Boarding School Atheltics
How does Worcester Academy Figure in the Hiring of the Miami Dolphins Head Coach?
New Miami Dolphins’ head coach, Joe Philbin, did a post graduate year at Worcester Academy (a coed boarding school in Worcester, MA) during the 1979-80 academic year.
Read MoreSo You Want to be an Olympian?
London 2012 is only a few months away. Astonishingly, Brentwood College School (a co-educational boarding school in in British Columbia, Canada) already has 4 athletes that have been selected to try out for the 2012 Canadian Olympic rowing team. Over the last 30 years, Brentwood has consistently developed national and internationally recognized athletes, many [...]
Read MoreTwo Boarding School Alumni in Tonight’s BCS National Championship Game
LSU’s roster includes two players with boarding school backgrounds, Ego Ferguson (Hargrave Military Academy) and Tabari Williams (Culver Academies). Ferguson, a defensive tackle, is playing in his redshirt freshman season; he’s seen time in 12 games. Williams is a sophomore running back majoring in computer science. I didn’t find any boarding school alumni on the [...]
Read MoreWhy Elite High School Basketball Players Flock to New England Prep Schools
At a party over the holidays (in Oxford, MS mind you), boarding schools came into the conversation, then the University of Michigan (via an alumnus), then Mitch McGary; then, before you know it, I was into a quick history and explication of prep school basketball. I shared the role it fills in the pre-collegiate space, [...]
Read MoreA Lacrosse Coach Talks Prep School Athletic Admission
Mark Schindler, Mercersburg Academy (a coed boarding school in Mercersburg Academy) assistant director of admission and head lacrosse coach, offers his perspectives on the roles that athletic talent can play in a student’s private school admission process.
Read MoreBoarding School Heisman Follow-up
Writing about Doc Blanchard’s trophy at St. Stanislaus, I consciously focused on Blanchard’s personal trophy being in the case at St. Stanislaus. I didn’t mean to slight anyone, or school. Blanchard gave his personal trophy to his alma mater late in life. That was the driving force behind the story. So that we don’t leave [...]
Read MoreName the only boarding school with a Heisman Trophy in its case?
This morning I offer a boarding school connection to the Heisman Trophy- a little fun this morning as many of us head into exams and grading before heading home for the break. Saturday, Baylor’s Robert Griffin III won the 2011 Heisman Trophy. Name the only boarding school with a Heisman winner and trophy in its [...]
Read MoreGreat Prep School Basketball Teams To Appear On ESPN
ESPN’s 2011-12 GEICO ESPNHS Basketball Showcase confirms just how good New England prep school basketball is (watch the clip above from last year’s New England championship). Five New England boarding school teams appeared in the Five Star Preseason Top 25. Four of them, St. Mark’s School, Tilton School, New Hampton School, and Brewster Academy are scheduled [...]
Read MoreNew England Boarding School Basketball Dominates Five Star Preseason Top 25
Basketball is almost here. (College basketball is here; I’ve been to two home games already.) And, as coverage of high school sports and the recruiting game has increased over the years, now, we have year-round prep basketball coverage- so far beyond the old USAToday high school polls that it’s scary. Things have changed. It used [...]
Read MoreSharing the Backstory to “Elevate”
Anne Buford shares some of the backstory and follow-up to her new documentary, “Elevate.” In this conversation with Grantland’s Davy Rothbart - Buford talks about how she came to the story and shares some insight into the boys and their experiences. I wrote a short piece last week highlighting “Elevate’s” opening and its South Kent School [...]
Read MoreA Small Boarding School Plays to Its Strengths
As sub-genre, small boarding schools, offer a more communal and individual boarding experience from than their large school brethren and this certainly true of athletics. If you’ve got a student body of 140 (or less), filling rosters and competing, in large team sports can prove challenging. Try filling two reasonably competitive soccer, or lacrosse, rosters- [...]
Read MoreBoarding School Alumni Qualify for London 2012 Olympics
A quick ‘olympic’ post to start the morning… With their performances at the World Rowing Championships, Brentwood College School (a coed boarding school in Mill Bay, British Columbia) alumni Malcolm Howard ‘01, Dave Calder ’96 and Scott Frandsen ’98 qualified for London 2012. Howard rows as member of an 8 crew while Calder and Franzen row [...]
Read MoreA Glimpse into Summer Ski Training
Proctor Academy‘s Eastern Ski Program touched down in Chile for their late summer training program. Coaches and skiers chronicled their training and cultural excursions on a blog (Eastern Skiers Return to Chile!) during the week stay. Why Chile? “I’ve often been asked why we journey all the way to South America for summer skiing and [...]
Read MoreIntroducing Kids to the Potential of Prep School
ESPN’s Matt Stout covers Dwight Brewington’s full circle story from Boston area prep star (Worcester Academy), through a collegiate experience, to globe trotting professional career, the emptiness at the end of one’s playing days, to finding a redemptive purpose. Brewington has built a purpose for himself that also gives to others by committing himself to [...]
Read MoreThe Drive of an Elite Athlete Manifest Itself in the Rehab Process
A climbing athlete for Mammut, Wharton, by his own account, Josh Wharton (Gould Academy alumnus) ‘made a silly mistake’ that resulted in his fall. Wharton fell twenty-five feet breaking his back, and both arms. Somewhat still bashful about it, Wharton found himself the youngest person and only male ever in his water aerobics class in [...]
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