Nashua, New Hampshire

Sports

As of 2005, Nashua's only professional sports team is an unaffiliated minor league baseball team: The Nashua Pride, which has played at Holman Stadium since 1998. Before the Pride, Holman has also hosted the independent Nashua Hawks, the AA Nashua Pirates (the first professional stop for Barry Bonds, and the A Nashua Dodgers (the first racially integrated professional baseball team in the modern age of Baseball.)

Related Topics:
As of 2005 - Nashua Pride - Holman Stadium - 1998 - Nashua Hawks - Nashua Pirates - Barry Bonds - Nashua Dodgers - Baseball

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For years, the Nashua High School Panthers were often contenders for state championships in nearly every sport they participated in due to the large talent pool they had to draw from compared to neighboring schools, but this advantage was decreased somewhat when Nashua High split into a new North school ("The Titans") and the original South school. Both schools compete in the Class L division of the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association as well as its counterpart in Boys' Football, "Division 1". The North/South split became the premier High School rivalry in the city, supplanting the old rivalry between the public High School and the private Bishop Guertin Academy, which normally competes in Class L, but is in "Division 2" for Football.

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Nashua High School - North - Class L - New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association - Bishop Guertin Academy

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In Collegiate Sports, Nashua is home to the Daniel Webster College Eagleshttp://www.dwc.edu/athletics/ who compete within the Great Northeast Athletic Conference or "GNAC" of theNCAA's Division III and Rivier College Raiders who also compete in the GNAC as well.

Related Topics:
Daniel Webster College - Great Northeast Athletic Conference - NCAA - Rivier College

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The city also has an active running club known as the Gate City Striders.

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