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Sunday, June 23 at Greenwich Polo
Did someone say “Sunday Funday”? CTC&G‘s Players’ Lounge at Greenwich Polo Club is full of fun with live music, delicious cocktails, and the opportunity to meet and greet players. Select lounge furnishings are provided by our friends at Arhaus, while landscaping is by Morano Group. Plus, the CTC&G Polo Pub by Apex Projects with Studio Bartolotta is the perfect place to pick up some exclusive Greenwich Polo merchandise. Click here for tickets.
Greenwich High School lacrosse athlete Colin Zeller earns USA Lacrosse/CHSCA Class LL First Team All-State accolades; George Weiksner, an Academic All-America honoree; Several Cardinals earn All-FCIAC accolades
Colin Zeller, a rising Greenwich High School senior, earned USA Lacrosse/CHSCA All-State Class LL First Team honors after producing an impressive 2024 season for the Cardinals. Zeller, a midfielder, was one of Greenwich’s leading scorers for the season, providing numerous goals, while setting up his teammates as well with excellent...
Greenwich Point One-Mile Swim Set for July 13
The 35th Annual One Mile Swim at Tod’s Point will be held on Saturday, July 13. The event is sponsored by The Greenwich Swim Committee and the YMCA of Greenwich. All proceeds from the One Mile Swim event will go toward supporting the YMCA of Greenwich’s Swim School Scholarship Fund, helping to provide swim school instruction and critical water safety skills to local children. Last year, the event raised $2,500 after all race expenses for the YMCA of Greenwich.
Front-Row Seat: Fairfield County Native Oliver Bub Heads to Paris Searching For Gold
Above: Oliver Bub and pairs partner William Bender on the water at the 2024 U.S. Olympic Team trials in April. All Olympians face road- blocks and detours on their way to representing Team USA. Such is the case for Westport’s Oliver Bub whose path toward a berth on the men’s...
The Sports Report: James Hinkle delivers third win of the season in Norwalk
For most racers, a single NHRA national event win is enough to constitute a successful season, so that means that three wins in less than a half season would be considered extraordinary. That’s exactly the position that James Hinkle finds himself in after winning the Right Trailers Top Sportsman title at last weekend’s Summit Racing Equipment NHRA Nationals in Norwalk.
NBC’s Molly Solomon Offers a Behind-the-Scenes Peek into the Summer Olympics
Above: Executive Producer and President of NBC Olympics Molly Solomon. – Photograph: Kyle Norton. Molly Solomon began her NBC career as a researcher for its Emmy-winning coverage of the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona. Following eleven years as executive producer at the Golf Channel she came full circle in 2019 to take the helm of Games coverage as executive producer and president of NBC Olympic Productions. We sat down with the sometimes Harbor Point resident to discuss the behind-the-scenes efforts she leads to bring the quest for athletic gold to viewers.
NBC’s Dan Hicks Shares the Olympic Swimming Sportscasting Experience
Above: NBC Sportscaster Dan Hicks. – Photograph: Kyle Norton. NBC Sportscaster Dan Hicks is familiar to legions of golf and football fans for his coverage of major tournaments and college gridiron rivalries. Every four years, beginning with the 1996 Atlanta Games, he gets a poolside seat to cover Olympic swimming events. We checked in with the Greenwich resident for his insights on what to expect at this summer’s games.
Tarrytown’s Jonathan Oakes Wins State Junior Championship
Tarrytown’s Jonathan Oakes has done it again. Last year, Tom ewrote in The Hudson Independent that Oakes, was “on a course for greatness” after he won a major sectional tournament in Mamaroneck and qualified for the Boys Junior PGA championship at Cog Hill Golf and Country Club in Palos Park, Ill.
Westchester-Putnam girls track: State medalists Crisp and Donovan share top award
Elisa Crisp and Haylie Donovan both pray at the starting line. Donovan even puts holy water on her legs before her races. Doing so increases the feeling God is with her when she runs, although there's also a luck component to it, too. ...
Basketball notebook: Slam Dunk field set; BCANY rosters announced; DI recruiting update
High school basketball at the Westchester County Center has long been a holiday tradition. The Slam Dunk Showcase brings together some of the top boys and girls programs from the region and the weekend closes with another Stepinac-Iona Prep showdown in the Crusader Classic. Section 1 teams with championship aspirations lobby for invitations...
Westchester/Putnam Boys Track All-Stars: Gravier and Hargraves share top award
Sometimes parents know best. Ask Wyatt Gravier and Justin Hargraves about this. They'd agree. At least where track is concerned. The pair share The Journal News/lohud Westchester/Putnam Boys...
Mercy Athletics Moment #9: Baseball Wins 20 Games for Fourth Time Since 2018
DOBBS FERRY, N.Y. (July 3, 2024) – For the ninth year, Mercy University Athletics will recap the year by counting down the Top-10 most memorable moments of the 2023-24 season, with all 10 sports represented. Mercy University Athletics will release a Top-10 moment, as chosen by the athletics staff,...
Balance and depth of FCIAC baseball came through in 2024
It was a strong year for FCIAC baseball in terms of balance and depth with several very good teams jockeying for high seeds in the conference tournament and several more good teams battling it out down the regular season’s homestretch to try to snatch one of the final seeds.
Westchester Table Tennis Holds Major Youth Competition for First Time
Some of the top young table tennis players in the world made their way to Westchester last week in one of the sport’s premiere events for youth competitors. The Westchester Table Tennis Center in Pleasantville for the first time hosted the WTT Youth Contender series, one of 35 events around the world each year that help determine international rankings for players 19 years old and under.
Longtime Weston High School Educator Debbie (Hogan) Pender Retires
If this were a “word association” contest, the glaring and easy answer would be:. As it is, this is an announcement that one of the most iconic figures in Weston High School history has made the 2023-24 school year her last, ending a spectacular teaching, coaching and administrative career that has lasted 40 years. According to information provided by the Weston High School Alumni Association, Pender leaves with the distinction as being the longest serving faculty member in Weston High School history.
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