2010-2011

Athletics

RIVERSEXCELLENCE with HUMANITY

There are currently more than 40 Rivers alumni playing collegiate sports. For the complete list, visit the “Notable Alumni” section on the Athlet-ics page on www.rivers.org. Highlights include:• Will Lawton ’06 - A three-sport varsity athlete at Rivers, Will recently completed a four-year var-sity baseball career at Amherst College helping the Lord Jeffs to an 81-50 record during his ten-ure. In his last season, the senior co-captain posted career highs with a batting average of .407 and 38 runs scored. Will led Amherst to a 21-11 record this past spring and was named NESCAC player of the week on March 22. He was also named to the NESCAC all-academic team.• Jillian Dempsey ’09 - Capping off an impres-sive hockey season in which she had already been named to the 2010 All-Ivy League Second Team, Harvard freshman forward Dempsey was named to the All-ECAC Hockey Rookie Team. She was second on the Crimson in points with 11 goals and 16 assists and was 10th in the nation among fresh-men with 0.82 points per game• Scott Barchard ’06 - Barchard became the first ever All-American in the history of the Tufts pro-gram after he was named to the RBK Hockey/American Hockey Coaches Association All-America Second Team East squad. Scott led all

Athletes from The Rivers School make their mark in college and beyondDivision III goaltenders with 986 saves and also had the highest save percentage at .939. His strong play was a huge factor in Tufts having its best sea-son since 2000-01.• Charlie Rugg ’09 - After an All-American career at Rivers, Charlie continued his success at Boston College. Named to the ACC All-Freshmen team, he led the Eagles with 14 points on 7 goals and 7 assists in 17 games. He also garnered ACC Co-player of the week honors in October and helped lead his team to the NCAA quarterfinals.• Adrienne Anderson ’09 - A soccer standout at Rivers, Adrienne played well in her first season at Boston University. Appearing in 19 games, she helped the team win the America East regular-season championship. At Rivers, Anderson was a three-time All-ISL and two-time all-state and all-New England selection, helping the Red Wings win the Independent School League twice and the New England Class C Championship three times.• Derek Stenquist ’06 - A captain and three-time All-ISL player at Rivers, Derek finished an out-standing four-year soccer career at Dartmouth. After recovering from an offseason injury, Sten-quist came back to start the final seven games of the season helping the Big Green qualify for the NCAA tournament. A biology major with a 3.64

GPA, Derek was honored with the Class of 1948 Scholar-Athlete Award after his junior season.Cecil Jeffrey ’08 - One of the top soccer players in the ISL his senior year, Cecil continued his ath-letic success at Wheaton College last fall. Starting 20 games, Jeffrey earned All-Conference honors. Also a sprinter on the Wheaton men’s track and field team, Cecil shared NEWMAC Rookie of the Year honors after placing second in the 400-meter dash at the conference championships.• Shannon McSweeney ’10 - An All-ISL and All-State player in soccer during her senior year, Shannon also served as captain of both the soc-cer and basketball teams. This fall she is a starter for the soccer team at Yale and making a sizeable impact. In September, she was named Prime Time Player of the Week by CollegeSoccer360.com. • Becca Nichols ’09 - A field hockey and ice hockey captain at Rivers as well as co-president of the school her senior year, Becca has continued her ice hockey career at Williams College.• Caite Walsh ’09 - During her four years at Riv-ers, Walsh led the Red Wings to four straight New England Championships and was named All-ISL three times. Now a freshman at Boston College, Walsh appeared in 35 games and was fourth on team with 6 goals.

