Eagles honored at Winter Sports Night

CONWAY — The Kennett High School Athletic Department held its annual Winter Sports Awards on March 15 in the Loynd Auditorium before the first large in-person, mask optional crowd in two years.

Kennett Athletic Director Neal Weaver praised the athletes and their families for all they endured during another winter season when COVID cases spiked in January. Through it all the Eagles had a successful winter. The girls’ alpine and cross-country ski teams won state championship; the ski jumping team was the state runner-up and national runner-up; the boys’ alpine team was third in Division II; both the boys’ and girls’ basketball teams won playoff games and reached the Elite Eight; the boys’ hockey team also won a playoff game and advanced to the Elite Eight; and the Berlin-Gorham-Kennett cooperative girls’ hockey team made its debut and played in the state quarterfinals.