The competitive season officially starts for Newtown High School’s boys’ swimming and diving team on Thursday, December 19, with a visit to Weston at 4 pm. The restart is after the calendar turn to 2020 when Newtown has its next meet, Tuesday, January 7, against visiting Brookfield at 7 pm.

Small in numbers, Newtown High School’s hockey team looks to have a big season. Despite the smallest roster Coach Paul Esposito has had, with only 16 players, the coach’s goal is for a return to the postseason.

Newtown High School’s wrestling team is the defending South-West Conference champion but lost six grapplers who were conference place winners to graduation. The good news for the Nighthawks is that Steven Vournazos, who sustained a season-ending injury early on last year, is back in the fold, and there are some newcomers who accomplished big things at youth level last winter, helping to fill some of those voids.

The Class LL state championship game seemed destined for overtime. Newtown High School’s football team had the ball at the Darien 36 yard line with three seconds left and the game even at 7-7. Then one of the more dramatic finishes in Connecticut championship history occurred.

Newtown High's football team captured the Class LL state championship on the last play of regulation. QB Jack Street connected with Riley Ward to win the game. Final: NHS 13, Darien 7. See video of the deciding score and celebration here.

Newtown's Catie Gregory scored twice, including the game winner in overtime, as the Masuk High School-led co-op girls' hockey team defeated the Notre Dame-Fairfield co-op 4-3 in overtime at The Rinks at Shelton on December 13.

The defending South-West Conference champion Newtown High School’s girls’ basketball team may be starting fresh with a new season and some different players in starting roles, but it is a familiar scene overall on the Nighthawks’ hardwood.

Newtown players will help the Masuk of Monroe-led cooperative girls’ hockey team compete again this winter. Catie Gregory, a senior captain who plays forward and defense, senior forward Bridget Nicholson, junior forward Annie Fowler, and freshman forward Mia Paltauf all represent Newtown.

In these videos, the Nighthawks celebrate their last defensive stand in a 17-0 win over Simsbury in the state playoff semifinals, and cheerleaders and fans support the Hawks at Blue & Gold Stadium during the December 9 win.

The rain could have neutralized top-seeded Newtown High School’s potent passing game or caused turnovers. It didn’t. And although visiting and fourth-seeded Simsbury hung in there for most of the December 9 Class LL state football playoff semifinal matchup, the Trojans couldn’t stop the Nighthawks either. Newtown prevailed 17-0, earning a spot in the championship game.