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“I think girls in particular need to know that someone believes in them and supports them and will help them through learning something new and hard like skating,” Stickney says. “When they start to get the hang of it, they start to believe in themselves.” Many players stay on the team for all four years. “They really take pleasure in learning how to finally stop, or to do a backward crossover, or lift the puck,” Karin says. 

For a player whose career began as a "long shot," the 2025-2026 NBA season has served as an example of persistence. Going from an undrafted NBA player to a veteran leader for the Detroit Pistons, Duncan Robinson ’12 has spent the last six months proving that the same resilience is one of his greatest assets.

When Melissa Soep ’27 arrived at The Governor’s Academy as a ninth-grade boarding student, she knew she wanted to commit to a team sport for all three seasons of the afternoon program. Unfortunately, she wasn’t interested in most of the winter athletic offerings. Then, she noticed wrestling. “My three older brothers and my dad were all interested in the World Wrestling Entertainment, so I thought, you know what? Maybe I’ll give that a try,” she says.

In this body of work, Kedl reflects on his experience of light and seasonal change after moving to New England in 2019. Having grown up in the Midwest and Southwest, he became acutely aware of the differences in sunlight and atmosphere, particularly during the darker winter months in Massachusetts.

Doherty decided to write a children’s book. She reached out to Joshua Xiang ’26, a student artist she met as a classmate in her junior year Honors Marine Science class taught by Science Department faculty member Mike Lefebvre. Together, the two wrote, illustrated, and published My Blue Ocean, the story of a young girl named Susie — after Doherty’s cousin — who meets a mermaid and learns simple ways to protect the ocean. “It was my first writing venture,” Doherty says.

FLAG is the brainchild of Dean of Students Erin Davey. Davey describes herself as a “product of boarding school” who re-entered the boarding school world immediately after graduating from Connecticut College. “Leadership development has always been a huge interest of mine, and was something I really focused my college education on,” Davey says.