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The Stamford girls basketball team was going through a shoot-around in their gymnasium a half hour before departing for a game at McMahon on Thursday when coach Diane Burns’ phone rang.
The call was from St…
In the second half of the 2019-20 girls basketball season, Stamford lost two seniors, Widline Thomas and Jessica Nelson, to injuries.
That forced coach Diane Burns to turn to a collection of sophomores and …
STAMFORD — The Stamford girls basketball team had to work out some jitters in the first half of its rivalry game against Westhill Saturday afternoon.
Trailing by four at the half, the Black Knights turned u…
STAMFORD — Win or lose, Westhill boys basketball coach Howard White is always looking for teaching moments.
The lesson at practice next week will likely be how to play with a lead.
The Vikin…
The first official City Cup in 2019 came down to the final events of the girls outdoor track meet with Stamford edging Westhill by winning the final two events of the day.
The excitement of that first seaso…
Since high school athletes in Stamford began practicing Jan. 19, they have been doing so in a state of limbo waiting for the city’s department of health and board of education to grant permission for games to be played.
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Vienna Prado began wrestling in seventh grade, mostly taking on boys as she progressed from middle school and up through three years of high school wrestling.
Prior to her junior year at Stamford, it was an…
Stamford athletic director Chris Passmano said he owes the majority of his career to Norwalk athletic director Doug Marchetti.
Marchetti gave Passamano his first coaching job and while at Norwalk, and Passa…
The last two seasons when Westhill and Stamford would meet on the basketball court, Jack Bryant was always there standing proud behind the scorer’s table at midcourt.
Bryant, a Westhill graduate, Stamford B…
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference announced Tuesday that 16 high schools have earned the Michaels Achievement Cup Award for the 2019-20 academic year.
The schools were Amity, Barlow, Bethe…
Steve Wodarski remains hopeful that there will be a first season for him as state interpreter of the International Approved Association of Basketball Officials (IAABO) Board 10. He also wants to get out there and officiate…
Stamford girls basketball coach Diane Burns was as happy as she remembers being in some time.
Burns has been spending weeks searching for ways to break through to her players without the benefit of being ab…
There may not have been a week of games, pep rally or Friday night football game to attend, but that did not stop Stamford High from completing its annual tradition of raising money for cancer awareness in the month of Oct…
GREENWICH — Wednesday, the Greenwich field hockey team exhibited the 60 minutes of consistency and focus on Wednesday that coach Megan Wax was hoping for the majority of this season and it resulted in an inspired victory o…
STAMFORD — From the first round, when she drew high scores by impressively executing a reverse dive, it was apparent Annie Bingle was going to be tough to top at Monday’s FCIAC West Region Diving Championships.
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Abigail Adams, Trumbull: Adams registered first-place finishes in the 200-yard freestyle (2:07.72) and 500 freestyle (5:53.23) in Trumbull’s 102-63 victory against Fairfield Ludlowe. She helped ignite the team’s winning 20…
Morgan Bagnall, Lauralton Hall: Lauralton Hall received first-place finishes from Bagnall in its 96-90 triumph over Amity in the 200-yard individual medley (2:18.40) and 100 freestyle (56.22). She helped spark Hall’s 200 f…
GREENWICH — Seven games into its season, the Greenwich boys soccer team has passed each test it has faced, but Friday’s game against Stamford seemed more like a late-semester exam.
The Cardinals who hadn’t …
GREENWICH — Seizing the momentum and keeping it is being turned into an art form by the Greenwich High School girls volleyball team.
Six matches into their season, the Cardinals have rarely trailed, so it’s…
An independent high school-level tackle football league, attached to the Fairfield County Football League governing youth football, is attempting to begin play Saturday.
The league, which hopes to play betw…
DARIEN — Darien’s cross country runners have become very adept at being road warriors. Fifteen years without a home meet tends to have that effect.
But as the Blue Wave is finding out this fall, there’s no …
GREENWICH — Cardinal Stadium on Friday night in the fall is typically reserved for traditional, 11-on-11 tackle football, but Friday, 7-on-7 non-contact, late-afternoon football was played instead in this atypical season.
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GREENWICH — Meghan Lynch talked about setting her sights on breaking school records in certain races during the Greenwich High School swimming team’s dual meets this season, since postseason meets are a big question mark i…
STAMFORD — The high school volleyball preseason went through so many twists and turns over the past five weeks that Stamford and Westhill were questioning whether they’d ever play an actual match.
The two c…
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 […]
A proposal for 7-on-7 football in the FCIAC has been approved by the conference’s athletic directors, FCIAC commissioner Dave Schulz confirmed Wednesday. The plan discussed at the FCIAC ADs meeting was from Ridgefield Athletic Director Dane Street. The plan, which Street discussed during a board of education meeting in the town Monday night, is for […]
James Raidt was hoping college baseball coaches were going to come see him play in person last spring, his freshman year at King School.
Because of the pandemic, the spring high school season was lost due t…
Ledyard athletic director Jim Buonocore was surprised when the CIAC Board of Control denied the CIAC football committee’s suggestion to move the sport to the spring last month, instead deciding to keep it in the fall. “I was surprised to say the least. We all (on the committee) had the same thought process,” said Buonocore, […]
While the CIAC, the Connecticut Department of Health and local school boards wrestle with how to handle fall sports, two sports that run from the fall through the winter are ramping up despite limits on how they do it.
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