Newport High School sets fall sports registration, celebrates javelin champion

Newport High School has set its fall sports information night for June 23 at 5 p.m. in the high school gymnasium, and families need to get the registration and medical paperwork done before athletes report. Students need FinalForms online signup, current physical forms, concussion baseline testing dates, preseason practice start dates, football equipment handout dates and a list of fall coaches. Missing that paperwork can delay a student’s start when practices begin.

FinalForms collects and verifies athletics information, along with communication and emergency-readiness details. For fall sports, families need to be ready with the basics well before the first practice window opens, not after players have already shown up for workouts.

Newport athlete Ayden Hodge won the javelin at the June 6 New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association Meet of Champions. Hodge’s winning throw measured 180 feet, 7 inches, or 55.04 meters, and he advanced to the New England Track and Field Championships, held June 13 at Noble Track in North Berwick, Maine. He won the Meet of Champions event by nearly 16 feet.

His outdoor marks included 175 feet, 1 inch at Pelham, 168 feet, 7 inches at the Black Bear Invite, 172 feet, 11 inches at Mascoma, 174 feet, 6 inches at Monadnock and 176 feet, 3 inches at the CVC South qualifier. Newport, the Sullivan County seat with a population of about 6,500, marked the achievement with a parade through town Saturday to welcome him home.