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Even with snow coming, Black Ice Pond Hockey Championship slated for outdoors after two years inside
02-04-2025 3:47 PM

By ALEXANDER RAPP and RACHEL WACHMAN

Spanning three days, six ice rinks, and eight divisions, the 14th annual 1883 Black Ice Pond Hockey Championship and Winter Festival will bring together hockey players from around the state this weekend for several days of competition and celebration. Even with snow in the forecast on Thursday and Sunday, Chris Brown, founder of the 1883 Black Ice Hockey Association, says the games will go on.

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Trump transgender athlete ban challenged by two NH students who want to keep playing
02-12-2025 10:41 AM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

The legal battle over New Hampshire’s transgender sports ban is expanding to challenge President Donald Trump’s executive orders preventing transgender athletes from participating in women’s sports.


More than muscle: Concord gym plays critical role for those in recovery
02-11-2025 4:36 PM

By ALEXANDER RAPP

At 4 a.m., long before most of the city wakes up, Logan Priesel was at Helix Recovery & Wellness, gripping a barbell, feeling its weight press into his hands.


Dry conditions limit early season snowmaking in the Upper Valley
01-03-2025 10:18 AM

By CHRISTINA DOLAN

HANOVER — When the Oak Hill Outdoor Center in Hanover first fired up its snow guns in March, it was a game-changing upgrade for local athletes, providing expanded on-snow training and racing opportunities close to home. But when a recent mid-December...


Bow schools cite ‘hostile’ environment, outside activists in continued opposition to sports protests
01-02-2025 2:43 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

Protests from outsiders and potential harm to students are driving the Bow School District’s continuing efforts to prevent parents from resuming pink armband demonstrations against transgender athletes, according to documents filed in a federal court...


New England College continues to expand athletic facilities
12-29-2024 2:00 PM

By ALEXANDER RAPP

New England College is moving ahead with the second phase of its athletic facilities expansion. Starting in the spring of 2025, NEC will overhaul and renovate Bridges Gymnasium, build new offices for the athletic department and expand the strength...


Esports: Pembroke Spartans, eight other high schools compete in Rocket League State Championship at SNHU
12-16-2024 10:10 PM

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Virtual cars flew across the screens as competitors in the NHIAA’s first competitive Rocket League state esports championship played the popular soccer-like game that uses race cars as the players, all vying to score a goal in the opposing team’s...


Hockey previews: Tide going to apply hard lessons learned last season
12-16-2024 6:02 AM

By ALEX RAPP and DAN ATTORRI

Last season did not end the way the third-seeded Crimson Tide had hoped. They had a 14-4-1 record and reached the quarterfinals but were upset by No. 11 Exeter in overtime, 4-3.The Tide hockey team suffered its first back-to-back regular-season losses...


Former Crimson Tide star, George Tarwo, revives Franklin High School’s wrestling program
12-07-2024 6:01 AM

By ALEXANDER RAPP

The Franklin High School wrestling program is returning this season after an eight-year absence with George Tarwo, a former state-champion wrestler, as a coach who brings experienced leadership to revitalize the program.The last time the Golden...


Former Merrimack Valley dynamic basketball duo continues to perform for the NEC Pilgrims
11-24-2024 2:00 PM

By ALEXANDER RAPP

New England College’s women’s basketball team has a 1-2 guard punch that’s been terrorizing teams across the state and region since they first played together in elementary school.The two, Macy Gordon and Mackenzie McDonald, now juniors in college,...


Transgender sports ban lawsuit will not be decided until at least late 2025
11-21-2024 2:40 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

A resolution will not come until at least next school year in a lawsuit challenging New Hampshire’s ban on transgender girls’ participation on girls’ sports teams, a federal court judge ruled during a court conference on Thursday.Lawyers for the two...


Tilton 14-year-old, Cole Thompson, wins the 300 Superbike Amateur race in Daytona
11-20-2024 11:57 AM

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Cole Thompson has been glued to a motorcycle’s seat since he first got a Yamaha PW50 at age 3. Now 14, he has ascended from novice to amateur to compete in races across the region and country and aims to jump to expert races soon.Thompson and his...


Franklin High School’s coach William R. Heydt Sr. inducted into the NHIAA Hall of Fame
11-19-2024 3:11 PM

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Franklin High School’s former track and field coach, William “Bill” Heydt, Sr., was inducted into the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association’s Hall of Fame this past Sunday for his long-time coaching, commitment and leadership.Heydt...


Bow parents claim Pride Flag displayed in school is viewpoint discrimination in pink armband protest lawsuit
11-19-2024 10:57 AM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A group of Bow parents say the Pride Flag displayed at Bow High School’s music room is an example of the school’s district’s viewpoint discrimination.The federal lawsuit filed by Anthony Foote, Kyle Fellers and Nicole Foote, and Eldon Rash, a family...


The newest varsity sports in New Hampshire: Esports
11-15-2024 12:26 PM

By ALEXANDER RAPP

In Bow High School’s library, students are glued to gaming after school as they practice and train for esports competitions. They duke it out in Super Smash Bros. — a multiplayer fighting game where Nintendo characters go head-to-head until one has...


New squash courts in the works at St. Paul’s
11-07-2024 7:00 PM

By CATHERINE McLAUGHLIN

One hundred and forty years after it built the first squash courts in the United States, St. Paul’s School is planning to build a 10-court replacement facility at its campus in Concord. The private boarding school’s current squash court building dates...


Street soccer makes debut in the Granite State
11-01-2024 3:59 PM

By ALEXANDER RAPP

In its first-ever Halloween youth street soccer tournament, Samba X drew teams from around the state with some colorful names like the Crayon Crushers, Team Gatorade and the Dead-Icated, to promote their soccer services and grow the sport through a...


Bow police officer dropped from pink armband lawsuit against school district
10-31-2024 4:48 PM

By SRUTHI GOPALAKRISHNAN

A Bow police officer has been removed as a defendant in a federal lawsuit against the Bow School District regarding allegations of free speech violations during a silent protest against transgender athletes competing in girls’ sports.The lawsuit,...


Lawyers ask federal court to rule transgender sports law unconstitutional for all – not just the two plaintiffs
10-31-2024 1:19 PM

By JEREMY MARGOLIS

Lawyers on Thursday asked a federal court to rule New Hampshire’s controversial transgender sports law unconstitutional for all students – not just their two clients – setting up a potentially precedent-setting court decision.The new request – made...


Sununu sides with First Amendment rights in Bow parents’ pink armband protest
10-17-2024 3:58 PM

By CHARLOTTE MATHERLY

Gov. Chris Sununu sided with parents involved in recent protests and a lawsuit in Bow, citing First Amendment rights, three months after he signed a bill prohibiting transgender girls from competing in girls’ school sports.Last month, Bow High...


NHTI names Annie Mattarazzo as new athletics director
10-14-2024 1:44 PM

By ALEXANDER RAPP

Annie Mattarazzo will become the new NHTI athletics director, and the first female to assume the role in the college’s history. Mattarazzo was previously the athletic director for Bishop Brady High School in Concord and an assistant basketball coach...

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