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After a 6-4 football season in which their defense played a starring role, the Westhill Vikings will have a new man at the helm for the 2018 campaign. Joe DeVellis, the Vikings’ defensive coordinator for the three years, was named the head coach of Westhill football, taking over for Frank Marcucio, who resigned last week. … Read more
The Staples girls’ tennis team and Staples boys’ tennis team both won state class team championships, Evan Felcher of Staples was the State Open individual boys singles champion, while girls and boys doubles teams from the FCIAC won State Open titles to highlight the dominance of the conference at state championship tennis tournaments. Hanna Bjorkman … Read more
Former FCIAC commissioner John Kuczo will be among the inductees into the Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame as the Class of 2018 was announced on Wednesday. Kuczo will be inducted into the J. Walter Kennedy Community Service Wing, alongside his father, the late Paul Kuczo, Sr. Former Trinity Catholic and UConn basketball star Rashamael … Read more
Bobby Neuner, Darien Boys Tennis Among the best tennis players ever from the FCIAC, Bobby has a cumulative GPA of 3.86 while taking AP and Honors courses throughout his high school career and he has a score of 1,530 on his SAT. He has played No. 1 singles all four years for Darien’s varsity program … Read more
School Championships Runner-up Total New Canaan 158 59 217 Darien 145 60 205 Greenwich 141 59 200 Staples 123 62 185 Danbury 130 50 180 Wilton 80 33 113 Ridgefield 58 37 95 St. Joseph 62 28 90 Trinity 32 19 51 Trumbull 22 25 47 Warde 14 25 39 Norwalk 13 18 31 Westhill … Read more
The HAN Network announced this week that it is exiting the live sports broadcasting business and suspending its broadcast operations. This decision comes at the completion of a 3-year contract with the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference for the rights to broadcast high school sports for member schools, as well as the conference playoffs and … Read more
A pair of teams from the FCIAC – the New Canaan girls golf team and the Greenwich boys golf team – each won state championships at their respective state tournaments. Jackson Fretty fired a 3-under-par 68 to win medalist honors by two strokes and teammate Benjamin Ropiak tied for third place with a 71 to … Read more
The FCIAC dominated the state’s boys lacrosse tournaments this spring, taking home a pair of championships — Ridgefield in Class L and St. Joseph in Class S — and putting three teams in the final four of the Class L playoffs. The conference had 29 players honored by the Connecticut High School Coaches Association. In … Read more
2018 RALPH KING AWARD The FCIAC will annually recognize someone who has made substantial contributions to the FCIAC with the distinguished coach award named for Ralph King, whose professionalism was characterized by excellence in service to the FCIAC, the CHSCA and the CIAC. Nick Zeoli Nick Zeoli spent his professional career at Wilton H.S. from … Read more
The FCIAC will celebrate the past and present with its annual recognition program Thursday night at the Norwalk Inn. The highlight of the festivities will be the FCIAC Hall of Fame inductions, and the Class of 2018 features six honorees: Mario Caminiti, Jim Gerweck, Ed Huydic, Sheila Moffett, Rick Shook and Betsy Underhill. To see … Read more