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will perry, sfwhs class of 2019, volleyball player, coach, and sportswear entrepreneur

San Francisco Waldorf High School alumnus and recent Endicott College graduate Will Perry took his love of sports all the way through college as a collegiate Men’s Volleyball Player at Endicott College where he majored in Sport Management with a minor in Exercise Science. Having seen the power of community and engagement, he began to network with Endicott alumni in his field and landed an extraordinary internship as Volunteer Assistant Coach for the Boston College women’s volleyball team in 2022.

While a student at SFWHS, Will made the well-known Bay to Bay Volleyball Club in Silicon Valley where he played throughout his high school career and coached for the club during the summers. While a student-athlete at college, Will launched an athleisure label, Drop Dimes, “which he pitched at the 2022 and 2023 Spark Tank, nabbing the second place $3,000 prize at this year’s competition. (The label’s name is a riff on every volleyball player’s goal to pass the ball so accurately it could land on a dime. ‘It started out as just designing custom shorts for Bay to Bay, but quickly expanded into supplying gear to other clubs and having professional athletes rep the designs,’ he said.”

From Will’s 2019 graduation speech at the high school, we understand what he learned from his time at SF Waldorf, what he took with him to Endicott, and what drives his endeavors in sports:

“But of all we have experienced, what will we bring with us into our lives, what lessons will we accept as part of who we are and who we hope to become? This question was a challenge, a test of the genuine growth of our individual selves. This question prompted an understanding that the Waldorf community is one that inspires creativity and freedom of thought, evokes strength and fearlessness, and supports individualism and independence. But more than anything, Waldorf teaches the power and significance of gratitude and love.”

What’s next for Will? Whether it’s playing collegiate volleyball in graduate school or growing his athleisure clothing label, we’re sure he’ll smash it with this approach.~

Read more in this Endicott College news article