Will Vonn See the Slopes Again Anytime Soon?

Lindsay Vonn, 29 year old Olympic Gold medalist skier re injured her knee Tuesday afternoon while practicing for the up coming Sochi Winter Olympic Games. The games are less than 3 months away when she crashed on a training run. She suffered from a mild strain in her right knee, a somewhat tear to her ACL nothing too serious but enough to make her take a break for a few days and also minor facial abrasions and contusions from her fall.

Doctors told Vonn she would need to take a few days off to be able to rest her knee. Lindsay Vonn is a very persistent athlete who plays through pain and wants to win. Christine Brennan says "from the 2006 Winter Olympics in Torino. In training for the women's downhill, she suffered a serious crash (of course), was airlifted off the mountain and spent the night in a hospital. Two days later, she was back,skiing 70 miles per hour and finishing eighth in the Olympic downhill." Vonn has completed 59 World Cup victories along with completing many goals set for herself. This week she will be attending intense physical therapy to reduce pain and injury.Vonn is predicted to be back into Olympic training mode sometime within the next week.

Norton Girls Varsity Basketball Preview

The Varsity Girls Basketball team is looking to improve their last years season significantly. There are 5 returners 1 being a starter from last year. Captains Meghan Pestana and Samantha Lang are looking to improve their record from last year by working hard and taking it game by game. There are big looks for incoming freshman Maddie Murphy, who is talked about tremendously. Captain Meg Pestana says "there's only 5 returning players that are upper class men while the rest are freshman. Even though we're probably going to have a young team I think we have a shot this year, and things have potential to go good. A lot of freshmen are really talented and could have a big impact on helping our team this year."

The Lancers have a young team with only 4 Juniors including Ashley Pelletier, Marisa Amato, Chloe Gill and Amy Pereira, with only 2 seniors.  The girls are coached by Mr. Langmead for the second year in a row. He has high hopes for the team and the goal is to make it to the state tournament, for the first time in many years. The open gym option and  practices held are improving the team in significant amounts, improving skills and speed. The team is looking to go far this season and get to the state tournament.

Wrap Up for the Norton Varsity Girls Soccer Team

Last Saturday the girls varsity soccer team saw their last game against league rival Dover Sherborn. The girls fought a close battle with the high seeded team. The Lancers fell in the second half due to a late goal by Dover Sherborn's forward. The 1-0 loss kicked the Lancers out of the tournament ending their season. The Lancers finished the season (8-5-6) killing last seasons loosing record. The girls also finished with 21 points towards the tournament also beating last years goal.  Many goals were accomplished this year proves the Lady Lancers soccer team.

The team is loosing 11 seniors this year which include Kelsey Sousa, Kaitlin Murrin, Krista Woodworth, Ashley Cibotti, Lauren MacGray, Kathy Remick, Kaleigh Schleicher, Micayla Valeri, Alison Dufault, Courtney Shively and Jenn Kilburn. All of which contributed so much to the team that will be missed significantly. Senior Krista Woodworth says "we had an overall great season and I couldn't thank my team mates enough for making my senior year amazing." The team next year will be led by the amazing juniors now who will step it up and show everyone the true meaning of soccer by making it to tournament again and playing hard every minute they're out there.