E.J. Perry paid Ben Entner the highest of compliments.

Andover High’s winter sports season is finally upon us.

Boys Basketball

Andover girls basketball had a good, but certainly not great, 14-6 regular season.

Andover’s Thomas Manty had an extra reason to celebrate this holiday season — the fulfillment of a lifelong dream.

Editor’s Note: Periodically, The Andover Townsman takes a look back at Andover High stars from the past 20 years through pictures. This week, we look at boys Christmas Tournament stars: 

There aren’t many silver linings to the coronavirus pandemic, but there’s a slither of one for Merrimack College senior Alyssa Casey of Andover.

Editor’s Note: Periodically, The Andover Townsman takes a look back at Andover High stars from the past 20 years through pictures. This week, we look at football receivers: 

Editor’s Note: Periodically, The Andover Townsman takes a look back at Andover High stars from the past 20 years through pictures. This week, we look at record-setting Golden Warrior quarterbacks: 

This fall was a mixed bag for the Andover field hockey team, as it was for most teams in Massachusetts.

Eugene V. Lovely Field felt very different on Friday nights this fall.

For Andover’s Isaac Heitmann, running is a true passion, a sanctuary from an increasingly complicated world.

A decade ago, Andover’s Andy Coke authored one of the greatest — and most unique — performances in Massachusetts high school football history.

Thanksgiving Day 2020 simply won’t feel complete. For so many in Andover, and throughout Massachusetts, the holiday will be missing a special something, an element that defines the holiday as much or more than turkey and stuffing.

With the 2020 fall high school sports season coming to a close, it’s time to highlight the captains that led Andover High’s teams during this unprecedented Golden Warrior athletic campaign.

ANDOVER — The improbably long list of Brown University football players from the town of Andover just got a little bit longer.

As the walls around Emma Azzi shook, and her ears rang from the massive blast, the Andover resident struggled to make sense of the events that surrounded her.

Boys Cross Country 

Andover junior Abby Redington acts like it’s not a big deal.

Andover senior field hockey quad-captain Alana Miller faced a major shift heading into her final high school field hockey season.

Golf

The Andover boys soccer team delivered one of the most dramatic turnarounds of any team in Massachusetts in 2019, going from two wins in 2018 to a trip to the Division 1 North semifinals last fall.

Field Hockey

The fall high school sports season has been anything but predictable so far.

Boys Soccer

The start of Andover High sports deemed “moderate risk” was paused, along with the rest of the Merrimack Valley Conference, by the league last week.

There are many reasons a football coach would fall in love with E.J. Perry IV.

The transition from baseball to softball will never be complete for Dave Bettencourt, but it’s quite thorough.

Andover High football coach E.J. Perry (AHS ‘83) was a standout basketball player for late Hall of Fame coach Wil Hixon at Andover.

Andover’s Steve Ingram receives the question, seemingly, on a daily basis.

To a degree, Jordan Clements has already made a name for herself as a swimmer at Merrimack College.

Wil Hixon put Andover High basketball on the map.

Andover High field hockey and boys and girls soccer are set to return in the coming weeks. But while those teams were given the go-ahead for a fall season by the MIAA — unlike football and cheer — both sports will look quite different due to rule changes necessitated by the coronavirus.

Who could have envisioned that Robert and Beverly Farnham would create an athletic dynasty?

Andover’s Logan Bravo delivered a stellar summer for the North Shore Navigators of the college all-star Futures Collegiate Baseball League.

It was the summer of 2013. John Farrell had fulfilled a dream, becoming a pro baseball player for the Hudson Valley Renegades, the New York-Penn League affiliate of the Tampa Bay Rays, a few months after an All-American season at William & Mary and the Major League Baseball Draft (21st round).

Last year, out of necessity, incoming Andover High freshman Sammy Joseph was forced to make a major move.

If all goes well, sports will return to Andover High this fall, but without football and cheer.

Although Phillips Academy rising sophomore pitchers Fallon O’Connor and Lauren Mahoney are both from Andover, and in the same grade, they had never played on the same softball team.

Growing up as a part of Boston University hockey royalty, there was never a question where Andover’s Shane Lachance would play college hockey, given the opportunity.

The coronavirus may have caused the American Legion baseball season to be cancelled, but those who would be playing for the traditional state power Andover Post 8 Legion squad have been playing this summer in the Essex County Baseball League.

Editor’s Note: Throughout the summer, The Andover Townsman will take a look back at Andover High stars from the past 20 years through pictures. This week, we look at boys lacrosse:

While most baseball players are sitting at home without a league to play in, due to the coronavirus, Andover’s Cedric Gillette is delivering a stellar summer.

Editor’s Note: Throughout the summer, The Andover Townsman will take a look back at Andover High stars from the past 20 years through pictures. This week, we look at girls lacrosse:

Aidan Cammann finally got some live competition over the last month.

Editor’s Note: Throughout the summer, The Andover Townsman will take a look back at Andover High stars from the past 20 years through pictures. This week, we look at girls track.

The Dave Fazio we are used to is the one with his necktie turned sideways, whipping his jacket on some bench, and yelling at a referee like the official stole his first born son.