Person of the Week • Published Mar 12, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
The dance floor is a harbor for constant hustle and a multitude of movements. For Sadie Zalewski, she is a consistent locomotive–never stopping or leaning on past laurels...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 12, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
In a short span, Kendall Dobratz has established herself as a preeminent goalscorer in the Connecticut girls’ ice hockey landscape. Yet no matter how many accolades or la...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 12, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Growing up, the influence of his family weighed heavily on the eventual path that led to Ibby Davila sticking with basketball for his entire upbringing and athletic life....
Person of the Week • Published Mar 05, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
One sport on a rapid rise across the landscape of the United States is water polo. For one local junior high student, he has ridden the wave of the game’s growth, and ear...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 05, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
No matter how much energy her rigorous training regimen drains out of her, Joelle Budz’s drive is kept in motion by the fact that she is well aware it is all worth it in ...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 05, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
When it comes to her skill set and acumen with the game of lacrosse, Rowan Pilon takes a slow but steady approach of improving herself every instance of every day. That g...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 05, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
In only his second season within the sport of wrestling, and his team’s only second campaign as a full-fledged program, Tyler DiMauro has already assumed a leadership rol...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 27, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Swagger can often steady a ship when it comes to an athlete’s journey throughout the fast moving waters of basketball. For Sam Markovitz, he fosters that confidence to cu...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 27, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Sam Gott looks at the world of competitive running and track through the prism of stress and anxiety relief, along with constructing connections. He has utilized that ess...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 27, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
The game of baseball often imitates life and instills great lessons from it. It often showcases the idea that when you persist with positivity, you can truly ascend. This...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 27, 2024 11 am
By Maria Cipriano
Running is considered to be an individual sport, but there is also very much a team aspect to the game, too. Lauren Dobratz understands this sentiment all too well, as sh...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 27, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
On the ice, it takes a leader to be cool, calm, and composed, while moving swiftly and smartly with each maneuver. Michael Savo toes that fine line of balance with great ...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 20, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
For Abbey Richard, she certainly loves the grind of the physical nature of basketball while banging on the glass for boards. Still, she appreciates additional offensive f...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 20, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Enaji Muhammad just naturally loved the ability to leap. So when he saw he could actually put that attribute to an athletic competition, it was a move that was anything b...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 20, 2024 11 am
By Maria Cipriano
Ava Johnson has been connected to basketball for the majority of her young life. The desire she has to constantly be on the court has made her a true and dedicated leader...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 20, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
For any cheerleading squad to be successful, there needs to often be a solid foundation for their routine at competitions. But on a micro level personally, Ava Guarniere ...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 12, 2024 03 am
Guilford senior Paul Greenleaf is one of the most recent area athletes to commit to college for a team sport, but it wasn’t for football, basketball, baseball, or even ho...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 12, 2024 12 am
By John Lecardo
No matter how many solo accolades she has racked up in the gym, Hadley Reiss knows all too well that none of them would have been possible without the nurturing encourage...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 12, 2024 12 am
By John Lecardo
The sport of running can often exhibit the purest form of athleticism and competition, as it is the body and the mind waging war. Tess Wasiolek has grasped that concept, ...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 12, 2024 12 am
By John Lecardo
Throughout his youth, middle school, and high school tenures in each, Brendan Grudberg has seen many ups and downs along the court. Yet he has remained steadfast, with a ...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 06, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Swimming is one of the few high school sports where an individual athlete can see instant, clear, and tangible evidence of proof of the hard work put forth in the pool. F...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 06, 2024 11 am
To be a good leader means one shows a lot of characteristics, such as confidence, talent, determination, and care for those around them. All of these and more are display...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 06, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Many times in sports, tales of triumph over adversity are often told on terrains of competition. Yet for Eric Zielinski’s story, he has penned an ultimate comeback volume...
