Spring Sports
When the high school girls lacrosse season kicks off in 2021, it won't be just the players spectators might not recognize. The turnover among rosters won't be limited to the athletes on the field, as many teams - including contenders - had coaches who were taking over for the first time in 2020 seas
Division II
The previous two springs followed a similar pattern for the Oyster River High School boys lacrosse team. Take a small roster, get into the playoffs and fall in the opening round to one of the top seeds. But despite those playoff losses, the Bobcats had reason to believe they were headed in the right
Division II
When preparing for this spring during the offseason, Sam Weaver knew that her John Stark High School girls lacrosse team would look different in June than it did in March. The Generals graduated 10 seniors from 2019's playoff squad and saw one of their top returning players transfer to prep school.
Division I
Mason and Hunter Drouin have always played sports together, usually on the same team. Whether it was baseball, and later, lacrosse, or hockey and even soccer, the pair were more often than not on the field or the ice alongside each other. This spring was to be their final go-round playing for the Pi
Division II
Timing has not been on the side of the ConVal High School girls lacrosse team in recent years. Two seasons ago, the Cougars were a nine-win team in a deep Division III, making the playoffs before falling to Derryfield in the quarterfinals. That 2018 team had a couple of hundred goal scorers and woul
Division I
There were a lot of reasons for Rob Daziel to feel optimistic about the Pinkerton Academy girls lacrosse team this spring. The biggest reason might have been the Astros' senior class. With eight girls returning, six of whom are going on to play lacrosse in college, and coming off a tough loss in las
Division I
Nathan Laliberte had already made up his mind, but none of his friends knew that. So when he invited Mason and Hunter Drouin over to last summer, the brothers showed up with a presentation to try to convince Laliberte to return to Pinkerton Academy for his senior year. After going to school in Derry
Division I
The last couple of years had already been some turbulent ones for the Timberlane Regional High School boys lacrosse program. The Owls made the playoffs in three out of four seasons in Division II, but came up empty in each postseason appearance. With a new, two-year cycle set to begin for the New Ha
Division I
Sarah Signorello started playing lacrosse in fourth grade, and for every season since then, she's played alongside the same group of girls, all of whom are seniors at Nashua High School South. It started with the Nashua Blast youth program, and then on to club teams with MaxLax and Granite State Eli
Division II
Tasha White remembers what it was like watching her older sister play for the Hollis Brookline High School girls lacrosse team. A program that won back-to-back titles a decade ago in Division III, the Cavaliers tried to move up to Division I in 2011 and spent six seasons there. While HB finished wit
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Fall Sports
Here's to hoping you didn't get too comfortable with the way things were during the last two high school football seasons. With the end of the 2019 season means the end of another two-year cycle for the NHIAA, and with the start of a new cycle come a few changes to the football landscape for the 202