By BOB YORK–Over the past decade or so, Nick Albertson’s Deerfield Academy golf teams have been likened to a group of magicians: They turn tin cups into gold medals.The Big Green has accomplished this stunt once this spring already, when it captured the Newport (R.I.) Invitational title for the third consecutive year and the fourth [...]

Relentless team defense proved essential as Deerfield won the 2013 New England Girls’ Water Polo Championship, defeating Exeter 7-1 in the semifinals and Andover 8-2 in the finals.Sophomore Averi Westerman was the tournament MVP, and seniors Liza Bragg, Lizzie Jeffrey, and Maddie McGraw were named to the All-Tournment team.For the season, the team finished 16-0 [...]

By Bob York–Deerfield Academy spent the past two months compiling the kind of resume the Central New England Baseball League Tournament Committee just couldn’t resist: a 9-1 record against league opponents.Although a .900 winning percentage is nothing to sneeze at, the CNEBL tourney officials aren’t known for going overboard when it comes time for a [...]

By BOB YORK–No offense to composer Cole Porter, but that famous refrain of “Bulldog, bulldog, bow, wow, wow,” which is the heart and soul of the school fight song he wrote while attending Yale University during the early 1900s, needs a little tweaking.After watching Yale feast on the competition to capture its first ever NCAA [...]

By BOB YORK –  We’ve all heard about dreams coming true, so do yourself a favor: turn on ESPN 2 Thursday, April 11, at 4:30 pm and actually watch one come true for a change. If you bleed Green, you can’t lose. Thursday’s opening semifinal round game of the NCAA Division I Men’s Hockey Tournament, [...]

By BOB YORK –  It took just mere seconds after Oscar Miao had scripted “The End” to his swimming career at Deerfield Academy that pandemonium began to set in. The Deerfield senior swims the anchor leg of the 400 freestyle relay. That makes him the final swimmer in the final event and means he’s the [...]

By BOB YORK –  Some people think 13 is an unlucky number.  Sonja O’Donnell is one who would beg to differ. “This was my thirteenth year of coaching this team,” said O’Donnell, the Deerfield Academy girls swimming coach, and she wouldn’t have missed a minute of it. “To me, this has been a lucky year [...]

By BOB YORK –  For the second straight season, Deerfield Academy made it to the middle rung of the medals podium at the New England Independent Schools Association Girls Class A Squash Tournament. Prior to accepting the silver medal, it got to glance down at Nobles School as it was being presented its bronze medal. [...]

By BOB YORK –  Mike Silipo landed the kind of recruit this season that any high school football coach in the country would covet. The kid’s got good hands… quick feet … and an uncanny ability to get to the ball.  Sam Khalifa will never be known as one of coach Silipo’s Legends of the [...]

By BOB YORK –  Mark Scandling knows all about life preservers. He coaches the Big Green boys water polo in the fall and you can find him tutoring girls water polo in the spring. It’s doubtful, however, he ever dreamed he would need a life preserver at his other job: wrestling coach. There he was [...]