Another sports all-star reference, Meet the 2022-23 All-CNY boys basketball large school team:
https://www.syracuse.com/highschools...hool-team.html
Liverpool(Jr.):
https://www.syracuse.com/resizer/XVu...4R6C57O5IA.JPG
https://highschoolsports.syracuse.co...ason/2022-2023
https://www.si.com/college/syracuse/...-to-watch-2024
West Genesee(Camillus, is heading to Nazareth College just outside of Rochester):
https://www.syracuse.com/resizer/quN...JFT6SI7MFE.JPG
https://highschoolsports.syracuse.co...ason/2022-2023
Bishop Grimes(East Syracuse):
https://www.syracuse.com/resizer/xGe...XOSI5DZ2TM.jpg
https://highschoolsports.syracuse.co...ason/2020-2021 (Syracuse's North Side is known for having a substantial South Sudanese population)
Syracuse City's Nottingham(East Side, Jr.):
https://www.syracuse.com/resizer/3bv...KUGA52G4TA.jpg
https://highschoolsports.syracuse.co...ason/2022-2023 (was previously at Syracuse Academy of Science Charter)
Utica Academy of Science Charter(Soph.):
https://www.syracuse.com/resizer/S0p...6BD4FRCIZY.JPG
https://highschoolsports.syracuse.co...ason/2022-2023 (Dad is a Basketball trainer in the local area)
Coach of the Year from Liverpool:
https://www.syracuse.com/resizer/ejY...O27Z6FLSB4.jpg (Pittsford Sutherland grad that played at the University of Illinois and Syracuse, as well as overseas)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Blackwell
Ryan Blackwell
Liverpool has been a suburban SD in the Syracuse area many local black families would historically go with(starting around the late 1960's), likely due to the industry that is there/was there(GE(now Lockheed Martin), Raymour & Flanigan HQ's, not far from Budweiser in the Baldwinsville area, etc.) and the proximity to the old Hancock AFB in North Syracuse(another suburban district some families would go with over the years).
Other sports references from, Nottingham(Women's Track):
https://www.syracuse.com/highschools...etes-more.html
Oswego:
https://www.syracuse.com/highschools...etes-more.html
Rome Free Academy:
https://www.syracuse.com/highschools...-the-most.html
Ithaca’s Little commits to Niagara County hoops:
https://www.tompkinsweekly.com/artic...-county-hoops/
(Her mother, an Elmira Free Academy and Niagara University grad/Basketball player(was the MAAC Player of the Year), is the athletic director for the Ithaca city SD:
https://www.ithacacityschools.org/di...fm?pageid=1053 On a side note, her brother Luke(a bouncy Jr. with handle and a nice shot) gets in the weight room, he could go to the next level as a Basketball player. Dad, played Lacrosse at Ithaca College.)
Rochester native and ref Jeff Anderson to officiate in the Final Four(a West Henrietta resident):
https://www.rochesterfirst.com/sport...he-final-four/ (Rush-Henrietta is a Rochester area example of a suburban area that many black families in that area would historically move to also starting around the mid/late 1960's).
Also, from Elmira and a Notre Dame hS grad, Isaiah Smallwood's American Idol Journey: Part I:
https://www.weny.com/story/48613065/...journey-part-i
Isaiah Smallwood's American Idol Journey: Part II:
https://www.weny.com/story/48622781/...ourney-part-ii
Professional references in the Buffalo area:
https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/...ce_Brown?ro=14
https://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/...chelle_Sawyers