2019 Fall Athletics

2019 fall sports >

CROSS COUNTRY Coaches: Liz Butler, Kim Mandl, Roderick Pratt, Cassie Rydingsword Captain: Ivy Hillman '20 Record: 12-1 MIP: Raegan Bertuglia '23 Coaches’ Award: Chloe Coffin '20 & Charles Cosgriff '22 Blue Dog Award: Jack Murdica '24 & Leah Rydingsword '23 Rising Star Award: Yixuan "Fiona" Shen '22 & Justin Victory '23 Golden Sneaker Award: Stella Curwin-Amfitheatrof '23 & Jake Newman '22 . . . . . . . . . .

What are we going to do today, Coach? RUN!! And that’s exactly what we did. We ran and ran and ran. Uphill, through cornfields, in the woods, on the road, in the mud, in the snow, in the rain, when it was really really hot and really really cold. We ran on trails and explored new pinnacles and beautiful views. Congratulations to our Seniors Ivy, Chloe, Quinn, Kangdrake, Ethan, Aubrey, and Owen. Thank you for all your energy and effort. Finally, thank you to Ivy our Captain for her leadership and snacks after races!

BOYS’ VARSITY SOCCER Coaches: Chris Dyball and Doug Kolpak Captains: William Kirkiles '20 & Alejandro Osorio '20 Record: 12 – 3 - 1 MVP: Jun Ho "Justin" Lee '20 MIP: Ryan Delmore '20 Coaches’ Award: Alexander Kenerson '20 & Jiakang Kakou Su '20 Blue Dog Award: Quillan Oberto '20 Eaglebrook Tournament: 4th Place . . . . . . . . . .

The 2019 Boys' Varsity Soccer team squared off against many competitive teams. And despite a rebuilding year, having graduated some key players from last year’s squad, Rumsey soccer tallied a 12-3-1 season. That being said, however, our rising VIIth Formers successfully supplanted holes in our defense and offense. The "thrilla in Manilla," once again, took place under the lights at Hotchkiss as we attempted to exact retribution on our rival, IMS–a team we lost to by multiple goals earlier in the season. Stealing from the basketball playbook, we ran a successful box and one to nullify their most dominant threat. With this tactic, we held them to just two goals, losing 2-0. Finally, we finished in 4th place (out of 12 teams represented) at the yearly Eaglebrook Tournament, coming within one goal of earning some "jewelry." Highlights were edging out both Cardigan Mountain and Eaglebrook.

GIRLS’ VARSITY VOLLEYBALL Coaches: Ali Spooner ’90 Linley and Marisa Mastrianno ’02 Record: 2 - 13 Captain: Sierra Cortes '20 & Kyra Rook '20 MIP: Shelley Huang '22 Coaches’ Award: Youngseo "Emily" Son '20 Blue Dog Award: Samantha Kaufman '20 Rick Spooner Classic: 3rd Place Rick Spooner Classic All -Tournament Team Members: Ava Qin '22 & Sam Kaufman '20 . . . . . . . . . .

Varsity Volleyball found ourselves with only three returning players. Not only were we working on basic skills, but the girls also had to learn rotations, positions, and court awareness, which had been taken for granted in the past two years having a team of veteran players.

This season we were looking for new setters, more middle hitters, back row specialists, and outside hitters. Many girls were out of their comfort zone, yet rose to the challenge. They learned new rotations and new offensive and defensive positions on the court. They played with the agenda that we use every received serve to set up our offensive attack: pass, set, and hit. Despite our record, what it doesn’t show is how we outplayed many of our opponents. The points our opponents earned were usually due to our own errors, attempting to pass to the setter instead of hitting it right back over the net, attempting to set the ball instead of bumping it, and spiking the ball. With a young, new team mistakes happen and unfortunately our opponents benefitted from them, but they also did not take the same risks we did on the court. A constant reminder to the team was: we are not here to play safe, we’re here to play volleyball. In our minds we beat teams like Kingswood Oxford, Hotchkiss, and Berkshire because we set up more offensive attacks. In our last game against IMS we had 21 to their 4.

BOYS’ VARSITY B SOCCER

Coaches: Christian Anderson and Peter Linn ’10 Captains: Oliver Ramee '21 & Yuzhe "Kevin" Zhang '20 Record: 7-4-1 MVP: Wyatt Tuff '22 MIP: Charlie Molner '21 & Matthew Sherman '20 Coach’s Award: Hezekiah Benson '22 Blue Dog Award: Christopher Clancy '21 Dutchess Day Tournament: 3rd Place

JR. BLUE SOCCER

Coaches: Sean Kinsella & Robert Mandl Captain: Henry Shattuck '22 Record: 9-3-3 MVP: Charles Carruth '23 & Boden Johnson '22 MIP: David Block '23 & Yoohyun "Andrew" Shim '22 Coaches’ Award: Viktor Maag '22 & Paul Ellis O’Dwyer '23 Blue Dog Award: Sawyer Gray '23 & Noah Young '22 Dutchess Day Tournament: 3rd Place

JR. RED SOCCER

Coaches: Meredith Tallent & Tiffany Romaniello MIP: Veronica Antov '24 Record: 3-2 Coaches’ Award: Jackson Delmore '23

