Our teams had completed the last games of the abbreviated season and they are preparing for the DCL Cups that will take place next week.

• The Swim and Diving team just completed their DCL virtual championship and it waiting for the league scoring.
• The Girls Gymnastics team will compete at the DCL virtual meet on Valentine’s Day.
• The Girls Basketball team is seeded 1st and will host the winner of the seeds 5 and 4 on Monday, February 15 at 4PM.
• The Boys Hockey team is seeded 3rd and they will host Concord Carlisle on Tuesday, February 16 at 3PM at the JAR.
• The Boys Basketball team is seeded 3. The team will travel to Acton Boxboro on Tuesday. The game will start at 5:30PM

All DCL finals will be played on Thursday, February 18.

Our JV teams had a very fun and successful season.  Our basketball teams had a chance to challenge all its players at the intrasquad games and their development showed strong during their Friday and Saturday games.

The JV hockey team played home on Sunday afternoon.

The Athletic Department is very grateful for the work of Mr. Padgett, Mr. King, and of all the student-athletes that help to stream the games each week.  NS games and meets through streaming was a real treat for families close and far.

On Wednesday, February 10, 2021,  Senior Girls Basketball player Amaris Mills reached a milestone when she scored her 1000 points wearing the South jersey. Amaris completed the feat during the girls’ game at Wayland High School. Welcome to the 1000 points club!

The Swimming and Diving teams broke 5 school records yesterday at the DCL virtual meet.

Diver Esther Dansinger improved her old marks in both the 6-Dive and 11-Dive format.

Nico Hensch broke a 21-year-old 100 backstroke record!

Elisabeth Nesta, Zoe Zalkind, Jada Green and Claire Hooper broke the 4×100 Freestyle Relay record.

Nico Hensch, Daniel Chan, Shayan Bakhtyari and Felix Song broke the 200 Medley Relay record.

Oustanding meet for the Lions that are waiting for the final league results to be released on Sunday evening.

The Unified and Conditioning team completed its first season today.

Coaches Strongin and Deleski are impressed and encouraged by the commitment, dedication, and fitness that this team developed over a short period of time. The following Senior athletes joined others as the inaugural members of the team, Emily Ball, Anthony DePalma, Isabel Deveney, Daniel Doran, and Emma Turney.

February 3, 2021

Newton South Girls Varsity Basketball Maintains #1 position in the Dual County League Division

N.S. Girls Varsity Basketball maintained its first-place ranking tonight in its home game win against Acton-Boxborough. The win brings the Girls team to a 7-1 record, solidifying their leading position in the Dual County League and a perfect record in the DCL “Large” class school division. Tonight’s win is their 7th in a row.

Although the team was missing starting players Maddy Genser and Lilly Altman due to injuries, the team pulled off a 58 to 37 win against the 2nd place division team. The girls head into a rematch this Friday at Acton-Boxborough, finishing their regular season before the DCL playoffs begin on Tuesday, February 16.

“Excellent job today, team!!  Thursday 02/04/21 was a tri-meet against Groton-Dunstable and Abernaki. The girls team once again took 1st place with a score of 463, just narrowly beating out AB by 1 PT!! Overall, Saylor Flannery placed 1st, Masie Abbiati placed 3rd, Noah Dahan placed 6th and Meg Henson placed 12th.

The boys placed 2nd in the competition missing 1st place by 23 points to AB but beating out GD. Logan placed 1st overall with Roey Lashem in 4th place. Way to go NSHS!!”

Our teams are all entering their last week of the regular season.

Our girls Alpine skiers are ranked first in their league and our boys are ranked four. The Girls Basketball team is entering the last week as the # 1 seed in the DCL while the boys are seed #3. Both teams are closing their series with Acton Bocboro tonight after strong first games last Wednesday.

Our boys hockey team is seeded # 2, they defeated a strong AB team on Thursday night traveling to AB for a Saturday shutdown that is expected to be another thriller game.

Swimming and Diving is closing regular season vs CC tonight. The league conducted virtual meets during the season. Scores will be compiled during the weekend to create the DCL final standing.

Girls Gymnastics has one more regular season meet on Feb. 10. Their league championship will be held remotely. Our team will compete for the DCL on Sunday, February 14 at Excell.

Alpine and Nordic final races will be held next week. Final standing will be done after they finish their competitions.

Boys gymnastics final meet is also next week. Newton South gymnasts Adrian Michael and Michael Weiner had highly contributed to the success of the Newton team who leads the state teams one more time this season.

We are pleased to announce that Coach Matt Briggs has accepted the interim position as Boys Varsity Lacrosse coach for the 2021 season. Coach Briggs has been part of our program for many years as our JV coach and more recently, as substitute Varsity coach for the 2019 season.

Congratulations to senior baseball player Winston Wacha for committing to play at Brandeis University and to senior baseball player Liam Schofield who will be playing at Union College next year.