In women’s basketball, Rice shuts down the Redhawks’ 57-game win streak
CVU women hoopsters saw their 57-game regular season winning streak, dating back to 2018, come to an end last Friday.
Five Redhawk women hoopsters celebrate Girls Senior Night
March 2 saw the lady Redhawks honor five teammates playing their final years at CVU and carrying on the winning tradition. A dominating victory over St. Johnsbury Academy, 55-23, helped matters. The five are Maddie Reagan, Josie Pecor, Cathy Gilwee, Jade Leavitt and Maddie Mfochive.
Christine Cowart: Sharing her love of skiing with others
Christine Cowart was living in New Jersey and skiing at Pico almost every weekend when she started seeing skiers with orange bibs. The bibs were worn by blind skiers and their guides from Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports. “
From rinks to slopes to trails to courts
For a pandemic-driven school year, sports crop up at odd times and in limited spaces – limited in terms of fans-in-the-stands and in terms of where competition occurs so as not to endanger fellow competitors.
Sports Report – February 11, 2021
CVU’s ski racers saw only members of their own team on trails as they raced through the woods and down the slalom courses. This wariness of clustering several teams together was designed to limit the possibilities of interpersonal contact and, hence, the chance for corona infection.
Pandemic goings-on
With most of our foliage now decomposing on the forest floor—or your lawn—we’re entering what is euphemistically called Stick Season or the Quiet Season. There are still ample opportunities for outdoor expeditions and plenty to observe in the animal kingdom.
Sports Report – March 5, 2020
200 wins and still going strong
CVU women’s basketball coach, Ute Otley, garnered her 200th win in 9 years of coaching the Redhawks.
Sports Report – Feb. 20, 2020
Nordic skiers double their efforts – This time of year Nordic skiers split their time between high school and New England Nordic Ski Association (NENSA) events, and some skiers participated in both. Most of the higher performing racers choose NENSA, which has four Eastern Cup races and one high school-specific State Race. The State Race was held in Rumford, Maine, on Feb. 8 and 9.
Ski-cross teenager competes at the next level
When Muriel Spell was in middle school, she made up a sport in her head: part downhill slalom ski racing, part 100-meter dash. Imagine her delight when she found out it actually existed in the form of ski-cross racing—and then imagine, six years later, Muriel competing in the United States of America Snowboard and Freeski Association’s national skier cross competition…and coming in second. She is skiing this week in the Holeshot skier-cross race series at Gore Mountain.
Sports Report – Jan. 23, 2020
The Free Press’s women’s basketball team of the decade that recently listed individual players is somewhat of a misnomer, when in fact a true team of the decade is the Redhawk women’s basketball team under the tutelage of Ute Otley.
The joys and wonders of teaching adaptive skiing
When I’m not binge-watching “Have Gun, Will Travel” in the winter months (a man’s gotta get through the dark times as best he can), I have spent a fair amount of time in the last few years teaching adaptive skiing.