SOFTBALL: New Weymouth coach hopes to have the winning equation
Mark Ducharme
Special to the Weymouth News
Weymouth softball coach Vanessa Haen is a math teacher at the school. She is hoping the numbers will add up for her team.
Haen, who took over for Eric Fagerlund who resigned after the 2019 season, was supposed to start her first season as the Wildcats new coach in 2020. However, the pandemic put her first season on hold until this season.
Haen feels good about her team and how they approached the preseason to get ready for the 2021 season.
“I think that the girls really get along together,” Haen said. “They have played together forever, they are always on the same teams.
Mary Ellen Gambon
Throughout her life, Randolph High School’s boys junior varsity basketball coach Brittany Wilson felt she had something to prove. Now she is one step closer to dunking her critics as she leads the Blue Devils into the semifinals of the South Shore League junior varsity boys tournament on her home court on Feb. 11.
The Hyde Park native moved to Randolph at age eight to escape the peer pressure of city living. Although she just turned 27, her playful personality and youthful appearance help her relate to her team, she said.
“Everybody says I look like a baby,” she joked. “Some of the kids think I’m 15. I try to keep up with the hip lingo, but sooner or later my age starts grabbing on me.”