Athletics

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ATHLETICS

ON-CAMPUS TEAM PRACTICES

COVID regulations during the 2020–21 school year meant almost no competition for GDS’s athletes. Thanks to our coaches and athletic director David Gillespie, who created ways for athletics to continue.

Practices, like the one above with Women’s lacrosse, provided fitness, skill development, and community to student athletes isolated by the pandemic.

Lauren Petrilla ’23 tees off on the greens of the HS field.

When women’s lacrosse ran drills on the new LMS field, Delaney McDermott ’24 took shots on goal.

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The crew team held ergometer workouts on the HS field.

Men’s soccer got their heads back in the game—and back on campus.

Marleigh Ausbrooks ’21 and Isabelle Schiff ’22 celebrated the unveiling of the 2019 ISL AA Division Women’s Soccer banner.

Luke Cohen ’23 and his cross country teammates ran warm-ups and drills distanced on the HS field.

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Anti-Racism and Athletics

To close out their planning days, Athletic Director David Gillespie and DEI Director Marlo Thomas displayed these flags together as a visual representation of their commitment to each other, to this initiative, and to the ongoing anti-racist work of our school.

Our Athletics and Diversity, Equity, and

Inclusion (DEI) Offices have partnered to launch a workshop series for all High School student athletes around topics of anti-racism and anti-bias in athletics.

The first workshop in the series established a historical understanding of racism in sports and athlete activism primarily through small group discussions around a collection of short documentary films. The Athletics department has established an anti-racist library collection focused on sports, including Thomas Etan’s We Matter: Athletes and Activism and Harris Duchess’s Gender & Race in Sport. The library, and the anti-bias impact of the program, will continue to grow.

*Spring athletics highlights coming in next issue.

The Pride “Progress Flag” and the Black Lives Matter flag are proudly displayed alongside the GDS athletics banner in the High School gym.

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GDS’S NEW

CLIMBING WALL

GDS surprised the community with a brand new climbing wall this fall, built next to the new LMS building’s garage. Cheers of delight and disbelief filled the virtual unveiling with the High School climbing team, who then had the chance to visit the wall during their first in-person club meeting this winter. The climbers helped design and install some preset routes across the traverse wall. In the not-too-distant future, Lower and Middle School students will begin using the wall for problem solving and skill building during P.E. and indoor recess. Madeleine Popofsky ’22

Liam Zeilinger ’23 and Maddie Feldman ’22

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