‘I don’t want it to end now’: Warde wrestlers lose chance for redemption, final season
CIAC plan incorporates DPH guidance, includes optional waiver
In the same Jan. 8 letter that gave the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference the go-ahead to begin practice in several winter sports next week, state Department of Public Health acting commissioner Deidre Giffor…
CIAC releases COVID contact tracing data from fall sports
As it awaits a go-ahead to begin its winter season in two weeks, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference says it believes its strategies to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 were effective in fall sports, though …
Officials: Why lacrosse has different risk classifications for boys and girls
Though the first faceoff — assuming faceoffs are allowed — is four months away, those associated with boys high school lacrosse look around and see other higher-COVID-19 risk sports like high school football postponed for …
Cheshire coach, former standout athlete Brian Perry dies at age 43
Cheshire’s boys lacrosse team will have about 15 seniors in the spring. Brian Perry was their freshman coach, and head coach Mike Devine says they’ll stick it out for four years in part because of the love for the game tha…
Sport sector rules shut down teams, out-of-state competition through Jan. 19
Shutting down most amateur team sports as of Monday, Gov. Ned Lamont said COVID-19 cases related to sports were affecting schools’ ability to stay open for in-person education.
“One of the things we’ve done…
Disappointed, but understanding: coaches, administrators react to CIAC delay of winter sports season
There was resignation, determination, some frustration. And a day after the CIAC’s Board of Control decided there wouldn’t be winter high school athletics in the state for two months, there were still more questions than a…
Goalkeeper Ford, younger defense came together for Mercy’s run to SCC Division A title
MIDDLETOWN — Mercy put together a fine season in 2019 with an experienced defense and a young goalkeeper.
The keeper returned. The defense did not. But Melina Ford and the younger defenders assembled anothe…
‘I’d do it all over again’: independent high school football season ends in Fairfield County
NEW CANAAN — A handful of seniors lingered awhile Saturday night. On the other side of the netting at Water Tower Field, next door to the high school, was an uncertain winter without tackle football, and a bunch of New Can…
Shepaug co-op out of hockey season; others watch for modifications, Governor’s scrutiny
For all the uncertainty and wait-and-see that surrounds high school sports during the COVID-19 pandemic, there is one unfortunate firm fact: The Shepaug co-op doesn’t plan to play hockey this season. Nonnewaug, a piece of the co-op that also includes Thomaston and Litchfield, won’t allow co-op teams this year, said Mike Gorra, who recently stepped […]
With secret schedules and fields taken away, independent football teams begin play
Convinced that they can play tackle football safely during the COVID-19 pandemic with no CIAC-sanctioned football this fall — and suddenly with, it seemed, an unlikely sort-of ally — one independent league for high school …
CIAC sets framework for winter sports seasons, ‘solely for scheduling purposes’
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s Board of Control met Thursday to establish further guidelines for a potential winter season, including the number of games a team will need to play to be eligible for t…
Opponents 19 miles away: Girls swimming returns at Foran with unusual three-team, two-meet day
MILFORD — These meets almost looked normal for once in this disastrous year. Three girls swimming and diving teams got back in the pool at Foran for real on Thursday, the first day of high school competition in the state s…
Newtown announces boys hockey co-op with New Fairfield
Newtown announced a boys hockey co-op with New Fairfield on Wednesday to take effect this upcoming winter season.
This will be the first co-op for Newtown, which began play in 2002-03 and won the 2014 CIAC …
Woodland football on hold, players quarantined after assistant coach positive for COVID-19
A Woodland assistant football coach tested positive for COVID-19 last week, and the program has halted with 26 players in quarantine, the regional superintendent confirmed Wednesday.
The Citizen’s News repo…
Department of Public Health recommends postponing all football practices, games
The state Department of Public Health recommended Friday that sports labeled as high-risk for transmitting the novel coronavirus, such as football, not hold full-team practices or play games this fall or winter.
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St. Joseph’s Coughlin commits to Navy lacrosse
The dream began at a football game, but it’s lacrosse that’ll take Jack Coughlin to Navy.
The St. Joseph junior midfielder said he went to a Navy-Stanford football game when he was 4, and ever since, that’s…
Meriden quiet on contact tracing as youth football shut down
Meriden officials declined to disclose details Wednesday on whether its contact tracing efforts led them to notify other towns or school districts that a Maloney football player who attended a rally at the state Capitol on…
Conditioning but no games for Bridgeport football players; superintendent pushes spring season
One month after he declined to let Bridgeport high school students play high- or moderate-risk sports this fall amid the COVID-19 pandemic, superintendent of schools Mike Testani confirmed that football players have begun …
DPH says its unlikely to change after CIAC presents new football plan in capitol meeting
HARTFORD — The strategies were new. The response sounded familiar. In an effort to salvage a fall 11-on-11 football season, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference presented the state Department of Public Health with new ideas for mitigating the spread of COVID-19 at a Friday-morning meeting. But DPH acting commissioner Deidre Gifford did not sound ready […]
Players rally in West Hartford for a football season
WEST HARTFORD — Emotions were high and raw at a rally to try to save a high school football season in 2020-21, so high and raw that Brady Hutchison twice yelled not to let common sense prevail.
The senior S…
Anger, frustration after CIAC cancels 11-on-11 football
Bunnell football coach Ty Jenkins was looking at 200 faceguards that had just been delivered to the school, at plexiglass partitions that would protect his players against COVID-19 at the fieldhouse.
And he…
What’s next? Spring or fall, coaches want 11-on-11 football
What Steve Filippone wants, he said Friday, is for every football team to get its seniors together, despite that their season ended before it began, and post a video of them on social media.
And that’s when…
As practices go on for most, some schools awaiting return
Though the CIAC’s latest plan for fall sports allowed teams to practice in small groups as of Aug. 29, a few local schools remain off the field.
Wilton’s athletic teams remain out until at least Sept. 8.
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New high school athletic fields taking shape across Connecticut
If there are sports in the spring and next fall at Bunnell, there will be a lot more practice and game space for every outdoor team.
A renovation project at the team’s athletic complex resurfaced the stadiu…
New Haven coaches ‘pleading’ for football opportunity
A day after the CIAC’s executive director urged fall athletes and coaches to grasp onto any positive experience they can, New Haven’s football coaches were fighting to give their players a chance for one.
T…
St. Joseph hockey coach Ed LeMaire dies
St. Joseph boys hockey coach Ed LeMaire died Saturday morning. He was 53.
“It breaks our hearts to share with you the news that Coach Eddy passed away early this morning,” read a Saturday-afternoon post on …
Drust’s future unclear at Cheshire, clerical issue on coaching certificate in question
CHESHIRE — Hearing that Cheshire football coach Don Drust’s job might be in jeopardy at a Monday-morning meeting, a group of students and parents descended on the public schools office.
Around 100 people — …
Local hockey, baseball communities lose devoted volunteers in Burr, Dinneen
Local youth sports, high school hockey in particular, lost two well-known faces and voices over the weekend.
The news struck on social media almost back to back on Saturday night: Brian Dinneen, public addr…
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