The Bridgehampton School District congratulates Bridgehampton High School varsity student-athletes Alex David and Kris Vinski. The two were honored by the Suffolk County Basketball Coaches Association. Alex was honored with League 7 All-League and Kris received League 7 Academic All-County honors. They were lauded at the S.C.B.C.A. awards dinner.

Date Added: 4/26/2022

Three Bridgehampton High School students attended the League of Women Voters’ Running and Winning student conference at the Stony Brook Southampton campus.

Uma Comfort, Ayanna El and Luna Paucar were joined by Bridgehampton’s Director of Guidance and ENL Danielle Doscher for the event that focuses on voter awareness and encourages women to vote and hold public office in their communities. The theme this year was inclusion and diversity, and the guest speaker was Minerva Perez from OLA (Organización Latino-Americana) of Eastern Long Island.

Students aged 16 and older preregistered to vote and created and presented voter awareness campaigns that they plan to implement within their schools with the goal of getting their peers to preregister and register to vote. Uma and Ayanna spoke about their group’s campaign presentations.

Date Added: 4/12/2022

Bridgehampton High School is proud to announce that seniors Ayanna El and Grace Turza have been named valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, of the Class of 2022.

Ayanna’s high school résumé includes taking nine Advanced Placement, honors and college-level courses. She is a member of the Bridgehampton Marimba Ensemble, Council of Young Adults, Friends of Rachel Club, Future Farmers of America, Genders and Sexualities Alliance, National Honor Society, Oceanography Club, Robotics Club, Student Council and is involved in Bridgehampton’s own Sprouts Farmstand. Ayanna is an outstanding varsity volleyball player and was honored with both a Suffolk Zone Award and a Thomas Cutinella Memorial Foundation Service Award. In school, she has been honored with placement on the High Honor Roll and with the John Niles Award and Perfect Attendance Award. She is looking to study psychology in college and become a teen counselor/therapist.

Ayanna cites her greatest high school accomplishment as becoming valedictorian. “After working hard for all four years of high school, being valedictorian is very rewarding,” she said. “I always knew being number one in my class was something I wanted, and I worked really hard to get here.”

Grace has also taken numerous AP, honors and college-level courses in her high school career. She is a member of the National Honor Society and Student Council, where she serves both organizations as secretary this year. She is co-treasurer of the Culture Club and volunteers as a teaching assistant for the grades 4 and 5 coding classes. She was named a 2022 National Association of Plant Breeders Borlaug Scholar and has received numerous outstanding achievement awards since her sophomore year.

“I am excited and proud that my hard work has resulted in such an incredible honor,” Grace said. “My greatest accomplishment is being named the salutatorian for the Class of 2022. This experience has taught me that you can only accomplish your goals by working for them.”

Grace plans to major in history in college for her undergraduate degree and looks to further her education by eventually attending law school.

Date Added: 4/12/2022

Eight Bridgehampton High School Virtual Enterprise class students – Uma Comfort, Perla Cruz, Ryan Fleming, Sebastian Mir, Helio Paucar, Leslie Samuel, Justin Urgiles and Morgan Watrous – recently attended a trade show and business showcase at LIU Brooklyn. With 90 student-created companies and more than 700 people at the trade show, Bridgehampton’s company, Culture Crates, received a silver award for sales pitch. According to teacher Kameron Kaiser, companies were from as far away as Austria and Singapore and students from California, Florida, South Carolina, Tennessee and Texas were in attendance. The show featured two competitions in the categories of Sales Pitch and Booth Design.

Date Added: 4/7/2022