The Barre Auditorium was heating up despite punishingly cold winter conditions outside. The number four seed Mid-Vermont Christian School (MVCS) Eagles took on the number one Richford Falcons in a battle of high soaring offenses and tight clawing defenses.
Shut out of tourney play because they wouldn’t play against a team with a male player, Mid-Vermont Christian was reinstated after a court settlement and is now vying for the state championship.
Three years after being banned from all extracurricular activities, including sports by the Vermont Principals’ Association, the Mid Vermont Christian School is headed back to the post season girls basketball tournament.
Ogden’s multifaceted approach suggests that success in elite skiing doesn’t require single-minded focus on the sport alone, but rather the integration of diverse skills and interests.
Nine current or former students from the University of Vermont are set to compete in the 2026 Winter Olympics, which will take place in Northern Italy with competition starting Thursday, February 5 and running through February 22.
Mountain safety often exists in a grey area where speed, visibility, and spatial awareness intersect.
Wesley MacIntyre, a Vermont State University – Lyndon junior, is leading the nation in scoring, according to a January 28 Caledonian-Record news report by reporter Kevin Doyon.
The winning time ranked as the fifth-fastest performance ever by an American woman indoors.
The rapid rise in negative sentiment among young men—a group historically open to risk and digital gaming—suggests an experiential problem rather than a moral one.
Shouldn’t the qualifications for a referee be based on merit and his or her ability to do the job with skill, excellence, and integrity, instead of an artificially imposed quota of arbitrary external characteristics?
You will believe that a car can fly.
The 2024 national men’s soccer champion Catamounts face an uncertain future as their architect departs for the Big Ten.
Two assistant coaches have deep Vermont ties.
They cite several incidents in which cisgender girls were subjected to investigations or public accusations after being perceived as not looking “feminine enough.”
Grillo served as an assistant coach under head coach Mike Gilligan at the University of Vermont from 1993 to 1997, a period that coincided with Martin St. Louis’s playing career as a Catamount.
“Confidence is a muscle,” Maher said. “You build it through hard work, mistakes, and showing up as your full self — and that’s what I hope girls see in this doll.”
The Yankees enacted a restrictive ticket policy that left thousands of fans, including many here in Vermont, locked out in order to minimize the number of Red Sox fans in Yankee Stadium.
The best pro golfer to ever come out of Vermont is in the doghouse after the USA just lost a huge international tournament.
The reader said the event draws hundreds of Mexican and Central American farmworkers from Vermont and surrounding states, many of whom are in the country without legal documentation and may be driving without licenses or insurance.
Essex beat Bedford, New Hampshire Saturday to earn a spot in tonight’s New England regional game.
“He was doing good till he hit the wall hard,” one commenter said of the Bee Keeper car driver.
Vermont scored on a penalty shot by League MVP Julien Le Bourdoulous, and a goal by substitute Maximilian Kissell with an assist from Zach Zengue.
Two wins and two sellouts marked this year’s women’s exhibition matches as a permanent team is in the works.
The organization brought together some 500 delegates this year for the event.
These Vermonters are trying to make the outdoor recreation industry safer and more joyful for people of color.
In the past few weeks, a conversation kicked my ass. It’s about commitment, hard work, focus, and sacrifice.
One of the prodigious certitudes behind the triumphant Norwich rugby programs is that they routinely compete against much larger universities and colleges.
Transgender “women” athletes (teenage boys or men) have been raising concerns for female students and parents with regards to girls’ safety from them.
Staying positive helped this team break a losing streak lasting more than two years.
The Lieutenant Governor was welcomed to campus by LtGen John Broadmeadow, USMC (Ret), 25th President of Norwich University, prior to the ceremonial puck drop.
Schools that allow “a person whose sex is male to participate in an athletic program or activity that is designated for women or girls” could lose Fed. funding.
Thus, was the strange winter of the Vietnam War, D3 Norwich playing DI UVM, and a great 3-pt gunner whose long-distance baskets only counted for 2.
The Catamounts saved it for late once again winning in overtime after tying the game deep in regulation.
Monday Night Football, move over! UVM defeated #3 Denver on Friday on penalty kicks to advance to the College Cup Final.
Maher never shies away from pointing out injustices and calling out when the fashion and sports industries fall short. She went viral on social media following the 2024 games for her sense of humor online, advocacy for female athletes and signature hashtag and personal motto, #beastbeautybrains.
Just before school starts, football team canceled.
Their hometown Mountaineers went 30–11, tops in the league, boasting a .732 winning percentage during the regular season before bowing out to the rival Sanford Mainers in the playoff semifinals.
Burlington will welcome home BHS grad and 2024 Olympic bronze medalist Ilona Maher Saturday at Battery Park.
This is the third year of the Summer Six Pack series, which drew its inspiration for the open-start format from the Covid-19 pandemic.
This is the 100th anniversary of Eric Liddell winning the gold medal in the men’s 400m. He won it on July 11, 1924, but in this year‘s Olympics that event final is scheduled for August 7.
