Thirty-two exceptional MIT undergrads were selected as 2023 Burchard Scholars. They will enjoy a seminar series and conversations over dinners with distinguished faculty.
A return to the mat features virtual competitions for varsity cheerleaders
Cheerleaders can be of good cheer these days. They finally have something to cheer about: a season.
That appeared less and less likely as the weeks of the high school winter sports season whittled away. And then came the salvation high-risk winter sports such as competitive cheerleading could barely have still hoped for with the authorization to proceed, first from New York State and then Suffolk County.
Cheerleading has a compressed season that will run to Feb. 27. Practices began this week.
Shoreham-Wading River’s Grace McMillan, who captains the Wildcats along with fellow seniors Brooke Hackal and Caitlin Thrash, spoke about how nice it will be to have a sense of closure. “If we didn’t have this year, it would have felt incomplete,” said McMillan.