In their biggest post-pandemic push, the Harwood Boosters Club raised $1,000 on fall sports concession sales, and now the group has launched a membership and fundraising campaign to step up their efforts. 

This week, Harwood Unified Union School District administrators hosted a discussion regarding middle school athletics programs with a focus on challenges they are facing and a need for ideas about how the programs will continue in the future.

Following the fall season state championships, the Vermont Soccer Coaches Association and Capital League coaches have released All-State and All-Star boys and girls high school soccer players lists. Multiple Harwood players are named for the honors.

A 1-1 tie send the D-II girls soccer championship between Harwood and Rice Memorial into overtime twice on Friday. The hard-fought rollercoaster ride that followed ended with Harwood finishing as runner-up. We share James Biggam’s report from The Times Argus.

With a 1-0 semifinal win over U-32 on Wednesday, Harwood Girls Soccer is headed to the state Division II championship on Friday at Burlington High School.

On Sunday, anxious runners stretched in the parking lot while friends and families set up chairs on the historic Vermont State Office Complex, awaiting the beginning of the annual Leaf Peepers Half-Marathon and 5k race.

Registration is open now through Oct. 1 for Harwood Youth Basketball for players in grades 1-6.

Starting their third week of the fall high school sports season, Harwood Union’s girls and boys soccer teams will finally play their first matches at home next week.

Former Harwood Middle School athlete Brooke Greenberg took home three gold medals in her first Youth Skyrunning World Championships in Italy last month.

Waterbury Center race car driver Kyle Streeter logged his first rookie victory at Thunder Road on Thursday, besting veteran Gov. Phil Scott in the late model 50-lap race. 

Monday, Aug. 25, saw a great turnout for the final Harwood Union Cross Country Fun Run of the summer with 29 runners participating in one 5K race. 

Monday’s next-to-last Harwood Cross Country Fun Run doubled as both a race for community runners and a workout for some of the high school team’s returning members. In all 28 runners took part. The final summer run is Aug. 25.

Looking ahead to the 2025-26 school year, the Vermont Principals’ Association unveiled tentative fall championship sites last week in addition to announcing a slightly shortened spring schedule for some teams and changes to the state’s out-of-season coaching policy.

Monday’s Harwood Cross Country Summer Fun Run attracted 22 runners to the Harwood trails. No kids' race was held because all of the youngest participants preferred to run the 3K with the grown-ups. 

Thirteen runners beat the heat last week running on the shady trails at Harwood Union Middle/High School on Monday evening and the weekly events continue through Monday, Aug. 18.

Dedication, hard work, and unity prevailed for the Green Mountain Morgans Central Vermont softball team at the Eastern Regionals Little League Tournament last week in New York.

Registration is open now for Waterbury Youth Soccer’s fall teams. Fees increase after Aug. 1. Games begin Sept. 6.

After getting in some practice time on the turf at Norwich University, the Green Mountain Morgans girls softball team heads to Staten Island, New York, on Thursday to represent Vermont in the Eastern Regional Little League 10U Softball Championship.

Registration is open for youth teams around the region to sign up for the 12th World Soccer Festival on Saturday, Aug. 23, at Montpelier High School.

Harwood Union High School’s Cross Country team’s second Summer Fun Run held on Monday attracted 18 runners and even the youngest runners were eager to run the 3K, according to Assistant Coach Tom Cahalan. 

Leaving multiple teams scoreless in their wake, the Green Mountain Morgans — Central Vermont’s all-star 8-10-year-old softball team — claimed their division’s championship title in the recent Vermont Little League State Tournament. 

The Harwood Union Boys Varsity Ice Hockey team is running a summer-long bottle and can drive to help raise money for things like summer ice time, new practice equipment and our 2025 VT Division 2 Championship banner to hang at the Ice Center. 

Harwood Union’s Cross Country team announced that it will once again host summer Fun Runs on the Harwood Union High School trails starting on Monday, July 7.

Two wins and two sellouts marked this year’s women’s exhibition matches as a permanent team is in the works.

Spring sports have wrapped up and multiple Harwood Union High School student-athletes have received recognition for their accomplishments this season. Here’s a roundup with news about several standout players.

It’s not every day that you win a state championship. And it’s not every day that you graduate from high school. Eleven Harwood seniors did both last weekend.

Harwood Athletic Director Ian Fraunfelder announced that registration is open for middle and high school students to sign up for fall athletics teams. 

No. 1-seeded Harwood Boys Lacrosse (11-1) is the final HU team standing in the spring high school athletics season and they head to the Division II state championship game on Saturday.