Swimming overview
Welcome to the La Salle College High School Swimming and Diving Program Website.
The La Salle Swimming and Diving program is one of the most successful in the area. It has maintained over the years a tradition of excellence resulting from student-athletes and coaches dedicated to the sport, their team, and their school. La Salle has won the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (PIAA) AAA State Championship five years in a row. The team was also named the 2016 National High School Championship Team.
In addition to the state and national recognition, the team has also won 29 consecutive Philadelphia Catholic League (PCL) Championships and nine straight PIAA District 12 Championships since joining in 2009.
Explore this page to learn more about Swimming and Diving at La Salle.
| Opponent | Date | Result | Score |
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Happy Valley Invitational
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Win | |
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vs.
Father Judge High School
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Win | 237-286 |
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Win | 229-260 |
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vs.
Roman Catholic High School
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Win | 232-357 |
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Upper Dublin High School - JV Match
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Win | 207-242 |
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vs.
Little Flower High School
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Win | 221-379 |
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vs.
St. Hubert's Catholic High School
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Win | 221-376 |
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vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
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Win | 237-339 |
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vs.
Conwell-Egan Catholic High School
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Win | 224-257 |
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vs.
Lansdale Catholic High School
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Win | 224-258 |
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vs.
Neshaminy High School
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vs.
Upper Dublin High School
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vs.
Upper Dublin High School
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vs.
Neshaminy High School
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St. Joseph's Preparatory School - JV Match
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Loss | 254-249 |
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vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
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Win | 217-240 |
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vs.
Abington High School
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vs.
Abington High School
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Win | 233-234 |
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vs.
Unionville High School
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Win | 229-251 |
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vs.
North Penn High School
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Win | 1-0 |
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vs.
North Penn High School
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Win | 4-0 |
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(Haverford 8:50 am, PC 12:10 pm, GA 2:40 PM)
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Scrimmage | |
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@ Harrisburg High School
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Win | 45-7 |
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vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
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Win | 226-314 |
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Devon Preparatory School - JV Match
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Win | 217-284 |
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Holy Ghost Preparatory School - JV Match
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Win | 217-223 |
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Spring-Ford Area High School - JV Match
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Win | 251-257 |
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vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
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Win | 217-268 |
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Malvern Preparatory School - JV Match
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Loss | 202-199 |
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vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
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Win | 14-7 |
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vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
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Loss | 6-0 |
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vs.
JV Jumpstart Tournament (Souderton at 10:30 am), Souderton Senior High School
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Win | 10-6 |
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vs.
JV Jumpstart Tournament (North Penn at 2:15 pm,), North Penn High School
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Loss | 2-6 |
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vs.
Christian Brothers Academy
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Win | 4-0 |
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vs.
Christian Brothers Academy
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Tie | 1-1 |
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vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
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Win | 21-17 |
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vs.
Jumpstart Tournament- (North Penn 1:50 pm,), North Penn High School
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Win | 11-7 |
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La Salle Academy (Rhode Island)
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Win | 3-0 |
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vs.
Jumpstart Tournament- (Cumberland Valley 8:30 pm), Cumberland Valley High School
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Win | 15-9 |
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vs.
Devon Preparatory School
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Win | 242-257 |
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vs.
Germantown Academy
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Cancelled | |
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vs.
Germantown Academy
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Cancelled | |
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Win | 232-243 |
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vs.
Father Judge High School
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Win | 2-0 |
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Wissahickon High School - JV Match
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Win | 249-292 |
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vs.
Roman Catholic High School
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Win | 28-0 |
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vs.
Reading High School
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Win | 15-5 |
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Tie | 0-0 |
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Win | 4-1 |
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Win | 4-1 |
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vs.
Calvert Hall College High School
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Loss | 6-0 (OT) |
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vs.
Calvert Hall College High School
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Win | 28-10 |
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North Penn High School - JV Match
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Win | 250-272 |
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vs.
Devon Preparatory School
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Win | 8-0 |
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vs.
Devon Preparatory School
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Win | 8-0 |
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vs.
Nazareth Academy High School
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Win | 220-281 |
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vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
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Win | 228-236 |
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PCL Meet #1
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William Penn Charter School - JV Match
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Win | 204-228 |
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vs.
Souderton Senior High School
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Win | 35-8 |
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vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
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Win | 7-0 |
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Win | 3-0 |
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vs.
Haverford School
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Win | 12-6 |
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vs.
Haverford School
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Loss | 13-12 |
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Briarwood Invitational
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vs.
Father Judge High School
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Loss | 0-1 |
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vs.
Haverford School
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Win | 34-6 |
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vs.
Father Judge High School
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Win | 3-2 (2OT) |
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La Salle Kickoff Tournament
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vs.
Wissahickon Senior High School
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Loss | 1-0 |
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vs.
Imhotep Charter School
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Win | 14-6 |
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William Penn Charter School - JV Match
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Win | 246-297 |
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vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
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Win | 6-0 |
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vs.
Lower Merion High School
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Win | 15-5 |
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vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
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Win | 7-0 |
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vs.
Lower Merion High School
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Win | 14-4 |
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Unionville High School - JV Match
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Loss | 256-255 |
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PCL Meet # 2
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vs.
Salesianum School
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Win | 2-0 |
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vs.
Salesianum School
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Win | 3-2 (2OT) |
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Malvern Preparatory School - JV Match
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Loss | 242-240 |
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vs.
Episcopal Academy
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Tie | 183-183 |
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vs.
Father Judge High School
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Win | 34-0 |
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vs.
Upper Merion High School
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Win | 11-3 |
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vs.
Roman Catholic High School
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Win | 4-0 |
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vs.
Roman Catholic High School
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Win | 4-2 |
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vs.
Episcopal Academy
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Win | 48-3 |
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vs.
Roman Catholic High School
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Win | 3-2 (2OT) |
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Round 2 (@ Trout Run Sports Complex)
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vs.
Episcopal Academy
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Win | 7-0 |
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Philadelphia Catholic League Championship
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Win | |
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vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
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Tie | 2-2 |
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vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
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Win | 2-1(2OT) |
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vs.
Perkiomen Valley High School
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vs.
Father Judge High School
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Win | 2-0 |
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vs.
