Brunswick School - Courage, Honor, Truth
Cross Country
The Brunswick Cross Country program has a long tradition of success, dominating League competition during the decade from 1996-2005, including two winning streaks of 97 and 75 consecutive races against FAA competition. Although without a League title in recent years, this past season’s 2009 New England Championship represents the program’s crowning achievement. The team has more than doubled in size during the last decade, and now boasts around forty members, over half of whom will earn varsity status each season. While some recent graduates are competing on the collegiate level, our goal is to be a program which equally serves to develop the serious runner as it does provide fitness training to the novice. We practice and compete on our home course located at King Street.
Archive:
2011
The Bruins won the New England Division II championship for the second consecutive year.
"This was a senior-laden group with five of our top eight runners being seniors," Brunswick coach Steve Polikoff said. "That's why we were so mentally strong all year. We had quite a season."
The Bruins went a perfect 20-0 during the regular season and finished a strong third in the FAA Championships.
2010
New England Division II Champions
Read more: Brunswick Cross Country Repeats Championship | Greenwich Time, Nov. 13, 2010
2009
New England Division II Champions
A recap Captain Charlie Southwick:
If you havent heard yet, we, the Cross Country team would like to tell you about our weekend. At 7:30 am on Saturday morning we loaded onto a bus to go the three and a half hours to the New England Championship race at the Roxbury Latin School, outside of Boston. Three and a half hours later the bus finally arrived. The team left the bus only to find rain, soggy, muddy, swamp like fields, and a ridiculously hilly course. Race conditions were horrific to say the least. However, the team was determined to finish on the podium.
The top seven, who ran in the varsity race, consisting of Ryan Hagerbrant, Andrew Grasso, Brian DeAngelo, Will Peisch, Sam "Pete Francis" Waters, Peter Geithner, and Jake Matthews, warmed up and prepared for the race. In the end Hagerbrant finished 2nd, Grasso 7th, DeAngelo 11th (each recognized with a medal and certificate as "All-New England Runners") Peisch 24th and Waters 37th. The top 5 runners' places added up to a solid score of 81, putting us in a tie for 1st with Suffield Academy. It came down to the sixth man, the tie breaker, Peter Geithner, who beat Suffield's sixth runner by 30 seconds. In a perfect race, that fact would not have mattered, and Geithner's time and place would have been scrapped....but he ran hard anyways...and it came down to his finish...and he pulled it out. We were victorious! Brunswick's first ever Cross Country New England Title.
It was clearly a tough year for Brunswick fall sports... but through the haze XC was able to do pretty well, despite losing a good senior from last year. ...Congrats to all the fall sports teams. Everyone worked hard, but we play the best teams around... GO WICK!!!
Coaching Staff
Dwight Jackson
Steve Polikoff
Brunswick School • Greenwich, CT
Upper School 100 Maher Avenue • Lower & Middle Schools 1252 King Street • Pre School 116 Maple Avenue
Main phone: 203.625.5800 • Alumni phone: 800.546.9425