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Like all athletic directors across the state, Maloney’s Bob McKee has been busy this week drawing up schedules for his winter sports teams. Plans remain on course for a February 8 opening day. Record-Journal photo

WINTER SPORTS: One week closer to Feb. 8! Conferences set divisions, ADs drawing up schedules

MERIDEN — Maloney Athletic Director Bob McKee has been tired this week.That’s good. It means high school sports remain on course ...
 
Meriden Co-op swim coach Ed Heath talks to some of his swimmers during practice Wednesday at the Platt High School pool. Heath will maintain the protocols he employed with the Meriden Co-op girls team in the fall, when none of his swimmers tested positive for COVID-19 or had to quarantine. Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal
MERIDEN — For boys swimming, the good news, fittingly, came in waves.First came the green light on the high school winter sports ...
Maloney High School’s indoor track coach Don Askew looks on as Jylosdet Davila, left, and Jonathan Niemiec warm up on the Maloney track in Meriden during the first day of practice on Tuesday. Maloney, like most area indoor track programs, will look to train outdoors as much as possible this winter during the pandemic. Track teams can only practice now through February. Meets cannot be held until March at the earliest. Photos by Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal
MERIDEN — Tuesday wasn’t just the start of the delayed winter sports season at Maloney. It was the first day track and field coach ...
Having already coached one season amid the pandemic will be invaluable to Maloney’s Dave Parness and other area coaches who direct teams in both the fall and winter. Parness coaches the Spartans in boys soccer and boys basketball.
Under normal circumstances, the story lines heading into the 2021 high school winter sports season would be sort of sparse.There’s ...
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UConn’s Dee Rowe, left, college basketball broadcaster Bill Raftery and Mother Shaun Vergauwen of the Franciscan Life Center chat during the 30th Franciscan Sports Banquet and Silent Auction in 2015 at the Aqua Turf Club. Rowe, who died last Sunday, was a fixture at the annual Franciscan event. Record-Journal file photo
MERIDEN — The loss of UConn cornerstone Dee Rowe hit the state hard when he died at age 91 last Sunday.It hit hard in Meriden, par ...
The push to save football in the 2020-21 school year in the face of the coronavirus pandemic dated back to last summer. Southington coach Mike Drury is seen here speaking at a rally at CIAC headquarters in Cheshire on Aug. 20. About a month later, the CIAC cancelled the fall football season on the advice of state health officials. On Thursday, the early spring season that had been set up as an alternative was cancelled, too. Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal
As talks of bringing back winter sports picked up over the last couple of weeks, many Connecticut high school football teams had ...
Martin Cheney is the new head coach of Platt boys soccer. A language arts teacher at Washington Middle School, Cheney had been former head coach Tim Redican’s assistant for four seasons.
MERIDEN — One is a veteran coach already heading to a national Hall of Fame. The other is a rookie looking to launch a long career ...
Southington wrestling coach Derek Dion, right, began holding cohort practices for his team this week. Such practices, which are allowed by the state and limited to groups of four, might be all Connecticut wrestlers have this season. The DPH has advised that wrestling, deemed high risk for the spread of COVID-19, not be staged this season. The CIAC Board of Control votes on the fate of the entire winter season on Thursday. Aaron Flaum, Record-Journal
MERIDEN — Wrestlers won’t be peeking at their smart phones for updates Thursday morning when the CIAC Board of Control meets to de ...
Meriden native John Jenkins, playing defensive tackle for the Chicago Bears, puts pressure on New Orleans Saints quarterback Drew Brees during Sunday’s NFC wild-card playoff game in New Orleans. The Saints won 21-9. Jenkins came up with a fumble recovery on a deflected pass. Butch Dill, Associated Press
MERIDEN — Most of the city no doubt watched Sunday’s NFC wild-card playoff game between the Chicago Bears and New Orleans Saints.E ...
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