Boarding School Atheltics
Both Sides of the Prep School Basketball Coin: Athletics and Academics Boys Class A Basketball Concludes
With the boarding school basketball season finished, we’ve come across a couple of highlights that provide an interesting picture of the intensely competitive Boys Class A level.
Class A basketball hosts an unusual combination of athleticism and academic preparation.
For loud, unbridled, super athletic, basketball, take a look at this YouTube video of the Boys Class A [...]
Ohio State’s Jim Tressel Would Make a Great Boarding School Teacher
In a quiet, but very public first (unconfirmed), Ohio State football coach Jim Tressel addresses- in a thoughtful, human, and understanding way- what is, essentially, the ‘third rail’ in college athletics- gay athletes.
I’ve seen Tressel’s interview with Outlook Columbus noted at Yahoo Sports and at ESPN.com.
Writing for Yahoo Sports, Dan Wetzel captures this issue [...]
10,000 Hours to Greatness: Unique Boarding School Programs Teach Every Student Skills for the Future
It has been argued that in order to excel at something or become an expert in a particular discipline, it takes 10,000 hours of work and practice. That is no doubt a great deal of time, which at 2 hours per day would take 13 years to reach.
But for high school students at many [...]
A Laugh Out Loud Olympic Parody
Don’t miss the two part parody “Ribbon: The Thin Red Line Pts 1 & 2″ done by Pete Hodgin, Kents Hill School history teacher.
These videos are Saturday Night Live worthy.
Hodgin hits all the right notes and skewers the seriousness with which some of the more odd sports are presented and brings laughable absurdity to the [...]
Lasting Effects of Girls Athletics
Studies and evidence have a nasty habit of turning conventional wisdom into superstition.
It’s hell when we’ve always done it that way becomes- the wrong way. It’s great when the evidence comes in on your side.
Many boarding schools have required some level of student athletic participation for as long as most us can remember.
The majority [...]
Boarding School Olympians: Vancouver 2010
It’s time for our bi-annual boarding school olympians post.
We spent a few minutes finding as many boarding school athletes as we could competing in the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. We never cease to be amazed at the places and realms in which boarding school alumni participate.
Here’s our list. We don’t advertise it as exhaustive; if [...]
Brehm Preparatory School Makes the Jump to High Level Basketball
In “It’s Not Just Basketball,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch writer Bryan Burwell chronicles the rise of international calibre high school basketball at Brehm Preparatory School.
Brehm sudden ascention in the international and collegiate basketball scene has raised some eyebrows. In Brehm’s story, you see and hear the echoes of the reasons other boarding schools commit to [...]
Visiting Our Sister School: Kents Hill travels to England
At Kents Hill School (Maine) we have a longstanding sister school relationship with Kent College Pembury in Pembury, near Tunbridge Wells, in Kent, England.
KCP is an all-girls, boarding and day school, elementary through seniors. Each year, KCP sends 2-3 girls to Kents Hill in the winter trimester, and we send 2-3 girls over to [...]
South Kent School: Home For Deejay Brown
Good boarding schools excel at becoming home for students no matter the reason.
ESPN’s E:60 aired a story (E:60 Scared) about South Kent School student and basketball player Deejay Brown. The story hits on so much of what is good and right about boarding schools- structure, support, family.
As Deejay grows, works, and plays his way through [...]
Insight Into High Level Prep School Basketball
Lots of us in the boarding school world have some degree of familiarity with high level prep school basketball.
By this I mean teams with 2, 3 or more players whose programs include preparing to play NCAA Division 1 college basketball and possibly professional basketball.
The number of outstanding college and professional players with prep school ties [...]
St. Stanislaus College Takes the Mississippi Class 4A Football Title
Following-up Friday’’s post, “Boarding School Playing for the State 4A Mississippi High School Championship,” St. Stanislaus College led by star Dylan Farvre took the Lafayette Commodores 35-16.
“…Favre, who owns basically every passing record in state history, threw for three touchdowns and ran for two more to lead St. Stanislaus (14-1, ranked No. 5 in 4A) [...]
Boarding School Playing for the State 4A Mississippi High School Championship
We’ve got something out of the ordinary happening here in Mississippi.
Saturday at 3 PM, in Jackson, the St. Stanislaus Rock-A-Chaws play the Lafayette County High School Commodores for the 2009 Class 4A football championship. The Rock-A-Chaws and the Commodores are the south and north half champions respectively.
Other than the fact that I live in [...]
Kiski Basketball Features 7 foot brothers Sim and Tanveer Bhullar
No way around it, one seven footer on a team- rare; two seven footers on a team- almost never; two seven foot brothers on a team?
Sim and Tanveer Bhullar arrive at The Kiski School as the school makes a push into more competitive basketball. Lead by new coach Daryn Freedman, Sim and Tanveer are part [...]
New England Prep School Wrestling Community and Coverage
Another athletics find- this time for wrestlers. Wrestlers might be interested in New England Prep School Wrestling.
It’s an online forum/community dedicated to- you guessed it- New England prep school wrestling. Here’s what they cover:
“New England Prep School Wrestling is proud to present the new face of NEISWA. This website is to help the coaches of the league [...]
Gritti Brings World of Experience to Kents Hill School Football
Steve Gritti’s travels as coach through the professional and collegiate ranks have now brought him to Kents Hill School where he’s taken over as head coach. So how does a coach with professional and collegiate coaching experience come to Kents Hill?
Jim Smucker, Kents Hill AD told the Kennebec Journal (Gritti Brings Intensity to Huskies): [...]
