The Orange County Interscholastic Athletic Association recently honored its top senior student-athletes for each high school. Pine Bush High School selected Katie Cragan and Dominic Licardi.
Here are their profiles:
Katie Cragan
Class rank: 21
Varsity sports: Girls soccer; girls basketball; girls lacrosse
Athletic honors: Soccer – All-state fourth team; two-time team captain; lacrosse – two-time team captain; 2024 Section 9 team champ; second-team All-Section 9
Academic honors, extracurricular activities: National Honor Society; student growth and academic leadership award; student council vice president, graduate in top five percent of class
Community service: Coach with travel soccer, recreation soccer club; babysitter; law and leadership intern
Future plans: Manhattan University, majoring in English, minoring in Spanish; compete in soccer
Dominic Licardi
Class rank: 10
Varsity sports: Boys soccer; boys swimming; boys lacrosse
Athletic honors: Swimming – team captain; Section 9 champ; state finalist; team county champ; school record holder
Academic honors, extracurricular activities: National Honor Society vice president; class president; National art honor society; finance academy; Interact Club; culture and cuisine club; Dwight D. Eisenhower leadership award; Bucknell University award of excellence in physics and Aastronomy
Community service: League of Women Voters; swim instructor; lifeguard; swim team timer
Future plans: University of Georgia, majoring in biochemistry
Recent Pine Bush scholar-athletes
2025 – Caitlyn Loennecker; Jeffrey Palma
2024 – Ellie Hoppe; Malakai Henry-Geraghty
This article originally appeared on Times Herald-Record: Above and beyond – Here are Pine Bush’s scholar athletes for 2025-26
Reporting by Ken McMillan, Middletown Times Herald- Record / Times Herald-Record
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By Ken McMillan, Middletown Times Herald- Record | USA TODAY Network
