Watch interviews with Staples High School's 2016-17 winter sports captains, who joined us on the HAN Network's Winter FCIAC Tour.
As we've done for the before each season since fall 2015, the HAN Network loaded up the HAN Cruiser and set out to visit all 17 schools in the Fairfield County Interscholastic Athletic Conference. Our 10th stop on the fifth day was in at Staples in Westport on Monday, Dec. 10.
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HAN Network sports director Frank Granito talked with the Staples' basketball, indoor track, swimming, hockey, skiing and wrestling captains. You can watch those interviews below. (On the bottom of the page, you can see our December live sports schedule — which includes Staples — and more about how to watch HAN Network, which covers more live news and sports in Fairfield County than anyone else.)
Staples Girls Basketball captains: Olivia Troy, Rachel Seideman and Julia Brower
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdjsAihC7v4&autoplay=0
Staples Boys Basketball captains: Justin Seideman, Sean Pritchett and Brendan Massoud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v5A3ihuftgc&autoplay=0
Staples Girls Indoor Track & Field captains: Samantha Little, Sarah Neckritz, Ivy Prince, Katherine Coogan, Grace Foster and Susie Martin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8tHhkokojg&autoplay=0
Staples Boys Indoor Track & Field captains: Wesley Zielke, Brian MacCordy, Zakeer Ahmad and Connor Teran
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=maG8YMUt9IE&autoplay=0
Staples Boys Swimming & Diving captains: Samuel Breeden, Daniel McVanney and Jean-Luc Lefebvre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HfAe03Vlvbc&autoplay=0
Staples Girls Ice Hockey captains: Erin McGroarty, Emily Gitlin and Kyra DalBello (We met the Stamford captains of the Stamford-Westhill-Staples co-op earlier on the FCIAC Tour)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxudzmlkde0&autoplay=0
Staples Wrestling captains: Colin Hunter, Kieran Clarke and Ryan Mahoney
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilSlQayAng8&autoplay=0
Staples Girls Ski captains: Hope Penwell and Casey Donahue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOMjyirZls0&autoplay=0
Staples Boys Ski captains: Burke Anvari, Timothy Chiang and Harrison Ross
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tlMeUcUcXw&autoplay=0
Check out the other 16 FCIAC Tour stops here.
This winter on HAN
The HAN Network's winter sports season kicks off with a boys ice hockey doubleheader on Saturday, Dec. 17, at the newly minted Darien Ice House. Watch defending state champion Darien take on Hamden after New Canaan plays Notre Dame-West Haven. Coverage that Saturday begins at 3:40 p.m. on HAN.Network .
Live on HAN this December!
? New Canaan vs. Notre Dame-West Haven boys hockey
? Darien vs. Hamden boys hockey
? Fairfield Warde at Ridgefield girls basketball
? Greenwich at Stamford-Westhill-Staples girls hockey
? Darien vs. New Canaan boys hockey
? Norwalk Boys Basketball Holiday Tournament (featuring Norwalk and McMahon)
You can check out the rest of the schedule, which will include ice hockey, basketball, wrestling, indoor track and field and the FCIAC cheerleading championships, here (as we fill it up). We’ll be adding more games in January based on the best matchups in the league.
You can follow the HAN Network’s trip through Fairfield County on the HAN Network Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat or by searching and using the hashtags #FCIACtour and #HANcruiser.
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How to watch
HAN Network's live sports coverage begins at least 10 minutes before the games' scheduled start. There are a few different ways you can watch the HAN Network:
Mobile: Watch the games, local news, politics and entertainment programming on your iPhone or Android phone with the HAN Network. Download it here.
Online: All HAN Network broadcasts are available live at HAN.Network and our affiliate websites, including FCIAC.net and all the other HAN Network local news websites.
On TV: All Frontier Communications subscribers in Connecticut can watch the simulcast of most HAN Network Connecticut sports broadcasts on the Vantage Sports Network at Channels 600 and 1600-HD.
On your Smart TV: It’s easy to watch HAN Network broadcasts on your smart televisions or with Apple TV, Roku (search for Hersam Acorn on Roku’s YouTube channel) or Google’s Chromecast.