Person of the Week • Published Apr 23, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Through hurdles he has been dealing with since birth, Ben Washburne found great solace and sanctuary from it all through the sport of rowing. And it has been his near lif...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 23, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
One of the programs on the rise in the competitive cheerleading world in the Southern Connecticut Conference after this past winter was the Branford cheerleading team. A ...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 23, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Emma Reilly craves the competition when it comes to gymnastics, but she also enjoys the free flowing and creative elements of the sport. Both of those facets of the mat b...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 23, 2024 11 am
By Maria Cipriano
Giovanna Silva has always had a knack for athletics. Over the years of partaking in a variety of different circuits, she has grown into a well-rounded athlete that has ut...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 16, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
One of the bigger stories within the room of a young Hand wrestling team was the emergence of a freshman phenom in Evelyn Lavigne. In only a single season, she has broken...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 16, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Whether you are running full steam ahead in your own lane, or waiting for your leg of a relay race to take off, track and field can be a physically grueling and mentally ...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 16, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
For Ryan Bernardo, his youthful upbringing was an athletic one with quite a bit of winning surrounding it. Even with that early success, he still stayed humble and hard-w...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 09, 2024 02 am
By John Lecardo
For Gunnar Howes, he has become a seemingly permanent fixture in the postseason landscape of Connecticut high school wrestling at both the Class S and State Open tiers. H...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 09, 2024 02 am
By John Lecardo
For the Branford cheerleading team, it had to endure many twists and turns this season. Though in the end, it all came together in the best way possible–thanks in large p...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 09, 2024 02 am
By Maria Cipriano
Wesley “Wes” Percival was meant to play sports. He has showcased his skills in various athletic avenues over the years, and his athleticism led him to be trusted as a str...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 09, 2024 02 am
By John Lecardo
Mason Mansur has stayed grounded in a short stint with wrestling and taken things with a piecemeal approach. That head space has allowed him to get a leg up on his compet...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 02, 2024 11 am
By Maria Cipriano
The Guilford Grizzlies coed wrestling team has found a lot of success over the years, both in the growth of individual athletes, as well as the team accomplishments. Head...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 02, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Emily Gu has grasped the essential skills of fencing in order to master it and become a pivotal piece of the burgeoning North Branford fencing team. Yet even more crucial...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 02, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Emi Bisson spent her tenure with Valley Regional being one of the more stronger and decorated players in the girls’ lacrosse program. Utilizing the ultimate asset of conf...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 02, 2024 11 am
Carlina Castro was born to run. As a versatile athlete who displays quite the endurance and dedication on multiple running circuits, she has earned her way to an even big...
Person of the Week • Published Apr 02, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
It took the first decade of Ben Pollio’s life to find his haven athletically when he saw the fencing strip. In such a short time, he has harnessed the case study of each ...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 26, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
While only a young freshman, Peyton Dixon has the attitude of a savvy veteran when it comes to grappling with the sport of wrestling. She takes the workhorse mentality an...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 26, 2024 11 am
By Maria Cipriano
Lucas Ametrano has had baseball in his life for as long as he can remember. With talent that shines through no matter where he plays, he has been a key asset to the Guilf...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 26, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Lily Ardito treats her stature as an athlete like a temple with constant upkeep via moving year-round. Yet she never complains no matter how grueling the endeavor is and ...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 26, 2024 11 am
Good leaders in athletics can shine through in many different ways. They can have strong skills in competition and serve as role models for their teammates, or they can h...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 26, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Most recently, the East Haven track program saw one of its alumni in the field leap quite high in her collegiate career. Her efforts landed her the opportunity of a lifet...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 19, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
When diligence meets opportunity, there is no timeline that is too short to achieve the highest levels of success with any craft. For Hanley Tapia, he made the most of hi...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 19, 2024 11 am
Anna Fagan’s mind may have been made up for weeks, if not months. Still, the Guilford native felt like a weight was lifted off her shoulders when she formally decided in ...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 19, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
The cheerleading mat was Danielle Jones’ first home base for athletics. And more than a decade later, it has remained her lone nest for sports, but she has gained some en...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 19, 2024 11 am
By James Kidd
Being a three-sport athlete is challenging in itself, but performing well in all three takes an exceptional amount of hard work and leadership year-round. Brendan Cassell...
Person of the Week • Published Mar 19, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
The workhorse mentality that comes with wrestling is what drew Jack Fletcher to the mat. And with his dedication and persistence 365 days a year, he has established himse...
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 ...
