The first snow of the year arrived today with perfect timing. There were plenty of reasons to be festive with big wins over the weekend by Men's Basketball over New Hampton and Men's Hockey over Cushing and Millbrook. The hockey team's win over Cushing (2 to 1 after being down 1-0 to start) was especially exciting, and there was a loud group of students and teachers over at Cushing to cheer the team on.Over weekend, a group of students headed off to Killington for a fun day of skiing with Mr. Duncan while others went on a movie/mall trip. Today, while Christmas came early to campus with the installation of new flat screen TV's in several classrooms and the lighting of a tree in the main lobby, another group was heading off for Thai food!
But for many, the excitement was due to the first (small!) accumulation of snow. There were snowballs thrown and trees being trimmed. And then the first sledders were out. We have lots of varsity sports and a hard working group in Varsity Academics, but now some are talking about Varsity Sledding??!! I can just see it -- "Winchendon sledders chosen to Olympic luge team!" After all, when we do things at Winchendon, we do them very well!
2 comments:
Sledding actually achieved varsity status during the 02-03 school year. A number of the team members were duel athletes, playing on the hockey team to keep themselves conditioned between sledding competitions. I only hope the once storied sledding program is brought back to prominence.
Andrew Usas '03
Andrew,
Thanks for the correction. It's exciting to see that this time it was members of both the women's and men's varsity hockey teams looking to rekindle the sport. I will provide further updates as the success of the effort warrants!
John
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