Person of the Week • Published Nov 18, 2024 10 pm
By John Lecardo
Family and swimming have gone hand-in-hand for Sami Chemacki’s athletic life. She was influenced by her immediate family to dive into the lanes, and through that, she has...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 04, 2024 03 pm
By John Lecardo
Whenever Ethan Skonieczny steps onto a soccer field, he keeps his objective simple in winning the day. It has been that slow and steady approach that has led to him being...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 24, 2024 12 am
By John Lecardo
Kenny Carter’s athletic career has seen many twists and turns. Yet through it all, he remained true to his first and true love, and he has used his athleticism and intens...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 15, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
No matter his travels, both in his personal or athletic life, Ernesto Barrosa has always utilized his passion to perform to his max potential as a lifelong lover of socce...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 08, 2024 02 pm
By John Lecardo
Jack Rickleman has immersed himself in the tradition of the Hand boys’ cross country program, as he has seen some great campaigns in his three prior seasons. He is utiliz...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 24, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
It started with a simple decision to stay in shape about 30 years ago. But for Bruce Beebe, the choice turned out to be one of the more pivotal moments in his life that l...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 17, 2024 12 pm
By John Lecardo
Piper Lea fell in love with the game of soccer essentially from birth. And her passion for the pitch carried across the pond–moving over the Atlantic and finding a new ho...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 27, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
When it comes to the tennis court, Antoinette Lowy loves the feeling of independence while not having to experience the pinch of a time crunch. The liberating journey has...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 20, 2024 12 pm
By John Lecardo
There is always the saying of the sophomore slump, but Claire Levis went the exact opposite way. She experienced a sophomore surge by establishing herself as an underclas...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 13, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Golf is a sport that can call for a great deal of experimentation as a prerequisite to learning the courses. For Matt McManus, he has seen that up close and personal whil...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 06, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
Confidence is something that can carry any athlete through so much adversity, especially when all eyes are on you for every twist and turn of a game. For Paul Calandrelli...
Person of the Week • Published Jul 23, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
Karen Newton recently wrapped up one of the more successful collegiate careers, topped off by a prodigious senior capstone campaign. She set new team records for one of t...
Person of the Week • Published Jul 16, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Jack Orlando has stayed poised and composed under pressure, regardless of the circumstances. And so it comes as little shock that his teammates followed his flow and foug...
Person of the Week • Published Jun 18, 2024 12 pm
By John Lecardo
Sometimes the best tennis player can be someone who is a tactician and is calculated and quiet before making a move. For Juliana Jorens, she has utilized all of those tra...
Person of the Week • Published May 24, 2024 10 am
By John Lecardo
Sometimes in sports, the athletes that occupy the defensive positions often do the little things that do not get top billing recognition in the highlight reels or stat bo...
Person of the Week • Published May 21, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
In order to climb the ladder in the sport of tennis, one must possess a cool head during the pressure-packed moments under the warm spring sun. For Ella Helfrich, the com...
Person of the Week • Published May 14, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
With a game predicated on averages as a barometer of success, baseball can bring about the best and worst of times in the same day. Yet for Ben Kuja, he welcomes the adve...
Person of the Week • Published May 07, 2024 11 am
By John Lecardo
Playing as part of a doubles pairing in tennis is arguably the best lesson about the values and benefits of teamwork. For Teagan Ariyan, she has harnessed the superb skil...
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 13, 2023 02 pm
By John Lecardo
Growing up, Lilly McFadden looked to emulate the players on the pitch she viewed through the comfort of her own home, though once she got into the field herself, she trul...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 15, 2023 10 am
By John Lecardo
Arguably one of the biggest comeback stories within the Southern Connecticut Conference for girls’ soccer this fall was the re-emergence of Rory Parri, who not only retur...
Person of the Week • Published Nov 02, 2023 04 pm
By John Lecardo
Sometimes the greatest individual masteries of a skill come from an athlete that leaves themselves open to all channels and avenues in order to strengthen their acumen an...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 24, 2023 11 am
By John Lecardo
Towards the end of junior high, Jordan Kells was unsure if she had found her athletic habitat with field hockey, but after finding the right spark, she stuck with it and ...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 20, 2023 06 pm
By John Lecardo
Football has always been a game of inches, and the closest band of brothers who buckle down and focus in on the finite points of preparation are typically the ones who su...
Person of the Week • Published Oct 06, 2023 04 pm
By John Lecardo
Often in athletics, it is the moments of effort and work put forth when the focus is off an athlete that mean the most. It has certainly been the case for Owen Preskar, a...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 27, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
A veteran of the sport, Laila Haraj-Sai knows full well that there is another tier of preparation on multiple facets of the body and spirit when it comes to settling into...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 22, 2023 04 pm
By John Lecardo
At the onset of his high school career, Jack Shay’s athletic sojourn took quite a dramatic detour, as he traded the pitch and the soccer ball for being a signal caller wi...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 12, 2023 11 am
By John Lecardo
When it comes to the sport of soccer, Danny McSweeney takes time to enjoy the production that goes into each pitch appearance for a group that is often unseen by the spec...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 09, 2023 08 am
By John Lecardo
The pride and passion for the pitch have been present in the collective pulse of Santi Barrera from a very young age, and as he has grown and come of age, it has just bec...
Person of the Week • Published Sep 01, 2023 06 am
By John Lecardo
Antonio Lynk has never not had a baseball in his hand, while simultaneously housing the drive and determination to improve and succeed on his skills. This was quite evide...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 23, 2023 06 am
By John Lecardo
As a pitcher, Shailen Pathy is at the epicenter of the physical chess game that is the sport of baseball, though it is that test of cerebral and physical fitness that mot...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 18, 2023 04 pm
By John Lecardo
Confidence can play a key and critical role in the success of an athlete, and for Kasimir Lesnik, securing some swagger in himself helped find his swing and drive the Han...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 09, 2023 07 am
By John Lecardo
Spiro Maniatis always drew great adulation for lacrosse through its frenetic pace of play, and that was quite evident as he was consistently quick on the draw as a fantas...
Person of the Week • Published Aug 02, 2023 11 am
By John Lecardo
When it came to finding her proper avenue in athletics, the right route for Loden Bradstreet was always, forever, and only tennis. And she made that quite evident by blaz...
Person of the Week • Published Jul 18, 2023 12 pm
By John Lecardo
Libby Rogers loved playing the game of tennis with her family and friends throughout her childhood, and the ability to bond with others through the volleys, balls and bas...
Person of the Week • Published Jun 27, 2023 12 pm
By John Lecardo
Alex Cushing craves the need for speed when it comes to his attraction to the game of lacrosse, and his high-octane outlook as a player and competitor fueled his fire qui...
Person of the Week • Published Jun 11, 2023 09 am
By John Lecardo
As an infielder, Cole Daignault is used to taking some shots off the crack of the bat. Yet he truly showcased his durability as a competitor and dedication as a leader by...