Perkiomen Valley High School
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Win | 15-4 |
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The Haverford School - JV Match
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Loss | 250-244 |
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vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
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Win | 33-6 |
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vs.
Neumann-Goretti High School
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Win | 11-0 |
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Beast of the East (vs Upper Perk @ 5:30 pm, Win = 8 pm, Lose = 8:50 pm)
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Win | 13-6 vs Wiss, 13-5 vs Upper Perk |
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vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
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Win | 48-0 |
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Carlisle Invitational
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Beast of the East (10:35 am vs Whitman, 1:55 pm vs North Penn, 5 pm vs Penn Charter)
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Beast of the East Day 2 (11:20 vs Wilson, Win = 5 pm Lose = 6:30 pm)
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Loss | 9-5 |
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vs.
Springside Chestnut Hill
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Win | 5-0 |
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vs.
Springside Chestnut Hill
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Win | 3-0 |
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Kings Head Regatta @ Upper Merion
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Round 3
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vs.
Central Bucks East High School
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Win | 5-1 |
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vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
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Win | 7-6 |
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vs.
Lansdale Catholic High School
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Win | 1-0 |
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vs.
Lansdale Catholic High School
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Win | 2-0 |
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vs.
William Penn Charter School
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Win | 186-194 |
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vs.
Wilson High School (Reading)
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vs.
Wilson High School (Reading)
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Win | 9-8 |
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Win | 5-0 |
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vs.
Central Bucks South High School
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Win | 5-2 |
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PCL Meet # 3
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Win | 18-14 |
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vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
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Win | 8-1 |
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vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
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Win | 6-0 |
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Win | 1-0 |
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Ocean City Chase @ Ocean City, NJ
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Upper Merion @ 9:40 am, Pennridge @ 2:40 pm,
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Win | |
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Win | 35-34 (4OT) |
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Head of the Christina @ Wilmington, DE
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Loss | 10-21 |
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vs.
Roman Catholic High School
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Win | 3-0 |
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vs.
Lansdale Catholic High School
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District 12 (City) Championship
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Win | |
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vs.
Archbishop Ryan High School
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Win | 2-0 |
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vs.
Archbishop Ryan High School
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Loss | 1-0 |
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PCL Meet # 4
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vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
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Win | 6-0 |
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Loss | 2-3 |
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vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
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Win | 35-13 |
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Erie Challenge (McDowell 5:30 PM)
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Win | 15-5 |
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Erie Challenge- (Cathedral Prep @ 9:40 am, Cathedral Prep 1:50 pm)
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Win | |
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vs.
Christian Brothers Academy
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Win | 1-0 |
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vs.
Calvert Hall College High School
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Loss | 0-2 |
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vs.
Calvert Hall College High School
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Win | 4-1 |
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Navy Day Regatta
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Round 4 @ Knightmare
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Manhattan Invitational
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vs.
Abington High School
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Loss | 1-2 |
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vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
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Win | 14-0 |
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vs.
Conwell-Egan Catholic High School
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Win | 5-1 |
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vs.
Conwell-Egan Catholic High School
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Win | 2-0 |
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vs.
Souderton Senior High School
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Win | 8-4 |
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vs.
Souderton Senior High School
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Win | 12-8 |
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Southern Lehigh High School - PIAA Sub-Regional Match
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Win | 317-336 |
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vs.
Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School
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Win | 3-2 (OT) |
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vs.
Father Judge High School
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Win | 14-6 |
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vs.
Upland Country Day School
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Win | 3-1 |
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vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
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Win | 5-1 |
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Knight Invite (Governor Mifflin @ 11:20 am, North Penn @ 1:50 pm)
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Win | |
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Freshman Tournament (LS, FJ, RC, SJP)
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Win | |
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vs.
Father Judge High School
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Win | 42-0 |
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PCL Championship
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Head of the Charles @ Boston, MA
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Round 5
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vs.
Father Judge High School
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Win | |
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vs.
Springfield Township High School (Montgomery County)
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Win | 11-2 |
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vs.
Springfield Township High School (Montgomery County)
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Win | 12-5 |
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PIAA State Championship
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Loss | |
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vs.
PCL Semis, Roman Catholic High School
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Win | 2-1 (OT) |
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vs.
Roman Catholic High School
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Win | 20-0 |
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District 12 Championship
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vs.
Wissahickon Senior High School
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Win | 7-5 |
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vs.
Wissahickon Senior High School
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Win | 10-6 |
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Southeast PA JV Challenge
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vs.
Roman Catholic High School
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Win | 35-16 |
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vs.
Exeter Township Senior High School
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Head of the Schuylkill
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Round 6
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vs.
PCL Championship, Archbishop Ryan High School
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Win | 5-0 |
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vs.
Roman Catholic High School
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Loss | 7-14 |
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vs.
Upper Dublin High School
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Win | 13-7 |
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vs.
Upper Dublin High School
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Loss | 7-2 |
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vs.
District 12 Championship, Northeast High School
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Loss | 2-1 |
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vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
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Win | 6-1 |
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vs.
Upland Country Day School
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Loss | 3-4 |
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State Championship
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PIAA State Championship
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Win | 4-2 |
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vs.
Plymouth-Whitemarsh Senior High School
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Win | 5-2 |
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Win | 4-1 |
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vs.
State Championship- Day 1, Reading High School
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Win | 22-13 |
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vs.
Central Bucks South High School
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Win | 6-3 |
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vs.
State Championship- Day 2, North Allegheny Senior High School
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Loss | 4-7 |
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vs.
North Penn High School
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Win | 2-1 |
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Frostbite Regatta @ Mercer Lake, NJ
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vs.
PCL 6A Classification Game, St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Loss | 14-21 |
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State Championship- Day 3
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Win | 13-6 |
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Loss | 1-3 |
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vs.
North Penn High School
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Win | 5-3 |
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Win | 3-1 |
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vs.
North Penn High School
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Win | 4-3 |
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Win | 4-3 |
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Loss | 2-5 |
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vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
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Win | 9-0 |
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vs.
Pennridge High School
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Win | 5-2 |
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Shipley
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Loss | |
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NXN Regional Championship
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Lichtner/Farrell Memorial meet
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vs.
Haverford School
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Win | |
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vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
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Win | 3-2 |
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vs.
