Keep up with all the Rams sports teams as well with game recaps and in-depth features.
Keaton McAuliffe
Reporter
In second grade, Will Essigs went to see the US Open golf tournament. He was inspired to pick up the game and started practicing in his backyard. After four years at NCHS, he will continue next fall at Gettysburg College, where he has been recruited to play for the Division III Bullets.
Cydney Ventura
Reporter
This year brought a lot of new excitement to the squash teams’ season, as this was their first year playing as an official varsity sport for the high school. They ended their season with success, tying for first place with Greenwich High School in the Fairwest tournament at Chelsea Piers.
Casey Clifford
Reporter
The winter indoor track and field season came to a close with two championship meets for both the girls and boys teams. At the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference (FCIAC) senior Devaun Bovell placed first in the 55 meter hurdles with a time of 8.15 seconds, and at States, juniors Elizabeth Gordon, Isabel Hetherington, Maureen Schott and Emily Wood took third in the 4×800 meter relay with a time of 10:02.32, shaving off 13.42 seconds from the preliminary qualifier.
Cydney Ventura
Reporter
After winning only two games in the 2011-2012 season, the boy’s basketball team got right back on track this year with the help of their new coach, Mike Evans. The boys pulled out an overall record of six wins and fourteen losses by the end of the 2012-2013 season.
Isabel Hetherington
Sports Editor
With the loss of key player Sarah Mannelly, class of 2012, the girls’ basketball team faced a challenge entering the 2013 season. According to senior captain Georgia Hunsinger, “Going into the season I think it’s safe to say none of us had high expectations. We had just lost a valuable player (Sarah Mannelly) and we didn’t doubt our abilities, but weren’t extremely confident that we’d be as much of a competitor in the FCIAC as we had been in the previous years.”
