Winter Sports Registration To Open Soon
The Winter Sports season is fast approaching! Nipmuc offers the following sports during the winter season:
Alpine Ski (Boys and Girls)
Basketball (Boys and Girls)
Indoor Track (Boys and Girls)
Sideline Cheerleading
Please be on the lookout for winter registration opening after Indigenous Peoples' Day.
Winter Sports Co-Op Opportunities
Nipmuc offers four different opportunities for Nipmuc students to participate on a winter team with another school. The sports that are offered are:
Boys Ice Hockey (through Northbridge)
Girls Ice Hockey (through Hopkinton)
Boys and Girls Swimming (through Grafton)
Boys and Girls Wrestling (through Northbridge)
If you are interested in any of these sports please fill out this form
T-Mobile Makes Nipmuc a $5,000 Weekly Winner
Nipmuc Regional was chosen as the $5,000 winner for the T-Mobile 5G Friday Night Lights weekly drawing. Nipmuc was chosen, amongst schools all over the United States, as the winner for the week of September 21st. A special thank you goes out to families in the Mendon-Upton Community and the Mendon Upton Community Project (MUCP) for being so active on social media and helping us obtain this prize.
T-Mobile will present us with a check at the October 26th home football game versus Sutton High School.
Pre-Performance routines are a great way to prepare for your event. They help improve with planning,
focus, and execution before you step on the field. Creating an effective routine will help you gain
confidence that you have practiced and can visualize what you need to be successful during the game.
Matt Ludensky, our Sports Psychology and Performance Coach from Springfield College will be a monthly contributor to the newsletter. Matt will be providing mental tips and practices to give our student-athletes a leg up on the competition. For this month, he has chosen the importance of pre-performance routines. Click here to read all about it.
One of the things we have noticed during the fall season is an alarming uptick in the consumption of ultra-caffeinated drinks. Products such as Celsius, Monster, Prime, and Bang are drinks that are readily available to our student athletes. In addition to these drinks students are using over the counter pre-workout powder to give them a boost. While these products are legal, they have detrimental effects to an athlete during practices and games. The least of which are cramping and dehydration.
Included below are thoughts and tips from our Athletic Trainer, Lindsay Scuoteguazza.
Did you know that energy drinks and pre-workout are not regulated by the FDA? Because they are considered dietary supplements they do not need to be regulated, meaning you do not know what is actually in them.
Teenagers are only recommended to take no more than 100mg of caffeine per day. But do you know how much caffeine is in what they're drinking?
Coffee 96mg
Redbull 80mg
Celsius 200mg
Bang 300mg
Large Sparked from Dunkin Donuts 192mg
Panera charged lemonade 237mg
Pre-workout can range anywhere from 150mg-300mg.
The half life of caffeine is about 5 hours. Meaning that is how long it takes for half the amount of caffeine you’ve ingested to leave your body. For those student-athletes planning on playing a sport in college, Celsius is on the list of banned substances by the NCAA.
Caffeine can increase anxiety, heart rate and sleep disturbances, while also decreasing blood flow to the brain. Your heart rate is already increasing close to it’s max when you’re playing in a game or working out. It is not necessary to put yourself at risk by increasing it further with supplements.
Please take the time to be aware of what you are putting into your body and the positive and negative effects
Just a reminder to all our fans who will be attending games. All ticket sales will be cashless. You may purchase tickets ahead of time through Go Fan or we will have credit card kiosks available at the entry.
Jeremy Barefoot, a 2012 graduate of Nipmuc Regional, loved sports, especially basketball and football. If he wasn't a member of the team, he supported the team by attending games, cheering, keeping score, announcing, working at sports camps, and much more. His love of sports continued beyond high school and college and beyond as he began his working career in sales. He continued to acquire new skills and try new sports including golf, pickleball, and others. He was well-loved by his colleagues and he consistently demonstrated qualities of sportsmanship that continue to inspire us.
To honor Jeremy’s memory - his family and loved ones have created a scholarship to support the financial needs of those who wish to further his legacy of sportsmanship and positivity.
This scholarship is intended to defray the cost of the specific sports program/camp/club fee, or the cost of additional required equipment for that sport. Awards will be paid directly to the individual or family who requested the funds.
If you are interested in this scholarship you may apply here.
About Nipmuc Athletics
Email: cschmidt@mursd.org
Website: https://www.mursd.org/page/nipmuc-miscoe-athletics
Phone: 508-529-2138
Twitter: @NipmucAD