Sports

Champlain Valley Union High’s game at Essex High this past Friday, Sept. 6, didn’t start the way its season opener against Hartford went the weekend before.

The Champlain Valley Union football team started the 2024 season the way it wanted to, and it only took them two plays to do it.

The remnants of Hurricane Debby rampaged through the Champlain Valley on Friday, Aug. 9, bringing heavy rain and high winds, with gusts as high as 65 knots.

From the top of the Northeast Kingdom down toward the Berkshires, the VTXL carves a path across Vermont.

Girls on the Run Vermont, a statewide nonprofit organization for girls in third-eighth grade, wrapped up its 25th anniversary season that served 1,683 girls across the state.

Until John Deyo knocked a fly to South Burlington centerfielder S Mazza-Bergeron for Champlain Valley Union’s final out, hope had remained high, both among the Redhawks’ faithful and the team they love, that somehow the miraculous would occur and CVU would come back from a 6-2 deficit to repeat as state champions.

As the regular season came to a close, the Champlain Valley Union High baseball team was not able to hang onto its No. 1 ranking in Division 1, so unlike last year the Redhawks did not get the advantage of beginning the postseason with a bye in the first round.

As the regular season came to a close, the Champlain Valley Union High baseball team was not able to hang onto its No. 1 ranking in Division 1

A loss at South Burlington knocked the previously unbeaten Champlain Valley Union down to 6-1, but it didn’t seem to blur their focus on reaching the postseason ranked No. 1.

You could call Elise Berger a Swiss Army knife, a state champion — even Captain Chaos, the nickname she earned for her messy room as a kid. Now, as her time at Champlain Valley Union High School comes to end, you can call her Miss Basketball.

The two opponents faced each other on the strip inside the Charlotte Central School gym, glinting blades held upright in front of their stone-still bodies.

The Champlain Valley Redhawks are still soaring through the season. Despite one setback against South Burlington.

Charlotte resident, Anna McGrade, 21, will represent the United States in taekwondo at the Pan American University Games in Cali, Colombia, this November.

Although the baseball preseason was challenging with the team stuck inside much of the time because of the weather, it hasn’t slowed the Champlain Vallley Union High team down so far.

Ute Otley had played basketball most of her childhood, but it was the summer between seventh and eighth grade when she realized this game was something special.

This has been another remarkable year for the Champlain Valley Union alpine ski team.

After a hard fall to the floor that drew an audible gasp from the crowd when Merrill Jacobs’ head hit the floor of Patrick Gymnasium with a loud thump, CVU’s senior guard got to her feet and calmly sank the resulting free throws, putting the Redhawks up 38-33.

“The best offense is a good defense,” an old sports cliché goes. The Champlain Valley Union High girls basketball team proved on Sunday night that sometimes old sports clichés still ring true.

Almost perfect — that’s what the Champlain Valley Union High girls basketball team’s season has been like.