Coach Dean Williams has a vivid memory of the moment Queensbury’s 2019-20 hockey season came to an end.
The Spartans were practicing at the Glens Falls Recreation Center on the Thursday before the state final four. They saw athletic director Rich Keys walk in. Everyone immediately knew bad news was coming.
Keys walked onto the ice and told the team the tournament had been called off, along with all postseason play in high school sports. The pandemic had arrived. Queensbury never even got on the ice the following season.
The Spartans have spent this past week preparing for the 2022 state semifinals, and it will be a new experience for most of these players. A school that’s made many trips to the state final four hasn’t been there since it was last played in 2019. Only a handful of this year’s players were on that bus ride.
“A lot of these guys haven’t experienced this, so I’m excited for them to get on the bus, get out there, do a team dinner,” Williams said earlier in…
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