Abington Friends High School
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Loss | 67-75 |
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vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
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Loss | 7-0 |
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vs.
Wissahickon Senior High School
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Win | 127-59 |
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vs.
Upper Dublin High School
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Win | 61-15 |
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vs.
Delbarton School
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Loss | 1-3 |
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vs.
Upper Dublin High School
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Win | 47-37 |
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vs.
Upper Dublin High School
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Loss | 50-57 |
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vs.
Episcopal Academy
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Loss | 1-3 |
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vs.
Hun School
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Win | 6-0 |
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vs.
Cheltenham High School
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Win | 61-6 |
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vs.
Cheltenham High School
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vs.
Central Bucks South High School
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Win | 5-2 |
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vs.
Central High School
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Win | 65-6 |
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vs.
Central High School
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vs.
Devon Preparatory School
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Win | 40-25 |
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vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
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Win | 52.5-38.5 |
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vs.
St. Augustine Preparatory School
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Loss | 4-5 |
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vs.
Devon Preparatory School
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Loss | 56-62 |
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vs.
Pennridge High School
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Win | 6-2 |
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vs.
SquashSmarts
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Win | 4-3 |
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vs.
North Penn High School
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Loss | 6-7 |
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vs.
Friends Central High School
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Loss | 0-7 |
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vs.
Masa Tournament, HLM Squash Team
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Win | 5-2 |
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vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
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Win | 4-0 |
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Fels
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Win | 61-31 |
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Samuel Fels High School
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Win | 70-68 |
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vs.
Salesianum School
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Win | 109-72 |
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vs.
William Penn Charter School
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Win | 63-39 |
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vs.
Germantown Academy
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Loss | 2-9 |
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vs.
The Shipley School
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Loss | 1-7 |
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vs.
Devon Preparatory School
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Loss | 1-3 |
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Loss | 4-6 |
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Loss | 1-2 |
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vs.
Devon Preparatory School
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Win | 77-0 |
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vs.
Devon Preparatory School
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vs.
HLM Squash Team
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Win | 7-0 |
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vs.
Lawrenceville School
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Win | 2-1 |
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vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
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Win | |
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vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
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Loss | |
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vs.
Springside Chestnut Hill
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Win | 6-1 |
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Penn Manor Holiday Tournament Day 1
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vs.
Hun School
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Win | 6-2 |
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Penn Manor Holiday JV Tournament
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TFCAofGP #1
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vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
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vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
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vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
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Loss | 45-48 |
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vs.
Souderton Senior High School
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Win | 47-22 |
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vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Win | 4-0 |
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Carver High School of Engineering and Science
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Win | 57-20 |
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Carver High School of Engineering and Science
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Win | 76-60 |
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vs.
Roman Catholic High School
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Win | 4-0 |
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vs.
Episcopal Academy
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Loss | 0-7 |
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vs.
Seton Hall Preparatory School
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Loss | 0-2 |
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vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
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Win | 77-0 |
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vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
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vs.
Pennridge High School
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Win | 10-0 |
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vs.
Conwell-Egan Catholic High School
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Tie | 2-2 |
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vs.
William Penn Charter School
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Loss | 1-6 |
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vs.
Devon Preparatory School, Archbishop Carroll High School
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Win | |
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vs.
Academy of the New Church
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Win | 4-0 |
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vs.
Father Judge High School
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Win | |
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vs.
Father Judge High School
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Win | |
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Cardinal Classic Diving
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TFCAofGP #2
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Win | 5-2 |
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Cardinal Classic Swimming
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Travis Manion 99' Memorial Duals
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Travis Manion 99' Memorial Duals
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Win | |
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Win | |
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vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
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Win | 69-63 |
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vs.
Salesianum School
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Win | 42-36 |
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vs.
Salesianum School
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Loss | 35-38 |
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vs.
Salesianum School
|
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Win | 78-63 |
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vs.
Bishop Hendricken
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Win | 2-0 |
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Donegal Holiday Tournament
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vs.
Father Judge High School
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Win | 62-31 |
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vs.
Christian Brothers Academy
|
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Loss | 0-3 |
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Catholic Christmas Showcase vs. Berks Catholic High School
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Win | 59-51 |
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Catholic Christmas Showcase vs. Bishop McDevitt High School
|
|
Win | 75-46 |
|
La Salle Academy, RI
|
|
Win | 4-2 |
|
vs.
Fairfield College Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 5-2 |
|
HGP in Conor O'Kane Trny
|
|
Tie | 1-1 |
|
Paul VI in Conor O'Kane Trny
|
|
Win | 6-1 |
|
vs.
Roman Catholic High School
|
|
Win | |
|
vs.
Roman Catholic High School
|
|
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|
St. Augustine in Conor O'Kane Trny
|
|
Win | 1-0 |
|
Paul VI in Conor O'Kane Trny Semi-Final
|
|
Win | 4-2 |
|
HGP in Conor O'Kane Trny Championship
|
|
Win | 1-0 |
|
vs.
Princeton Day School
|
|
Loss | 2-5 |
|
vs.
Central Bucks South High School
|
|
Loss | 5-6 |
|
LS Series #1 Sprint Night
|
|
||
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vs.
Neumann-Goretti High School
|
|
Win | |
|
vs.
Neumann-Goretti High School
|
|
Win | 80-70 |
|
vs.
Pennridge High School
|
|
Win | 3-0 |
|
TFCAofGP #4
|
|
||
|
Parkland Duals
|
|
||
|
Parkland Duals
|
|
||
|
LS Series #1
|
|
||
|
vs.
Archbishop Ryan High School
|
|
Win | 46-44 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Ryan High School
|
|
Win | 77-64 |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 4-0 |
|
vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 49-45 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Ryan High School
|
|
Win | 106-50 |
|
vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 5-2 |
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 3-0 |
|
vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
|
|
Loss | |
|
vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
|
|
Win | 72-0 |
|
vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
|
|
||
|
LS Series #2 Distance Night
|
|
||
|
vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
|
|
Loss | 64-72 |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 1-0 |
|
Mid-Winter Mayhem @ IUP University
|
|
||
|
vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
|
|
Loss | 48-49 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
|
|
Loss | 66-80 |
|
vs.
Plymouth-Whitemarsh Senior High School
|
|
Win | 5-1 |
|
TFCAofGP #5
|
|
||
|
vs.
