By Randy Vogt, Director of Public Relations, Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association
July 11, 2024-The Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association (ENYYSA) is pleased to announce that Islip Terrace’s Alyssa Deutsch is receiving the Masotto-Driscoll Scholarship.
The scholarship’s namesakes, Patricia Louise Masotto and Brenda Driscoll, were best friends and top women’s soccer players from Massapequa, Long Island. Eastern New York set up a scholarship in their name after they were killed by a drunk driver in 1985. The scholarship is determined by success in high school as well as community service.
Alyssa was an AP Scholar at East Islip High School. She had four consecutive years of four straight quarters on the High Honor Roll, with a Mastery in Science and Mastery in Math, Art Honor Society and World Language Honor Society plus is working towards the Seal of Civic Readiness. She was also selected the 2023 Homecoming Queen.
Alyssa played four years of varsity soccer with East Islip High School, winning a Suffolk County championship along the way. She competed for Stony Brook LGN in club soccer, captaining her side to several league titles and two cups. One of her most memorable experiences was playing on a girls team that competed against boys squads and made it all the way to the semifinals in Spain’s Mundialito Tournament.
The many local groups that Alyssa volunteers with includes the past four years with the East Islip Soccer Club’s TOPSoccer Program for children with special needs.
We wish Alyssa well in studying and playing soccer at SUNY New Paltz this fall.
With over 100,000 youth soccer players––both boys and girls––and more than 25,000 volunteers, the non-profit Eastern New York Youth Soccer Association (ENYYSA) stretches from Montauk Point, Long Island to the Canadian border. Members are affiliated with 10 leagues throughout the association, which covers the entire state of New York east of Route 81. ENYYSA exists to promote and enhance the game of soccer for children and teenagers between the ages of 5 and 19 years old, and to encourage the healthy development of youth players, coaches, referees and administrators. All levels of soccer are offered––from intramural, travel team and premier players as well as Children With Special Needs. No child who wants to play soccer is turned away. ENYYSA is a proud member of the United States Soccer Federation and US Youth Soccer. For more information, please log on to http://www.enysoccer.com/