good luck next year girls!!!
no D Girls division team this year
Coaches - Melinda Stončius and Samantha Stončius
Coaches - Ilona Turczyn, Ona Stanevičius and Aleksandra Valadka
The Girls D team earned a Silver Medal after a loss in a very close championship game at the 2003 ŠALFASS tournament. A Chicago Lituanica player launched a half-court buzzer-beater that hit nothing but net to break the tie with one second remaining in regulation time!