GREEK AMERICAN SPORTS

Women’s College Basketball 🏀

The University of California, Berkley Women's basketball team has three Greeks currently competing in D1 Hoops. The UC Berkeley squad features Ioanna Krimili, Ornela Muca, and Anastasia Drosouni.

Ioanna Krimili, a 5-10 versatile guard graduate transfer 2023-2024, has been tremendous for the University of California Golden Bears. Ioanna is a native of Crete, Greece, and a tremendous scorer who plays every possession with high intensity. An interesting statistic this season: Ioanna scored exactly 21 points, four times vs Oregon, USC, WSU, and Washington. Her hoop career biography is quite impressive. Ioanna was outstanding as an undergraduate player at the University of San Francisco. She started in all 32 games last season averaging a team-high 16 points per game. The 4th highest in the WCC conference, playing 31.6 minutes a game. Shooting lights out from the 3- 3-point line making 84 three-pointers for the season. In addition, Krimili earned All-WCC First Team honors for three consecutive seasons. Ioanna led the WCC in scoring her first two seasons averaging 18.9 PPG and 19.4 PPG as a sophomore. She has a lot of records at USF.

Ornela Muca is a 5-7 extremely skilled guard for the Golden Bears. The Athens, Greece native is well known for her strong hustle on the court. She scored a season-high 11 points vs Colorado on January 15, 2024, going 4-5 from the field and 3-3 from beyond the arc. Ornela has a great shooting touch. She helped Panathinaikos to a first-place finish in the Under 18 Championship of Athens and a second-place result in the U-18 Championship of Greece.

Anastasia Drosouni, a talented guard stands 5-11. Anastasia a first-year freshman is well

deserving of her roster spot. The Thessaloniki, Greece native was a standout in the Euro league; playing for Aris Thessaloniki Women’s Basketball Club in the A2 division. Anastasia averaged 11.9 points, 5.9 assists, and 1.6 steals per game in 2023.

Bravo Congratulations.

Berkley Women's basketball stars Anastasia Drosouni, Ioanna Krimili, and Ornela Muca.

Cornell University Rams 🏀

Arianna Linoxilakis completed her junior year as a member of the Cornell University Rams Women’s Basketball Team. Linoxilakis is in her junior year and has seen game action in all three years. She is a respected team member and gives it her all when utilized coming into a game. Arianna was able to display her talent this season on the court.

Linoxilakis was an outstanding athlete at Weston High School for four years and was the team captain her senior year. She was a dual County League All-Star and was awarded the prestigious Peter Condakes Memorial Award her senior year for basketball and academic excellence at Weston High School. Arianna was named Weston’s Best Women’s Athlete as a senior. In 2019 she was recognized as one of the top 15 players to be considered for the Greek National Team.

The Linoxilakis family has a strong athletic legacy her great uncle Kostas Linoxilakis, was a well-known international soccer player and competed in the 1952 Olympics. Additionally, her other uncle Nikos Linoxilakis is a very respected professional basketball coach in Greece.

Bravo Congratulations.

Cornell University Rams Women’s Basketball player Arianna Linoxilakis.

🏒 College Club Hockey Champions 🏆

Peter Papadopoulos, a rising senior at the University of South Carolina majoring in Business Finance, excels both in academics at the Darla Moore School of Business and on the hockey rink. He is a member of the USC Gamecock hockey team, which recently

secured, a groundbreaking victory, clinching the inaugural AAU Hockey College Division 1 Club National Championship. Peter attended Pingry High School in Basking Ridge, NJ as a freshman and sophomore. Peter's extensive hockey background was honed as a recruited athlete at the Canterbury School in New Milford, CT, where he competed in the esteemed New England Prep Hockey conference and with the New Jersey Rockets Hockey Club, where he excelled as the starting goalie and won the USPHL 16UF best save % (.941) freshman year and was also invited to the New Jersey Atlantic District Camp Top 120. His senior year was basically shut down due to Covid. Peter decided to go straight to college after playing junior hockey and focused on academics. He was so happy to play hockey for this year’s championship USC team.

Beyond his studies and athletics, Peter finds joy in the company of his loyal dog, Kevin, and in fostering strong connections with his cousins, siblings, and friends and playing golf with his

hockey buddies Peter dedicates his time to volunteering with Veterans.Peter is very proud of his Greek heritage

Bravo Congratulations Champion.

College Soccer ⚽

Alexandra Baltas has been playing soccer since she was 5 years old, starting with town

soccer and quickly making her way to play on her first club team (Liverpool) at 7 years old. Baltas would eventually play at Notre Dame Academy in Worcester, MA. She was awarded the Coaches All-Star twice, was a Central Massachusetts All-Star and MVP for all 4 years playing on varsity, graduating in 2020.

Baltas then played on the Scorpions ECNL team from (2017-2020). Baltas was recruited in the winter of 2019 and played at Saint Anselm’s College in New Hampshire for 3 years. Alexandra was recognized as a Northeast-10 Spring Commissioner’s Honor Roll. She currently runs the Boston Metropolis Youth Basketball Leagues. "I plan on pursuing a career in Sports Administration at the collegiate level."

