Spring sports are far and away the most exciting and fun sports of all of the seasons. Granted, I play lacrosse, which takes place in the spring, but many other students voice their liking for spring sports. When the boys lacrosse team has practice on the Upper Field, practice is immediately made far more enjoyable. […]
. We are only two weeks into the spring athletic term, but students in the Advanced Climbing Program have been hard at work accruing vertical mileage on the rocks and, you may be surprised, cleaning our local boulders for the climbing season. To say “cleaning” is to be somewhat poetic, since the pruning and sawing of fast-growing […]
…you can take your current student athletes to watch former student athletes play in a professional match. That is what I had the pleasure to do last Saturday afternoon at UCSB. Joanna, Sage, and Cassie (members of the current girls’ varsity soccer team) and I went to see the MLS Chicago Fire reserves play against […]
Yes, it’s true, most faculty members look forward to holidays as much as do the students. I’ve spent the first few hours of the holiday catching up on some much-needed grading and responding to emails. The holiday also offers a very brief respite from the busy Thacher schedule to reflect on the winter term, […]
After a sound defeat by a gifted Cate team recently, I sent the following message to my boys [the varsity soccer team]: I want you to know you behaved magnificently yesterday, and I am forever impressed with your mental toughness, spirit, and ability to hang together as a team under challenging circumstances. You never gave […]
Returning from Midland, as late afternoon light faded to darkness, some of the boys and I, sitting toward the front of the bus, were talking quietly about our successes at the league championships, where both teams won. As we wound down the mountain from Lake Cachuma, Chevy mentioned that a friend of his had improved […]
“Hard work” the JV girls volleyball team chanted in a huddle last Wednesday. The call echoed the walls of the Cate Gymnasium, but the scoreboard taunted Thacher with a 13-8 lead, favoring the home team. Cate fans filled the stands in the fleeting minutes of the final set and Thacher’s Coach Vyhnal set the scene […]