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Raider Pride: Ransom Everglades community members throng to Homecoming 2024
The Ransom Everglades community came out in droves for Homecoming 2024, supporting the victorious varsity volleyball and football teams and enjoying a night of camaraderie and community. Enjoy this video review and photo gallery.
The night featured an appearance by a police dog named Raider – a member of the canine unit – who donned a mini Ransom Everglades football jersey, and it included the football team's impressive defeat of Pine Crest School, 37-7. Quarterback Niemann Lawrence ’28 led the Raiders with 15 of 19 passing for 251 yards and five touchdown passes to five different receivers: Colton Smith ’28, Finn McCarron ’28, Rauli Matos ’26, Juan Velazco 26 and Reid Rosenberg ’25.
Earlier, the girls’ volleyball team earned a four-set victory over Archbishop Coleman F. Carroll in the Anderson gymnasium. During that contest, Addison Pollock ’25 accrued her 1,000th dig and Julia Lewkowski ’25 tallied her 1,000th kill. In the stands were former members of RE volleyball – Veronica Alcorta ’96, Lisa Sayfie ’91, Cathy Harrison Balestra ’90 and coach Penny Matthews.
RE also honored 75 years of Raider football by inviting football alumni in attendance to join a short ceremony at halftime of the football game; that group included newly inducted RE hall of famer Bill Holly ’86, current trustee Scott Srebnick ’83, RE Director of Security Rob DePriest ’86, RE Chief Operating Officer David Clark ’86, RE Middle School Director of Athletics Thomas Willis ’04 and many others. The RE Dance Team entertained at halftime and Ella Arnold ’27 performed the National Anthem on electric guitar.
Fans enjoyed cuisine from an assortment of food trucks, cotton candy, and games on the new Raider courts next to the gymnasium.
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Founded in 1903, Ransom Everglades School is a coeducational, college preparatory day school for grades 6 - 12 located on two campuses in Coconut Grove, Florida. Ransom Everglades School produces graduates who "believe that they are in the world not so much for what they can get out of it as for what they can put into it." The school provides rigorous college preparation that promotes the student's sense of identity, community, personal integrity and values for a productive and satisfying life, and prepares the student to lead and to contribute to society.