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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 [...]
Afternoons at Proctor Academy: Many Talents, Many Perspectives
Editor’s note: we’ve covered the benefits & importance of afternoon athletics and activities in several posts. Physical recreation, drama productions, and club meetings provide outlets adding richness and breadth of experience to boarding school students. Kim Hurlbutt of Proctor Academy’s development office contributes this piece presenting Proctor’s thinking on the broadening of afternoon and activities [...]
Read MoreSouth 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 [...]
Kevin Laue Signs with Manhattan College
We highlighted Mr. Laue, a Post-Graduate student at Fork Union Military Academy, in a post titled “Working to Overcome” back on January 5th and we’re delighted to see that he has earned a scholarship to play NCAA Division I basketball beginning in the fall at Manhattan College.
“…After Laue was featured in The New York Times [...]
NCAA Division I Basketball as Family Affair: Conflict and Compromise
Playing for dad at any level has it’s ups and downs. At the University of Rhode Island, wife & mom, Cindy Baron makes the father-son/coach-player tandem of Coach Jim Baron and player Jimmy Baron work.
The friction seems particularly difficult in this story as the blunt, workaholic Coach Baron is driven not to favor his son [...]
From Sneakers and the NBA Back to His Alma Mater
It’s now about the kids for Seth Berger. After building, then, selling And1- the athletic shoe and gear company- Berger has returned to Westtown School outside Philadelphia as basketball coach.
As he tells the Philadelphia Enquirer (Seth Berger, from And1 to Westtown), “It is absolutely a total, total fantasy.” Berger understands the school’s mission and [...]
Boarding School Students Dominate Rivals Class of 2009 Top 150
Don’t miss the current wealth of up and coming mens’ basketball talent in the 2009 prep school class. The Rivals.com Rivals 150 list of top prospects includes no fewer than 20 boarding school students from boarding schools such as Tilton School, Brewster Academy, South Kent School, St. Mark’s School, Hargrave Military Academy, Patterson School, Oak [...]
Read MoreWorking to Overcome
Talk about perspective. Sports suffer from overuse as metaphor and insight into the model for life. But, in this story, athletics is an end not the philosophy, thinking, or means and the latter three provide the crux of the story.
Kevin Laue plays basketball at Fork Union Military Academy. FUMA plays great basketball- teams comprised [...]
NCAA Final Four– Boarding School Flavor
If you follow NCAA men’s basketball, you might notice a small, steady- but large, in a disproportionate sense- number of high caliber basketball players whose biographies include boarding school. This year is no exception.
Quietly and very well, boarding schools have been educating students destined for NCAA Division I basketball programs- especially the New England [...]
An Inspiring Story
We often write about and mention the potential of boarding schools to become the safe consistent environment for students. With drive and a series of invested supportive adults, Shamila Kohestani made her way from Afghanistan to Blair Academy in Blairstown, NJ.
Read this great story in the NY Times about Shamila finding her way to [...]
