East Region Fairfield Ludlowe Live Streaming 7-v-7 Football, Boys and Girls Soccer, Field Hockey, Girls Volleyball NFHS Network – Minimal Cost Fairfield Prep Live Streaming: 7-v-7 Football, Boys Soccer Link: Fairfield Prep Athletics on YouTube Fairfield Warde HS TBD St. Joseph Live Streaming: 7-v-7 Football NFHS Network – Minimal Cost St. Joseph website has YouTube … Read more
Jeff Gee Wilton Girls Cross Country, Indoor track, Outdoor Track Years as head coach: Cross Country 33 years, Indoor Track 25 years, Outdoor Track 35 years Full-time profession: Graphic Design- Athletic Marketing and screen printing From the coach: “Married to wife Tracy – a midwife – we spend as much time as possible at our … Read more
David Nulf Fairfield Ludlowe Boys Indoor and Outdoor Track and Field Years as head coach: 17 Other sports coached or currently coaching: Assistant coach for boys soccer for many years; currently assistant coach for cross country. Full-time profession: English Teacher at Fairfield-Ludlowe HS From the coach: “I live in Fairfield with my wife and our … Read more
Recent Fairfield Ludlowe gradate Tess Stapleton has been named the 2019-20 Gatorade Connecticut Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year. The Gatorade Company, in its 35th year of honoring the nation’s best high school athletes, made the announcement Thursday. Stapleton is the first Gatorade Connecticut Girls Track & Field Athlete of the Year to … Read more
Patrick Bradley Brien McMahon Boys and girls cross country (5 years), boys indoor track and field (11 years), boys outdoor track and field (11 years) Years as head coach: 13 years Other sports coached or currently coaching: Boys freshman football (8 Years) Full-time profession: Social Studies Teacher at Brien McMahon From the coach: “I am … Read more
Laddie Lawrence Staples Boys cross country, boys indoor track and field, and boys outdoor track and field Years as head coach: Cross country – 49; Indoor track and field – 51; Outdoor track and field – 44 Other sports you have coached or are currently coaching: Girls cross country and girls indoor track and field … Read more
Jim Gerweck Wilton Boys Track and Field Years as head coach: On and off – almost 40 years Other sports coached or currently coaching: Boys cross country and indoor track, and a few years of field hockey and girls lacrosse Full-time profession: Journalist, graphic designer, running event organizer. From the coach: “Everything touches on running … Read more
When the final two weeks of 2019-20 winter high school sports season were cancelled because of the coronavirus pandemic, what was assured was that four of the eight sports sanctioned by the CIAC had teams win state championships and the other four sports were unable to finish their state tournaments or championship meets. The winter … Read more
Tess Stapleton of Fairfield Ludlowe broke a 21-year-old State Open meet record in the 55-meter hurdles and was the meet’s only double individual champion, having also won the long jump. And one week later she became the New England champion in both events with a pair of personal-best performances. Those were the major achievements which … Read more
Virtual meetings are a big part of the new normal. CIAC executive director Glenn Lungarini estimates he is on between two or three per day. Sometimes, he is “meeting” with school principals. Other times, it is with sports league commissioners. He is on weekly calls with Miguel Cardona, the Connecticut commissioner of education and every … Read more