The Wheatley School will host the Annual Holiday Basketball Tournaments for the varsity girls and boys basketball teams in December. Two new schools, Seaford and The Lovett School, will join returning Valley Stream North High School in the boys tournament. The Lovett School is located in Atlanta, GA and will be making its first-ever trip to the Northeast to participate in a tournament. North Shore High School will be making its first appearance in the Wheatley Girls tournament and will join Westbury and Island Trees, schools which made their first appearances last year.

The pairings, dates and times for each tournament will be as follows:

Girls

December 10

North Shore vs. Island Trees; 5:30 p.m.

Westbury vs. Wheatley; 7:30 p.m.

December 11

Consolation Game; 11 a.m.

Championship Game: 1 p.m.

Boys

December 17

Valley Stream North vs. Seaford; 5:30 p.m.

Lovett vs. Wheatley; 7:30 p.m.

December 18

Consolation Game; 11 a.m.

Championship Game: 1 p.m.

Wheatley's Boys Varsity Basketball Team, under the leadership of Coach Jim Curcio, graduated five seniors from last year's team, three of whom were starters. The two returning starters are Andrew Reich, who earned All-Division honors last year and Scott Gorski.

The Wheatley Girls Varsity Basketball team will be led by newly appointed coach Brian McConaghy, a second year teacher at Wheatley. Of the four graduating seniors from last year's squad, three were starters, two of whom led the team in scoring. Last year, the team had a 5-7 league record, an overall record of 10-8 and qualified for the playoffs for the second consecutive year. This year's team will be led by senior Michelle Ritz, an All-Division player last year, and ninth grader Eric Melchione, who was recognized last year by Newsday as one of Long Island's "Young Guns."