Varsity Coaching StaffFallBoys’ Cross Country/Steve Paluseo Mr. Paluseo, a middle school humanities teacher, has run 18 marathons including 10 Boston marathons. He began coaching the boys’ cross country team in 1984 and in 1990 started the girls’ team, which won a New England title in 1995. In 2005, he earned the Athletic Department’s Distinguished Service Award.Field Hockey/Emily HamlinThough Coach Hamlin rowed crew at Hamilton, her passion is for field hockey and she spent the last few summers coaching camps at Dartmouth, Bentley, and Rider, as well as other clinics. Two seasons ago, she led the Rivers team to one of its best records as well as to the semi-finals of the New England championships. Football/Rich FisherA former collegiate standout at the University of Colo-rado, Coach Fisher brings a wealth of experience as a collegiate coach and player. As a player, Coach Fisher was part of three Big Eight Championship teams as well as the 1990 National Championship team that defeated Notre Dame in the 1990 Orange Bowl. After his playing days, Coach Fisher turned his attention to coaching as an assistant at Oklahoma State University, University of Colorado, and the University of Idaho. Girls’ Soccer/Susanna DonahueCoach Donahue has more than 25 years experience coaching at many levels, including being the head women’s soccer coach at BC, leading them to an ECAC title. Since arriving at Rivers in 2002, her team has qualified for the New England tournament every season. They have been New England Champions three of the last four years. In addition, the team earned an I.S.L. Championship in 2006 and 2007. Ms. Donahue was named 2006 ISL and Massachusetts Div. III High School Coach of the Year.Boys’ Soccer/Bob PipeAfter playing soccer for Babson College and the Bos-ton Storm, Coach Pipe began coaching as an assistant at Northeastern and Babson. He also coached for the top-ranked FC Greater Boston Bolts club. At Rivers, his team has made the post-season seven out of the last ten years, winning three New England titles - including a Class A championship - and an ISL crown.WinterBoys’ Basketball/Andrew MirkenCoach Mirken has coached basketball for 17 years starting at his alma mater Newton North. He has also

coached at Cambridge Rindge and Latin and BABC - one of New England’s Top AAU teams. He moved on to be head coach at Westwood High, where he won over 60% of his games and was named Coach of the Year in 1999 with two TVL Titles in three years. This past season, Rivers finished 5th in the ISL and a earned a seed in the New England championship tournament.Girls’ Basketball/Bob PipeCoach Pipe, Rivers’ associate athletic director, has cel-ebrated numerous successes in six years as head coach of the girls’ varsity basketball team. He has coached the Red Wings into the post-season in five of the last six years, winning the New England title in 2009.Boys’ Ice Hockey/Shawn McEachern Coach McEachern was a Hobey Baker finalist and an All-American at Boston University, where he scored 186 points in three seasons. He spent 13 years in the National Hockey League, amassing 254 goals and 317 assists. He also played for the 1992 US Olympic Team, as well as the 1991 US National Team at the World Championships in Finland. A native of Waltham, he previously served as an assistant coach at UMass/Low-ell, Northeastern, and Salem State University. Girls’ Ice Hockey/Melissa Dolan ’98As a member of the Dartmouth women’s ice hockey team, Coach Dolan earned two Ivy League Champi-onships, an ECAC championship and participated in the inaugural NCAA Women’s Frozen Four. A Riv-ers graduate, Dolan returned to the school in 2003 to co-found the girls’ hockey program and serve as an assistant coach. Since then, the team has reached the playoffs in each of the past five years.Skiing/Jonathan DamonA top-ranked skier in Maine during his high school ca-reer, Coach Damon attended Trinity College where he led that school’s ski team as co-captain. Since graduat-ing from college in 2007, he has been coaching ski rac-ers through Buddy Werner Racing and the Bugastow Ski Team. He served as the assistant coach for Rivers for the last two years before taking the reins as head coach in 2010.SpringBaseball/Darren Sullivan - A member of the Tufts baseball and football teams, Coach Sullivan has led the Red Wings to two post-season appearances. He coached an AAU U12 team to a national championship in the summer of 2004 and again in 2007 as well as serving as director at several summer baseball camps.

