By Bob York The Big Green came close to earning its second straight berth in the New England Prep School Division I Boys Hockey Tournament this winter. The Deerfield skaters had chalked up a 9-5-1 record in league play and were ranked fifth in the highly competitive Western Division – with four games to play.

By Bob York It’s probably safe to say that Deerfield has become a bit spoiled by those who have played in the Big Green’s goal crease for the majority of this century. Molly Schaus  ’06, who matriculated to Boston College and played on the 2010 United States Olympic Hockey Team, began this string of stinginess [...]

By Bob York Kyle Kager ’11 put Deerfield Academy boys basketball on the collegiate map this winter. Deerfield’s dot has always been there, but with Kager’s play, that dot grew much larger and a lot easier to see. The 6’8″ forward became the program’s first graduate in quite some time to receive a full scholarship [...]

By Bob York Talk about a youth movement: half of this year’s Big Green girls basketball team was probably still homesick when the season began. Coach Darnel Barnes tutored 14 girls this winter, and seven of them were freshmen. And when you combine that with the rest of the roster’s one sophomore, three juniors and [...]

This winter’s Deerfield wrestling team must have felt as though it was opening its season with the equivalent of one hand tied behind its back. Its most decorated member, Luke Mario ’12 was forced to miss the entire season due to injury. But even without its king pin, who captured the 125-pound weight bracket at [...]

By Bob York It took some lumps then kicked some rumps. The Big Green embarked on a three-month tour of duty through that minefield known as the Class A bracket of the New England Interscholastic Boys Squash Association this winter.  It was a time frame that coach Mike Silipo would later reflect on and eloquently [...]