Kate Powers didn’t think much of it.
When she threw the discus or hammer last year as part of her training regimen, her right elbow popped in and out of its socket. Powers couldn t fully extend or bend her primary elbow.
“I knew it wasn’t a normal thing and that I had to get it checked out,” said Powers, a junior at Hopkinton High School.
The elbow verdict: Synovial chondromatosis. Bone chips. Fourteen of them were removed from her right elbow in a three-hour surgery on Dec. 9, 2020.
Days into her six-week rehab, Powers, who is right-handed, watched her Hopkinton High indoor track and field teammates perform planks at practice. She sat on the sideline with her right arm in a sling. The junior captain and tosser-of-weights didn’t want to lead from the bench. She felt out of the loop.
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A day before Ross Comcowich set cruise from New York to Florida with his 18-foot motorboat, the Hopkinton High senior received an email from his grandfather, Jerry Comcowich.
The Aug. 30 correspondence read: “Take good risks and don’t fear failure. Life will be an exciting adventure.”
It was his grandfather who, after all, planted the seed in Ross’ head to go on such an exciting aquatic adventure. His grandfather sailed from New York to Florida 66 years prior, and Ross planned to go on the same trip over the first two weeks of September this year.
At least until tragedy struck.
Birds of a feather
Hopkinton s Sean Farrell, Concord s Ian Moore share similiar journey on the way to being selected in 2020 NHL Draft
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Sitting around a lounge area at the Fox Valley Ice Arena on Oct. 7, Ian Moore watched the 2020 NHL Draft with some of his new Chicago Steel teammates. Later that day, Sean Farrell, of Hopkinton, also was in the lounge area.
Both were about to experience a memorable moment.
Moore, an 18-year-old ice hockey player from Concord was about to leave the lounge around 2 p.m. to catch the third round with his parents, who were visiting and sitting at Chelios Pub and Grill in the Illinois-based arena. But before he could reach the exit doors, Moore was bombarded by his United States Hockey League (USHL) teammates.
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HOPKINTON Josh Fischer was nine years old when he was ranked the worst baseball player on his Little League team.
“I remember I had to rank all the kids on my nine-year-old team and he was ranked last,” said Fischer’s father, John, who was the head coach. “I remember that clearly. I still have the excel spreadsheet and I’ve kept it as inspiration for him because this is how far (he’s) come in the last 10 years.”
On Wednesday, Fischer signed his National Letter of Intent to play baseball at Fairfield University.
At a table set up inside the Hopkinton High gymnasium, the high school senior was joined by his father, his mother, Barb, his twin sister, Alyssa, and his older brother, Zachary. The left-handed pitcher put pen to paper – along with five other Hillers – to commit to play a college sport.