After winning the Vermont state championship on July 19, the Connecticut Valley Little League travel today to Staten Island for the regional championships.
This year sees the 50th anniversary of Vermont colleges participating in NCAA Division III sports where since 1973 they have competed successfully for national titles.
The gals in green will face off in a friendly match against Quebec’s FC Laval at 6 p.m. Saturday.
This competition in Iowa will allow for thousands of dollars in scholarships to be distributed to students of all different backgrounds.
The best player in Vermont girls hoops this year is set to play college baseball — get to know Elise Berger.
Palilonis and Benham have been in Hardwick for 12 years and run their taqueria for eight years. “This is just an extension of the taqueria,” Palilonis said. “We’re trying to draw people here to Hardwick, and it’s not easy.”
The honor caps his time as the youngest son in the state’s most-storied basketball family.
So close, but at the buzzer the winner was…..
MVCS Coach Chris Goodwin and attorney Ryan Tucker were interviewed on Fox. Jones first turned his attention to a statement put out by the state on the matter.
This a year after they made international headlines for taking a principled stand against playing a school boasting a biological male athlete, identifying as “trans”, standing nearly 6’3” tall.
The post gained a lot of attention from parents, players, and community members in Northfield and Milton.
The Woodstock Union High School coach, fired after he joined a private conversation last Feb. by two students on his team about transgender athletes, lost his first battle to win back his job.
Parkour offers an out-of-the-ordinary outlet that costs nothing.
Vermonters will not be allowed to vote on instate collegiate or high school games.
On his Facebook page, Bombardier has compared legislation seeking to restrict sports categories on the basis of sex to the persecution of Jewish athletes during Germany’s Nazi regime.
The Fellowship of Christian Athletes (FCA) welcomed more than 100 student-athletes to “Fields of Faith”, an annual event that invites students to take their faith onto the athletic field
“My dad started out doing it about 35 years ago,” demolition derby winner Kevin Bacon (not THAT Kevin Bacon) said. “I got my number from him. He started as 160. My brother was 161. I ended up taking 162.”
Mid Vermont Christian will participate in the New England Association of Christian Schools (NEACS) this year, Vicky Fogg, head of the school in White River Junction, said.
With their athletic fields buried under sewage, sand and silt, Cabot and Twinfield High will play most of their soccer games at high-ground schools like Danville and U-32.
For a lot of folks involved, coming out to the park each week is as simple as getting to be with each other, having fun and keeping the tradition alive.
The day after the founder of the highly successful Woodstock High snowboarding team expressed his opinion about male athletes’ physical advantages, he was called into the superintendent’s office and fired.
The move comes as women’s advocates across the globe push back against the intrusion of biological men into women’s spaces.
Hillary Gerardi did not intend to become a skyrunner.
The New England Ski for Light (NESFL) organization has announced an uplifting two-day tandem bicycle ride, featuring a blind stoker pedaling behind a sighted steersman.
This reporter/fan has been watching the Celtics since Bill Russell became the first African-American to coach in the NBA in 1966.
Anthony Lamb is by far the finest competitor to ever lace up basketball shoes for UVM, and he is enjoying the most expansive post-collegiate success of any Vermont college cager.
“Cancelling our membership is not a solution and does nothing to deal with the very real issue of safety and fairness facing women’s sports in our beloved state,” Head of School Vicky Fogg said.
Plucky David Mid-Vermont Christian School gave it their all in Saturday’s exciting state championship match – perhaps the last such experience for the faith-based school.
Montpelier High School boys basketball team cruised to another D2 championship this weekend – and the future looks bright for more to come.
Fresh from a one-point, come-from-behind victory over taller Long Trail, Mid-Vermont Christian School will face a bi-state high school in the state championship game Saturday night.
The clock rolled down to five minutes left in the game…when it happened…
Five-time Killington Cup winner Mikaela Shiffrin of Vermont wasn’t able to make it an even dozen this year.
Long before catcher Cal Raleigh hit an electrifying, walk-off home run securing a playoff berth for the Seattle Mariners, the Raleigh family was a baseball legend in northwestern Vermont.
A sports hero from Kenya died at a Mt. Ascutney bicycle race this weekend.
A squad of bass fishermen from Burlington High School will head to the nationals in Alabama this June.
Being in “the Aud” for the big Montpelier-Spaulding semi-final last week brings it all back for a 1972 Northfield High cager.
No charges to be filed against Winooski High soccer player who head-butted an Enosburg player.
Anthony Lamb, former UVM basketball star and the first Catamount to play in the NBA, was just released by his team.
Leashed tracking dogs are available for hunters who need help finding the big game they shot.
On the morning of the biggest race of her life, the Richford Rocket recalled her inspirational grandmother. And butterflies.
Friday morning, Berkshire dairy farmer Elle Purrier St. Pierre will seek Olympic gold and glory in the finals of the Women’s 1500 run.
