Published on August 21st, 2025
Head coach Liam Witham and his staff have announced rosters for the 2025 season. Players should report Friday for training: Varsity (10 a.m. at Wakeman); junior varsity and freshmen (10 a.m. at Loeffler Field, Staples). The [&hellip... Read More →
Published on August 18th, 2025
Head coach Liam Witham welcomed several dozen varsity, junior varsity and freshman team hopefuls this morning at Wakeman Field, for the first of 8 tryouts. The double sessions will be spread over 4 days. The candidates [&hellip... Read More →
Published on August 10th, 2025
Five days after the Staples varsity won the Norwalk League championship, the JV team did the same. The Wreckers — coached by Elisee Joseph — captured the title on Saturday. The league is for underclassmen who [&hellip... Read More →
Published on August 7th, 2025
The Watermelon Cup — a Staples soccer summer tradition since the 1960s — ended its 2025 season last night. Team USA captured the coveted melon. Congratulations to the champions, left to right in the photo below: [&hellip... Read More →
Published on August 5th, 2025
Staples boys soccer made history last night. They beat Norwalk 1-0 in the finals of the Norwalk Summer League, at West Rocks Middle School. It was the first summer league championship in the 4 years Staples [&hellip... Read More →
Published on August 1st, 2025
Staples boys soccer tryouts for all grades — 9 through 12 — begin Monday, August 18, on the Wakeman turf. All players must pre-register for tryouts, via FinalForms. Click here for the link. All grades will [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 31st, 2025
Russell Oost-Lievense spent 9 years as a Staples soccer coach. His playing career included a captaincy. He writes: To the Staples Soccer Community, It was 5th grade when I saw my first Staples boys soccer game. [&hellip... Read More →
Published on July 3rd, 2025
Staples High School athletic director VJ Sarullo has named Liam Witham as the 5th permanent head coach in Staples boys soccer history. He succeeds Russell Oost-Lievense, whose contract was not renewed by superintendent of schools Thomas [&hellip... Read More →
Published on June 14th, 2025
Staples boys soccer said goodbye to 16 seniors, at Wednesday’s graduation. Like generations of players before them, they’re off to do great things. Two will play college soccer. One will pursue a gap year, training in [&hellip... Read More →
Published on June 7th, 2025
Registration is open for Watermelon Cup ’25. The deadline is June 15. A Westport tradition since the 1960s, the summer league for current players and alumni offers fun, 6-v-6 competition Wednesdays at Wakeman Field, from July [&hellip... Read More →
Published on May 30th, 2025
Five Staples boys soccer players received honors, at the school’s annual Awards Night this week. Sam Rossoni was one of 3 finalists for the Staples Key. The highest prize of all — given for service to [&hellip... Read More →
Published on May 13th, 2025
For 12 hours, 150 students and parents sat patiently in Town Hall. Staples High School boys soccer head coach Russell Oost-Lievense was appealing to the Board of Education the decision by superintendent of schools Thomas Scarice [&hellip... Read More →
Published on May 8th, 2025
The Board of Education will hear Russell Oost-Lievense’s appeal of the non-renewal of his contract on Monday, May 12. It’s set for 9 a.m., in the Town Hall auditorium. The Board changed the time once, then [&hellip... Read More →
Published on April 27th, 2025
Staples’ boys soccer program is 67 years old. That makes it a baby, compared to Wesleyan University They’ve had a soccer team for a century. But for nearly its entire existence, the Staples program has sent [&hellip... Read More →
Published on April 7th, 2025
Staples soccer announces 3 important summer events. The conditioning program for boys entering grades 9-12 (rising freshmen through seniors) runs July 8 through August 7, at Wakeman Field. Sessions will be held Tuesdays (6:30 to 8:30 [&hellip... Read More →