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CASHMAN ‘16 RECEIVES NEPSAC HONOR Recent graduate Courtney Cashman ’16 was named as one of the Boston Globe’s NEPSAC athletes of the year. Each year, the Globe honors the best athletes of the school year at the annual Phelps Scholar- Athlete ceremony. Among many awards during her athletic career at the Academy, Cashman was ISL MVP in volleyball and softball, as well as Govs’ school’s second all-time leading scorer in basketball. She also received the Anne Marie Murphy Athletic Award during Commencement weekend. Cashman plays softball for University of Massachusetts, Lowell.
NINE NEW FACULTY MEMBERS WELCOMED TO GOVS The Academy is proud to have welcomed nine new faculty members to our community this year! Yaiza Dominguez — Spanish Yaiza graduated from the University of Burgos with a teaching degree in elementary school and music. She earned a M.A. in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona and went on to earn a Masters in Photography Art and Technic for the Polytechnic University of Valencia. She has been a language immersion teacher in Burgos, Spain and Quebec, Canada and a private Spanish tutor in Spain and Boston, MA. She has also worked as a freelance photographer and graphic designer & illustrator. This past year she taught upper school Spanish at the Pike School. She teaches Spanish, will be running the basketball clock in the winter, and driving for community service in the spring. Julia Kobus — Associate Director of College Counseling Julia graduated from Washington University in St. Louis where she earned a B.A. with a concentration in History and African and African American Studies. She has an M. Ed. from Harvard University Graduate School of Education with a concentration in the Learning & Teaching Program. She worked at the Pomfret School for three years where she taught History and was the Associate Director of College Counseling. Prior to that she was an Assistant Director in the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at Washington University in St. Louis. This past year she was the Interim Associate Director of College Counseling at Worcester Academy. In addition to her role as Associate Director of College
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Counseling, she will coach JV/3rds girls’ basketball. Melanie Stier — Biology Melanie graduated from Amherst College with a B.S. in Biology. While there she completed an internship at the School for Field Studies: Marine Resource Studies on the Turks and Caicos Islands and played soccer. Last year she taught biology at Cushing Academy, was a dorm parent, and coached soccer, basketball, and softball. She teaches biology, is the assistant coach for JV girls’ soccer and the head coach for JV girls’ basketball. Jennifer Storer — Chemistry Jennifer graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a B.S. in Chemistry. She went on to earn an M.B.A. from the MIT Sloan School of Management with a focus in Entrepreneurship, Information Technology, and Financial Management. And she has earned an M. Ed with a focus in Secondary Education in Chemistry from Salem State College. Throughout her career she has worked teaching chemistry in the summers and during the year at Phillips Andover, Cambridge Ringe and Latin High School, and Northfield Mount Hermon School, has been a private tutor and a substitute teacher in Lynnfield, and has worked as a consultant and the director of the Digital Consulting Institute. For the past four years she has taught Chemistry at Wilmington High School. She teaches Chemistry and assists in coaching instructional tennis and JV girls’ tennis.