her race, Rodin came across a Shaker High sophomore face down in the woods and stopped to help.
The stricken runner, who was dehydrated, was unconscious when Rodin and two other Shaker runners, tried to turn her over. DelGenio then came across the commotion and stopped to help.
Rodin is a CPR-certified swim instructor. She checked the victim's vitals and then organized a rescue. Rodin, DelGenio and three others carried the girl approximately a quarter mile to a part of the park an ambulance could reach.
"It was a scary situation," Rodin said. "It could have been any one of us that day."
Soccer pioneer remembered: Word reached New York over the weekend that former Nanuet boys soccer coach Bob West died Oct. 5 in Arizona from complications from pneumonia and diabetes.
The first black coach at Nanuet, West started JV and then varsity boys soccer there in 1964. He stayed with the program through 1975 and then launched the girls program, winning a Section 9 championship in 1982 and a regional title the following year.
Nanuet is re-renaming its November alumni soccer event in West's honor.
Etcetera: NYCHoops.net says Christ the King senior Ryan Pearson has committed to play basketball for George Mason next year.
