Connecticut Sports
| Club |
Sport |
League |
| Bridgeport Sound Tigers |
Ice hockey |
American Hockey League |
| Danbury Trashers |
Ice hockey |
United Hockey League |
| Hartford Wolf Pack |
Ice hockey |
American Hockey League |
| New England Stars |
Ice hockey |
North Eastern Hockey League |
| Connecticut Defenders |
Baseball |
Minor League Baseball (AA) |
| New Britain Rock Cats |
Baseball |
Minor League Baseball (AA) |
| Bridgeport Bluefish |
Baseball |
Atlantic League |
| Manchester Silkworms |
Baseball |
New England Collegiate Baseball League |
| New Haven County Cutters |
Baseball |
Canadian-American League |
| Stamford Robins |
Baseball |
Atlantic Collegiate Baseball League |
| Torrington Twisters |
Baseball |
New England Collegiate Baseball League |
| Connecticut Sun |
Basketball |
Women's National Basketball Association |
- From 1979 to 1997, the National Hockey League had a franchise in Hartford, the Hartford Whalers. Their departure to Raleigh, North Carolina, caused great controversy and resentment. The former Whalers are now known as the Carolina Hurricanes.
The Pilot Pen Tennis Tournament is held annually at the Connecticut Tennis Center at Yale University. It is one of the few dual-sex tournaments in professional tennis and is the warm-up tournament to the US Open, played the following week in Queens, New York. The court speed and weather conditions are identical to those at the US Open.[citation needed]
The Connecticut Interscholastic Athletic Conference (CIAC) is the state's sanctioning body for high school sports. Xavier High School (Middletown, CT) claimed the 2005 Class LL football championship. Other state champions in football include Staples (in Westport), Greenwich High School (Greenwich, CT) 2006 state LL champions, Branford, Daniel Hand (in Madison), Woodland Regional (in Beacon Falls), East Lyme High School (in East Lyme), Hyde Leadership (in Hamden), Southington High School (in Southington).
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