Eagle teams have plenty of enthusiasm for winter season

As usual, there was plenty of enthusiasm at the Bristol school this month to accompany the short run-up to the season, with practices starting on Dec. 1 and action starting for all the teams within two weeks.

Most Middlebury Union High School sports teams enjoyed successful seasons this past winter, and there are reasons to hope for more of the same in the 2025-2026 campaign.

Vergennes Union High School sports teams fared pretty well overall in the winter of 2024-2025, even if championship hardware was largely elusive

Introducing the MUHS 2025-2026 winter sports teams.

Introducing the Mt. Abe 2025-2026 winter sports teams.

Meet the 2025-2026 VUHS winter sports teams.

It won’t be a dull winter at Middlebury Union High School, home to seven varsity athletic programs. 

Up in Bristol the Mount Abraham Union High School girls’ and boys’ basketball teams will both be looking to build on recent successful seasons, while the wrestling squad can find good reason for optimism with an encouraging influx of youth. 

Based on their most recent history, the Vergennes Union High School teams most likely to raise banners after this winter wear wrestling singlets and running shoes. 

The program that made the most noise this past winter at Otter Valley Union High School was wrestling, and that squad could be poised to do so again. 

As always, winter is a busy time for Middlebury Union High School athletics, with eight offerings to keep students occupied doing healthy and hopefully fun things through the long cold months. 

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. 

Will this winter reverse the oh-so-close trend of tough playoff losses on the road, overtime setbacks and unlucky injuries?

The short 2021 winter season brought mostly good news to the Middlebury Union High School programs.

What was arguably the most successful team at VUHS returning this winter? Indoor track. But that was two winters ago (there was no indoor track in Vermont last winter) and none of the runners who helped the Commodore boys win five races in the 2020 state … (read more)