WESTPORT — The past two years, the Ridgefield field hockey team has been yearning for a little Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference respect, to be considered in the same conversation with FCIAC powerhouses Staples, Darien and New Canaan. On Tuesday, after losing twice to the Wreckers in the regular season, the third time was the … Read more
WESTPORT — Across the top of the Staples girls volleyball team’s stat sheets are headings for typical categories such as kills, serves, blocks, and digs. Under serve receive, however, the subset gets quirky — there are spaces marked good, bad and ugly. At the end of Tuesday afternoon’s FCIAC Central Region championship match against Ridgefield, … Read more
WILTON — When today’s FCIAC Central Region girls soccer semifinal was all said and done, Ridgefield had earned a berth in Thursday’s final against top seed Staples with a victory over Wilton that was decided on penalty kicks (0-0, 6-5 PK). But things were certainly looking bleak for the No. 2-seeded Tigers heading into overtime. … Read more
Like most best friends, Rylie Giles and Hannah Seward share a lot in common. The Ridgefield High School seniors are teammates on the Tigers’ girls swimming team and also test their skills together for Ridgefield Aquatic Club. They both excelled for the Tigers at high school championship meets in season’s past and they are among … Read more
Shaun Gallagher Ridgefield Boys ice hockey Years as head coach: 13 Other sports coached or currently coaching: Girls varsity golf (head coach, 5 seasons), and Girls varsity ice hockey (assistant coach, 3 seasons), both at Ridgefield HS. Coaching youth hockey year-round at various levels has also been a large part of my life for the … Read more
The FCIAC has a long and proud tradition of having plenty of the best boys high school lacrosse players in the country. Some recent examples which confirm that were the many former conference players who were on the rosters of the best college programs in the country and especially with the six former FCIAC players … Read more
Kevin Callahan Ridgefield Football Years as head coach: 20 years at Ridgefield and 28 years overall Other sports coached or currently coaching: Boys swimming and indoor and outdoor track and field Full-time profession: Physical Education Teacher and also has been a dean of students From the coach: “I have been married for 35 years to … Read more
Notre Dame-Fairfield maintained its No. 1 ranking while three FCIAC teams – No. 4 Staples, seventh-ranked Trumbull and No. 9 Ridgefield – were ranked among the top nine in the GameTimeCT Top 10 Girls Basketball Poll which was released March 1 on the eve of state tournament play. Three more FCIAC teams were in the … Read more
When the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference announced last Tuesday morning that due to the coronavirus it was canceling the remainder of the state tournaments for several sports, the season came to sudden end. Among those affected was the Ridgefield boys basketball team, which had just repeated as conference champions and was set to begin the … Read more
WILTON — History was cloaked in orange and black. The Ridgefield boys basketball program captured its third FCIAC title in four years by outlasting Trinity Catholic, 63-58, in the conference championship final Thursday night at Wilton’s Zeoli Fieldhouse. Click here for more