The Stoughton High School swim team hopes to take a challenging season head on.
In her second year at the helm of the Stoughton High swim team head coach Jennifer Kelly is focused on continuing a long climb in the Hockomock. "A lot of our swimmers are trying the sport for the first time," she said in a phone interview, "we really have to start from scratch." The co-ed team had a tough season last year. The girls' squad went 2-7 while the boys mustered one win in nine meets. Coach Kelly emphasized how each year is about improving one step at a time. "Last year we made a lot of progress," she said, "However we have a lot of room for improvement." This marks the second year as head coach for the AP Biology teacher, having served for two years as the team's assistant coach. Kelly is assisted by Chris Brady, the Black …
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With a new coach this young team looks to step up in the Hock.
Underneath Stoughton High School, there is a dank maze of whitewashed corridors connecting locker rooms, trainer's offices and supply closets. After a few minutes you get used to that locker room smell—decades of damp, concentrated sweat crusted onto tile floors and spread by the warm air from industrial-sized heaters. This is where Stoughton High wrestling practice begins. "Usually, we start with 10-15 minutes of stairs," first year coach Justin Leonard explained gesturing towards the 20-plus adolescents gasping their way up and down a staircase at full speed, "as a little warm-up," he added without irony. Once school ends at 2:12 p.m. student-athletes have a brief period to check in with teachers and collect their things. Then they …
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