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Methuen High School athletics had some notable accomplishments this fall season, and the girls hockey team is looking forward to another run at the championship.
The 2026 season saw the swim and dive, field hockey and boys cross country teams all win the Merrimack Valley Conference championship.
Ava Nartiff earned Merrimack Valley Conference player of the year for field hockey while breaking the school record for most goals in a single season by putting up 27. Field hockey Coach Caitlin Connolly earned Merrimack Valley coach of the year. Kevin Alliette earned coach of the year in boys cross country. Boys soccer coach Orazio Finocchiaro collected his 50th win as head coach of the program this season.
Methuen’s all-conference players included John Fantry and Titus Baker, who both made the second all-conference team in boys cross country; Dylan Anderson, who made the second team in golf; Caylee O’Brien, who made first team in girls volleyball; Lindsey Crowell, who made the second team in girls volleyball; Nartiff and Ainsley Low, who both made the first team in field hockey; Aimee Cox and Sophia Barbosa who both made second team in field hockey; Caroline Czachor who made first team in girls soccer; Rebecca Christie and Lexi McKenna, who both made second team for girls soccer; Wesley Guzman and Mathew Di Cavalcanti, who both made first team for boys soccer; and Daniel Perez and Alan Twomey, who both made second team for boys soccer.
After winning the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletic Association Division I state championship last season, Methuen and Tewksbury High School’s joint girls hockey program is looking towards another season.
The team won last year’s championship in the wake of former Coach David O’Hearn’s sudden passing. New coach Ryan Sheehy, who took the reigns in the wake of O’Hearn’s passing last season, is now entering his first full year as coach of the Red Rangers. Sheehy shared with WHAV how he plans to communicate with the team as its full-time coach.
“I’ve had all those girls, all the seniors I’ve had for five years already, so I think the familiarity where they already know who I am and I know who they are. I know what they’re capable of. I can push them to the level they should be at and, obviously, I’m making sure I’m not pushing them too hard. Obviously, I expect things of them, but I know where my limits are and where their limits are,” he said.
Sheehy said there’s about 12-14 players returning from last season. The team will be without graduated starting goalie Lydia Barnes, who Sheehy said was the best goalie in the state for all of high school hockey last year. Barnes is now playing hockey for the University of Massachusetts Boston of the NCAA Division III.
The Red Rangers first non-scrimmage game of the 2026-27 season is set for Saturday, Dec. 12, 2 p.m., at home against Westford Academy.
Methuen High School varsity men’s soccer player in a home matchup against Everett High School on Sept. 12. The Rangers won that game 1-0. (Photograph courtesy of Methuen Athletics.)