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Bay Shore's Syrett excels despite tragedy

COURTNEY SYRETT Bay Shore, C, junior A dynamic

Photo credit: James Escher

When Mary Drago got word that her friend had died, she rushed to the family home and was understandably distraught.

Courtney Syrett consoled her. Somehow.

It was Marianne Syrett, Courtney’s mother, who had passed just two hours before, succumbing at 52 to leukemia.

But there was Courtney, with an arm around her field hockey coach and providing the reassuring words.

Courtney,...

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