The Darien Blue Wave capped a phenomenal boys volleyball season by sweeping past East Hartford, 3-0, to win the CIAC Class L championship Thursday night in East Haven. The second-seeded Wave defeated No. 4 East Hartford by scores of 25-14, 25-19, and 25-16. It was Darien’s third state championship and its first since 2011, when … Read more
The 22nd annual FCIAC Golf Tournament will be held on Monday, June 19, at the E. Gaynor Brennan Golf Course in Stamford. Registration is $150 per person and the deadline for entry is June 9. The registration fee includes lunch at noon, and dinner in the evening. The 18 hole tournament will begin with a … Read more
The Darien Blue Wave rallied from a 2-0 deficit and edged the Ridgefield Tigers, 3-2, in a fantastic match during the CIAC Class L boys volleyball semifinals Monday at Fairfield-Warde High School. Ridgefield won a close first set, ran away with the second and had a 20-14 lead in the third to push the Blue … Read more
The final week of the spring sports season begins today and the FCIAC has plenty of action on tap, with 17 teams playing in the state semifinals in five sports. Monday’s action included a head-to-head conference match-up i boys volleyball as No. 3 Ridgefield takes on No. 2 Darien in the CIAC Class L semis at … Read more
Kinsley Maloney, Brien McMahon Kinsley is a two-year captain of the cheerleading team who takes pride in her team’s biggest accomplishment of placing third in its division at the U.S. Finals at Virginia Beach. Her team also was runner-up at a major competition at Quinnipiac University and made it to this year’s “Team of the … Read more
The FCIAC is partnering with Mission, the Adventure Project and the CT Challenge to help spread the word about what they do to help young cancer fighters in our area. The Mission Training Center, located in Southport, offers these young people training in the areas of exercise, nutrition and mind body health in neutralizing many … Read more
An all-conference boys lacrosse clash will be featured on the HAN network, as the Greenwich Cardinals take on the unbeaten Darien Blue Wave in the CIAC Class L quarterfinals at 3 p.m., Saturday. Greenwich is the No. 8 seed and owns a record of 14-5. The Cardinals edged the Staples Wreckers, 12-11, in the opening … Read more
Click here for team and individual scorecards 1 – New Canaan 338 Meghan Mitchell 80 Morgan Hibbert 85 Lauren Capone 86 Tessa Piontkowski 87 Alex Esposito 119 2 – Greenwich 355 Sydney Nethercott 85 Gracie Sunoo 89 Amanda Yu 89 Ashley Feighery 92 Jane Giuliani 106 3 – Warde 361 Jessica Nuzzaci 87 Emily Healy … Read more
As a graduate of Stamford Catholic High School (later known as Trinity Catholic High School) in 1967, who would have guessed that Al Malizia would return to his alma mater as a teacher and a coach? In 1979, Malizia began his 22-year tenure as the head coach of the girls varsity volleyball team, during which … Read more
Marj Trifone has been a dedicated swim coach since 1985. Starting as the head coach at the Middlesex Swim Club during summers, she quickly became the head girls’ coach at Darien High School in 1999. Over the past 18 years, she has achieved great things at Darien, being named FCIAC Coach of the Year three … Read more