Published: July 2, 2021
No one in the Shoreline Conference was better than Old Lyme senior George Danes, who went undefeated in singles action for the third regular season in a row, winning the Shoreline title and earning all-state honors.
GALLERIES: All-Area High School Athletes
Published July 1, 2021
We celebrate a post-pandemic return to normalcy this season by once again naming an All-Area team for each one of our nine spring sports to go along with the introduction of our players of the year in each of those sports.
Published July 1, 2021
Scholastic Sports Editor Vickie Fulkerson tells us how The Day s sports department selects and covers the area’s top high school athletes as we prepare to unveil our choices from July 3 to July 11.
The Day was recognized for its editorials and perspective page in the annual Connecticut Society of Professional Journalists contest.
Competing in the largest circulation category, The Day swept the editorial writing category. Editorial Page Editor Paul Choiniere was first with Don t be a jerk and third with COVID toll in nursing homes a scandal. Lisa McGinley was second with The fight to restore an insulting nickname. The Day s Sunday perspective page, edited by Choiniere and designed by Scott Ritter, placed first in non-page one layout.
In total, The Day won 21 awards, which were announced this past week.
The Day’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic also was recognized.
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Published March 30. 2021 5:27PM | Updated March 30. 2021 6:55PM By
The elite eight matchup between the University of Connecticut and Baylor turned out to be an instant classic, a great college basketball game featuring two extremely talented teams. It deserved to be for the national championship, but some dubious seeding had placed the defending women’s champs, Baylor, as the second seed in the same bracket with the perennial contenders, top-seed UConn.
It started off as Day beat writer Vickie Fulkerson aptly put it with the pace of an Indy 500, an up and down the court affair with UConn ending the first 10 minutes ahead 26-24.
Sportswriters Vickie Fulkerson and Gavin Keefe told us what we need to know before they head west to cover the UConn women and men in the NCAA tournaments.