The great high school sports stories do not cease when the school year ends. Student-athletes certainly keep busy during the summer months, so we will continue to bring you Linked Up stories through the dog days of summer.
- From USA Today: Maybe being multi-sport athletes doesn’t ruin a chance at a professional career, as the US Women’s National Soccer Team proved.
- From the Danbury News Times: It’s been a life of lacrosse for two brothers from Danbury.
- From GameTimeCT: It’s All-Star season, and this is a fun look at the all-time All-Star Connecticut high school baseball team.
- From the Hartford Courant: The stress of the Class LL softball final was nothing for Southington coach Davina Hernandez.
- From WFSB.com: A lengthy profile of NFHS Spirit of Sport award winner Grace Cummings
- From the New London Day: Don’t usually All-media stories in Linked Up but Fitch’s Caroline Taber provides such great perspective we made an exception.
- From the Norwalk Hour: Spencer Brown of Wilton was one of the big track & field stories across the state this spring.
- From Shore Publishing: Jon Faitsch has been a mainstay of the Guilford running programs for nearly 30 years.
- From the New Britain Herald: Two Newington golfers are numbers one and two on and off the course.
- From the Meriden Record Journal: An ode to a pair of state champions and one hard-playing runner-up.
- From the Waterbury Republican-American: An Oxford high jumper turned “no” into “yes.”
- From the Connecticut Post: An early off-season look at how some football teams are feeling heading into the fall.
- From the Norwich Bulletin: Interesting study data on head injuries in the sport of soccer.
- From NFHS.org: A high school principal explains why adults, and not students, pose the biggest sportsmanship challenge.
- From TheRudenReport.com: A former Blue Wave competitor has turned her attention to a fund-raising challenge.
- From the Positive Coaching Alliance: College coaches offer insight into what they look for in recruits.
- From the Washington Post: An interesting look at the high school sports gender gap on a state-by-state basis.
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