Person of the Week • Published Feb 06, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Anyone can be a prolific scorer on the basketball court. Yet Jason Chapman is the ultimate gamer and strives for excellence–knowing it takes proficiency on the other end ...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 30, 2024 12 am
By John Lecardo
The ability to swiftly erase errors from one’s mind frame is a crucial component for any young leader of a group or team. Thomas McCullough knows that as a spry signal ca...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 30, 2024 12 am
By John Lecardo
When it comes to raising his spirits and his game in the midst of competition, few will surpass Jack O’Brien. In terms of hustle, effort, and drive to leave no stone untu...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 30, 2024 12 am
By John Lecardo
No matter where the ball lands once he fires it from his hands, whether off the iron or tickling the twine, Noah Dolinsky takes a new piece of information from each strik...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 30, 2024 12 am
By Maria Cipriano
There are certain people in life who are meant to lead, no matter what situation you put them in. That exact sentiment applies to Leticia Pires, who has made her mark as ...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 30, 2024 12 am
By John Lecardo
Quite often in all facets of life, passion can drive progress when it comes to mastery of a particular craft or hobby. For Jace Iamunno, his love to lace up his grappling...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 30, 2024 12 am
Guilford native John Luke Cianciolo had an unusual collegiate baseball career. From first baseman, to catcher, to pitcher, John Luke displayed and demonstrated a versatil...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 23, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
Basketball is an imperfect game, with many flaws that can occur in a given play. It serves as a great metaphor for life in making the best out of any setbacks or disappoi...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 23, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
The bounce of the basketball vibrated loudly in Ava Johnson’s blood, as she discovered at a young age. But as she grew in the game, the blood pumped through her heart and...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 23, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
In many tasks and skills in life, the wherewithal to excel in it is quite often not enough. And so, one additionally needs the correct function and form to thrive. This i...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 23, 2024 10 am
Maeve Madura approached her senior season on the athletic circuit with a different mindset and renewed focus. Realizing that this would be her final go-around with the Mo...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 23, 2024 10 am
Athletes can go through many athletic endeavors in their youth, and eventually, they begin to identify the sports that most resonate with them. This was the case for Ava ...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 16, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
There is not a single minute, nor solitary second, or any day, where Josh Colandrea is not contemplating some fact of the sport of swimming. It is that unnerving dedicati...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 16, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Joy Deng only just recently got into the sport of fencing upon her arrival into the Nutmeg State. Yet she has certainly made up for lost time, while grasping the essentia...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 16, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Cade Ensinger underwent a maturation process during his time at Valley Regional into a leader and First Team all-league competitor. Yet now as a Warrior of a different il...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 16, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Fencing is an avenue of competition where one can truly express themselves individually, both with physical prowess and mental acumen. Ayla Sivri has done just that with ...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 09, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Adam Signorello relished more in the wherewithal required to complete a mission, rather than the destination–pushing him to perform in the pool on a consistent basis dail...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 09, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
The frenetic pace of the game of basketball works Emma Preiss up into a frenzy, and truly houses the source of her passion for the court. She loves the sport, along with ...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 09, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Lorenzo Defilio is a great advocate of the communal concept of a hockey squad, along with the satisfying feeling of winning–two things he is experiencing a great wealth o...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 03, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
Balancing life as both a three-season athlete and student, Ava Davies truly sees how every piece must be in place, and how one must utilize each moment of every day to it...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 03, 2024 10 am
By Maria Cipriano
Lacrosse is a passion that goes unmatched for Sam Jewett. From playing the sport himself, to becoming a mentor for younger players, he has made an indelible mark on the G...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 03, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
Basketball has been in Shelby Burnham’s blood ever since she could remember, and the beat of the rock unlocked her full and unearthed passion for the paint, and heart for...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 03, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
When it comes to Valley Unified Sports, there is not a contest or competition that Allison Connell has not conquered and mastered. Yet more importantly, she has done it w...
Person of the Week • Published Jan 03, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
Rachel Adams is a determined individual who never takes her foot off the gas when it comes to perfecting a craft or learning a new skill. Naturally, the sport of fencing,...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 27, 2023 12 pm
By John Lecardo
No matter how dark things appeared to be a year ago as she missed her junior campaign, Jacqueline Kennedy stayed a persistent source of positivity for her Hand field hock...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 27, 2023 12 pm
By John Lecardo
They say that home is where the heart is, and for Ryan Jones, that beat sounded true within the Branford football program. He was motivated and impassioned by his peers a...
Person of the Week • Published Dec 27, 2023 12 pm
By John Lecardo
Dog has been championed as man’s best friend, with a special bond that is shared between both parties. Yet for Ainsley Strecker, she is adding an addendum to that express...