West Tisbury parks and recreation offers a free family skate session at the Martha’s Vineyard Arena.

Hometown crowds cheer Vineyarders on as boys' basketball team beats Wareham to move on to semifinals and boys' hockey team heads to quarterfinals, both in sectional play.

Youth hockey kids play with the same squads for their entire career, making for a tight-knit group of athletes — and behind every Island hockey team is a group of hockey parents.

Boys’ basketball plays Norwell at 4:30 p.m. at the regional high school. Later, the puck drops at 6 p.m. for the boys’ hockey team as they play Sandwich.

Last fall Olivia Pouliot, 12, became the newest and youngest member of the Olympic Development Program. Olivia has been playing soccer on the Island since she was five, and often “played up” in the youth soccer league because the overall pool of girl players is small (at age nine, she played on an Under-14 team).

For the third straight year, all the varsity winter sports teams have qualified for the Massachusetts Interscholastic Athletics Association postseason tournament.