After an 11-win season, one that ended with the team nationally-ranked for the first time, and included a trip to the Founders League championship game, coach Ethan McDonnell has high expectations for Choate heading into 2026. Choate fought valiantly in a tightly-contested matchup against champion … [Read more...]
Prep Spotlight: Champ Pingree has attacking weapons in place
Pingree dropped the opener of the 2025 season to Middlesex by one goal. Despite the setback to start the season, the team bounced back in a big way, rattling off 12 consecutive victories. It also reversed its fortunes in the very last game of the season, coming back from a 5-1 deficit at halftime to … [Read more...]
Prep Spotlight: Can anything stop a Belmont Hill three-peat?
May was an exciting month for Belmont Hill. The Hillers (15-3) finished the season with a four-game win streak, culminating in a thrilling, 8-7 overtime victory over Tabor and the team’s second consecutive Independent School League championship. The margin of victory was thin, however, and the ISL … [Read more...]
Maturation date: How talented Tabor grew into an ISL force
In the winter of 2022, Connor Gordon came back home to Bourne, Mass. The former UMBC goalie was looking for something to do, so he reached out to RJ Swift, the head coach at nearby Tabor Academy, where Gordon had played his high school lacrosse. He asked if Swift needed any help. Swift made Gordon … [Read more...]
Recruiting: Why Fin Kilbourne of St. Paul’s selected Princeton
Fin Kilbourne (Duxbury, Mass.) remembers the first time he stepped onto the lacrosse field at Princeton University. He was 6-years-old and he went with his mom, who'd played ice hockey at Princeton. She was attending a team reunion, and Kilbourne couldn’t help but smile from ear to ear. “I was … [Read more...]
Three ‘D’: Loomis Chaffee trio is pushing one another to excellence
Loomis Chaffee head coach Bill Ball sat in his office, discussing his trio of junior defenders who had recently made their college commitments official. As he brought up Hayes Griffin, Ball looked out the window and saw the Notre Dame commit walking to the field. It wasn’t a school day, but Griffin … [Read more...]
