Ever since Lucas Hodne was a little kid, he had two dreams: to play Division 1 baseball and to be drafted by a big league team. The Hopkinton native can cross one of those off of his list after recently committing to play baseball at the University of Connecticut. “It...
Datta Kilari’s chess journey started with a curious question to his father when he was 6 years old. “I watched my dad and my sister play and I was really interested,” said Kilari, now 15. “I saw that my dad was teaching my sister, and I asked him to teach me, too.”...
After Hopkinton High School moved up to Division 1 in wrestling, coach Corey Mills wanted to challenge his team as much as possible. The Hillers have battled through a tough schedule this year and shown themselves to be as competitive as any squad in the area. “We are...
Chuck Costello, the first-year coach of the Hopkinton High School girls hockey co-op team, had his work cut out for him at the start of the season, helming a team built with players from several area schools. But his squad started to jell after the new year, and the...
Hopkinton High School girls indoor track and field coach Jean Cann said a longtime coach told her that a victory at the state relay meet can be a harbinger of good things to come in the divisional state competition. The competition is the same, and winning the relay...
Hopkinton High School boys indoor track and field coach Mike Donahue is not sure he has seen a better team than the one he has this year. Just days into the new year, the Hillers already had locked up the Tri-Valley League title with a string of lopsided victories and...
Hopkinton’s Lucie Mato knew she wanted to go to Lafayette the moment she first stepped on the Pennsylvania campus, but that doesn’t mean her journey to playing Division 1 lacrosse was easy. Mato visited Lafayette for a camp following her sophomore season last year...
Sandy Lehane blames it all on her dad — kiddingly, of course. A runner in high school, Lehane had hung up her running shoes when her father told her in 2011 that he would be “so proud” to see her run the Boston Marathon. “I should have been glad that he didn’t say...
Asked to describe his team this winter, Hopkinton High School boys basketball coach Tom Keane simply replied “very, very young.” The Hillers started the season with only a couple of players returning from last year’s squad. “We are kind of starting over,” Keane said....
Hopkinton High School girls basketball coach Mike Greco has been building chemistry within his program, and this year’s team is showing the results of that process. The Hillers, who opened the season with six straight wins, are a tight-knit unit, the coach said,...
Ben Pantera said the preparation for the Buckingham Browne & Nichols School football season began long before the team strapped on pads this fall. It began when the team gathered at Hale Reservation in Westwood, where the players were trained by former Marines....
Hopkinton resident Cam Kenney added to his list of football accolades this fall after being named a freshman All-American, a distinction that earned him a spot in this month’s Football University All-American Bowl in Naples, Florida. “Being an All-American has been a...
Swimming teams typically have relatively small rosters, so MaryLauren Burke was pleasantly surprised to see eight freshmen come out for the boys team this winter. “It was great to see so many new guys try out that we were not expecting to see,” Burke said. “Having a...
First year Hopkinton High School girls swimming coach MaryLauren Burke’s job could be made easier this winter by having 13 returning swimmers on a 16-member varsity roster. “We have a lot of talent, it’s fabulous to have so many returners,” Burke said. “We also have a...
Hopkinton High School football coach Mark Sanborn acknowledges that wins have been tough to come by this season as the Hillers battled through what he described as the most competitive and physically demanding schedule of his five-year tenure. But none of that matters...
Hopkinton High School’s unified basketball team — which pairs athletes who have intellectual disabilities with teammates known as “partners” — put together another strong season this fall. The roster featured a total of 46 players — 13 athletes and 33 partners. But...
A year ago at this time, the Hopkinton High School winter cheerleading team only had six girls express interest in participating. This year, the Hillers already have 19 athletes hoping to join the squad. The sharp uptick in participation is a continuation from the...
The Hopkinton High School boys soccer team took a 6-5-3 record into the homestretch of the regular season, and coach Garrett Sawyer said his squad has the ability to make some noise in the upcoming state tournament if it can put it all together. “Our league is really...
Hopkinton High School girls soccer coach Dan Collins knows his team’s schedule is difficult, but he sees the challenge as a double-edged sword. “On one hand, it’s tough and it’s tiring,” Collins said in mid-October, amid a string of three-match weeks for his squad,...
Hopkinton High School boys golf coach Bill Phaneuf recalls the first time Levi Schuster played at Westwood during his varsity debut four years ago. The then-freshman topped his drive on a par 5 and became emotional as he walked to the poorly struck ball. After a pep...
