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)
The winter of 2020-2021 was not the kindest to Mount Abraham sports teams. The COVID pandemic forced the school’s basketball programs, like those elsewhere, to play abbreviated seasons, and neither managed winning records.
The COVD-shortened winter of the 2020-21 high school sports season is behind us, and the teams at Otter Valley are happy about that.
MIDDLEBURY — This past winter new-look MUHS girls’ and boys’ Nordic teams each fared well at the two-day Division II state meet, each finishing second to U-32 despite the graduation of many of the skiers who had helped both of the program’s teams win titl … (read more)
MIDDLEBURY — This past winter the Middlebury Union boys’ basketball team played well enough to win 16 games and earn the No. 4 seed in Division I, only to be upset at home in the first round of the playoffs. Two starters and a key role player graduated fr … (read more)
MIDDLEBURY — With seven athletes in the fold this winter, Middlebury Union gymnastics coach Natalia Harthman will be emphasizing versatility to her team. Harthman would like the Tigers to expand their horizons and test themselves in as many of the gymnast … (read more)
MIDDLEBURY — The Middlebury Union girls’ hockey team is coming off a 12-win season in which the Tigers were the top team in the state’s new three-tier girls’ hockey alignment. In that alignment basically all the Division II teams play all the other teams … (read more)
