Hingham Sports: The Rising Tide

Just over a year ago, the Hingham boy’s hockey team skated into what had largely been a house of horrors for public school teams of the past: high school hockey’s Super 8 Tournament.  For decades, this tournament, which crowns the state champion every year, was owned by the Catholic schools, particularly perennial power houses like Catholic Memorial and BC High.  The script usually called for the Publics to play respectable foils to their Catholic brethren - bowing out after occasionally throwing a scare into the deep and talented Catholic teams.  Last year the Harbormen elected not to follow that particular script.  Playing with passion and intensity, the young men from Hingham refused to quit until they seized the ultimate prize and won the state championship.  This level of hockey success has hardly been an Old Boy’s Club.  Girl’s hockey in Hingham has been producing top quality pucksters for years now.  Both the Harborwomen and Notre Dame girls have a tradition of producing fast, skilled and relentless competitors who usually get the better of any team that skates into their path.

In sport after sport, Hingham’s boys and girls can be found competing at the very highest levels of athletic excellence.  Anyone who attended the MSTCA Spring Relays in Stoneham last weekend would have witnessed an absolutely stunning track and field performance by the boys and girls from Hingham.  In a meet featuring over 30 schools from all over Eastern Massachusetts, Hingham dominated many of the events and finished first in both the boys and girls team rankings.

This level of success our local athletes have enjoyed is not a fluke.  Take a walk down to the bathing beach some evening and you’ll be treated to the sight of the boys’ and girls’ crew teams training with a vigor and intensity rarely seen elsewhere.  Pass by one of our many beautiful fields around town and you can usually find Hingham athletes honing their craft in lacrosse, football or soccer.  It’s so refreshing in an age of “me first” professional crybabies to see kids striving with all of their might for the simple love of the game.  Talk to one of these kids some time and you’ll find they are not simply athletes, but outstanding young students of life as well.  If you have a free moment, tear your eyes away from the Red Sox, Bruins or Celtics this season and take some time to come out and see one of Hingham’s greatest resources: our wonderful student-athletes.