By Danielle Victory Staff Writer Week three of basketball was strong for the Varsity Girls Team. The Ghosts defeated the Boston Latin Wolf Pack 56-25 on Tuesday night. The win of both the freshman and Junior Varsity teams before them encouraged the varsity to acheive victory. The Grey Ghosts quickly took the lead and had Boston calling a time-out less [...]

Barbara Morrison Editor-in-chief This part one of a series of articles on girls’ sports dynamics At Westford Academy every sport excluding football has a highly competitive and often successful female counterpart to the men’s sports teams, a requirement of title IX. The girls’ sports are renowned; our Girls’ Cheerleading team is the division 1 State Champions, and our Girls’ Soccer [...]

by James Knowles Staff-Writer Confidence and adrenaline pumping, the undefeated Varsity Girls’ Basketball team got on the bus at 3:45 to travel all the way to rival team’s home turf, Lincoln-Sudbury. “This is going to be our year,” senior captain Asia Ewing states before the game. “We have a stacked team and we all know how each other plays. We [...]

By Barbara Morrison Editor-in-Chief As a senior in high school every student has to accept that they will not talk about anything but their college plans for the next year. At every family gathering, holiday party, lunch table discussion, acquaintance conversation, and teacher-student interaction, they will be grilled on the status of their application, on their top choices, on what [...]

By Sami Joubert Staff Writer In the middle of 2011, Westford Academy intends to have completed the installation of a brand new, multi-purpose, synthetic turf field in place of the natural grass that is the football field’s current foundation. At the moment the football field at WA, as well as its facilities, are very outdated. Renovations coming in the near [...]

By Kendall McElroy Staff Writer The boys varsity basketball team started off the season right with a big win over the Tyngsborough Tigers 97-51 at Wesford Academy on December 11th. After Westford Academy junior varsity boys basketball team had a solid win over Tyngsborough, more maroon clad fans started to fill the bleachers. Soon after the varsity team came out [...]

By Shannon Donahue Staff Writer Last Friday, December 4, our own swim team traveled to Sudbury to compete in their first “meet” of the season, the DCL Relays. This competition is not only for practice, but also for the many teams to meet their new swimmers, including the freshmen. The WA Swim Team departed around 2:10, filled with both excitement [...]

By: Patrick Martell Staff Writer TJ Jann is a senior this year, and is one of the best two sport athletes to come out of Westford Academy. However, it was his signing to Penn State to play Division 1 college baseball last month that has had people talking. During the winter Jann can be seen racing up the court in [...]

By Devon Lindsey Staff Writer In late August, senior Asia Ewing received a full ride basketball scholarship to Stonehill College, and at WA basketball scholarships are rare occurrences. After being recruited by the school and visiting there, they offered her the scholarship to assure she would be attending Stonehill. Ewing began playing basketball in 5th grade after being encouraged to [...]

By Chris Segien Staff Writer When the sports announcements suddenly ended on Friday, November 13, many at WA thought that it was part of the joke that Seniors Cam Close and Jon Schiavone were pulling as part of the sports announcements . But the truth was, their skit was censored, and was cut out. Sports anchors Close and Schiavone were [...]

By Kate Spinosa Staff Writer Westford Academy’s wrestling team is pumped for another great season this year. With last year’s record of 13-5. They have high hopes for the 2009-2010 season. Matt Tholander is the new coach for the team this year. The wrestling season started November 30th, and for most members ends during February break. The first official meet [...]

Click here for a video of the Bazaar By: Radhika Akhil Staff Writer It was impossible to make a decision about what to buy during the 39th annual Westford Academy Holiday Bazaar on Saturday December 4, 2009, run by the Westford Academy Student Council. There were 250 vendors, 30 of which were after-school clubs, selling products varying from food to [...]