Wilson High School (Reading)
|
|
||
|
vs.
Central Bucks South High School
|
|
Win | 6-0 |
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
Loss | 1-3 |
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
Win | |
|
vs.
St. Augustine Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 72-98 |
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
Loss | 74-86 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Ryan High School
|
|
Win | 4-0 |
|
vs.
St. Augustine Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 0-2 |
|
vs.
SquashSmarts
|
|
Win | 7-0 |
|
vs.
Lansdale Catholic High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 0-7 |
|
vs.
Pingry School
|
|
Win | 6-0 |
|
TFCAofGP Novice Meet
|
|
||
|
vs.
Lansdale Catholic High School
|
|
Win | |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 51-15 |
|
LS Series #2
|
|
||
|
vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 4-0 |
|
vs.
Hun School
|
|
Loss | 2-5 |
|
vs.
Germantown Friends School
|
|
Loss | 0-7 |
|
vs.
Lawrenceville School
|
|
Loss | 3-4 |
|
vs.
Lansdale Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 76-61 |
|
vs.
Princeton Day School
|
|
Loss | 0-7 |
|
vs.
Mercersburg Academy
|
|
Loss | 77-93 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
|
|
Win | 70-0 |
|
TFCAofGP #7
|
|
||
|
Kristen Marche Invitational
|
|
||
|
vs.
Devon Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Delbarton School
|
|
Loss | 4-5 |
|
vs.
Devon Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Christian Brothers Academy
|
|
Win | 101-67 |
|
vs.
Devon Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 69-76 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
|
|
Win | 4-0 |
|
vs.
Episcopal Academy
|
|
Win | 2-1 |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 3-2 |
|
PCL Quarterfinal and Semifinal
|
|
Win | 66-4 |
|
vs.
North Penn High School
|
|
Win | 4-2 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
|
|
Win | 4-0 |
|
vs.
Lawrenceville School
|
|
Loss | 2-5 |
|
vs.
Upper Dublin High School
|
|
Loss | 91-95 |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Win | |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 68-78 |
|
vs.
Central Bucks South High School
|
|
Win | 7-1 |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 2-5 |
|
vs.
Conwell-Egan Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 64-52 |
|
vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 4-0 |
|
vs.
Wyoming Seminary College Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 4-2 |
|
vs.
PCL Final, Conwell-Egan Catholic High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
Loss | 1-3 |
|
vs.
Princeton Day School
|
|
Loss | 0-2 |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 113-69 |
|
vs.
Hun School
|
|
Win | 4-1 |
|
vs.
Germantown Academy
|
|
Win | 53-45 |
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 6-2 |
|
vs.
Wissahickon Senior High School
|
|
Win | 32-31 |
|
vs.
Roman Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 3-1 |
|
vs.
District 12 Championship, Northeast High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Central Bucks South High School
|
|
Win | 7-3 |
|
Penn Winter Relays
|
|
||
|
vs.
Academy of the New Church
|
|
Win | 3-2 |
|
vs.
West Catholic Preparatory High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
North Penn High School
|
|
Win | 4-2 |
|
vs.
West Catholic Preparatory High School
|
|
Loss | 52-53 |
|
Ocean Breeze- Staten Island
|
|
||
|
JV Tournament
|
|
||
|
Cedar Crest Classic
|
|
||
|
TFCAofGP #9
|
|
||
|
vs.
Devon Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Devon Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 7-0 |
|
vs.
Roman Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 43-39 |
|
vs.
Roman Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 58-47 |
|
vs.
Delbarton School
|
|
Loss | 1-3 |
|
vs.
Roman Catholic High School
|
|
Loss | 58-65 |
|
vs.
Friends Central High School
|
|
Loss | 3-4 |
|
vs.
Conwell-Egan Catholic High School
|
|
Win | |
|
vs.
PIAA Round One, Council Rock North High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Hill School
|
|
||
|
LS Series #3 Relay Night
|
|
||
|
vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Haverford School
|
|
Win | 9-0 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
|
|
Win | 72-64 |
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 8-0 |
|
vs.
Pennridge High School
|
|
Win | 3-2 |
|
North Penn JV Tournament
|
|
||
|
PCL Championship
|
|
||
|
vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
|
|
Loss | |
|
vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
|
|
Win | 63-53 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
|
|
Win | |
|
vs.
Princeton Day School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Conwell-Egan Catholic High School
|
|
||
|
Archbishop Ryan High School - First Round Catholic League Playoffs
|
|
Loss | 48-52 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Ryan High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 3-0 |
|
PCL & District 12 Championships
|
|
||
|
Center City Slam
|
|
||
|
TFCAofGP Meet of Champs
|
|
||
|
PCL Individual Championships
|
|
||
|
PCL & District 12 Championships
|
|
||
|
vs.
APAC Founders Cup Semi Final, St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 7-0 |
|
vs.
PCL Quarterfinal, Archbishop Wood High School
|
|
Win | 4-0 |
|
District 12 Individual Championship
|
|
||
|
vs.
PCL Semis, Father Judge High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
APAC Founders Cup Championship, Holy Ghost Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 4-6 |
|
PIAA AAA Northeast Regional
|
|
||
|
PTFCA State Championship
|
|
||
|
vs.
Salesianum School, St. Augustine Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Salesianum School, St. Augustine Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Salesianum School, St. Augustine Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Salesianum School, St. Augustine Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Devon Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 7-0 |
|
PIAA Individual State Championships
|
|
||
|
vs.
William Penn Charter School
|
|
||
|
Gonzaga
|
|
||
|
Gonzaga
|
|
||
|
Gonzaga
|
|
||
|
Gonzaga
|
|
||
|
vs.
Central Bucks East High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Central Bucks East High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Lawrenceville School
|
|
||
|
Quad Scrimage @ Upper Dublin
|
|
||
|
vs.
Haverford School
|
|
Win | 6-3 |
|
Quad Scrimage @ Upper Dublin
|
|
||
|
PIAA Championship
|
|
||
|
vs.
Flyers Cup Semis, Father Judge High School
|
|
Win | 7-2 |
|
vs.
Bensalem High School
|
|
Win | 3-1 |
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 40-28 |
|
vs.
Bensalem High School
|
|
Win | 2-0 |
|
vs.
