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New in Sports: Meet ELHS’s New Football Coach and Assistant Athletic Director

New in Sports: Meet ELHS’s New Football Coach and Assistant Athletic Director

JEN WALLACE and KASEY LAMBERT
April 25, 2024

Coach Kleine: ELHS’s New Head Football Coach “The group is engaged…this is something they want to be a part of, and their excitement is contagious,” new head ELHS football coach Tom Kleine said. While...

Q&A With ELHS Scholar Athletes: Riddhi Venkatesh

Q&A With ELHS Scholar Athletes: Riddhi Venkatesh

JEN WALLACE
April 1, 2024

Viking Saga(VS): What is your biggest motivator? Riddhi Venkatesh(RV): I would say my teammates keep me motivated and I always put in my 100% for them. I love the feeling of accomplishment and being...

Football Fans are Swift to Whine

Football Fans are Swift to Whine

JEN WALLACE
February 26, 2024

Global pop-superstar Taylor Swift has been angering many football fans as of late. Swift has recently made her relationship with Kansas City Chiefs football star, Travis Kelce, public. Being a supportive...

Streaming Shakes Up Sports

Streaming Shakes Up Sports

JEN WALLACE
February 1, 2024

Family and friends gather to watch the weekend’s “big game,” but since sports started being televised, many sports changed to revolve around what TV networks want. When sports are televised or...

Leftover Money Funds Athletic Department Extras

Leftover Money Funds Athletic Department Extras

JEN WALLACE and FIONA SAMUELSON
January 26, 2024

A loud BOOM reverberates around the small stadium of East Lyme High School on a Friday night. Smoke pours from one end of the field and fireworks shoot off as players run out and greet the roaring crowd....

Words with Wallace

JEN WALLACE
November 1, 2023

If you’re anything like me, you play or train for one sport all year round. Having an undying love for what you do is important, but what happens when being excited for practice turns into I can’t...

Skylar Bell digs during a game against NFA.

Skylar Bell Breaks EL Volleyball Record

JEN WALLACE
November 1, 2023

Three-time All-State athlete and senior Skylar Bell broke the East Lyme volleyball record for amount of career digs. At a Oct. 4 game against Simsbury, Bell had 30 digs bringing her total to 1,049 over...

The Giants play at MetLife stadium in New Jersey.

The Dark Reality of the NFL

JEN WALLACE
October 5, 2023

Football. The American pastime. What families gather to watch every Sunday in the fall. What every high schooler’s Friday night revolves around, but has anyone dared to look deeper than what’s plastered...

Veronica Castro (left) and her teammates, Keegan Stadler (center), and Maya D’Aquila (right) celebrate outside ELHS after a race.

ELHS Tackles Time Management

JEN WALLACE
October 5, 2023

Kai Jolly-Ballantine “Properly fuel your body,” Kai Jolly-Ballantine a junior at ELHS said. Jolly-Ballantine rows year round for ELHS crew. He describes how he manages time with homework while also...

Mr. Marcoux and one of his golfers at
Killingly High school.

New Athletic Director Joins ELHS

JEN WALLACE
September 13, 2023

“I’m evolving my career and moving it in a different direction, but it’s exciting,” Kevin Marcoux, ELHS and ELMS’s new athletic director, said. After working at Killingly for 16 years, five of...

EL’s 12u boys prepare for an exciting
game in the dugout.

EL 12u Boys Went the Distance

JEN WALLACE
September 13, 2023

East Lyme Little League’s 12u boys’ team decided that this year they would take home the State Championship title. They put in the work and became the first 12u baseball team from East Lyme to take...

The Hernandez family attended a Cleveland Guardians game this summer at Progressive Field.

Team Hernandez Takes A Swing at Visiting All 32 MLB Parks

JEN WALLACE
August 27, 2023

A father-child relationship is one of the most important in many people’s lives. History teacher Hamilton Hernandez and his dad, Hersh Hernandez, are no different. While they don’t always enjoy...

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