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Methuen High School football recently lost a High School Super Bowl winning quarterback. Jason Danella, quarterback of the 1992 Methuen High Super Bowl team, recently passed away. A Methuen High School Hall of fame inductee, he helped bring the Rangers its only super bowl in history in a win against Reading High School. His son Josh was a senior captain of the team last fall.
Methuen High Athletic Director Thomas Ryan listed football, girls’ swim and dive, girls’ and boys’ soccer, unified basketball, field hockey and girls’ and boys’ cross country as sports being offered at Methuen High this fall.
Ryan said he has confidence in every sports program this fall. He explained the field hockey team, despite being small, has a great chance of “getting over the hump this year” and making a deep playoff run. Ryan added the field hockey team has some of the best athletes at the school. He also attributed the team’s success to Coach Caitlin Connolly saying, “Coach Connolly has been tremendous. We’re so lucky to have been able to hire her last year.”
Pentucket Regional High School Athletic Director Jon Amico listed football, girls’ and boys’ soccer, golf, girls’ and boys’ cross country, field hockey, cheer, girls’ volleyball and unified basketball as sports the school is offering this fall.
Amico gave WHAV an overview of what the school’s focus has been in terms of preparing athletes for sports and life,
“Continuing to be competitive across the board. I think we’ve been trying to put an emphasis on really developing the student athlete as a whole,” Amico said. “Really just being competitive across the board and making sure these kids are playing the right way, and being in school, getting their work done and all that. Athletics is a privilege to that and it comes second to school,” he added.
Whittier Regional Vocational Technical High School is offering football, boys’ and girls’ soccer, girls’ volleyball, golf and cheerleading for sports this fall.
Whittier Tech Athletic Director Kevin Bradley said usually all of the schools’ sports are competitive, but he listed football, boys’ soccer and boys’ cross country as sports he expects to do well this fall season.
Bradley said the school’s athlete numbers are “even bigger this year.” He noted volleyball is at about 87 participants signed up to play, with football having around 120. He added, “the numbers are really growing this year,” calling it “a great problem to have.”
He said the football team, after participating in the last two super bowls, is going to have talent this year, but it’s also a younger team made up mostly of sophomores and juniors. He added the team has “great size,” and the players are “great kids.”
As WHAV previously reported, Haverhill High School’s fall sports seasons started Monday, Aug. 24. Sports offered this fall include cheerleading, cross country, field hockey, football, golf, rowing, soccer, girls swim and dive, unified basketball and girls’ volleyball.