Family Weekend Edition 2024

What a wonderful weekend welcoming and celebrating our Big Blue families, all of our teams, and most especially, senior games for varsity boys’ water polo, field hockey, and football.

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Big Blue Shout Outs

Shout out to our Water Polo Seniors: Zach Godsey (capt), Jason Kokones (capt), Sean Niu, Daniel Song, Ben Zhou

Shout out to our Varsity Field Hockey Seniors: Annabel Curry, Ellie Parker (capt), Molly Boyle (capt), Molly Driscoll, Neily Ware (capt), Peyton Kennedy

Shout out to our Football Seniors: Carter Aime, Bill Brown, Denzil Pierre, Logan Umbach, John Bancone (capt), Seba Haferd, (capt) Jayden Franklin, Jake Saalfrank, Nate Cook, Rex Corkins, Grant DeHoog, Byron Johnson, Roman Perdoni, Leo Sim

A great showing this past Saturday against visiting Deerfield Academy:

12 Big Blue wins, 2 losses, and 1 tie versus the Big Green!

Let’s GO! Varsity football earned a hard-fought 21-20 on Senior Day versus Deerfield!

Leading the way was quarterback Jackson Slack 26 who ran for a TD of his own. Denzil Pierre ‘25 got the Big Blue on the scoreboard and Ollie Velez ‘26 caught the final TD pass (pictured) that proved the difference maker. Other shout-outs for Big Blue football: Great kicking game by Rex Corkins ‘25. Carter Aime ‘25 and Leo Sim ‘25 (interception) played well on defense. Jake Santos ‘28 got his first varsity start on the offensive line.

Varsity Football is coached by Trey Brown, Chris Powers, Kit Leckerling, Jibrail Coy, John Rex, Chip Dunn, Dawon Dicks and Ernie Adams.

Shout-Out to our SHUTOUT SOCCER GOALKEEPERS!

This past weekend, a whole lot of soccer shutouts (no goals scored).

Here’s to our awesome keepers with a clean Saturday sheet:

Jack Alexander ‘25 (BVS, pictured), Jackie Dill ‘27 (GVS), Reese York ‘26 and Nathan Dubuc ‘28 (Boys’ JV1), and

Audrey Baeten-Ruffo ‘28 (Girls’ JV1) Veronica Lewis ‘27 (Girls’ JV2).

Senior Water Polo captains led the way on Saturday as Andover defeated Deerfield, 7-5. Zach Godsey and

Jason Kokones each scored three goals and Sean Niu tallied one!

Still UNDEFEATED:

Varsity Field Hockey (seniors pictured below) and Boys’ JV2 soccer remain UNDEFEATED in the final weeks of the fall season.

Boys’ JV2 soccer is led by first-year Andover coaches Joe Maurais and Eric Denby

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Pictures of Week (Teams with families!)

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