Swimming

Renovation plan for NHS athletic facilities taking shape NAUGATUCK — The scene at Naugatuck High School last Monday was splendid. Every spring athlete enjoyed the near-perfect weather on the first full day of practice, which usually necessitates a jacket and a wool hat. Of course, not everything was picturesque. Those fields and that track the Greyhounds use are by no means the best around. But if this scene is fast forwarded to just three years down the road, everything — without exaggeration — will be perfect. That’s because in spring 2015, the Naugatuck athletic complex will finally be totally complete, according to the latest timeline of athletic director Tom Pompei.

WATERBURY — The Greyhounds went into the Naugatuck Valley League girls swim championships earlier this month not only believing but expecting to challenge heavily-favored...

By Elio Gugliotti, Editor BEACON FALLS — Woodland girls swim coach Mike Magas equates the sport to a game of chess. Players have to put...

By Mark Jaffee, Republican-American Naugatuck native Brendan Heller is home in the borough with his family until at least Aug. 1 as a result of...

NAUGATUCK — The Naugatuck boys swim team is beginning to explore its depth and making waves in the NVL heading into the teeth of...

The intrinsic irony of long-distance, cold-water channel swimming is that the less body fat a swimmer has to insulate himself against the cold, the...

NAUGATUCK — The NVL swimming and diving season is going down to the wire — and the Naugatuck Greyhounds are right in the...

WATERBURY — The waves in the pool were still settling after the first race and it was already apparent that last week’s NVL championship...

WATERBURY — The Naugatuck boys swim team headed into the Naugatuck Valley League swim championship looking to end a streak of runner-up finishes and...

By Kyle Brennan, Citizen’s News WATERBURY — Any notion that this boys swimming season was a rebuilding year for Woodland sunk into the deep end...