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By all accounts, this sports league has achieved remarkable success. After one decade of practices, games, tournaments and banquets, the GOYA Volleyball League boasts "over 200 players in. . .[its] program with 24 teams from 12 Greek Orthodox communites," according to Chris Varthalamis. The league's success, he relates, is due to the enormous number of volunteers, over 1000, who plan, oversee, and participate in the activities. And that doesn't include the 22 coaches, and over 30 GOYA advisors!
This season just concluded with the annual awards banquet, hosted this year by the Port Jefferson (NY) community, following the final game of the league tournament on 6 May 2006. League champions were Greenlawn Girls' team of St. Paraskevi and Port Jefferson Boys of Assumption. In addition to the league championship cup award, there were division winners, all-star teams, individual team awards, and MVP honors.
Division winners for the three divisions, NYC, Nassau, and Suffolk were as follows:
Nassau Division--(Boys) Hicksville (Holy Trinity), (Girls) Hempstead (St. Paul)
NYC Division--(Boys) Brooklyn (Three Hierarchs), (Girls) Brooklyn (Three Hierarchs)
Suffolk Division--(Boys) Port Jefferson (Assumption), (Girls) Greenlawn (St. Paraskevi)
Among those players for 2006 All-Stars were
Tania Belesis (Hicksville),
Ari Boundoukis (Brooklyn),
Christina Brower (Babylon),
Stavros Calakos (Brooklyn),
Charlie Constantine (Greenlawn),
Gus Coutis (Port Jefferson),
Katherine Cummings (Staten Island),
Chris Doumas (Astoria),
Nektar Drivas (Hempstead),
Yanni Gary Fallis (Hempstead),
Sherry Garafano (Brooklyn),
Vicky Gialis (Hicksville),
Stephanie Kaimis (Greenlawn),
Yanni Karodakis (Merrick),
Dina Kelly (Brooklyn),
Kathy Kokkosis (Greenlawn),
Tonni Anne Marinucci (Hempstead),
Chris Marangoudakis (Roslyn),
Dean Marangoudakis (Roslyn),
George Mingor (Hicksville),
Greg Mooney (Greenlawn),
Arlene Pappas (Roslyn).
Christina Petroutsas (Babylon),
Eleni Psaltis (Hempstead),
Vaso Sirgoutsis (Merric,),
Peter Stathakos (Port Jefferson),
Alexis Tsibros (Staten Island),
Ariadne Tzoumas (Roslyn),
Georgia Vasilakos (Greenlawn),
Peter Vasiliedis (Astoria),
Tommy Vlahos (Hicksville),
Eleni Xenophondos (Merrick),
George Zarbatis (Merrick),
Chris Karanicolas, Zoe Psaltis, Gus Kokkosis, Danny Contopoulos, and John MIchael served as coaches for the All-Stars.
