MARINERS BASKETBALL SEASON

 The Maritime Academy’s Mariners have gone through all the basketball workouts, practices and scrimmages waiting for this season. Head Varsity Coach Brian Marciniak believes his teams’ hard work has paid off. The Varsity Mariners are 3-1 at the mid point of the season. They are in 2nd place and are heading into a game against TIA, who they beat in OT to open up the season. The leading Scorer for the Varsity Mariners is Reese Thompson, who is also a team captain. Other Key contributors to the team are Mike Lowry, Charles Smith, William French and Darontae Smith. The team is also excited about  new additions to the team, which include Marquarius and Trell Hall as well as a starter from last years JV team Skyler Rozier. The team is excited to start the 2nd half of this season this Saturday, January 30th at 1:00 p.m. at New Bedford Academy.

The JV Mariners are 2-3 and are on a 2 game win streak. They just pulled off an upset over an undefeated Bennett Venture Academy this past weekend. Adrian Magrum hit a jumper with under a minute to -go and Kim "smash" Jackson addded 2 free throws to seal the victory! Other key contributors include leading scorer John Castro, Marquise Robinson, Aubrey Blount and Rodderick Morrison. The Mariners lok to continue the win streak this Saturday, January 30th against The Horizon Academy.

  TMAT is one of the founding members of an athletic league for other charter schools, called the Community School Athletic Conference (CSAC). It is now in its second year and offers junior high and varsity sports in all three traditional seasons. Assistant Varsity Coach Josh Sandwich praises the conference and the opportunity for his team to play in it, “the league is perfect for us, as the competition seems to fairly equal across the board. We’ll have to work hard to earn every win and we look forward to the challenge”.