The Boys and Girls Crews distinguished themselves at the 2012 NEIRA Championships on Lake Quinsigamond, Worcester MA. In a heats and finals format, the girls qualified their first and second boats for the Grand Final, eventually finishing 6th and 5th respectively. The Boys qualified all four boats for the Grand Finals and finished on the [...]

By Bob York Brian Pickup ’12 has proven to be a man for all seasons – but it wasn’t always that way. Up until just three years ago, Pickup’s game plan would be to sit out the spring season to concentrate on the sport he felt would give him the best opportunity to earn a [...]

The DA boys 5th and 6th boats came away victorious at the 48th annual Lower Boat Championships on May 23rd. Congratulations to all the rowers and coxswains: 5th boat: Will Darling ’15, David Lucente ’14, Travis Russell ’14, Will Beck ’14, Hyun Yang’ 13 6th boat: Ryan Kola ’15, Bryce Klehm ’15 , Matt Hrabchak [...]

Congratulations to the boys’ track and field team, who brought home the New England Championship for the first time in school history!  Entering the meet predicted to finish 4th, the entire boys’ team rallied and outperformed expectations in every event. It was a remarkable team effort:

What can be better than an afternoon on the river, witnessing the skill, discipline and huge effort that our rowers put into their sport? While I glided along the river on Coach Berger’s launch, I was able to watch up close the effects of team work and coordination, as the four boats raced one another, [...]

This past Saturday, April 28, Deerfield’s varsity golf team defended its title in the eight-team Andover Invitational Tournament held at the venerable Newport Country Club in Newport, RI. According to Coach Nick Albertson, it was a beautiful but extremely windy day when co-captains James Park ’13 and David Buoymaster ’13, along with Sam Lafferty ’14, [...]

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 [...]

Congratulations to Jamie Haddad ’12! On Sunday, April 1, she won her third gold medal at the US Nationals in ice hockey.

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 [...]