The expression “No Days Off” is becoming one of the newest cliches around sports training, but for Cold Spring Harbor's Maggie Spehr and Mackenzie McGraw, who practiced every single day allowed by New York State, it was their reality.

Spehr and McGraw were members of three magical seasons at Cold Spring Harbor this academic year. The Seahawks reached the state final in three different girls sports, losing in the state Class B final in girls soccer before winning the state Class B girls basketball championship in the winter.

Those two teams reaching the state final resulted in a season overlap with Cold Spring Harbor athletes going straight from the soccer pitch to the hardwood, then, straight from a basketball state championship to trying to defend their girls lacrosse state championship this spring.

“It’s been insane, I haven’t had a single break the entire year,” Spehr said. “We’ve overlapped everything. Not a lot of rest, but I wouldn’t have it any other way.”

Cold Spring Harbor defended its girls lacrosse state championship with a 19-6 victory over Canton in the state Class D final at SUNY Cortland. The Seahawks capped another season of reaching the final day of play with lacrosse, basketball and soccer three-sports athletes practicing from Aug. 26 through June 14.

“Having no days off has been wild,” McGraw said. “But going to the last possible day is a dream come true and I’m really proud of us. It was something we always thought about and thought could be attainable, but seeing it now on the final day of all high school sports, it’s really settling in how special it’s been.”

Spehr had 45 goals and 15 assists, including three goals in the state final. McGraw was a starting defender who had multiple caused turnovers in the state final and was one of the integral pieces of the back-to-back state championship girls lacrosse program. Nearly every player on Cold Spring Harbor (19-3) is a multi-sport athlete.

The girls soccer, basketball and lacrosse teams combined to go 53-8-5. 

“It just really goes to show how dedicated all of our athletes are at this school and how we are so versatile and we can do anything on any field with each other,” senior midfielder Ryan Reynolds said. “Especially as a small school, for us to be able to have such success with the same people over and over again really shows the type of school and the type of culture there is at Cold Spring Harbor.”

Girls lacrosse coach Danielle Castellane knew the team may have a slower start with many key players also playing basketball. The girls lacrosse coaching staff also features girls basketball coach Rory Malone and girls soccer coach Ryan Towers in a multi-sport athlete encouraged environment.

“We just talked about making ourselves better in May when we had the time and the girls bought into that and they did that,” Castellane said. “We supported the fall and winter seasons. We are so proud of all our sports teams. We’re a small school, these girls need to play multiple sports to be successful, so we’re so proud and we knew we would get our opportunity later in the season to find our success.”

Despite playing larger programs as the only Class D school in Nassau Conference I, only Garden City had a better record than the Seahawks in conference play.

“It’s really the people,” Spehr said. “Being able to do everything with these girls, everyone is so special and every single sport is encouraged. We all just love to play together and be together, whether it’s the sport we are going to college for or just something we’ve grown up playing, it’s just something that’s been engraved in our brains. We want to be together.”