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The Sports Rapport
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The Sports Rapport

Kicking off the winter sports playoff season

By Mitch Wertlieb,
Nathaniel Wilson
Published March 2, 2026 at 5:26 PM EST

It's playoff season for winter sports teams and athletes across Vermont!

This week on The Sports Rapport, we check in Shannon Bollhardt, women's basketball head coach, and Josh Kessler, director of athletic communications for Saint Michael's College. Plus, MyNBC5's Weekday Sports Anchor, Jack Main joins the show to preview UVM and high school postseason play.

Guests

Shannon Bollhardt, Head Women's Basketball Coach at Saint Michael's College
Josh Kessler, Director of Athletic Communications at Saint Michael's College
Jack Main, Weekday Sports Anchor for MyNBC5

The High Five

5. Saint Michael's College Men's Ice Hockey Loses Longest Game in NE10 History to No. 3 Saint Anselm, 3-2, in Triple Overtime
4. Vermonter John Caldwell, father of US cross-country skiing, dies at age 97
3. MMU repeats, Stowe seizes historic crown at Nordic skiing championships
2. 10-year-old Vermont angler catches record-breaking freshwater drum in Lake Champlain
1. Spaulding wrestling dethrones Mount Anthony, ends 36-year title reign

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Mitch Wertlieb
A graduate of NYU with a Master's Degree in journalism, Mitch has more than 20 years experience in radio news. He got his start as news director at NYU's college station, and moved on to a news director (and part-time DJ position) for commercial radio station WMVY on Martha's Vineyard. But public radio was where Mitch wanted to be and he eventually moved on to Boston where he worked for six years in a number of different capacities at member station WBUR...as a Senior Producer, Editor, and fill-in co-host of the nationally distributed Here and Now. Mitch has been a guest host of the national NPR sports program "Only A Game". He's also worked as an editor and producer for international news coverage with Monitor Radio in Boston.
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Nathaniel Wilson
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