Naugy’s Hrezi runs to first at NVL championships
WATERTOWN — Naugatuck’s Muad Hrezi won the Naugatuck Valley League cross country championship for the second straight year to highlight an event filled with...
Hrezi wins NVL boys cross country title
WATERTOWN — For the second consecutive year, Naugatuck’s Muad Hrezi is the best cross country runner in the Naugatuck Valley League.
Hrezi won the league...
Greyhounds run past Hawks, Eagles
NAUGATUCK — Naugatuck asserted itself on the cross country course on Tuesday.
The boys and girls teams defeated Woodland and Kennedy. Both of the...
Greyhounds looking to run down NVL
NAUGATUCK — The Naugatuck boys and girls cross country teams are looking to present a challenge to the rest of the Naugatuck Valley League...
Young Hawks seek to keep up the pace
BEACON FALLS — Perhaps the Woodland cross country teams won’t be the favorites in as many meets as they have been over the last...
Woodland runners wrap up regular season
The Woodland boys’ and girls’ cross-country teams wrapped up their regular seasons in a joint meet with Wolcott and Seymour Tuesday.
The Woodland girls split...
Hrezi leads NHS runners to victory
NAUGATUCK — What goes up must come down.
That was the basis of the thoughts running through Naugatuck runner Muad Hrezi’s mind as he tirelessly...
The Science of Running
They’re a meet day mainstay, though the faded, burgundy leather boat shoes befit a man who owns a closet full of Bermuda—rather than running—shorts. But to Naugatuck High cross country and track coach Bill Hanley, nautical footwear is as essential as a pair of Nikes.
“What I’ll do is when I go to meets, I’ll wear Sperry Topsiders because they don’t have a lot of support,” he explains. “So on Saturdays, as I’m running around the course … I’m strengthening my lower legs.”
And all this time I thought it was a fashion statement. I should have known better. See, Hanley, a special education science teacher at NHS, is a man of reason, and there’s a very good reason why he rocks those white-soled, bow-tied beauties.

Woodland All-Decade Boys’ XC
Team of the decade: 2003
School-best 2nd-place finish at NVL meet and 5th-place finish at Class S meet
Runner of the decade: Tom McGarvey
All-State (2003); All-NVL...
Naugatuck All-Decade Boys’ XC
Team of the decade: 2009
Undefeated NVL champion; 8th-place finish at Class L meet; 4 All-NVL picks
Runner of the decade: Mohamed Hrezi
Class L Champion (2008);...