St. Johnsbury, Essex claim D1 track and field championships

HANOVER, N.H. (WCAX) - Longtime Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens has died, roughly six months after a pickup truck on bike collision near his offseason home in Florida. Dartmouth College made the announcement Tuesday night. His family released a statement saying “Our family is heartbroken to inform you that our beloved ‘coach’ has peacefully passed away surrounded by family. Unfortunately, the injuries he sustained proved too challenging for even him to overcome, throughout this journey, we consistently relayed the thoughts, memories, and love sent his way. Your kindness and letters of encouragement did not go unnoticed and were greatly appreciated by both Buddy and our family.” Back in March, Teevens was riding his bike back from dinner, when he was hit by a pickup truck in Florida. Dartmouth published periodic updates from Teeven’s wife, Kirsten, since then, first announcing that he had a leg amputated after the collision and that they had moved to Boston to be closer to his family during his recovery. The last update just 12 days ago stated that Teevens would not return to the Dartmouth sidelines this season. Teevens played quarterback at Dartmouth, graduating in 1979. He served two stints as head coach of the big green, first from 1987 to ‘91 and then from 2005 on. His 117 career wins with the Big Green are the most in program history. Teevens was part of six Ivy League Championship teams, first as a player in 1978 as the senior quarterback, then five as head coach in 1990, 1991, 2015, 2019, and 2021. More than all the wins though, Teevens will be remembered as an innovator: he took the then-unheard of approach of dramatically scaling back full-speed contact in practices in 2010 to combat injuries, most notably concussions and CTE. In 2015, with the help of Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, Teevens and the Big Green staff introduced the “Mobile Virtual Player,” a robotic tackling dummy that allowed his team to practice tackling and blocking techniques against an inanimate object. Teevens worked the Manning Passing Academy for a quarter century, and there he met Callie Brownson, whom he later hired as the first full-time female football coach at the Divison I level in 2018. After input from Teevens’ family, Dartmouth has decided to play Saturday’s contest against Lehigh as scheduled. Dartmouth will hold a moment of silence before the 1:30 p.m. kickoff and a remembrance gathering after the game. Related Stories: Dartmouth football coach recovering from bike crash

HANOVER, N.H. (WCAX) - Longtime Dartmouth football coach Buddy Teevens has died, roughly six months after a pickup truck on bike collision near his offseason home in Florida. Dartmouth College made the announcement Tuesday night. His family released a statement saying “Our family is heartbroken to inform you that our beloved ‘coach’ has peacefully passed away surrounded by family. Unfortunately, the injuries he sustained proved too challenging for even him to overcome, throughout this journey, we consistently relayed the thoughts, memories, and love sent his way. Your kindness and letters of encouragement did not go unnoticed and were greatly appreciated by both Buddy and our family.” Back in March, Teevens was riding his bike back from dinner, when he was hit by a pickup truck in Florida. Dartmouth published periodic updates from Teeven’s wife, Kirsten, since then, first announcing that he had a leg amputated after the collision and that they had moved to Boston to be closer to his family during his recovery. The last update just 12 days ago stated that Teevens would not return to the Dartmouth sidelines this season. Teevens played quarterback at Dartmouth, graduating in 1979. He served two stints as head coach of the big green, first from 1987 to ‘91 and then from 2005 on. His 117 career wins with the Big Green are the most in program history. Teevens was part of six Ivy League Championship teams, first as a player in 1978 as the senior quarterback, then five as head coach in 1990, 1991, 2015, 2019, and 2021. More than all the wins though, Teevens will be remembered as an innovator: he took the then-unheard of approach of dramatically scaling back full-speed contact in practices in 2010 to combat injuries, most notably concussions and CTE. In 2015, with the help of Dartmouth’s Thayer School of Engineering, Teevens and the Big Green staff introduced the “Mobile Virtual Player,” a robotic tackling dummy that allowed his team to practice tackling and blocking techniques against an inanimate object. Teevens worked the Manning Passing Academy for a quarter century, and there he met Callie Brownson, whom he later hired as the first full-time female football coach at the Divison I level in 2018. After input from Teevens’ family, Dartmouth has decided to play Saturday’s contest against Lehigh as scheduled. Dartmouth will hold a moment of silence before the 1:30 p.m. kickoff and a remembrance gathering after the game. Related Stories: Dartmouth football coach recovering from bike crash

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - It was another busy week on the high school fields. Here’s this week’s Top 3 on 3. At #3, girls soccer from last Monday, Rice taking on South Burlington. Megan Marroquin for the green knights will line up a free kick from 35 yards out...money. Absolute snipe and it was critical, as Rice would go on to down their rivals in overtime. At #2, Hartford taking on BFA in football Friday night. Canes took a little while to get going, but lined up to punt on 4th down, they’ll go for the fake! Brayden Trombley to Ezra Mock...are you kidding me with that catch!!! Full extenison to keep the drive going. Canes would roll to the 49-27 win to stay unbeaten. But how could #1 go to anyone but Jackson Gillett? The Middlebury running back absolutely slicing up Rutland Thursday night. Gillett going for 165 yards and three touchdowns...in the first quarter of that game! This 92-yard scamper was the best of the bunch. The Tigers rolled to the 41-0 win, Gillett taking the top spot in this week’s Top 3 on 3.

BURLINGTON, Vt. (WCAX) - Expectations will once again be high for UVM women’s hockey with the season set to begin in a little under two weeks. Vermont was picked 12th in the US College Hockey Online preseason poll, the Cats one of three Hockey East squads to feature among the top 15 nationally. Vermont first appeared in the rankings late in the 2021-22 season and spent virtually the entire year ranked in the top 15 last Winter. The Cats bring back a lot of talent but also lose the program’s all-time leading scorer in Theresa Schafzahl. UVM will play eight games against ranked teams this season, three each against #5 Northeastern and #14 Providence in conference play plus two against #9 Clarkson to open the regular season October 6th and 7th.

Highlights and scores from across the state

Panthers took 21-0 lead into halftime