Sports
Boosters celebrate rising college athletes
By Elizabeth RaingeThe Wayland High School Boosters’ annual Signing Day event featured 11 student athletes graduating with the WHS Class of 2026. The event celebrates Wayland varsity athletes who are…
Fifth-grader has fastest state times in two events
brad.spiegel@waylandpost.orgTrinity Franklyn had a lot of energy when she was younger. At 11 years old, she still does.A couple of years ago, after incessantly asking to harness that energy into…
Wayland sports roundup: boys’ volleyball shines
Wayland High spring teams produced a split set of results in the final stretch of April, with boys’ volleyball continuing to separate itself as a state-title contender, softball holding in…
Wayland HS sports roundup
Wayland High School enters a dense stretch of league competition this week, with 18 games scheduled April 13-17, according to the Wayland Student Press weekly schedule. Volleyball and baseballThe week…
Pitcher Beckett relishes spotlight on the mound
When Sophia Beckett is on the mound, all eyes are on her. That’s natural, being a pitcher. And it’s exactly how she likes it.Growing up as an only child, Beckett,…
Former baseball player starts managerial career early
Right from the start, PJ Maher has faced a bases-loaded, two-out deficit in the bottom of the ninth inning. But the Wayland High School senior has defied the odds and…
Creativity needed for outdoor sports in early spring
If you can’t adapt and be creative during high school spring preseason practices, you put yourself behind most of your opponents.Spring in Massachusetts is unpredictable, difficult, and of course, cold…
High school sports roundup
Wayland High School’s spring sports season opened with a concentrated series of early contests from March 24–28.Wayland boys volleyball — one of the top teams in Division 2 — lost…
Wrestling team wins three tourney championships
brad.spiegel@waylandpost.org As arguably the most successful sports program at Wayland High School — with only one losing season since its inception during the 1967-68 school year — the wrestling team…
Dropkin reflects on winning silver medal at Olympics
By Jack Schwed Korey Dropkin began curling when he was a “little man that couldn't even walk” at Broomstones Curling Club in Wayland, hoping that one day he would compete…
