AUGUSTA — A potential winter sports season took further shape this week as the Maine Principals’ Association unveiled its winter sports safety guidelines. The new guidelines followed the MPA Interscholastic Management Committee’s latest meeting Thursday. The governing body’s update provided further guidance on competition dates as well as information on football, volleyball and wrestling. Major …
ELLSWORTH — Hancock County just experienced the strangest high school sports season in recent memory. Now, things are about to get even weirder. Although a framework has been set in place for a winter sports season, there are no concrete details just yet as to what kinds of games and meets will be taking place …
CASTINE — A delayed winter sports season is in the cards for athletes at five Maine universities — for now. On Friday, the North Atlantic Conference announced tentative plans to offer winter sports later in the spring semester. The announcement keeps hopes of a 2021 season alive for athletes at Maine Maritime Academy, Husson University, …
AUGUSTA — A framework for competition is now in place should Maine be able to offer a high school sports season this winter. The state announced Friday revisions to its guidelines on community sports that would allow most high school athletic competitions to be held in some form this winter. Practices for approved sports may …
ELLSWORTH — Ellsworth head swim coach Jim Goodman was announced Tuesday as the National Federation of High School Association’s Maine Coach of the Year. Goodman, Ellsworth’s head coach of 17 years, led both the boys’ and girls’ teams to strong seasons in 2019-20 despite their small roster sizes. The Eagles finished third in the boys’ …
AUGUSTA — The waiting game has begun once again for Maine high school athletes. The 2020-21 winter sports season will be delayed, the Maine Principals’ Association has announced. That news came Tuesday as MPA Executive Director Mike Burnham, MPA Assistant Executive Director Mike Bisson and Maine Interscholastic Athletic Administrators Association representative Gerry Durgin sent a …
AUGUSTA — Members of the Ellsworth swim team claimed major honors Sunday at the Maine Interscholastic Swim League banquet at the Augusta Civic Center. Ellsworth senior Caitlin MacPherson was named Penobscot Valley Conference Girls’ Swimmer of the Year. MacPherson captained an Ellsworth girls’ team that placed fourth at the state championship meet to notch its …
ORONO — Members of the Down East Family YMCA swim team broke four team records and won seven titles over the weekend in the state championship meet at the University of Maine. On the boys’ side, Sean Hill set a record in the 500-yard freestyle with a time of 4 minutes, 50.71 seconds. DEFY also …
ELLSWORTH — Hancock County swimmers earned numerous spots on the All-Penobscot Valley Conference swim teams with athletes from Ellsworth, Mount Desert Island and George Stevens Academy selected. For the Ellsworth boys’ team, Sean Hill was a first-team swimmer in the 200- and 500-yard freestyles. The Eagles’ 200-yard medley (Hill, Nick Partridge, Lucas Fendl and Ryan …
BRUNSWICK — A season that’s seen Ellsworth and Mount Desert Island swimmers rank among the best all year long saw the two programs close out their respective campaigns with hardware, ribbons and glory. MDI and Ellsworth concluded the season in grand fashion earlier this week as the two competed in the Class B championships at …
ORONO — Few opponents have been able to win consistently against Mount Desert Island or Ellsworth swimmers this year. The biggest meet of the 2019-20 season thus far was hardly any different. MDI and Ellsworth put forth some of the top efforts at Saturday’s Penobscot Valley Conference championship meet at the University of Maine. MDI …
ELLSWORTH — In the world of high school athletics, it’s no secret that roster sizes ebb and flow — just ask Jim Goodman. Goodman, the longtime head coach of the Ellsworth swim team, has seen his teams grow as large as 50 and shrink to as small as 20 over the years. Whether those changes …
