Published on July 22nd, 2011
The entire 2011 Staples soccer calendar — from the 1st day of tryouts (Saturday, August 27) to the last match of the regular season — is available online. Matches and training sessions are included for all [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 19th, 2011
Six former Staples players — Adam Liu ’09, Michael McCarthy ’10, Alan Reiter ’10, Frankie Bergonzi ’11, Greg Gudis ’11 and Brendan Lesch ’11 — are all members of the Beachside Soccer Club team that competes [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 17th, 2011
Because kids hate to read, Tommy Greenwald ’79 has written…a book for them. Charlie Joe Jackson’s Guide To Not Reading has just been published. Tommy — co-captain of the 1978 state championship team, and father of [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 17th, 2011
Mark Noonan ’83 was the 1st Staples soccer alum working at Major League Soccer headquarters, as executive vice president for marketing. Now a pair of teammates — Matt Sych ’07 and Ben King ’07 — are [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 13th, 2011
The 2011 FCIAC soccer schedule has been released — and it promises to be an exciting fall for the Wreckers. For the 1st time in several years, each of the 19 FCIAC teams will play 16 [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 9th, 2011
The 2nd annual Preston Hirten weekend got off to a great start this morning. Over 40 players — teammates from the Staples 2006 team, the University of Mary Washington and Beachside; many current Wreckers, and 2 [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 5th, 2011
Staples head coach Dan Woog has been named Norwalk Hour Coach of the Year, for all sports in 2010-11, for the paper’s circulation area of Norwalk, Westport, Weston and Wilton. He won the online vote, and [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 1st, 2011
Albie Loeffler — founder of the Staples boys soccer program — is the newest member of the Fairfield County Sports Hall of Fame. Mr. Loeffler — who died in 2009, 1 day before his 94th birthday [&hellip... Read More →
Published on June 27th, 2011
The former striker — a Duke and Northwestern University Kellogg School of Management grad, whose sister-in-law Barbara Robbins teaches English at Staples — has spent the last year in Montreal, as a plant manager for Electrolux. [&hellip... Read More →
Published on June 26th, 2011
Max Hoberman roared to a 19:04 finish in yesterday’s Stratton Faxon 5K race in Fairfield. He placed 21st overall — out of 1,037 runners — and was the 1st Westporter to finish. Rising sophomore Diego Alanis [&hellip... Read More →
Published on June 26th, 2011
With Tom Henske tending goal, Todd Coleman ’84 helping run the show and Chris Meinke ’05 nailing a penalty kick, the Westport team tied a United Nations side 2-2 yesterday. The event — the annual jUNe [&hellip... Read More →
Published on June 24th, 2011
Mikey Scott added 1 more honor to the FCIAC soccer championship, ski team captaincy and All-State baseball selection he amassed this year. The University of Michigan-bound senior was named Male Athlete of the Year by Inklings, [&hellip... Read More →
Published on June 16th, 2011
Last July, the many friends of Preston Hirten ’07 — members of his 2006 state finalist squad, University of Mary Washington teammates, and current Wreckers who knew and admired him — gathered in Westport for a [&hellip... Read More →
Published on June 14th, 2011
Sam Bender — the talented, creative videographer whose work put Staples soccer on the YouTube map — is the 1st recipient of the Dan Woog Dedication Award. The $5,000 scholarship — presented by the Top of [&hellip... Read More →
Published on June 12th, 2011
It’s always difficult for a champion to repeat. But Sean Gallagher — and his same 3 teammates — retained their New England 4×400 relay title yesterday, in Burlington, Vermont. Gallagher ran the anchor leg. Raphael Ray, [&hellip... Read More →