Calvert Hall College High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Win | |
|
Blue vs Gold #1
|
|
||
|
Blue vs Gold #1
|
|
||
|
First Flick-Horvat Regatta
|
|
||
|
Mont Bucks RFC
|
|
||
|
vs.
Germantown Academy
|
|
||
|
vs.
Central Bucks South High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Central Bucks South High School
|
|
Loss | 1-3 |
|
vs.
Flyers Cup AAA Final, Holy Ghost Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 10-6 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
|
|
Loss | 9-7 |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 16-8 |
|
vs.
Central High School
|
|
Win | 11-0 (5) |
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 3-7 |
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 5-9 |
|
2nd Flick Horvat Regatta
|
|
||
|
vs.
Doylestown Rugby Club
|
|
Loss | |
|
vs.
Doylestown Rugby Club
|
|
Loss | 34-24 |
|
Lehigh Valley
|
|
Win | |
|
vs.
Episcopal Academy
|
|
Win | 5-2 |
|
vs.
Souderton Senior High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
||
|
West Philadelphia @ 48th and Spruce
|
|
||
|
vs.
Hill Academy
|
|
Loss | 9-12 |
|
vs.
Upper Dublin High School
|
|
||
|
SLA
|
|
Win | 13-0 |
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
Win | 7-3 |
|
St. Ignatius (with SJP)
|
|
||
|
vs.
Roman Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 5-0 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
|
|
Win | 10-0 (6) |
|
vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
|
|
Win | 10-0 (5) |
|
vs.
Academy at Palumbo High School
|
|
Win | 3-0 |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 20-3 |
|
vs.
Springside Chestnut Hill
|
|
Win | 6-3 |
|
vs.
Academy at Palumbo High School
|
|
Win | 2-1 |
|
vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
|
|
Win | 4-0 |
|
Lake Lenape Invitational
|
|
||
|
Kennett Classic @ Kennett High School
|
|
Win | |
|
Blue vs Gold #2
|
|
||
|
Blue vs Gold #2
|
|
||
|
vs.
Haverford School
|
|
Win | 12-2 |
|
3rd Flick Horvat Regatta
|
|
||
|
vs.
Berks County Rugby
|
|
Win | 48-17 |
|
Cumberland Valley
|
|
Win | 19-12 |
|
West Chester @ Berks
|
|
Win | 50-29 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
|
|
Win | 5-0 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Ryan High School
|
|
Win | 10-2 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Ryan High School
|
|
Win | 16-0 (3) |
|
vs.
Souderton Senior High School
|
|
Win | 11-5 |
|
West Philadelphia @ 48th and Spruce
|
|
||
|
vs.
Engineering & Sciences
|
|
Win | 3-2 |
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 2-4 |
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 7-0 |
|
vs.
Engineering & Sciences
|
|
||
|
vs.
Devon Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 2-0 |
|
vs.
Devon Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 6-3 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
|
|
Win | 8-1 |
|
vs.
Haverford School
|
|
Loss | 5-6 |
|
vs.
Haverford School
|
|
Win | 3-2 |
|
vs.
William Penn Charter School
|
|
Loss | 3-4 |
|
Saul @ Roxborough High School
|
|
Win | 7-4 |
|
vs.
William Penn Charter School
|
|
Loss | 3-4 |
|
vs.
Springside Chestnut Hill
|
|
Win | 11-0 (5) |
|
vs.
Springside Chestnut Hill
|
|
Win | 5-2 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Ryan High School
|
|
Win | 3-0 |
|
vs.
Germantown Academy
|
|
||
|
vs.
Archbishop Ryan High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Upper Dublin High School
|
|
Loss | 3-4 |
|
vs.
Episcopal Academy
|
|
||
|
vs.
Springside Chestnut Hill
|
|
||
|
vs.
De Matha Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 11-10 |
|
Lake Lenape Invitational
|
|
||
|
Neczypor Regatta in Camden, NJ
|
|
||
|
CBA Invitational
|
|
||
|
vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 11-4 |
|
4th Flick Horvat Regatta
|
|
||
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Tie | 17-17 |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | |
|
PCL #1
|
|
||
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
Win | 6-0 |
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
Win | 18-1 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
|
|
Win | 3-0 |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
Win | 8-6 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
|
|
Win | 2-0 |
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
Win | 14-2 |
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
Win | 5-0 |
|
West Philadelphia @ 48th and Spruce
|
|
Win | 13-2 |
|
vs.
Devon Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 3-2 |
|
vs.
Lansdale Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 15-0 (4) |
|
vs.
Lansdale Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 8-0 |
|
vs.
Father Judge High School
|
|
Win | 20-2 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
|
|
Win | 20-1 |
|
SLA @ Edgley Field # 1
|
|
Win | 13-6 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Wood High School
|
|
Win | 15-1 |
|
vs.
Upper Dublin High School
|
|
Loss | 3-4 |
|
vs.
Roman Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 3-0 |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
Win | 10-0 |
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 2-7 |
|
vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
|
|
Win | 16-2 |
|
vs.
Roman Catholic High School
|
|
Loss | 1-2 |
|
Gonzaga Rugby Classic
|
|
||
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
Fords Twilight
|
|
||
|
vs.
Salesianum School
|
|
Loss | 0-3 |
|
vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Salesianum School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Cardinal O'Hara High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
St. Andrew's School
|
|
||
|
Gonzaga Rugby Classic
|
|
||
|
vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
4th Flick Horvat Regatta
|
|
||
|
Gonzaga Rugby Classic
|
|
||
|
Hip Hop Tournament @ Edgley Fields
|
|
||
|
PCL #2
|
|
||
|
vs.
Springside Chestnut Hill
|
|
||
|
vs.
Springside Chestnut Hill
|
|
Win | 5-2 |
|
vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 5-4 |
|
vs.
Bonner-Prendergast Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 3-2 |
|
vs.
Pennsbury High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Lansdale Catholic High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Lansdale Catholic High School
|
|
Loss | 0-3 |
|
vs.
Holy Ghost Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 5-15 |
|
vs.
Lansdale Catholic High School
|
|
Win | 5-0 |
|
Explorers Invite
|
|
||
|
vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
|
|
Win | 5-0 |
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 5-3 (10) |
|
vs.
Malvern Preparatory School
|
|
Loss | 2-0 |
|
vs.
