Ivy League Sports 3/1/10: All Ivy Women's Swimming & Diving — 2009-10. UPenn Senior Melissa Gardel (WHS '06) was named to the All Ivy Swimming and Diving second team.

Boston Globe 2/28/10: Coach guides Wayland swimmers to win boys’ and girls’ championships, twice. It’s not that the father wished to put undue pressure on his son. It was just a subtle reminder. OK, maybe not so subtle. Last year, Mike Foley guided the Wayland High boys’ swim team to the Division 2 state title. He coaches the girls’ team too. The girls’ meet was the next day. In between meets, Foley said, “my father pointed out that nobody had ever won the boys’ and girls’ titles in the same year.’’ The girls matched the boys’ title, and Mike Foley stood alone. His dad knew a thing or two about championships. In 35 years as the swim coach at archrival Weston High, Pete Foley won 18 state titles. His son, now with seven, is chipping away. But Pete never won a state crown with the boys’ and girls’ teams in the same year. It gets better. Last weekend, at Harvard, both of his teams repeated as state champs. “I’m still in shock,’’ said Foley.

BU Today 2/23/10: Other Terriers on Ice. When the BU Curling Club got its start in 2006, “four or five of us would rent a car and come out here every Friday and just slide down the ice,” says club vice president Devina Dalmia (CAS’10). She stands outside Broomstones Curling Club, a cathedral-shaped arena hidden in the woods of Wayland, Mass., 20 minutes by bus from Boston, where the group holds weekly practices. “We would train for a couple of hours and we’d all come back happy. Now we have an entire bus.”

Wayland Town Crier 2/22/10: Make that five years in a row for girls swimming and diving. Last year the Wayland girls swimming and diving team graduated the first class to win four years in a row, a group of six seniors that many teams figured were the reason why the Warriors had so much success. Senior captain Emily Wright understood the pressure. "There was a little pressure going into this meet. We (graduated) a lot of seniors last year who scored a lot of points for us, but we knew this going into it. We trained long and hard for this and were ready for the challenge," Wright said. After graduating all of the first state champ team members from 2006, Wayland proved its ongoing strength and enthusiasm on Sunday when the Warriors won for the fifth year in a row, a feat that few can ever own.

WBZ TV 2/19/10: Wayland Club On The Strategy Behind Curling. Once every four years the spotlight shines on the Olympic sport of curling. We see teams sliding heavy stones down a lane of ice, furiously sweeping in front of the stone. Curling is a bit of a mystery to most, but at a club in Wayland, curling has been king for more than 40 years. It's called the Broomstones Curling Club. With their own indoor ice facility and a ton of enthusiasm, members play every day. "It's a game like chess on ice," says Gordon Swan, who has been playing for 50 years.

Metrowest Daily News 2/22/10: Division 2 Swimming: A perfect five for Wayland. It was a different group of girls, but the same result as the Wayland swimming team won its fifth consecutive Div. 2 state championship on Sunday evening at Harvard's Blodgett Pool. Last year's senior class was the one that started the championship run as freshmen in 2006, but the team did just fine without them as the Warriors scored 223 points to edge out Weston's 202 points on the night.

Boston Globe 2/22/10: Wayland girls Div. 2 swim champs. Wayland’s swimmers are drowning in championships. A day after the boys beat the field, the girls devastated the competition to take their fifth consecutive Division 2 state title yesterday at Harvard’s Blodgett Pool. “I’m real proud of these girls, they performed really well today,’’ coach Mike Foley said. “We hung on and held off Weston once again, and they just keep charging at us.’’ Wayland amassed 223 points, while Weston finished second with 202. Marblehead (115), Duxbury (112), and Northampton (95) rounded out the top five.