VARSITY FIELD HOCKEY

Coaches: Alex King & Stacie DeGrazia ’09 Captains: Erin Butler '20 & Morgan Clarke '20 Record: 7-2-3 MVP: Morgan Clarke '20 MIP: Gexuan "Chris" Liu '21 Coaches’ Award: Aleka Gutierrez '20 & Maria Pia Visoso '21 Blue Dog Award: Erin Butler '20

VARSITY B FIELD HOCKEY

Coaches: Deborah Bender & Libby Kappler Captain: Yiran "Jami" Huang '22 Record: 2-2-3 MVP: Mana Shida '22 MIP: Frances Clulow '22 & Hisano Enomoto '22 Blue Dog Award: Louise Traina '24

VARSITY B VOLLEYBALL

Coaches: Jillian Dufresne and Emily Carney Record: 6-4 Captain: Maxine Maag '21 MVP: Chelsea Altamirano '22 & Cindy Jiang '21 MIP: Gracie Shen '22 Coaches’ Award: Ning "Camila" Xu '22 Blue Dog Award: Madeline Scheidt '23

Varsity Club Fall/Winter:

Andrew Conto ’20 Fangyan "Wendy" Huo ’20 Ray Kawaji ’21 Radley Cherosnick '22 Spencer Louie '20 Sophie Tibbatts '21 Victoria Weirich-Freiberg '20

GIRLS’ VARSITY SOCCER Coaches: Carmine Buono and Craig Naclerio ’05 Captain: Leighton Smith '21 Record: 12 - 2 MVP: Radley Cherosnick '22 MIP: Charleigh Newman '21 Coaches’ Award: Maria Valera-Macouzet '21 & Victoria Weirich-Freiberg '20 Blue Dog Award: Renee Tracey '20 Unsung Hero Award: Elena Cosgriff '23 IMS Tournament: 3rd Place . . . . . . . . . .

The Rumsey Girls’ Varsity Soccer program entered their third season with determination to improve upon past teams' successes. With only four returners, it was important to connect quickly both on and off the pitch. Many new faces worked together to make this team a family, including the introduction of IIIrd Formers for the first time on the team. IVth Former, Elena Cosgriff, received the “Unsung Hero Award” for her selfless play and vision in the midfield, working well with striker, Sophie Tibbatts, combining for 40 goals and 62 points between the two players. Our defense was strong due to the competitive drive from the team’s Most Valuable Player and goaltender, Radley Cherosnick, “Blue Dog Award” winner, Renee Tracey, “Coaches Award” winner, Victoria Weirich-Freiberg, and the team’s Most Improved Player, Charleigh Newman. The other “Coaches Award” winner, Maria Valera, played defensive midfield and worked tirelessly to shut down the opposition’s best attackers game in and game out. Everyone on the team played a pivotal role in the development and success of this impressive young squad. With great leadership from the team’s captain, Leighton Smith, the girls finished the season with a record of 12 wins and 2 losses with a 3rd Place finish in the IMS Tournament. Coaches Buono and Naclerio are proud of the way the girls competed until the very end. Thank you, girls, for continuing to build this wonderful program.

VARSITY FOOTBALL Coaches: Eric Scheidt, Mark Simonelli and Max Kersten Captain: Ian Abreu '20 & Thomas Bethel '20 Record: 1-4 MVP: Thomas Bethel '20 MIP: Jiamian "Yuki" Dai '21 Coaches’ Award: Ian Abreu '20 The Peter Carriuolo ’74 Memorial Football Award: Thomas Bethel '20 Blue Dog Award: Andrew Conto '20 & RJ Souza '20 Offensive Lineman of the Year: Jacques van der Merwe '20 Defensive Lineman of the Year: Evan Rydingsword '20 . . . . . . . . . .

2019 was a good season for the Football Team, one of the longest established teams at Rumsey Hall. We made great strides toward increasing our membership, with both a Varsity and a Junior (undefeated 1-0!) squad. The Varsity squad had a total of 11 matchups, with 6 scrimmages and 5 games against 4 different opponents. We opened our season with scrimmages against the likes of Cardigan Mountain, Fessenden, Williston Northampton, two Brunswick teams, and the New Milford Green Wave. We were dominant in all but one of these matchups, and were riding high on our team's abilities and chances for the season. Our first game was against Loomis Chaffee's IIIs on Parents' Weekend. This was a hard-fought, down-to-the-wire game. And while we gave up quite a bit in size, we played valiantly. Unfortunately, we came up just short, with a final score of 12-19. We then played a very talented Eaglebrook twice, losing both contests. Next, we traveled to Greenwich Country Day to play their new JV team. The boys played hard again, but came up short. So, we headed into our last game, winless and questioning our abilities. Were the dominant performances we had in our scrimmages just a fluke? Would it be that we will go winless, after all the hard work we had put in? Should we just fold up and take the loss to the powerful Brookfield team under the lights, in the rain, at their field? No, we came out as a team and put in an incredible effort, and came out victorious. Congratulations and thank you to the Seniors moving on to new fields; thank you for all you have meant to this team. You have left us in a better place, with a strong cast of returning starters and promising players from the Junior squad ready to step up and continue the proud tradition of Rumsey Football.