Archbishop Carroll High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
The Shipley School
|
|
Win | 13-0 (5) |
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Wissahickon Senior High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Neumann-Goretti High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Neumann-Goretti High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
Friends Central High School
|
|
||
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
|
|
||
|
vs.
St. Joseph's Preparatory School
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Are you interested in being a sideline announcer for the varsity baseball home games this spring? If so, email Mr. Sawyer (sawyerj@lschs.org).
Opportunities are also available for select JV and Freshmen home games as well.
Golf tryouts will be held August 16-19, 2021.
This page has been set up by La Salle College High School has created a webpage as a repository for information and expectations regarding the continuity of teaching and learning in the event of school closure. We will continue to post updates on this page as information becomes available from the school administration.
The Spring 2020 issue of the Explorer (titled Agents Of Change), will only be available online. No issues will be printed or mailed to homes.
A monthly Alumni eNewsletter along with a number of other alumni communications will only be available in a digital format and will be sent via email. It is critical for the Office of Institutional
Advancement to have and maintain your current email address, so please make certain that your
information is current and encourage your fellow alums to do the same. Please send any changes to
Mrs. Cathy Winning at winning@lschs.org so your alumni record can be updated accordingly.
As most of you will have seen, Governor Wolf has issued orders extending the closing of schools. The tentative earliest date schools may reopen is now set for Monday, April 6, 2020. As all of us have come to appreciate, this date is a guarantee written in water. Depending on the progress of the disease and the success of containment and suppression activities, this date will be subject to further extension if need be.
Dining Services: Due to recent public health concerns, some of the self-serve foods will be either moved behind the service counter or into grad and go containers. Thank you for your understanding.
Classes of 1930 to 1969
Golden Explorers Mass and Luncheon
Reunions for the Classes of 1934, 1939,
1944, 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, and 1969
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Mass 10:30 am in the Marian Chapel
Followed by Brunch in the Auditorium
$40 per person
For more information, please contact Jill D'Angelo at
(215) 402-4808 or DAngeloJ@lschs.org
Former NBA Referee Steve Javie '72 Goes From The Hardwood To Homilies Becoming A Catholic Deacon
Article by Frank Fitzpatrick
Reprinted from The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 20, 2019
The stirring anthem ended and those in the large Saturday night crowd, some clutching programs, took their seats. Steve Javie, a member of the Class of 1972 and a top-tier NBA referee for 25 seasons, moved into position and got ready once again to interpret the rules.
But this was Mass at Saint Andrew's Roman Catholic Church in Newtown (Bucks County), not a basketball arena. Javie was wearing a green chasuble and white cassock, not the NBA's two-tone officiating uniform. And the rules he was about to address in one of his first homilies as a permanent deacon in the Catholic church were eternal, not subject to collective bargaining.
"People ask me if there are similarities between being a deacon and a referee," Javie said before that recent 5 p.m. Mass. "It's funny because people used to think they could tell me how to do my old job. That hasn't changed, except now people are telling me how to preach."
A Montgomery County native who pitched at Temple and briefly in the Baltimore Orioles organization, Javie was destined to be a sports official. His father, Stan, was a field and back judge in the NFL, and his godfather, John Stevens, a longtime American League umpire.
Javie, 64, consistently was rated as one of the NBA's top referees. He worked more than 1,500 games, including 200-plus in the playoffs and 20 in the Finals.
"Steve was the best referee I ever worked with, and I reffed with everybody," said Joe Crawford, a friend and former NBA colleague. "He knew the rules. He got plays right. And he had [guts]. He was very aggressive but always under control."
Bad knees finally forced Javie to limp away after the 2011 season, his last assignment being the decisive sixth game of that year's NBA Finals.
By then, he was on a spiritual quest. Thanks to his wife of 28 years, Mary Ellen, he'd rediscovered a faith he'd virtually abandoned as a young man. The couple had started a charity benefiting underprivileged children in Montgomery County and Philadelphia. But he needed more.
"I thought, 'I've got to be doing something more with my life than blowing whistles against basketball players,' " he said.
At a Saint Andrew's event, a visiting speaker mentioned the Catholic diaconate. The possibility of becoming a deacon hung constantly around his neck like the whistles he wore as a referee.
"It's a calling," he said. "It's nothing I aspired to. I knew I was getting near the end of my career because my knees were failing. That realization makes you think about what you're going to do afterwards."
The journey Javie started in 2012 ended this June 8, 2019 when he and six others were formally ordained as deacons during an ornate ceremony at the Cathedral Basilica of Saints Peter and Paul. The grueling process that got him there took seven years and yielded a master's in theology, a new title, and the right to deliver homilies, wear a collar, and perform such traditional priestly duties as baptisms and marriages.
"I was at the ordination," Crawford said. "Watching him do all the little things around the altar, you could see how prepared and calm he was. That's how he was as a referee. Anything he gets into, he gets into all the way. He's so devout now. As a matter of fact, he's so devout that sometimes I have to tell him, `Steve, shut up.' "
Assigned to Saint Andrew's, his home parish and the largest in the Philadelphia archdiocese, Javie delivered his second homily last Saturday.
"I'm not afraid to get up and talk in front of people because I've been doing that my whole life," he said. "But talking about something really personal like faith, that's stressful."
Actually, Javie, who usually speaks in rapid and intense bursts, seemed more poised and conversational while addressing the parishioners, which he did not from the pulpit but from in front of the altar.
"He's very at ease, which probably comes from what he did all those years," said Monsignor Michael Picard, Saint Andrew's pastor. "His preaching, even though he's just starting, is really superb."
The story of how Javie switched from the arena to the altar is one that combines love found and spirituality sought.
It began in the late 1980s when the NBA's travel demands made him a regular at Philadelphia International Airport's US Airways counter. That's where he met Mary Ellen.
"I was someone who except for Christmas and Easter didn't go to Mass. But I could see she was a devout Catholic," Javie said. "So on our second date, I thought I'd impress her and I said, `How about if we go to Mass, then get lunch afterward?'
"We're sitting there in church, and this priest is droning on. I'm looking at my watch thinking I'll sit here an hour then be with her the rest of the afternoon. I wasn't paying attention, wasn't getting anything out of it. Afterward, she asked me what I thought. I told her I didn't get anything out of it. She looked at me and said, `What did you put into it?' That stopped me in my tracks. She said, `Did you maybe say a prayer for somebody in your family who needed it? Did you pray to the Holy Spirit for enlightenment?' She really got me thinking."