Boys’ Lacrosse/ Justin WalkerOver the last five seasons, Coach Walker’s Rivers team has a combined 60-20 record, and in 2009, the team won its first ISL Championship. In 2006, he was named ISL Coach of the Year. Since arriving at Rivers in 2002, Coach Walker has seen 10 players go on to play Divi-sion I lacrosse, and 24 total to play at the next level. He has also seen two players named All-Americans in the last two seasons. In the off-season, he is the director of the Top Gun camps and leagues and head coach of Top Gun Lacrosse’s Premier Select Teams.Girls’ Lacrosse/Susanna DonahueA stand-out lacrosse player at Boston University, where she was elected captain of the squad in her senior year, Coach Donahue has coached and officiated at both the high school and college level for the past 20 years. Softball/Jeff Meropol Coach Meropol, who is a chemistry teacher and the parent of three Rivers alumni, was the Commissioner of the Parks and Recreation Department for the town of Needham for 14 years. Currently the assistant varsity girls’ basketball coach, he also spent four years coach-ing girls’ softball in Needham’s recreational league.Boys’ Tennis/Gennady BurakovskyA USPTA certified tennis professional, Burakovsky has been the assistant coach of the Boston College Men’s team since 2004. He is also Director of Tennis for the Great Island Yacht Club in West Yarmouth, MA. As a player, he finished in the top eight for six straight years in the USTA New England Men’s Open Division and in 2005, he was awarded the USPTA New England Men’s Open Player of the Year.Girls’ Tennis/Didi Fisher Weinreb A 4.5 NTRP tournament player and USTA Adult League Team Member, Coach Weinreb continues to compete regularly and has had success at the regional and national level for women’s and mixed doubles. She is a certified member of the USPTA, USRSA and the ITA and has trained with many skilled professionals in-cluding Nick Bollettieri and Steve Smith.Track& Girls’ Cross Country/Paul KaraschIn high school, Coach Karasch helped his cross country team finish with two undefeated seasons and an Indi-ana State Championship. At Wabash College he earned seven varsity letters in Cross Country and Track and Field and was elected captain of his track team in his senior year. He is a United States Track and Field As-sociation Level 1 certified coach.

For many students, skiing is purely recreational. For freshman Ryanne Daley ’13, however, it’s much, much more. Daley has been skiing since she was

three years old, and racing competitively since she was seven. “It’s always been something I’ve loved,” she said. “Racing down the course and crossing that finish line – there’s nothing like it.” Daley won both the giant slalom and slalom at the New England Champi-onships at Mt. Sunapee in February, helping Rivers finish third and earning herself All-New England honors. She credits coach Kim Webster with helping to motivate her and her teammates, and is excited that the Red Wings have so steadily improved over the last two seasons. Daley’s skiing success extends outside school, as well. Last winter she at-tended the Eastern J3 Junior Olympics after being selected as one of the top female skiers in the Northeast (and one of only 12 first-year varsity skiers). Over the last year, she was invited to camps through Eastern Regionals, the J3 Speedway at Sun-day River, and, this past summer, to a ski academy in New Zealand.

In a year in which she became a dominant force in the ISL, Tayra Melendez ’12 gar-nered wider acclaim when she was one of just four basketball players in the U.S. to be named to Puerto Rico’s team for the 2010 FIBA Americas Under-18 Championship

for Women, which took place in June in Colorado Springs. The daughter of a horse jockey who moved to the US 20 years ago to take a job at Suffolk Downs, Melendez had long dreamed of representing Puerto Rico on the inter-national stage. One of the youngest players on the 12-person P.R. team, the 16-year-old Melendez would be forgiven for feel-ing a bit intimidated, but she has remained confident throughout the experience. And why not? Her basketball accomplishments to date speak for themselves: last year she averaged 14 points and 7 rebounds a game at Rivers, earning a spot on the New England All-Star team and the All-Independent School League team. Moreover, she helped lead the Red Wings to an impressive 20-6 season this year and a chance to repeat as New England Class B Tournament Champions, a bid that came up 1-point short in the finals. In the 2009 NEPSAC title game, Melendez’s 19 points, 10 rebounds and 4 assists helped Rivers secure the victory and earned her the tournament MVP. Coach Bob Pipe says that she had already piqued interest from several Division I college basketball programs as a sophomore. “She’s a phenomenal presence on the court,” he said.

After tallying a stellar 10-3 record over the first 13 matches of the ISL season (including an 8-match win streak), the boys’ tennis team

earned the top seed in the New England Class “C” Championships in May. In front of a friendly home crowd, the Red Wings went on to capture the title, their 5th title in the last seven years. The team got strong performances from top to bottom in beating Beaver Country Day in the Saturday semi-final. Co-captain Alex Ginsberg ’10 won his singles match on Saturday to help defeat Beaver. On Sunday, TJ Moor ’12 won his singles match in straight sets, while Evan Gallagher ’11 also won his match. But it was Marco Eberth ’10 who made the afternoon when he slammed home a match-winning overhead to ultimately clinch the championship. Coach Gennady Burakovsky said that he had high hopes for the team from

the very beginning of the year.“I knew the first time I met with the team that they were dedicated and

hard-working, and eager to put themselves in a position to qualify for the tournament and also make a mark in the ISL standings,” he said. “Seemingly every week this season someone else stepped up and won a crucial set to secure a win for us, and that was terrific to see.”

