The Andover High girls volleyball team is having an exciting year — and the expressions on players' faces after a recent match told it all.

Almost two months into the new school year, local students have their routines set in the classroom.

Jacob Hudgins of Andover, a member of the U.S. junior national rowing team, won a silver medal at the 2019 World Rowing Junior Championships.

Legion Baseball

Just months after coaching the Andover girls hockey team to its best season in more than a decade, Kevin Drew is set to take over the Golden Warrior boys program.

Baseball

Jacob Hudgins began swimming competitively around age seven and, for a long time, imagined himself continuing to do so in college.

BASEBALL

When Marilyn Fitzgerald was a student at Andover High School, there was not a single varsity sport for girls. If you wanted to obtain a varsity letter you had one choice: Become a cheerleader.

BEVERLY — The Andover High Girls Varsity Ice Hockey Team played the Beverly/Danvers team at the Raymond J. Bourque Arena at Endicott College on Wednesday, Jan. 9. But it was more than a game. It was the 6th Annual Colleen E. Ritzer Memorial Hockey Game, paying tribute to Andover native and f…

For Julianna Kennedy, nothing is better than closing out a victory.

Boys lacrosse

Ally Bennett knew she was part of something special before the spring season even began.

When Piper Curtis started playing Ultimate Frisbee as a high school student at Phillips Academy, she had no idea that the sport would take her to two World Championships. 

It doesn't get any closer than this.

LAWRENCE — Michael Reilly picked up the puck near center ice, skated in on-on-one, and when he saw an opening, he took his shot.

The Andover High fall sports season left Golden Warrior fans with plenty to be excited about, from record-setting performances to state title runs.

Freshman Emily Clements could hardly wait to join her sister Jordy on the Andover High swim team this fall.

Records seem to break every few years in downtown Andover at the Feaster Five Road Race, now its 29th year.

Several eras have now officially come to an end for E.J. Perry IV.

ANDOVER — With one final play left for Andover’s record-setting passing attack, receiver Jack Boese had to finish 2016 in style.

BOSTON — Saying that Andover is returning home after a perfect season would still be too vast of an understatement.

EVERETT — Two weeks into the 2016 season, no one could have predicted Andover would be bound for the North final.

EVERETT — Andover knew it faced a massive task against a legendary Everett program playing dominant football with a trip to the state title game on the line.

DANVERS — It was a perfect day for football. And a great day to be a Warriors fan.

DANVERS — There was 1:59 left in regulation when St. John’s Prep scored the game-tying touchdown in a Division 1 North semifinal on their campus Saturday afternoon.

Cedric Gillette knew his role would change when Andover lost record-setting receiver Dan Gemmell to injury.

Darsie Peterson, then a freshman, was already overwhelmed just to be entering the game on 2013 senior night. Little did she know, the moment was about to become far more memorable.

Swimming

Having just wrapped up a challenging regular season, Andover High football could be intimidated as is looks towards a massive challenge in the first round of the state tournament.

A Halloween-themed soccer event will be held to support Jack Gerard, a local teen who was paralyzed in a swimming accident over the summer.

Max Beati battled as quarterback E.J. Perry IV tried to march Andover down the field against rival Central Catholic.

BOYS SOCCER

Tom Brady made his return from his Deflategate suspension Sunday against the Cleveland Browns.

FIELD HOCKEY