Bravo Congratulations

Saint Anselm's College Alexandra Baltas.

🇺🇸AHEPA STRONG🇬🇷

This year will be the 128th running of the historic Boston Marathon. Have you ever

wanted to participate in the world’s oldest and most famous marathon? Now you can, and at the same time help our college aged students find their roots where the Marathon was born! Currently, the AHEPA Global project is to send students of Hellenic descent to Greece through the “Journey to Greece” program to study, earn college credits, and get reacquainted with their rich Greek heritage with their tuition absolutely free! This year you can do both. After four attempts, I am happy to announce that I have qualified to run this year’s Boston Marathon on Patriot’s Day, April 15. I have proudly represented AHEPA in my five previous Marathon finishes. It’s been a life goal for me to run Boston, which has now come to fruition, and I want you to join me too! I won’t win the Boston Marathon as the Greek national running hero Stylianos Kyriakides did in 1946, but with your help we can send some of our young adults to Greece to earn college credits as they learn and connect to their Greek culture! Beginning February 20, 2024, please make a donation to the AHEPA “Journey to Greece” program to help defer the tuition costs for AHEPA’S Family future, our young adults. In return, I will print your name or Chapter on my custom-made AHEPA charity racing shirt which I will wear during my running of the 2024 Boston Marathon! With a tax-deductible donation of $100 per individual or $500 per Chapter or group, you can accompany me from the Start in Hopkinton, MA to the Finish in Boston and help our valuable students simultaneously! Thanks, President Chris Trakas and members of Athens Chapter No. 24 of Boston started the charity run with a $500 donation. 100% of your donation will go the “Journey to Greece” program. This limited time offer expires on March 25, 2024.

Don’t delay; Do it today! Help educate our youth! A Megalo Euxapisto!

AHEPAN Craig A. Theros running in Athens Marathon proudly representing AHEPA.

Kambosos -Lomachenko

Boxing - Πυγμαχία

George Kambosos and Vasiliy Lomachenko will be battling, bruising, and boxing for the vacant IBF Title in Perth, Australia on May 12. The fight will be shown on May 11, in the United States. They will be fighting for the four light weight titles American great Devin Haney gave up. Haney has decided to seek for the 140 pound division title and be a two division champ.

Lomachenko, 35, is a two-time Olympic gold medalist and a three division champion.He is currently rated ESPN'S Numero 1 fighter at 135 pound. Lomachenko's record is 17-3 Kambosos family is from Sparta and he is a true warrior. Kambosos (21-2 ,10KOs) won the undisputed lightweight championship over Teofimo Lopez in ESPN'S No.1 rated 2021 Upset of the Year. GAS will keep you updated on any breaking news from Australia.

🏀 Miscellaneous - Λίγο από όλα 🏀

Every Kuriakee ON AIR WNTN Grecian Echoes WNTN1550AM from Boston “The Athens of

America” The one and only Greek-America Sports show “THE BENCHWARMERS” Hosted by

Greek radio legends Ted Demetriades, Bill Galatis, Nick Ypsilantis, and Nick Markopoulos.

The 94th NHIBT-National Hellenic Invitational Basketball Tournament took place in Chicago on March 20-24 th, for High School and Senior Divisions. A great Tournament.

The 78th Harry Agganis Basketball Tournament has announced their tournament will take place April 5-7, at the Saint George Community Center in Lynn, Massachusetts.

The 14th Teddy K Classic in memory of Teddy Kariotis will be the last of the Greek Hoop

Tournaments Tour. The tournament attracts over 30 teams to Hellenic College in Brookline, Massachusetts. Director Tony Kariotis can be reached at 617-590-8051. The tournament will be held on May 8-12 in the “Athens of America” Boston.

"The Golden Greek" - Harry Agganis

Hermes The Messenger

GAS has truly been overwhelmed with your overwhelming support. A BiG ΕΥΧΑΡΙΣΤΩ to all our GAS fans who have helped our grassroots initiative. A MEGALO thank you to Kansas City star George Karlaftis for his Shout Out to GAS and Long Live Hellas! Ζήτω η Ελλάδα! We are all so proud of you! Two time Super Bowl winner George Karlaftis video was viewed by over 30,000 GAS fans. Please keep sharing our posts. Greek American Sports salutes the achievements of our ancestors modern and ancients. Especially the sacrifices of The Heroes of 1821 should never be forgotten.

The spirit of Hellenism, our deep sense of community, love for Greek youth and athletes has driven this national community grassroots effort. We have launched the first ever GAS/Kosmos effort and we have kept our promise to fulfill our mission statement. We will keep working and fighting to deliver GAS to every Greek American Sports fan. So pick up your telephono and check us out right now! We hope your community takes on our GAS Sports Challenge and sends us your community sports video. GAS would love to see your community sports video. Congratulations to Christina Karalis and Alexandra Tembelopoulos our 2000 & 2001 followers on GAS Instagram.

GAS has already connected athletes throughout the United States with each other through our GAS Instagram, as well as received wonderful feedback from parents and elderly grandparents who have commented how proud they are of their grandchildren from the U.S.A. and Greece.