The Dutch will send seven athletes to Staten Island for state track-and-field competition on March 7. Those seven Guilderland students reached the standard time or distance last Sunday at the University at Albany competition.

Last Thursday at the SEFCU arena on the campus of the University at Albany, an event called "we care" was held where around 700 volunteers helped fill bags for sexual assault victims that enter Albany Medical Center's Emergency room.

Three-time defending Section 2 champions, the Guilderland co-ed cheer team took to the mat in the annual UAlbany Cheer Showdown on Sunday afternoon. The Dutch cheered the day before in Saratoga where they finished second.

The Guilderland Dutchmen indoor track team competed in the Section 2, Division 1 championships on Sunday at the University at Albany. The girls finished in third place with 79 points and had two sectional champions: Isabella Bruno and Hannah Durant. The boys finished eighth with 13 points.

For the Berne-Knox-Westerlo Bulldogs, Saturday was a first. The school had never before fielded an indoor track team and this was the team’s first meet.

In a two-day event, the Guilderland Dutchmen winter track-and-field team took to the track Saturday, Feb. 18, in Saratoga and Monday morning, Feb. 20 at the University at Albany, in attempt to win a sectional title and to move onto the state qualifiers this Sunday.

Challenger football players play flag football with members of the UAlbany football players on Aug. 15.