OUR HERO. Please join us in giving a round of applause for The U’s Coach Jordan, who was honored as a “local hero” at the Celtics game on Friday night. Jordan Napolitano, the athletic trainer at Stamford High School, was nominated for the award for saving the life of a referee who went into cardiac … Read more
Fairfield Warde senior Emma Johnson ended her fantastic high school gymnastics career in fine fashion as she certified her standing as the best gymnast in the state when she won the all-around championship at the 2023 Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Girls Gymnastics State Open. Johnson’s all-around title highlighted several accomplishments from gymnasts and gymnastics teams … Read more
Xavier was the unanimous choice for the No. 1 ranking while a trio of FCIAC teams – Danbury, Trumbull, and Fairfield Warde – were ranked in the final 2023 Connecticut Wrestling Online Poll. Xavier had a 10-4 record and won two state championships for the second consecutive year to earn all 17 first-place votes and … Read more
NEW HAVEN — When Aiden Bucaria was a Greenwich freshman, he heard about the history and atmosphere of the State Open from his teammates on the boys swimming and diving team. “Come to Yale,” he was told. “Yale’s electric. There’s no better feeling.” Now a senior, Bucaria and his classmates finished their high school careers … Read more
STAMFORD – Chris Zajac, the 6-foot-8 senior center on the Staples’ boys basketball team, was right to the point. “That’s the greatest win in Staples’ history,” Zajac said, without hesitation. It would indeed be a tall task to find one that comes even close. Trailing by as many as 18 points in the fourth quarter, … Read more
TRUMBULL—It is one thing to set lofty goals. It’s another thing entirely to accomplish all of them. An unbeaten regular season… An FCIAC championship… And now a trip to their first state final for a chance to complete an undefeated, championship run. The Ludlowe girls basketball team has checked off all but one item from … Read more
The FCIAC is represented with four teams among the eight teams in Saturday’s quarterfinals of the 2023 Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference Division I Boys Hockey Tournament. Darien, New Canaan, Ridgefield, and Greenwich all won their first-round games on Wednesday (March 8) to advance to Saturday’s quarterfinals. The victories by fourth-seeded New Canaan and fifth-seeded Darien … Read more
East Catholic and Notre Dame-West Haven are ranked 1-2 again, while fourth-ranked Danbury and No.9 Ridgefield are the two FCIAC teams in the latest GameTimeCT Top 10 Boys Basketball Poll voted on just before the state tournaments. Due to Danbury winning the 2023 FCIAC Boys Basketball Tournament and four-time defending conference champion Ridgefield having been … Read more
HAMDEN — For the first time since 2018, Darien girls ice hockey rules Connecticut. The Blue Wave scored the final two goals and overcame the Southington/Avon co-op 5-3 to capture the CHSGHA championship Wednesday night at Quinnipiac’s M&T Bank Arena. Click here for the complete story
DANBURY — On the perimeter of a celebration that was starting to wind down, Elliott Lancaster skated through a swamp of equipment. He grabbed one glove, looked it over, put it back down, skated to the next pile. Darien’s players had tossed their equipment in the air, coming off the bench to mob goalie Finley … Read more