The last in a series of articles highlighting 50 years of the Newtown Youth Basketball Association.

Registration for Newtown Youth Football and Family Cheer (NYF&C) is open for the upcoming 2020 season

FAIRFIELD— Fairfield College Preparatory School announced in late March that Brian Neumeyer, former head coach at Newtown High School, has been named the head coach of its varsity soccer team. Newtown, this past winter, named former Prep Coach Ryan Lyddy its new head coach.

David Schill, of Sandy Hook, competes in armored combat, which is a form of traditional medieval martial arts. Schill uses heavy equipment weighing more than 100 pounds as he battles others who bring new meaning to throwback athletes.

Whether or not the school year resumes remains in question if not in doubt, but Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) officials are looking into every possible way to squeeze in some sort of sports season for spring sports athletes if schools reopen following the impact of COVID-19 (coronavirus).

After the Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC), on March 10, canceled remaining winter sports tournament games, coaches and athletes were understandably upset, but the initial reaction and week-later retrospective view of the situation differ.

In sports, chemistry is key for success and Newtown High School’s boys’ basketball team is no exception. This squad happens to be led by a chemistry teacher who sought to mix and match to create winning ways on the hardwood.

Wearing a backwards baseball cap and making jokes to keep the mood light with his swimmers, Adam Fielding comes across as a pretty laid back coach. The leader of Newtown High School’s boys’ swimming and diving team, however, is a dean of students at All Saints Catholic School in Norwalk during the day and definitely brings a level of discipline to his role at the NHS pool as well.

Newtown High School’s cheerleading team followed up its South-West Conference championship with a Class LL state title — its first in program history. The Nighthawks had a score of 191.7 in their two-and-a-half-minute routine to earn the championship at Floyd Little Athletic Center in New Haven on March 7.

Following a March 18 online meeting with nearly 70 school, athletic, and governmental leaders, Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) officials reached a consensus that canceling the entirety of the spring sports season is premature at this time, according to a press release from the CIAC.