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:

On February 15, 2012, both the boys and girls alpine ski teams successfully defended their New England Class A titles at Proctor Academy.  In the morning the boys dominated the GS course by placing 4 racers in the top 10. Dylan Alvarez ’13 was our top finisher in 4th place followed by Captain Oliver Hopkinson [...]

By Bob York For the fourth consecutive year, Deerfield got to hang out and schmoose with the “Big Dogs”–Andover and Exeter–on the medals podium at the New England Prep School Boys Swimming and Diving Championships. The Big Green finished third this winter, just two points behind Exeter in a torrid battle for second place. Andover, [...]

By Bob York Times dropped and records fell, and by the time the Deerfield girls swim team had cleaned up its carnage following this winter’s New England championship meet, its haul was seven medals–four gold, one silver and two bronze–and a pair of New England records. For the second straight year, the Big Green finished [...]

By Bob York Denny Stowe likes to think of himself as “Deerfield Academy’s dean of bus drivers.” That’s because he earned his license back in 1998 “and nobody’s been driving buses here at Deerfield any longer than that,” said Stowe, whose day job finds him working with the school’s grounds crew. Stowe’s second job is [...]

By Bob York It took some lumps then kicked some rumps. The Big Green embarked on a three-month tour of duty through that minefield known as the Class A bracket of the New England Interscholastic Boys Squash Association this winter.  It was a time frame that coach Mike Silipo would later reflect on and eloquently [...]

In front of a large crowd in the Dewey Squash Center, the Deerfield girls varsity squash team won the 2011 New England Championship, ending Greenwich Academy’s 14-year winning streak. Every Deerfield player made it to the finals of her division. Every Greenwich Academy player made it to the finals, too, so to win the championship, [...]

On Wednesday, February 16, the boys and girls Alpine Ski teams competed in the New England Prep School Class A Alpine Ski Championships at Pats Peak, NH. The morning events saw the girls battle the Slalom course while the boys cruised down a tight Giant Slalom course. Lauren Stobierski ’14 was crowned New England Champion [...]