When the RSU 39 School Board voted to close Limestone Community School’s high school in order to save $601,000, that left the Maine School of Science and Mathematics on its own.
Limestone and MSSM had pooled their students to field high school athletic teams.
With Limestone students in grades 9-12 now attending Caribou High School or paying tuition to go somewhere else — such as neighboring Fort Fairfield High School — that left LCS/MSSM athletic administrator Sarah Stackhouse contemplating the future of MSSM athletics.
She conducted a survey asking students which sports they would like to play and a committee was formed to examine the survey and come up with an athletics curriculum.
The results of those efforts are that the Maine School of Science and Mathematics will offer boys and girls cross country, boys and girls soccer, nordic skiing, volleyball and boys and girls track and field. Their swimmers will continue to swim for the cooperative Carlisle team, which includes students from Presque Isle and Caribou high schools.
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