Zach Snow

English Teacher 📚 Basketball Coach 🏀 @Marist ‘19 @USCRossier ‘24 BA / MAT #GoRedFoxes 🦊 #FightOn✌️

[Jay Pinsonnault @JayPinceSMG]

Dear @NHIAA_LOA
Can we please bring back the old web site?
Signed
Every media member, coach, student-athlete, parent, fan

[Zach Snow @MrSnowELA]

https://t.co/FZa0H8x7Sm

[Derek Swartz @dswartz2028]

Very excited to receive a scholarship from Marquette University ! Thank you to Coach Shaka Smart and Cody Hatt! @RivalsNation @3SSBCircuit

[Zach Snow @MrSnowELA]

One of a kind group right here, so much to be proud of throughout this season. Each and every player dug in and left it all out there on the court. Couldn’t ask for anything else as a coach! 👊

[Seacoastonline.com @seacoastonline]

Defending champion St. Thomas girls ousted in Division III quarters https://t.co/0ar1zE9R0X

[Jay Pinsonnault @JayPinceSMG]

Seacoast Friday Roundup: Grand accomplishment for @STA_Athletics girls basketball senior. More results from busy Friday across NH and Maine
https://t.co/EXFjSR3feM

[St. Thomas Aquinas High School Athletics @STA_Athletics]

WELCOME TO THE 1K CLUB‼️🔥

Congratulations to senior Emma Toriello on surpassing 1,000 career points!

Emma becomes just the third player in STA Girls Basketball program history to reach this milestone — and the first since 2018.

Amazing job, Em — more to come! 👏🏀

[Ball 603 @Ball603NH]

🏀 St. Thomas 53, Prospect Mountain 48 🏀

ST. THOMAS: Toriello-27
PROSPECT MOUNTAIN: Kaplan-19, Foster-13

READ MORE & check out the full photo gallery by Michael Griffin... https://t.co/baGPGGJj7y

[Jay Pinsonnault @JayPinceSMG]

.@brandonbrownsc1 takes a look at 18 surprise girls basketball players this season from Dover, @PortsAthletics,@Winnawar, @OysterRiverHS @STA_Athletics @AthleticsExeter @PCADover @TraipAcademy @SHSHilltoppers1 @SpldngAthletics and @YHSWildcats
https://t.co/C0bWxGYXpX

[St. Thomas Aquinas High School Athletics @STA_Athletics]

Celebrating big milestones reached so far this year by some of our Saints!

⚜️AJ Kozlowski ‘26 - 100 Career Points (Boys’ Hockey)
⚜️Angus Forman ‘26 - 68 Career Goals (Boys’ Soccer Program Record)
⚜️Julianne Stowell ‘27 - 500 Career Assists (Volleyball)

Congratulations, Saints!

[James Lucas @JamesLucasIT]

This is the best thing you’ll see today

Carl Sagan explains how Eratosthenes of Cyrene, the chief librarian at the Library of Alexandria, deduced that the Earth was round and calculated its circumference 2,200 years ago.

[Ryan Bilodeau @ryankbilodeau]

As @TimTebow articulates, school choice is about meeting students where they are, not forcing them into one mold.

Which is basically the same dilemma you’ve got this weekend, Tim: @Patriots or @Broncos? 😄🏈

#schoolchoice #EducationFreedom #nhpolitics #nfl

[DK🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸 @1Nicdar]

130 schools said no.
He led the losingest program in college football history to a national championship anyway.
Fernando Mendoza was a 2-star recruit from Miami.

He tried to walk on at his hometown school. They passed.
So did FIU.
So did FAU.
So did everyone else.

At 17, he was sitting in his bedroom, crying over a silent recruiting inbox—after driving to 18 camps with his dad and sending highlights to more than 100 programs.
Not one FBS offer.
His only option? Yale. No scholarship. No NFL path.

Everyone told him to be “realistic.”
“Know your place.”
“Be grateful.”
He didn’t listen.
Because Mendoza understood something most people miss:
The worst outcome isn’t failing.
It’s never getting the chance to try.

Two weeks before signing day in 2022, his phone rang.
Cal needed a body. One offer. Out of 134 schools.
He took it.
He arrived as the third-string quarterback.
Spent a year on the scout team.
Lost his first four starts.
Got sacked 41 times behind a broken offensive line.

Still got up. Every time.
Then Cal brought in a transfer instead of building around him.
So Mendoza left the only school that had ever said yes.
He transferred to Indiana—the losingest program in college football history.