The experience led Javie to re-examine his Catholicism. He took Communion daily, read more about faith and marriage and, on the road, attended Mass whenever possible.
The renewed devotion helped in 1999 when Javie was one of 15 referees implicated in a tax-evasion case that involved misuse of frequent-flyer miles. He was the only one acquitted on all charges.
Noticing their colleague's newfound focus, the referees Javie worked with began to ask questions. Some even accompanied him to church.
"A lot of guys I traveled with, they struggled with all the temptations that come with being on the road," Javie said. "I would try to talk to them about it. My thinking was we're all sinful, but if we can talk about these things with each other, it might make our marriages and families a little more solid.
"When I was a crew chief, the second guy would sometimes grab the new guy and say, 'OK, Steve, tell him what you talked to me about.' I'd try to mentor them, not just in basketball but in life."
After retirement and the deacon decision, Javie ramped up his religiosity. From August through May, he took three-hour classes at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary in philosophy, theology, spirituality, and homiletics. Then there were workshops, psychological examinations and, before ordination, written, practical and oral examinations.
"We've never been blessed with children, but we've got nine nephews and nieces and I tell them I never studied that hard in my life," Javie said. "Those professors were brilliant. It was a really intense, extensive process."
His new schedule is sometimes as hectic as his old one. A day after ordination, Javie had to deliver his first homily at Saint Andrew's. There are Masses, ceremonies, home and hospital visits, counseling sessions, and speaking engagements.
"I made a living in sports," he said. "They paid me to referee, and it was a good job. But this is something else, a really incredible journey. I worked in the Finals for 15 years. I worked Game 7s. But that doesn't compare with this. It's a feeling I can't describe."
Those who know Javie well, such as his fellow Whitemarsh Valley Country Club members, now feel free to move conversations beyond typical locker-room talk.
"Now that they know what I've been through, they feel like they have permission to talk about their faith, even to complain about it," Javie said. "They realize that I've changed in one way, but not socially or personality-wise. I'm just Steve Javie. I always have been. It just so happens I'm not a referee anymore. I'm serving the Lord now."
Before the leaves are brown and the sky turns gray,
come and surf into the new school year with La Salle's
Mamas and Papas who will be California Dreamin'.
Party On The Patio
Parent Social
Saturday, September 14, 2019
7:00 pm
Glaser Center and "The Pit"
$50 per person
The event is sponsored by the Mothers' Club and Men of La Salle and
all proceeds will support the Auction and benefit students in need.
Casual Dress
Price includes appetizers, beer and wine, and live music.
All attendees must be age 21 or older.
"All work and no play," so the saying goes. No doubt esteeming me a dull boy indeed, numerous friends and acquaintances have advised me over the years, "you need to get a hobby—something that complements your working life." Well, golf only brings out a slight inclination towards explosive impatience, and anything you collect, you also need to dust. So that's out too.
But falconry? That could be the ticket. So, while on vacation, I dabbled a bit, as they used to say on Seinfeld. I spent some time with Rocky here back in July (I named him not for Philadelphia's ubiquitous and eternal boxer, but for the cartoon gangster occasionally appearing in episodes of Bugs Bunny, whose disposition "da boid" shares). This experience allowed me to reflect upon four unexpected similarities between the sport of sheiks and the experience of Lasallian education. These observations ring true whether we can draw on many years' experience with this school or are arriving with our first son, a member of the Class of 2023 whom La Salle welcomed this week.
1. An investment of time and effort are required. Despite the impression of preternaturally easy command I exude while working with Rocky, falconry takes time. In the western world, there's a two-year long apprenticeship with a sponsor, and it takes seven years to achieve real mastery. Hunting with a raptor also requires a lot more effort than using an inanimate weapon you can put back on the shelf after an outing. The bird requires appropriate housing and daily care: feeding, grooming and training. Likewise, in the Lasallian high school, no one who "does enough to get by" will thrive. Parents commit not only to a serious financial obligation but to an ongoing involvement: with their son's studies to the extent necessary; in support of his chosen activities; through volunteer service; and via an extensive social calendar of school activities which build and sustain the community. Students have a lot more homework than they may be used to and must manage it while exploring many athletic, co-curricular, and service opportunities before ultimately committing to a few. They generally juggle these responsibilities while navigating a more challenging commuting routine than their peers may experience. Teachers too need to be all in. You can't skate by on an undergraduate education and scant preparation. Students will ask probing questions, expect you to demonstrate not just competence but mastery, displaying an ability to reteach creatively when comprehension eludes an individual or the class. Such classroom routines take place within the context of a school that invites your involvement with these students for long hours after dismissal purportedly occurs at 2:35 pm and with your own professional growth on an on-going basis.
2. You remain who you are but are guided and supported as you grow into the best version of that self. Falcons are never tamed. The hunt demands they not lose their wild identity. They need to be comfortable and docile with humans while growing unimpeded into their predatory nature. A similar logic explains why you'll never hear a graduate of this school referred to as a "La Salle Product." Factories put out products, uniform and predictable. In that world "exceptional" is not a compliment. Lasallian schools nurture and shape unique individuals, coaxing their best out of them while allowing them ever expanding spheres of autonomy and responsibility. We believe that wisdom is discovered not through unrelenting obligation and a constraining pressure to "fit in," but through freedom, a true freedom that invites commitment but does not impose conformity.
3. A growing trust is required to sustain the relationship. Let's face it. Most of the dogs and cats we consider part of our families wouldn't survive ten minutes without us. They're completely domesticated and dependent, comfortably tethered in our yards awaiting their next meal. The raptor, on the other hand, is trained to do for the falconer what he would need to do to survive on his own: hunt in the wild. Each time a falcon is unhooded and departs from his keeper's glove, he need never return. Some mixture of habituation, loyalty, and a calculus proving that he is reliably better off in human care encourages the falcon's return to that person who released him, regardless of the hunt's success. So, it is here at La Salle. Almost none of us—faculty, students, parents, even administrators—must be here. Only the few Brothers are in some fashion "assigned" here under their vow of obedience. Every other member of the school community chooses to be and remain here. And it is exactly that dynamic, the fact that this path has been voluntarily chosen by so many dynamic, creative, and expansive personalities, that makes the journey so interesting.
