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Road to Paris: New London's India Pagan heads to second Olympics with Puerto Rican women's basketball team
NBC Connecticut’s “Road to Paris” is counting down the days to the start of the 2024 Paris Olympics by highlighting local athletes who will represent Connecticut on the world stage this summer. Every Monday at 5 p.m. from July 1 to July 22, we will introduce you to one of those athletes making the state proud. New London’s India Pagan...
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Rockville Football Sends Off Seniors With Surprise Honor
Rockville High School football coach Erick Knickerbocker couldn’t wait to see the 2021 senior class play football. This was the first class he’d seen all the way through, Knickerbocker started with them their freshman year. “You feel like they’re your own kids,” said Knickerbocker. “I mean you feel like you’ve seen them grow I mean some of those kids...
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High School Sports Crown First Championships Since Pandemic
For the first time in 16 months there are high school state champions in Connecticut.
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Freshman Girls Golfers From Waterbury Set Example on the Course
Aoife Devaney and Laniah Moffett have been golfing together since they were 5years old. By the time they finished eighth grade last year, they were ranked in the top 10 on the Connecticut Junior PGA Champions Tour, but as they headed to high school this year, they realized that getting a chance to play for their schools might not be…
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Simsbury Rowing Celebrates 50 Years, But It Was First Team That Made History
The Simsbury High School Rowing is celebrating 50 years as a team, one that has become a second home for many who pass through the program.
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UHart Student-Athletes Respond to School President's Leaked Emails
The University of Hartford men’s basketball team made history last month as the program’s first team to make it to the NCAA Men’s Basketball Division I tournament but now they’re wondering if that team has a future. “A week and a half, two weeks after we had come back from March Madness and we didn’t really get a chance...
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Sacred Heart Football Aims to Take Unconventional Spring Season to a Championship
It may be April, but Sacred Heart football will play for a conference championship this weekend. The Pioneers are the only team in the state to opt in to a spring college football season and now they have a chance to make it count. “It’s been challenging,” said Sacred Heart football head coach Mike Nofri. “You know we haven’t...
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The First Voice of the Tigers: Online Streaming Gives Hockey Player a Second Chance at a Senior Season
Live streaming high school sports has gone from a rarity to a necessity amid the COVID-19 pandemic. “It certainly sped up the timeline,” said Ridgefield High School athletic director Dane Street. As fan attendance has been limited at best, schools have scrambled to get streaming systems off the ground. “This is something that we always envisioned was going to be…
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The First House on the Block: How Hartford's 1984-85 Team Set History in Motion
The University of Hartford Men’s Basketball Team will make school history when they play in the programs first ever NCAA Tournament game on Friday. It’s a milestone that took more than three decades to reach.
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Connecticut DPH Releases New Youth Sports Guidelines; Football, Wrestling Allowed
As Governor Ned Lamont eased COVID-19 restrictions across all sectors, some new sports got the green light to start playing again. Thursday, Lamont said all sports can play starting March 19, subject to state Department of Public Health guidelines. DPH released new guidance the same day. Throughout the pandemic, the state has looked to the high, medium and low risk…
