By BOB YORK The game ball should be donated to the Smithsonian.Saturday’s prep school clash between Deerfield Academy and The Hotchkiss School will be nothing but a win-win situation for legendary Big Green football coach Jim Smith. His son, Danny, is the Hotchkiss coach, while his grandson, Billy, will be starting at wide receiver and defensive [...]

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. [...]

Three Deerfield rowers, Brad Plunkett ’12, Rich Caputo ’13, and Claire Collins ’15, as well as Boys Head Coach, Wayne Berger ’84, were selected to represent the United States Junior National Rowing team at the World Championships in Plovidiv, Bulgaria. Selection required athletes to attend high performance camps and submit ergometer testing over the fall, [...]

Each season at the start of the month of July the National Interscholastic Swimming Coaches Association publishes the official list of the fastest 100 athletes from public and private schools as determined by time in each of the 11 high school swimming events. This season four Deerfield swimmers made the All American list in four [...]

Read the final wrap-up of this spring’s sports on the Athletics Features page.

By BOB YORK It would have been fitting, if, after he received his diploma in May, Rhys Louis rode out of town on his bicycle. After all, like his coach Rich Calhoun said, “he leaves Deerfield Academy as the most accomplished cyclist in the school’s history.” As it turned out, not even a knee injury, [...]

By BOB YORK It’s called Melton Hill Lake, but to five boys from Deerfield Academy, it will always be their Golden Pond. The lake, which is located in Oakridge, Tenn., annually plays host to the Youth National Rowing Championships and this year, the Big Green’s Number 1 boat churned its way to a national championship [...]

By BOB YORK Salisbury steak. As any Deerfield Academy lacrosse player – past or present – has learned, it’s on the menu every year, once a year. It’s really nothing more than hamburger that’s been shaped into the likeness of steak and smothered in gravy, but when the opportunity arises – in late May – [...]

By BOB YORK The Deerfield Academy girls lacrosse team finished up this past season with a 5-10 record. But, as coach Allison DiNardo was quick to point out that her Big Green squad won three of its last four games, “so we’re headed in the right direction,” said the veteran mentor. Want some more news [...]

By BOB YORK It took until the next day to get the results – by email – and two days after that, the trophy finally showed up – via UPS. Yes, it was that kind of year for the Deerfield Academy girls tennis team. It was a season marred by injuries and illness but it [...]