Sports
50 years later, how Title IX changed sports at Dartmouth and in the Upper Valley
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
Kylie Young first learned about Title IX as a Hartford High School senior, when she wrote a thesis on the U.S. women’s ice hockey team winning the gold medal at the 1998 Winter Olympics — the first year women’s hockey was played at the Games.For her...
Low-key sport pickleball sparks fervent passion among Upper Valley players, surges in popularity
By LIZ SAUCHELLI
WHITE RIVER JUNCTION — If you stop by the tennis courts at Maxfield Sports Complex anytime from dawn to dusk, there’s a good chance you’ll hear it: the gentle thwack of a hollow ball hitting a paddle.It sounds a little higher-pitched than a tennis...
Winslow wraps up 22 years with Hanover boys basketball
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
When Tim Winslow took over the Hanover High boys basketball program prior to the 2000-01 season, it was “unthinkable,” in rival Lebanon head coach Kieth Matte’s words, that the Marauders, as they were then known, would ever win a state championship.It...
Championship reflections: Hanover boys tennis built on camaraderie
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
After winning its first NHIAA state championship since 2013, and the first since moving up to Division I, the Hanover High boys tennis team celebrated in style.“We went to Buffalo Wild Wings,” senior Alex Rockmore said. “Is there anything else high...
Local Roundup: Hanover girls crew racks up medals at NEIRA Regatta
WORCESTER, Mass. — An extraordinary performance by the Hanover High School girls crew team on Saturday resulted in a silver and two bronze medals at the New England Interscholastic Rowing Association Regatta.“This has never happened in Hanover High...
First Person: Time winding down for interim Dartmouth AD Peter Roby
By TRIS WYKES
Peter Roby, Dartmouth’s interim athletic director and a former Big Green basketball standout, is nearing the end of his time on the job and said he expects an announcement about his permanent replacement to occur around June 1.Roby, 64, arrived in...
After crash at Claremont raceway, driver on the road to recovery
By PATRICK ADRIAN
CLAREMONT — Driver Tyler Lescord appears to be recovering well from injuries he sustained three weeks ago in a crash during a race at Claremont Motorsports Park, according to Lescord’s family and friends.On April 29, Lescord, 36, was driving in the...
Spring H.S. sports preview: Softball
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
Back after a yearlong absence due to the COVID-19 pandemic, several Upper Valley softball squads had seasons to remember in 2021, with Oxbow winning the VPA Division III state title and Windsor and White River Valley in the mix as well. Lebanon may...
Spring H.S. sports preview: Track and field
By PATRICK O’GRADY
Hanover Coach: Steve McConnell (9th year).League: NHIAA Division II.Last year: 11th at state meet with Ella Maclean, now at Southern Connecticut University, winning the 100-meter dash.Boys’ returners: Seniors — Taj Bagnato, Aidan Peterson, Sebastian...
High school basketball: Hanover girls complete undefeated run through Granite State, claim D-II state title
By TRIS WYKES
DURHAM, N.H. — Unbeaten. Undeniable. Unbowed. That was the Hanover High girls basketball team Sunday night as it routed Bow, 55-24, to claim the NHIAA Division II title at the University of New Hampshire’s Lundholm Gymnasium. The top-seeded squad...
Around the pool, details are a Staats matter
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
LEBANON — There’s no shortage of swimming experience on the Hanover High coaching staff.Head coach Sean Uiterwyk competed at Boston College from 1992-96. Diving coach Carl Renshaw both swam and dove at Carlton College in the 1980s, and Linda Bedford,...
Once-dilapidated Nansen Ski Jumps returning to competitive use
By BARBARA TETREAULT
MILAN, N.H. — Competitive ski jumping will return to the Mount Washington Valley this weekend at the Nansen Ski Jumps after a 37-year lapse, and one can feel the excitement.Jumpers from across New England will compete on the newly created 39-meter and...
Generation of Lyme soccer players credits nonprofit founder with teaching the game
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
The Hanover High boys’ soccer team may not have won the NHIAA Division I state championship, falling in a heartbreaker in 11 rounds of penalty kicks to Nashua South on Nov. 5. But for several Hanover players, the journey’s end under the bright lights...
Tunbridge hunters bag 900-pound bull moose in Maine
By BENJAMIN ROSENBERG
In more than 30 years of hunting together, John Durkee and Alan Stender had never had a trip quite like their expedition in western Maine last month.Durkee, an accountant and former volunteer fire chief in Tunbridge, received a permit to hunt bull...
Jim Kenyon: Dartmouth hands its football coach a win at home
By JIM KENYON
In January 2005, then-Dartmouth Athletic Director Josie Harper announced that Buddy Teevens had agreed to return to his alma mater as football coach. When asked, Harper wouldn’t go into the specifics of Teevens’ contract, such as how long it was for,...
Strangers team up to carry rottweiler named Odin down Mount Washington
By RAY DUCKLER
She bought the dog harness two years ago, unsure if she’d ever use it.But Jeannine Robbins, of Thornton, N.H., knew that it was a good idea, that someday she might need one for her golden retriever, Appa.She never figured, however, that the harness...
Former TSA basketball star takes a long detour in hopes of playing in D-I
By GREG FENNELL
The route Tyler Chapin has chosen to follow in search of college basketball opportunities has hit a few bumps along the way.A Chelsea native who spent the past two winters pouring in points at Sharon Academy, Chapin retains a goal of playing NCAA...
Dartmouth athletic director retires in wake of Title IX debacle
By PETE NAKOS
HANOVER — Dartmouth College on Tuesday said that Harry Sheehy will retire from his post as athletic director this month after more than a decade on the job. The news comes in the wake of the college’s announcement that it would reinstate five varsity...
Hanover removes Seibel as girls lacrosse coach after seven seasons
By TRIS WYKES
HANOVER — Chris Seibel has been removed as Hanover High’s girls lacrosse coach, a month before his eighth season was to begin. Marauders athletic director Megan Sobel confirmed the move in a one-sentence email last week that provided no other...
New coach, new promise for Kimball Union boys basketball
By ADAM BOFFEY
MERIDEN — Cory McClure is off to a good start at Kimball Union Academy.The new boys basketball coach has the Wildcats sitting at 15-3 with 10 games left in the New England Preparatory School Athletic Council Class AA regular season. KUA extended its...
