WESTERLY — Leadership awards by their very nature would seem to be reserved for the most experienced players.
WESTERLY — Westerly High senior Abi Turano is not among the top performers in the school's girls track program.
WESTERLY — For most of us, talking at too high a volume would not inspire any compliments.
WESTERLY — Gerry Auth had been searching for ways to keep his children and those on the various travel baseball and softball teams he coaches busy.
Fatts Russell will be back in Kingston next season.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — John Pellegrino has been at this for some time.
WESTERLY — Last spring, the Westerly High boys tennis team achieved the ultimate goal — the Bulldogs earned a championship.
STONINGTON — Two Stonington High cheerleaders have earned All-ECC first-team Division II recognition and a third received an honorable mention.
WESTERLY — Westerly High's girls lacrosse team appeared to have some big openings to fill this spring.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — In the college basketball recruiting game, the junior year is the most important year of the process.
Westerly High will take on Chariho High in the first round on Wednesday.
STONINGTON — Natalie Lucy and her husband, John, were never ones to just drop off their children at practice or sit in the stands and watch on game day.
CHARLESTOWN — For some, the exposure to volleyball usually goes like this: In the summer at a family gathering someone puts up a net and everyone joins in to play. Getting it across the net becomes an adventure. Some play seriously; most do not.
WESTERLY — It was January and Westerly High senior Anna Cozzolino still didn't know where she was going to college.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — The University of Rhode Island picked up another player from the transfer market on Saturday as guard Allen Betrand announced his committment on Instagram.
WESTERLY — In softball, players have a responsibility to remind each other what is happening in the game. And they are duty-bound to motivate each other.
STONINGTON — Stonington High's Zach Scott had pretty much decided college basketball was not going to be in his future.
No fastballs popping catcher’s mitts. No spikes slamming into the floor. No sidearm blasts finding the back of the lacrosse net.
WESTERLY — Anthony Durante didn't really expect college football to be a part of his future.
Spring sports in Connecticut have been canceled after Gov. Ned Lamont ended in-person classes at all public schools for the remainder of the school year on Tuesday due to the coronavirus pandemic.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Chariho High's softball team has accomplished a lot in the previous three seasons.
The New England Collegiate Baseball League — home of the Newport Gulls, Ocean State Waves and Mystic Schooners — announced Friday night that its 2020 season is canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. The decision was made in a video conference call of league board members and officials.
Bob White was happy to pass the torch.
WESTERLY — For the longest time, Nick Turo was a football player.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Wrestling has been such a large part of Dominic Bonanno's life that he wasn't ready to see it end.
WESTERLY — Dakota Busch has probably hit that shot hundreds of times in her tennis career.
WESTERLY — This was not the Senior Night the players on the Westerly High baseball team envisioned for themselves.
Westerly High will remain in Division II and Chariho High will stay in Division III under a football realignment plan approved last week.
NORTH STONINGTON — High school cheering is all about the team. Everyone has a role.
The Rhode Island Interscholastic League made it official Friday morning cancelling spring sports.
Spring sports took a pretty big hit in both Rhode Island and Connecticut on Thursday.
WESTERLY — Westerly High's 4x800 relay team earned second-team All-State recognition after its finish at the state championship meet.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Four Chariho High athletes earned postseason honors for the indoor track team this season.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Chariho High's Kyle Merritt believes there is still much more that he can accomplish on a wrestling mat.
WESTERLY — Sydney Federico has a family tree rooted deep in Westerly High's athletic history.
STONINGTON — Lucas Huesman spent Saturday competing in a 25-mile cycling race with riders from all over the country and possibly the world.
STONINGTON — Leslie Gomes doesn't hesitate when asked to compare this season to the others she has experienced during her 27 years as Stonington High's gymnastics coach.
WARWICK — So far, so good in the R.I. Interscholastic League’s quest to iron out an high school football realignment proposal, after the Principals’ Committee on Athletics earlier in the week cast a 9-6 vote to deny the initial recommendation.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — The NFL Draft broadcast is usually background noise in the University of Rhode Island football offices, sound low, while coaches work through spring practice duties.
WESTERLY — First and foremost, Westerly High's Joe Fusaro wanted to find a college that met his needs.
STONINGTON — Stonington High's Sarah Flakus and Rhys Hammond are the school's CAS-CIAC scholar-athletes for this year.
SOUTH KINGSTOWN — The revolving door continues to spin in the University of Rhode Island men’s basketball team’s busy off-season.
WESTERLY — Westerly High's Patrick Murphy spent most of his high school basketball career playing out of position.
NORTH STONINGTON — Wheeler High's Amanda Regine and Bowen Baker both took different paths, but they arrived at the same place.
While the hope for spring high school sports still exists, the possibility of it happening in Connecticut took a bit of a hit on Thursday.
STONINGTON — Stonington High's Rhys Hammond learned a valuable lesson at the State Open outdoor track championships last spring.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Since he first started playing soccer as a child, Devan Jessop has always wanted to play at the Division I collegiate level.
The hope for a spring 2020 season for Rhode Island high school athletes remains alive.
NORTH STONINGTON — Wheeler High's junior post player Molly Butremovic received ECC Division IV girls basketball honorable mention recognition this season.
Within R.I. high school sports circles, Henry Coleman holds the rank of unofficial resident historian.
WESTERLY — Westerly High's Derek Mason has never lacked for desire.
WESTERLY — For Westerly High's Chas Morgan, college basketball has always been a part of the plan.
WESTERLY — Westerly High's twin sisters, Mackenzie and Jackie Fusaro, both brought a lot of intensity to the floor for the girls basketball team this season.
WESTERLY — When Westerly High junior Melanie Gomes was a freshman, girls swim coach Jim Knaff worked with her to develop goals.
Monday’s announcement concerning the continuation of distance learning through the month of April should be interpreted as a minor victory regarding the status of Rhode Island high school spring sports.
WESTERLY — Westerly High boys basketball coach Mike Gleason said senior Nick Lauzon was an easy choice to nominate for one of the scholarships awarded by the Rhode Island Basketball Coaches Association.
WOOD RIVER JCT. — Chariho High's longtime wrestling coach, Scott Merritt, refers to the five All-State wrestlers on this year's team as the Fab Five.