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We started our survey results with hockey coaches’ favorite rinks. Now, while we continue to wait for 2021-21 to begin, here are a few more responses coaches had to some of our other questions about the barns they haunt all winter (usually). As mentioned in Part 1, we asked these questions promising anonymity for their […]
While we were waiting for the 2021-21 hockey season to start, we bothered the state’s coaches with a short survey. Well, it started short, and then it stretched out. We’ll share some of the actual hockey content in the coming weeks, but for starters we asked some fun (we hoped) questions, promising anonymity in […]
If there is a high school hockey season in Connecticut, it appears it will go off without the Eastern Connecticut Eagles. “Unfortunately, since we are a co-op and the ECC has decided that there will be no winter co-op sports, we will not be allowed to participate even if the CIAC puts something together,” Eagles […]
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s Board of Control discussed a calendar for the rest of the school year on Thursday, but the uncertainty of how the COVID-19 pandemic might progress kept them from deciding anything about that calendar. And since spring sports didn’t compete at all in 2020, the board still wants to give them […]
Over the past three months a lot has happened. The CIAC cancelled 11-on-11 football, while independent football teams were created around the state. The CIAC has also made a decision to postpone the beginning of the winter season. Back in early September, we ran down the series of events that got us to the cancellation […]
The CIAC announced Tuesday high school sports would begin no earlier than Jan. 19 A proposal to hold the winter high school season is in front of the state’s governing body for interscholastic sports, but could restrict thousands of athletes from participating if the spread of COVID across the state continues. The proposal, set to […]
The voicemail, asking about how this fall sports season was going as it neared the finish, had idly wondered if Mark Berkowitz might be in the Weston athletic director’s office on Veterans Day.
He wasn’t, t…
The governors of the six New England states and New Jersey announced the suspension of interstate public and private school hockey and youth hockey until at least Dec. 31, similar to a policy announced last week for Connec…
Masuk has withdrawn from the SWC South Division boys soccer tournament. Athletic director John DeGennaro confirmed the team’s withdrawal on Wednesday and that it was related to COVID-19, but he said he couldn’t divulge whether it involved positive tests on the team or contact with others. Top-seeded Weston advances to Saturday’s final, which it will […]
The state Department of Public Health released updated guidance on youth and amateur sports on Monday that mirrors the sector rules announced Thursday by Gov. Ned Lamont. The new guidance doesn’t recommend practices or games in sports deemed higher risk for transmitting COVID-19, such as tackle football or wrestling. Lamont announced on Thursday that games […]
Gov. Ned Lamont said Thursday that COVID-19 spread in and around hockey has led to around 45 infections in the state. “I’m not positive it’s exclusive to hockey,” Lamont added, but the governor has discussed hockey a couple of times in his press conferences this week, saying that activities around the sport and its regional […]
The Founders League announced Friday that its winter conference schedule, like its fall season, is canceled. “In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and after many discussions prioritizing community health, safety and well-being,” the announcement reads, “the Founders League has unanimously, and with great regret, decided to cancel all Founders League interscholastic competition for the […]
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 the state tournament. “It was solely for scheduling purposes,” CIAC executive director Glenn Lungarini said. “Our leagues and athletic directors need […]
Derby’s Board of Education voted Tuesday night to allow Derby High School football players to use school equipment in independent tackle football. There was no objection heard in the hybrid meeting, though there was at least one abstention. Derby’s board joins Meriden’s, which last week approved allowing its high schools to use school equipment and […]
NORWALK — All the confidence Tommy Brown needed for this would’ve-been football season and beyond came from a game 11 months ago. Without its standout quarterback on Nov. 9, Norwalk gave the start against Danbury to junior Tommy Brown. He was 13 for 27 for 246 yards with three touchdowns and no turnovers in a […]
Updated story at 5:45 p.m. While announcing plans on Tuesday for an “alternative season” in the spring for sports that lose most of their seasons to the COVID-19 pandemic, including 11-on-11 football or any other fall or winter sport, the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference came out against independent football and urged schools not to let […]
Though full-contact club football remains unpopular, one city is close to getting on the field.
Meriden on Thursday granted Maloney and Platt permission to play 11-on-11 football in the city this fall, prov…
The state Department of Public Health remained unmoved Monday by the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference’s Friday pitch for getting DPH approval for a full-contact fall football season. The CIAC Board of Control will meet this week to determine what comes next. DPH acting commissioner Deidre Gifford sent a Monday letter reaffirming what she said Friday […]
HARTFORD — They’ve brought their message to the state Capitol building, and they didn’t go quietly into winter. And maybe the governor heard. Players from at least 40 high school football teams around the state came to the Capitol on Wednesday evening, rallying to try to save a CIAC season amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “It […]
As Connecticut high school football players prepared to rally Wednesday evening at the Capitol in Hartford to save their season, state legislators from both sides of the aisle urged Gov. Ned Lamont to join the dialogue. Lamont later casually pitched shifting the season to early 2021 in his daily press briefing. Meanwhile, state Senate Republicans […]
Over the past four months the CIAC’s decision on whether or not football would be played this fall has been changed a handful of times. We take a look back at the important dates and stories from the past four months. ♦♦♦ May 5 Connecticut becomes the last state to cancel spring athletics after being […]
When it canceled 11-on-11 football for 2020 on Friday morning, the CIAC said it will work with football coaches and state athletic directors to give football players “the best low and moderate risk experiences possible.” One possibility, though not one that had been popular with coaches while full-contact football remained on the table, is 7-on-7. […]
Participation in sports is great, the executive director of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) said in a recent column. Transferring across state lines to play in a pandemic? Karissa Niehoff is a bit less enthused. As the CIAC and state Department of Public Health work out how fall sports will work […]
Wilton’s sports pause is over: Teams are clear to return to practice as soon as Friday, town superintendent of schools Kevin Smith told the Board of Education on Thursday night. Smith said that Wilton director of health Barrington Bogle approved the school’s plan to rejoin the first phase of the CIAC’s fall-sports plan, which includes […]
In the greater picture of the COVID-19 pandemic, the loss of the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS) participation survey ranks pretty low. But it won’t be coming this year, the organization’s executive director, Karissa Niehoff, said in her weekly column for NFHS.org. “With spring sports unable to even get off the ground, […]
Nonnewaug athletes will have a chance at a fall sports season after Regional School District 14’s Board of Education on Monday night reversed its decision and allowed students to return to conditioning and practice. The board voted to let athletes take part in activities under the CIAC’s latest plan, under which non-contact, small-group practices are […]
CHESHIRE — This CIAC update on the fall season wasn’t a football team bursting through a banner onto its field on homecoming. This was more dancing along the sideline, hoping to stay in bounds. CIAC Executive Director Glenn Lungarini said Thursday morning that conditioning for all sports continues to go ahead and teams will continue […]
It was among the hardest decisions Rich Photos had to make in 40 years in sports, he said Tuesday night, and the president of Southern Connecticut Pop Warner football said he delayed it as long as he thought he could. Southern Connecticut Pop Warner has canceled its fall season after the state Department of Public […]
