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For senior center back Captain Keegan McMahon, field hockey has been a huge part of her life since she started in sixth grade. She made the varsity squad as a freshman and that was when her love for field hockey really began to grow. She was selected in her junior and senior years to be […]
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Boys varsity soccer Head Coach Hikmet Aslan is one of the many faces we see every day at Kingswood Oxford. He has led the boys soccer program during many of their most successful seasons, and even though this past season was unconventional, he continued to push the team to become better in all aspects of […]
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a dramatic effect on many Kingswood Oxford athletes during the fall season. Although the pandemic has caused a cancellation of many fall sports, Kingswood Oxford teams still found ways to work around it to have a great fall season. Senior boys cross country Captain Matthew Bzowyckyj has fought through these […]
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For many years, fantasy football has been a tradition among both athletes and fans during the NFL season as a way of competition between friends. This season the tradition has continued despite the coronavirus pandemic that unfortunately still rages through our country. Fantasy football is a game where people first draft a team, a combination […]
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This year has truly been a year like no other, and it palpably affected the fall varsity sports season for Kingswood Oxford. Required mask use, maintaining social distancing, shortened practices, and no official games were just some of the many challenges that both coaches and student-athletes faced during the season. Seniors across all sports were […]
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With the loss of a fall season, KO class of 2019 alumnus and Central Connecticut State University (CCSU) wide receiver Kyren Petteway is giving it his all on the field, in spite of the limited practices and abnormal schedule. He has taken matters into his own hands and created his own football league and season […]
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With the fall season coming to a close in mid-November, student-athletes are looking ahead to what the winter season holds and how each team will be affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. With recent updates from Head of School Tom Dillow, athletics will not be in person until Jan. 15 at the earliest. Interim Athletic Director […]
Read MoreHow far would you go to sacrifice something that you love, a privilege, for a much bigger cause that requires additional attention? Well, for the 16 remaining playoff teams left inside the NBA bubble, players were willing to give up whatever it took to fight for social justice and equality, even if it meant cancelling […]
Read MoreEven without the guarantee of an upcoming winter season, center Dakota McMahon ’18 is making the most of her practices on the ice, continuously giving it her all no matter the situation. McMahon attended the KO Upper School for all four years of high school. She was a part of the varsity field hockey and […]
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COVID-19 has caused major limitations to the athletics at Kingswood Oxford as the teams are required to be smaller and there are many rules to abide by. Despite these harsh limitations, Kingswood Oxford has worked around this challenge and created a new program of instructional sports. The instructional sports teams at KO include volleyball, boys […]
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