People laughed.
“Career suicide.”
“Graveyard program.”
“Nobody wins there.”
One coach told him something different:
“I’m going to make you the best Fernando Mendoza possible.”
That was enough.
Mendoza wasn’t just playing for football.
His mother has battled multiple sclerosis for 18 years.

Before every snap, he thought of her.
“My mother is my why.”
Indiana went 16–0.
Beat six Top-10 teams.
Won their first Big Ten title since 1945.
Mendoza threw 41 touchdowns.
Won the Heisman—first in school history.
First Cuban-American to ever do it.

Then came the title game.
Miami. Near his hometown.
Fourth-and-4. Season on the line.
Quarterback draw.
The kid 134 schools rejected spun through defenders and dove into the end zone.

Game over.
Indiana—national champions.
The losingest program became the best team in America.
All because a 17-year-old refused to believe “no” was the end.

Rankings don’t decide your ceiling.
Gatekeepers don’t write your ending.
Being overlooked isn’t a verdict—it’s a starting point.

Sometimes all you need is one shot…
and the courage to bet on yourself when nobody else will.
Don’t quit.

Credit: Barclay Mullins

[Jeremy Wayne Tate @JeremyTate41]

Why do we do math in school?

When I asked this question as a kid, my teachers always told me, “You’ll use it one day.”

That’s almost always false.

Most adults are never going to be in a sticky situation with two binomials, thinking, thank goodness I can FOIL my way out of this mess. Most of us get by just fine without ever solving for x again.

And especially in an AI age, fewer and fewer people will “use math” in the narrow, practical sense.

But the origins of math have never been primarily about utility.

Math is formative. It trains the mind to love what is true, to recognize what is orderly, and to be drawn toward what is beautiful. It teaches us that the universe is not chaos, but something intelligible, something structured, something that can be known.

And you can see that truth made visible in the world’s most breathtaking churches and cathedrals: arches, vaults, domes, proportions, symmetry, harmony, light—geometry turned into glory. The mathematics that shapes a cathedral is not cold or sterile. It’s the language of wonder, carved into stone.

We don’t teach math because everyone will use it.

We teach math because it forms the kind of person who can see that reality has meaning.

[Oliur @UltraLinx]

Can you read 900 words per minute? Try it.

[Ryan Bilodeau @ryankbilodeau]

At Christmas, we’re reminded that the most meaningful gifts are rarely the ones we unwrap.

School choice and education freedom offer something far more enduring: the freedom for families to choose the learning environment that truly fits their child.

Here in New Hampshire, and thanks to @CSF_NH, that freedom is helping students find schools where they feel supported, challenged, and able to thrive long after the holidays have passed.

#NHPolitics #SchoolChoice #EducationFreedom #NHFamilies

[Jay Pinsonnault @JayPinceSMG]

Annual @OysterRiverHS girls basketball holiday tournament begins Friday. @brandonbrownsc1 has who’s playing and when - @STA_Athletics @OysterRiverHS @Winnawar @SpldngAthletics

https://t.co/GbHKDA7RNM

[St. Thomas Aquinas High School Athletics @STA_Athletics]

Girls basketball beats Winnisquam 61-36 in the first game of the season! #saintspride #stalux #luxintenebris @stalux @nhsportspage @JayPinceSMG @NHULSports @WMUR9_Sports @nhhssports

[Zach Snow @MrSnowELA]

Humbled & grateful. 🙏 1-0! 👊

[St. Thomas Aquinas High School Athletics @STA_Athletics]

Congratulations Coach Snow on your first win as the Head Coach of the STA Girls Basketball Team! #saintspride #stalux #luxintenebris @stalux @nhsportspage @JayPinceSMG @NHULSports @WMUR9_Sports @nhhssports

[Ryan Bilodeau @ryankbilodeau]

We were on Brown’s campus just 2 weeks ago, when I was showing my wife the places where I spent so much of my college life. I’m a URI alum, but Brown was a second collegiate home to me. Tonight’s violence is heartbreaking. I mourn those lost, pray for their families, and pray that justice is done.

#BrownUniversity #Providence #RhodeIsland #SchoolShooting

[Jay Pinsonnault @JayPinceSMG]

Seacoast Friday Roundup: @STA_Athletics girls hoop opens with win, more results from busy night across the Seacoast.
https://t.co/io4RJbXEny