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Fulfilling His Dream Blake Miller ’92 Blake Miller ’92 played lacrosse since a young age but could have never anticipated the sport being such a huge part of his life to this day. Once an athlete on the fields at Forman, Blake is now in his first season of coaching the Navy men’s lacrosse program. Blake was a three-sport athlete at Forman School; he played lacrosse, basketball, and soccer. As a senior, he helped the soccer and lacrosse teams
Blake Miller ’92 coaches the U.S. Naval Academy Men’s Lacrosse game against Mercer University in February.
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clinch state championships, both highlights of his Forman career. Blake was later inducted into Forman’s Athletic Hall of Fame in 2017. He had always found comfort on the field, knowing that he could succeed there. “Since I was an adolescent, sports were always an outlet for me. I had trouble in school from a young age, and it was just a part of my life. The way I made friends was not through school; it was through athletics,” he says. “When I got Forman, being involved in sports was one of the things that made me most comfortable.” After being diagnosed with a learning difference as a child, it was his academic transformation at Forman that he looks back on the most. “Grammar school was great. Teachers did the best they could with the resources they
“I would never have achieved what I have in lacrosse if it wasn’t for Forman.”
had,” he says. “But as soon as you got into 7th, 8th grade, and high school, they would separate you, and it was terrible.” Former Trustee Diane Kessenich P’86 introduced Blake’s family to Forman, which, at the time, he wanted nothing to do with. “I remember sitting there with my parents for an interview with Ms. Lambert in Admissions, and she asked ‘why do you want to come here?’ and I remember saying, ‘I don’t want to come here,’” he says. “The first couple of years, I was homesick. I wanted no part of it. Turns out, it was the best thing that happened in my life.” He considered his soccer coach Scott McCarty ’76, P’02, P’05, current Major Gifts Officer and former Athletic Director, and lacrosse coaches Patrick Delehanty ’86 and Don Kaplan mentors. McCarty saw potential in Blake on the soccer field and in the classroom. Once Blake settled in around his junior year, his perspective shifted. He gained confidence through his one-on-one Language Training classes with Dr. Fais and Ms. Scozzafava and started to see his academic performance improve. “I got mature and started going to class, getting small successes, and the next thing I knew, I fell in love
