Welcome to the 2009-10 Norwalk High School Sports web site. Here you will find the most up-to-date information on the sports program at Norwalk High. If you have any questions please feel free to call the school at 838-4481. As you know, schedules can change quickly because of weather so check with your coach if you have a question about practice or game times.

Winter Sports 2009

The current CIAC schedule is available through a link directly to the right. Just click on the link for the latest information.

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Norwalk Varsity Boys Basketball
       
01/29/10 vs. Staples - W 67-53
01/26/10 vs. Wilton - W 59-56
01/19/10 vs. Fairfield Ludlowe - W 53-50
01/05/10 vs. Darien - W 80-50
12/22/09 vs. Danbury - W 65-51
12/18/09 vs. New Canaan - W 95-81

Norwalk Varsity Girl's Basketball

01/22/10 vs. Greenwich - W 47-32
01/19/10 vs. Fairfield Ludlowe - W 43-38
01/12/10 vs. Harding - W 69-36
01/05/10 vs. Darien - W 57-39
12/16/09 vs. Bassick - W 53-32

Don't forget to check out the NHS Pawprints!

http://www.thenhspawprint.org/

February 17th NHS will be hosting McMahon for two Varsity games. At 6:00 p.m. the NHS girls varsity Lady Bears will play McMahon and at 8:00 p.m. the boy's varsity basketball team will play the Senators.

At the girl's game there will be a special ceremony held to retire Margaret Diaz's jersey. Diaz, who played at Norwalk High School in the late 1970s, was the first girls basketball player in city history to score 1,000 career points. Margaret Diaz recently passed away and NHS is taking this opportunity to honor her.

As reported in the Hour newspaper, "Diaz averaged a modest 11 points a game her sophomore year, finishing second on the team as she helped the Bears, a 5-10 team the previous season, go 12-7 and return to the state tournament in Foust's rookie season.

The following season, 1977-78, was a breakout year for Diaz as the junior center averaged a city-leading 19.3 points and was named first-team All-FCIAC and all-state while leading Norwalk to a school-record 18 wins. In fact, the 18-4 Lady Bears lost in the state semifinals 34-33 to eventual state champion Lee High School, which then beat Naugatuck by 16 for the state title.

Diaz followed that up with another big season her senior year, averaging 17.2 points and being named All-FCIAC and all-state for the second year in a row. She also led her team to a perfect 20-0 regular-season record, including a 15-0 mark in the FCIAC as the Bears captured the Western Division championship.

They won it in the second to last game when they edged defending champion Stamford 49-48, handing the Black Knights their first league loss in three years. Both teams came into that contest with identical 14-0 league records and the outcome wasn't decided until Diaz, her team down by one, sank a pair of clutch free throws with only seconds remaining.

"That was an unbelievable game," Foust said. "Both teams were undefeated and the place was packed. It was probably the highest attended high school girls game ever at that time."

And there was no doubt whose hands the ball would be in at the end."

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