4. The culmination of the journey is being set free, but that freedom is sustained by repeated spiritual return. Western falconers defend themselves against accusations that this sport requires enslavement of an otherwise free creature by noting that, compared to their wild counterparts, far more captive falcons survive their first year out of the nest. Protected from predators and disease, their chances of reaching maturity are greater. It is at that point, though, that master falconers will set a bird free and begin training a fresh fledgling. While the experience of faculty and parents of several sons is longer, the modal amount of time a person spends at La Salle is four years. But typically that's enough: enough to ground him in the experience of faith, in the reality of a loving God revealed through the people and events of our lives; enough to ground him in the disciplines and habits of mind that will make a professional out of him; enough to ground him in the ideals of fairness, respect, and generosity that will make him admired and exemplary in that chosen profession; enough to ground him in a brotherhood which will call him back to people and memories periodically throughout his life, call him to his best self in every major decision he makes, however far from this mews he may have flown.
Welcome or welcome back to a new year at La Salle. I look forward to discovering how your son(s) will take flight this year, particularly those young men who will cross the stage at graduation on the last Saturday in May.
Fraternally,
Brother James Butler, FSC
President
PS: I'd be remiss if I didn't try to get across a fifth point, one that's very important to Rocky. Don't ever call him a hawk.
Back To School Nights
The Student Handbook and Family Directory for 2019-2020 will be distributed at Back To School Night.
Parents of Freshmen (Class of 2023)
Thursday, September 5, 2019
6:30 pm to 9:30 pm
Auditorium
Presentation Begins Promptly at 6:30 pm
College Counseling Update – September 2019
The college search and application process can be a challenging experience for students and their families. Our goal in the College Counseling Department at La Salle College High School is to educate your sons regarding the process, to support them in their efforts, and to assist students in identifying colleges and universities that match their academic abilities and will offer success in a suitable environment for continuing intellectual development. Finding the right college or university is about "fit", therefore, we expect each student to play an active role in his college search and admission process.
Please join us at the school's annual auction, which will feature California Dreamin', on Saturday, November 2, 2019. Sponsorship opportunities are available and items are needed for the silent, luxury, and live auctions.
35th Annual Auction
California Dreamin'
Saturday, November 2, 2019
For information of to make a donation, please contact the Auction Office at (215) 402-4915.
All fathers are welcome to a barbecue sponsored by the Men of La Salle. The night is a great way for new fathers to meet other fathers and learn about the La Salle community. Returning fathers can catch up with friends and learn about all of the exciting things happening this year.
Men of La Salle
Welcome (Back) Barbecue
Thursday, September 19, 2019
6:30 pm
Glaser Center and "The Pit"
Admission is Free
In the event that you have any questions, please contact Scott Porreca at scott.porreca@gmail.com
The Mothers' Club invites freshman mothers and mothers of new students for a traditional welcome. Invitations have been mailed. Please RSVP by September 13, 2019 using the response card that was included with the invitation.
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200 Medley Relay
1:30:26
Kyle Shurmur '15, Michael McBryan '14, Greg Brocato '16, Nick Stachel '15 (2014)
200 Yard Freestyle
1:36:05
Matt Belecanech (St Joseph's Prep 2009)
200 Individual Medley
1:48:31
Greg Mahon (St. Joseph's Prep 2009)
50 Freestyle
20:60
Eric Schultz (La Salle 2012)
100 Butterfly
48:13
Greg Mahon (St. Joseph's Prep 2009)
100 Freestyle
44:66
Ted Walker (LaSalle 2009)
200 Freestyle Relay
1:22:91
Eric Schultz, Chris Szekely, Gregory Rogers, Sean Regan (La Salle 2012)
500 Freestyle
4:22:21
Matt Belecanech (St Joseph's Prep 2009)
100 Backstroke
49.87
Joseph Maginnis (La Salle 2013)
100 Breaststroke
55:95
David Speese (La Salle 2011)
400 Freestyle Relay
3:02:74
Eric Schultz, Joseph Maginnis, Sean Regan, Chris Szekely (La Salle 2012)
200 Medley Relay
1:30:26 Kyle Shurmur '15, Michael McBryan '14, Greg Brocato '16, Nick Stachel '15 (2014)
200 Yard Freestyle
1:38:88 Chris Szekely (2012)
200 Individual Medley
1:50:67 Rhoads Worster (2010)
50 Freestyle
20:60 Eric Schultz (2012)
100 Butterfly
49:14 Joe Maginnis (2012)
100 Freestyle
44:66 Ted Walker (2009)
200 Freestyle Relay
1:22:91 Eric Schultz, Chris Szekely, Gregory Rodgers, Sean Regan (2012)
500 Freestyle
4:29:91 Chris Szekely (2012)
100 Backstroke
49.87 Joseph Maginnis (2013)
100 Breaststroke
54:97 Michael McBryan '14 (2014)
400 Freestyle Relay
3:02:74 Eric Schultz, Joseph Maginnis, Sean Regan, Chris Szekely (2012)
200 Medley Relay
1:31:33
Joseph Maginnis, Michael McBryan, Gregory Rodgers, Luke Maguire (La Salle - 2012)
200 Yard Freestyle
1:38:33
Chris Szekely (La Salle - 2012)
200 Individual Medley
1:58:72
Rhoads Worster (La Salle - 2010)
50 Freestyle
20:60
Eric Schultz La Salle - 2012)
100 Butterfly
49:14
Joseph Maginnis (LaSalle - 2012)
100 Freestyle
47:10
Ted Walker (La Salle - 2009)
200 Freestyle Relay
1:22:91
Eric Schultz, Chris Szekely, Gregory Rodgers, Sean Regan (La Salle - 2012)
500 Freestyle
4:42.80
Jake Sannem '17 (La Salle: 2014- 2015)
100 Backstroke
52:89
Joel Worster (La Salle - 2004)
100 Breaststroke
59:27
David Speese (La Salle - 2011)
400 Freestyle Relay
3:02:74
Eric Schultz, Joseph Maginnis, Sean Regan, Chris Szekely (La Salle - 2012)
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