Midterms are over, and I’m officially in senior spring, awesome. Like the school year, the winter season is past the half way mark, and for some teams it’s already the postseason.

Boys’ and girls’ swimming ended their regular season on Friday with both teams picking up the W. Next up for both teams is the DCL Championship meet this week.

Boys’ basketball had a minor slip up in their quest of defending the DCL Small title. They fell to CC this week at home 56-53.

Girls’ basketball is still searching for a win. They fell to CC as well this week. Having played against the girls in our IBL scrimmages, I think a win is in their near future.

Boys’ hockey had their way with Pope John Paul II yesterday, winning 11-1. Hopefully the boys can keep this momentum for their playoff push.

Girls’ hockey has found themselves in a little bit of slump right now, losing their last four games. Like the boys, they too are looking for a strong postseason push as the season winds down.

The sports section is working on another In-Depth Report, and this time it is about the Wayland-Weston rivalry. I thought it would be interesting to explore the possibility of the two high schools combining. I mean heck, we play against Acton-Boxborough and Lincoln-Sudbury, who are in the DCL Large, and Concord-Carlise, who is in the DCL Small (still to this day I don’t get how they managed that one, but that’s another story). I figure if we have to play against two-town schools, why can’t we just combine Wayland and Weston?

We already do it in crew and girls’ hockey. The crew team is one of the best public school teams in the state, and the girls hockey team, although it had some struggles, is 7-5 this year, including a victory over LS.

The merger would certainly bump us up into the DCL Large, and most likely Division I in every sport, but I’m not so sure that’s a bad thing. Every single sport would get better, and we already compete with the AB’s and the LS’ of high school sports.

What we would lose is the underdog feel. We would no longer be the little guy and could no longer shrug off loses to the large opponents like they don’t matter, but I’m not so sure we’d do a lot of losing. OK, so the combination of the schools would be a difficult process, I understand, but this is just a hypothetical thought.

The glaring negative I think would be the lack of available spots for players. Teams could still only take the same number of kids, yet have another entire school of athletes to choose from. This is how and why the teams would be better, but I feel like some teams at the high school right now aren’t all about success. I’m not sure that same philosophy would be accepted in a Wayland-Weston athletic program.

So since I keep saying how good we’d be in sports, I’ll use my best example to back that up: the swim team. As you know, Wayland’s swim team, both boys and girls, have created a dynasty the last few years. However, before Wayland’s dynasty, Weston had one of their own.

In 2010, when both the Wayland boys and girls team won state titles, Weston came in second in both genders. Adding the two schools together would surely create a state title even if it was in Division I. Last year, both teams finished in the top five in both genders, proving that Wayland-Weston swimming would be an elite team in the state.

Now this a just a hypothetical idea, like I’ve said, but it’s an interesting one. I’m not saying I do or don’t want this to happen, but I think the impact it would have on our sports would be immediate and would introduce us into a whole new world of high school sports: Division I.

As always check Warrior Scores for the latest. Is spring around the corner or will the real winter please stand up?