By BOB YORK – Only one team – eventual champion Phillips Exeter Academy – placed as many runners among the top dozen finishers as Deerfield Academy did during this year’s New England Prep School Athletic Conference Boys Division I Cross Country Championships. Both squads rang up three: The Big Red filled the first, seventh and tenth [...]

By BOB YORK  Girls Cross CountryBig Green girls cross country coach Dennis Cullinane isn’t the least bit shy in explaining his interpretation of why his runners have been doing so well so far this season. “This is the best girls cross country team Deerfield Academy has had since the school went coed back in 1989,” [...]

On Saturday, Deerfield’s boys’ and girls’ Cross Country teams won their respective divisions at the competitive Canterbury Invitational, held annually at the Canterbury School in New Milford, CT. The boys defeated the 2011 champions, Loomis Chaffee School, by three points, and the girls won their third consecutive title by easily outpacing 2nd place Greenwich Academy. [...]

One of the new faces on the Deerfield Academy boys cross country team this fall also just happened to be one of the most important on the team. It belonged to Mike Schloat – the coach. And that face couldn’t help but break into a huge smile when this proud mentor reflected on his rookie [...]

2011 Brush Invitational @ Northfield Mount Hermon – 9/17 With Deerfield’s home course being patrolled by dump trucks toting away tons of Deerfield river silt, our friends at Northfield Mount Hermon were kind enough to host the 2011 edition of the Peter Brush invitational today.  Though the morning dawned with a Berkshire briskness in the [...]