The impact Jordan Greenfield ’10 has had on the Rivers lacrosse program is not hard to measure. A four-year starter and senior captain for the Red Wings, Greenfield fin-ished his career with a record-setting 97 goals and 141 assists (238 total points). A

sizeable chunk of those points came last year when, as a junior, he shattered the ISL points in one season record (90) by notching 68 assists while pumping in 38 goals for 106 points. Along the way, the attack man helped lead the 2009 Red Wings squad to

their first league title with a record of 14-1. To cap off a brilliant high school career, Greenfield was named All-American.

“Jordan is a more natural feeder. Being a goal scorer was some-thing he had to work on,’’ said Rivers’ coach Justin Walker. “There

are fewer guys who can feed the way he feeds and even fewer guys who can do both.”

In addition, Greenfield was named All-ISL for the

second straight year, led the ISL in points and assists yet again

and was selected to play in the US La-crosse 2010 Boys High School Showcase

at the ESPN Rise Games. Greenfield rounded out his array of honors by playing in the New Eng-

land prep school all-star game during which he scored 3 goals as part of the East team’s 15-14 victory over the West. Greenfield will head to Fairfield University where many expect him to make a strong contribution as a freshman.

2009-10 Honors

All-AmericanJordan Greenfield Lacrosse

All-ISLFallChris Allen FootballTaariq Allen FootballAllison Brustowicz SoccerCaroline Bullion X-CountryJonathan Garcia SoccerNicole Johnson SoccerShannon McSweeney SoccerBen Patrick FootballCaroline Tarbell Field Hockey

WinterTaariq Allen BasketballSara Berthiaume BasketballRyanne Daley SkiingConnor Dempsey HockeyJacqueline Ham HockeyThomas Manna HockeyTayra Melendez BasketballDillon Pieri HockeyKyle Reardon BasketballAndrea Schweitzer Hockey Clare Sullivan Basketball

SpringChris Allen BaseballSara Berthiaume LacrosseTim Corey BaseballChristian Dallmus Lacrosse Sean Gannon BaseballJordan Greenfield LacrosseTJ Moor TennisCaroline Tarbell Softball

Jordan Greenfield Named All-AmericanDaley Wins NEPSAC Slalom, GS

Melendez Stars at Rivers, on World Stage

‘2009-10 Highlights

All New-EnglandTaariq Allen FootballCaroline Bullion X-Country

& TrackRyanne Daley Skiing

All-StateAllison Brustowicz SoccerShannon McSweeney Soccer

New England All-Stars

Sara Berthiaume LacrosseGeorge Carrick LacrosseJordan Greenfield Soccer

& LacrosseTayra Melendez BasketballLeah Stansky LacrosseClare Sullivan Basketball

Boys’ Tennis Captures New England Championship

The Girls’ Soccer team continued its impressive run over the last decade, capping off a 13-4-1 season with an-other trip to the New England Tourna-ment. The Boys’ Basketball team had a resurgent year, finishing a 13-10 season with a return to the Rivers Holi-day Tournament Finals and a trip to the post-season.The Girls’ Basketball team captured their second straight Rivers Holiday Tournament title on their way to a stellar 20-6 record and their 7th straight trip to the NEPSAC champion-ship tournament. Over on the ice, the Girls’ Hockey team capped off their 14-8-2 season with their fifth consecu-tive trip to the post-season. In Track, Callie Bullion ’10 swept the 100 m high hurdle and the 300 m intermedi-ate hurdle events at the NEPSTA New England Division III Track and Field Championships. It was her fourth and fifth titles at the New England Cham-pionships. Her victory in the 100 m event (16.82 seconds) marked her third title in the event and the 300 m event (49.66 seconds) was her second.

The boys’ tennis team proudly displays the 2010 NEPSAC championship trophy.