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FCIAC Honors Five NCHS Varsity Boys Soccer Players

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2014 New Canaan High School Boys Varsity Soccer Highlights from C Hutchins on Vimeo. Congratulations to the New Canaan High School soccer team on a standout season. Led by senior tri-captains Alex Hutchins, Ted O’Rourke and Chase Williams, the team notched twice as many victories as the prior year and saw more goals scored by more players this season. O’Rourke, a center back, and junior goalkeeper Griffin Paterson made the all-FCIAC team, while midfielder Hutchins, center back Shaan Appel and midfielder Max Potter made the All-FCIAC East squad. Other highlights for the NCHS boys varsity soccer team include:

Beat higher ranked teams (including Darien and Wilton)
Six shutouts (including Darien and Wilton)
Made states
First win in states (NC, seeded #30, beat #3 seed Platt Tech 3-0) since 2011

Sports

NewCanaanite.com Athletes of the Week: Cali Brannan and Alex Hutchins

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The NewCanaanite.com Athlete of the Week is sponsored by Baskin-Robbins, Connecticut Sandwich Co., Joe’s Pizza and Mackenzie’s. Congratulations to Cali Brannan and Alex Hutchins for being named NewCanaanite.com Athletes of the Week. It’s quite rare that a freshman makes a significant impact on a high school varsity team. That being said–there are few freshmen like Cali Brannan. The newest Rams running sensation has led the Girls Cross Country team in all of its meets this season, including a fourth-place finish at Tuesday’s event in Greenwich in which 5 teams participated.

Local People

Say ‘Hi’ to Alex Hutchins, NewCanaanite.com Summer Intern

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A journalist receives no greater gift than to be granted an interview—town official, event organizer, man-on-the-street. It’s a gift of trust and, other than spelling people’s names correctly, there’s no more important job than respecting that trust. How scary to put your faith in some reporter, to believe that that person will convey just what you mean to say and not put words you never uttered into your mouth—or worse, to report accurately the words you said but take them out of context. So the first thing we asked New Canaan High School junior Alex Hutchins when he interviewed for our NewCanaanite.com summer internship program was for permission to publish our entire exchange online should he get the gig. He did, we’re very excited to say, and below we’ve transcribed our entire interview this month at Zumbach’s Gourmet Coffee.