High school sports in fall of 2025: A lesson in chemistry

Does winning foster team chemistry, or does team chemistry lead to winning? It’s a good question, and this past fall high school sports season helps to answer it.

Tiger volleyball wins first-ever title

The Tigers defeated No. 3 Enosburg, three hard-fought sets to none, to claim the Division II championship.

Tiger volleyball reaches semifinals

No. 1 seed MUHS girls’ volleyball easily got past a skunky, but overmatched, No. 9 seed Vermont Commons School squad in a Division II quarterfinal, three sets to none.

Volleyball teams sweep matches

The Middlebury and Mount Abraham girls’ volleyball teams each won two recent matches as their regular seasons enter the home stretch.

Tiger volleyball tops scrappy Eagles

Mt. Abe’s first-year varsity volleyball team lost to visiting Middlebury on Monday.

Volleyball: Tigers rolling; Eagles fall

The Middlebury Union High School volleyball team kept up its winning ways with a pair of three-set victories, while the first-year Mount Abraham program came up short in its only outing.

Volleyball squads net victories

In local high school girls’ volleyball action in the past week, Middlebury opened its season by winning twice in three outings, while varsity newcomer Mount Abraham prevailed once in three matches. 

Eagle volleyball debuts with win

The Mount Abraham girls’ volleyball team won their first match as an official varsity sport.

Karl Lindholm: Middlebury Coach Raunecker ‘grew with the program’

When Middlebury College women’s volleyball team defeated Manhattanville College in the 2023 NCAA postseason tournament it gave Middlebury volleyball coach Sarah Raunecker 500 wins exactly for her career at Middlebury.

College volleyball team makes run

The Middlebury College volleyball team won two NCAA Division III matches in a regional hosted by Juniata College in Pennsylvania late last week before falling to their top-ranked hosts in the third round, 3-0.

Midd volleyball wins NESCAC playoffs, NCAAs next

The second-seeded Middlebury College volleyball team defeated top-seeded host Colby, 3-2 (14-25, 25-16, 25-22, 16-25, 16-14), on this past Saturday to claim the program’s sixth NESCAC title. 

MUHS volleyballers tapped as all-stars

Four members of the Middlebury Union High School girls’ volleyball team and their coach received postseason recognition after the second-year varsity team posted an 11-5 record that included a run to the quarterfinal round of the statewide tournament.

Tiger volleyball eliminated

Host No. 2 St. Albans defeated the No. 7 Middlebury Union High School girls’ volleyball team on this past Friday’s tournament quarterfinal, three sets to none. The set scores were 25-14, 25-20, 25-19.

MUHS volleyball win paves way for home playoff game

Tigers sting the Hornets in emotional four set victory at the Middlebury gym this past Thursday.

Tigers win two volleyball contests

The Middlebury Union High School girls’ volleyball team won a pair of matches in the past week and carries a 9-4 record into its final regular season match, a home date at 6:30 p.m. this Thursday vs. Enosburg (6-7).

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