On Tuesday, winter high school sports athletes in Connecticut were cleared to hold their first practices of the season. On Wednesday, the MIAA voted against postseason tournaments in Massachusetts’ upcoming Fall 2 “wedge” season, but did not rule out the chance of sponsoring tournaments in the … [Read more...]
Westminster team aging well, hopes to climb in Founders
The coaching star of Ryan Curtis was still ascending when he stepped down as the head man at the University of Vermont in 2016, two days after guiding that program to the America East conference championship game for the first time ever. After a decade at UVM, a family-friendly teaching and coaching … [Read more...]
‘I’m elated’: Sean Quirk picked to coach Cannons LC in PLL
Sean Quirk spent Tuesday afternoon plowing through the messages that kept popping up on his phone. “I’ve got about 95 text messages I’m trying to reply back to,” he said. With good reason. The Premier Lacrosse League announced Tuesday that Quirk (Cheshire, Conn.), who coached the Boston Cannons in … [Read more...]
NE-10: St. A’s, SNHU name captains, new Assumption coach
It’s already been a busy January in the Northeast-10 Conference. As teams prepare for an as-yet-undetermined start to the spring season, men’s and women’s teams from St. Anselm College and Southern New Hampshire have chosen the players that will lead them into the action. Seniors Griffin Shoemaker … [Read more...]
Dream it, do it: Rivers goalie Carly Peterson’s road to D-1
Carly Peterson jokingly refers to her father, Jim, as her manager. Jim Peterson was not a lacrosse player, but his inspiration and organization has helped set up his daughter to achieve some great successes in the sport over the years. For the Rivers School junior from Franklin, Mass., that meant … [Read more...]
Stacked Brunswick hoping for a chance to show its strength
That the boys lacrosse program at Brunswick School has seven of its juniors committed to Division 1 programs, including to some of the best teams in the nation, isn’t sport-stopping news. Annually, the New England West 1 power located in Greenwich, Conn., takes the field with some of the best … [Read more...]