Athletics News

The Loomis Chaffee girls varsity tennis team has begun its spring campaign with three straight wins, the result of 21 matches in the win column and only four in the loss column. 

The boys varsity golf team prevailed over Choate Rosemary Hall and Pomfret on Wednesday, April 10, at Wallingford Country Club, Choate’s notoriously difficult home course.

On Saturday, April 7, the Loomis Chaffee girls water polo team headed up to New Hampshire to take on a great team in Phillips Exeter. It is never easy making a long trip and then playing a good team in their home pool, but the Loomis girls water polo team never backs down from a challenge. The Pelicans got the win over Exeter, winning by a score of 12-9. 

The Loomis Chaffee boys varsity lacrosse team defeated Salisbury 10-8 on the road on March 30, the first time the Pelican team has beaten Salisbury since 2007.

The Loomis Chaffee Athletics Department hosted its annual Winter Varsity Awards on the evening of Sunday, March 24.

In honor of Women’s History Month, an exhibit recently installed in the Scanlan Campus Center celebrates girls athletics at Loomis Chaffee through the years. The seven alumnae featured in the installation are just a few of many who have led the way for future Pelicans to, as the exhibit says, “excel as students, athletes, and leaders, on the Island and beyond.” The exhibit was created by the Athletics Department. 

Senior Kayla Zeng won the 200 free and the 500 free to help lead the Pelican girls team to a fourth-place finish in the New England Prep School Swimming and Diving Division I championships on Sunday, March 3, at Phillips Andover.   

It’s three in a row for the Loomis Chaffee girls basketball team. The team won the New England Prep School Class A Championship for the third consecutive year on March 3 with a 47-39 victory over Kent. Head coach Adrian Stewart ’90 was named NEPSAC Class A Coach of the Year.