Huntington Says Goodbye to Casey Scully
Huntington said goodbye to three sport star Casey Scully at the 40th Blue Devil Senior Athletic Awards Banquet. Coaches and players are going to miss the soft-spoken and hard-nosed athlete who played with almost reckless abandon.
Perhaps no one will miss Scully more than Huntington girls’ basketball coach Brad Reminick, who admitted he had no idea who she even was when his assistant at the time repeatedly requested the young player be brought up to the junior varsity as an eighth grader.
“So I told my assistant coach I would take a look,” Reminick recalled. “Casey could barely dribble, couldn’t shoot and looked the other way when I introduced myself.” Nevertheless, Reminick agreed and Scully was put on the JV team and it wasn’t long before she played her way into the hearts of Blue Devil fans.
As a freshman, Scully earned a coveted spot on the varsity. “She didn’t talk,” Reminick said. “She was the quietest kid on the team and every time I talked to her in practice, she would start to cry. It didn’t take Casey very long to make an impact and by mid-season this terrified, quiet kid was starting every game.”
By then Reminick knew Scully’s name, but still didn’t know he had the future of his program right in front of him. It was as a sophomore that Scully became a leader and helped Huntington earn a playoff berth for the first time in 12 years. “I noticed Casey had something no one else did: speed,” Reminick recalled. “When you looked at her, she was always going five times faster than anyone else on the floor. In one year she had become one of the best defensive players in the county. I couldn’t believe what I was seeing.”
Scully was made a team captain as a junior and Huntington won its first 21 games, before losing in the Suffolk final. This past winter, the senior captained the squad again and helped take the program to a new level, as the Blue Devils won the county crown and reached the Long Island finals.
“She is the hardest working player I have ever coached,” said Reminick, his voice cracking. “She would run through a wall for you. It has been a privilege to not only coach, but watch her throughout her years in this uniform. Casey signed up for this when we were not very good. She stuck with it and became a great basketball player.”
Huntington went 27-1 the past two years in league play, the best stretch in the program’s history. “It was her team,” Reminick said about Scully. “She was the leader of the family. She was our captain. The future of Huntington basketball is now brighter because of her. Her No. 23 will remain hers. Casey, you have meant so much to this program as a player and especially as a person.” The coach presented Scully with an MVP Award.
The coaches and players in the soccer and lacrosse programs feel the same way that Reminick and Scully’s basketball teammates do about one of Huntington’s great athletes. She has exuded class and represented the school and community well. The senior has accepted a scholarship to play lacrosse at Iona College.
"It has been an honor to be a part of Huntington athletics,” Scully softly said. “My coaches and teammates have made it an unforgettable experience.”
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