Spring sports report: Mount Abe Union High School

The sports spring of 2022 could be a tough act to follow at Mount Abraham Union High School over the next couple of months.

The Mount Abraham Unified School District board will work with its member communities to fill four vacancies on the panel that failed to draw candidates — or enough write-in votes — to be filled on Town Meeting Day.

Addison County residents showed strong support for education on Tuesday, when all local school budgets passed, four out of five by large margins. 

In games played on Tuesday in the first round of the high school Division II boys’ basketball playoffs, Mount Abraham prevailed at home, while Middlebury and Otter Valley dropped road games and saw their seasons come to a close.

As the truism goes, strong defense and rebounding typically wins basketball games. 

Addison County residents struggling with financial and/or health issues will soon have a new source for free, fresh produce.

Indoor track and field teams from Vergennes and Mount Abraham union high schools once again posted solid results at a meet hosted by the University of Vermont on Saturday. 

Mount Abraham Unified School District officials are considering how to tackle an estimated $9.65 million of facilities projects at Mount Abraham Union High School, potentially by asking voters to approve a bond of up to that amount. 

The Mount Abraham Union High School girls’ basketball team on Tuesday picked up its first win with a dominant performance in a 56-22 victory over visiting Otter Valley. 

Mount Abraham Union High School sports teams enter the winter with a few changes: Two programs have new coaches, one after winning a state championship, and there is a new varsity team, indoor track, which moves up from club status. 

Nearly 70 youth rowers from Chittenden and Addison County middle and high schools competed in the Icebreaker Northeast Regional Youth Open-Water Rowing Championship in Fort Point Channel in Boston, Mass., on Saturday, Nov. 19.

These experiences have given my daughter more than just a taste for performing. She has found a strong group of friends who spend lots of time singing together in her room after school.

After 31 years of running the girls’ basketball program at Mount Abraham, Connie LaRose was fired.

I am really sorry to be writing this. This is not something that I typically do, but I am disappointed, and I will continue to be until I get this off my chest.

Editor’s note: This story was slotted to run in our Nov. 3 edition, but it regrettably did not make it into the newspaper. We publish it here, slightly updated, to round out our coverage of the Eagle girls’ soccer season.