By Bob York Jamie Haddad has been playing hockey nearly her whole life. She learned to skate when she was 2 and played on her first team when she was 3. And she gives her older brother, Joe, a lot of the credit for her early introduction to the game. “I always tagged along with [...]

By Bob York Breaking both the 200 and 400 freestyle relay records at the New England Prep School Swimming and Diving Championships …  unbelievable! Breaking them a second straight year … priceless! Breaking them for a third consecutive season … “unprecedented!” according to coach Sonja O’Donnell. The Deerfield Academy girls swimming mentor has spent the [...]

By Bob York Over the past five years, the Big Green has spent an awful lot of time at the New England Swimming and Diving Championships kicking water in opponents’ faces.  It’s nothing personal mind you, just this sport’s trickle-down effect that finds the slower swimmers getting caught up in the wakes of the faster [...]

By Bob York Two familiar words separated this winter’s rendition of Deerfield Academy girls squash from a National championship, a New England crown and an undefeated season: Greenwich Academy. No surprise there for anyone who knows enough about squash to know we’re not talking about the kind you eat. The Gators of Greenwich seem to [...]

By Bob York When it comes to prep school sports in this neck of the woods, there are no three words that have a nicer ring to them than “New England champs!” After this past winter, however, the Big Green ski teams came up with a close second: “Man-made snow.” “Those snow guns really saved [...]

  By Bob York It was a young team to begin with, and then – unexpectedly – got even younger. The remnants of the Deerfield Academy boys hockey team roster should have been plentiful, as it regularly skated three freshmen, five sophomores and six juniors just one winter ago. “Then we lost five kids who [...]

By Bob York The good news was plentiful: The Deerfield Academy girls hockey team won more games than it lost this season. It won more than twice the number (six) of games it won last season. It reached double figures in the win column for the first time in recent memory with 14.  The bad [...]

By Bob York Unless you happen to skate, ski or swim, chances are the winter season is the between season – between football and lacrosse. And if either sport is high on your list of collegiate endeavors, then staying in shape during the winter months is of the utmost importance. And for many an aspiring [...]

By Bob York There’s a youth movement going on in the Big Green girls basketball program and guessing from the seven sophomores and three freshmen who earned a spot on this winter’s roster, that youth movement is here to stay for a while. With such an abundance of youth, this Deerfield squad experienced some growing [...]

By Bob York This season, it was Class A – all the way! Last winter, the Big Green boys squash team played its way through a difficult Class A regular-season schedule (8-10) and then, due to its enrollment size, entered the Class B New England tournament. Once there, the Deerfield  “Wallbangers” took no prisoners. They [...]