Page 13 - Alumni Horae: Vol. 93, No. 1 Fall 2012

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Spring Sports Highlights
Spring belonged to several SPS teams,
including the girls first crew (6-1), which
won the gold medal at Worcester (the
girls second crew earned bronze) and
went on to the USRowing Youth Na-
tional Championships in Oak Ridge,
Tenn., emerging as the second-fastest
high school crew in the nation.
Meanwhile, away from the water, the
SPS softball team finished 2012 with
its best record in a dozen years: 12-3
overall (8-3 in the ISL). All-ISL pitcher
Tanina Cadwell ’13 went 8-3 on the
mound, with her 3.27 ERA placing her
sixth among ISL pitchers. Cadwell
Sports Summary
VARSITY BOYS WON LOST TIED
Baseball 4 13 0
Crew – 1st boat 1 8 0
Crew – 2nd boat 0 9 0
Lacrosse 6 12 0
Tennis 11 6 0
Track 10 6 0
32 54 0
VARSITY GIRLS
Crew – 1st boat 6 1 0
Crew – 2nd boat 3 4 0
Lacrosse 10 6 0
Softball 12 3 0
Tennis 8 7 0
Track 5 10 0
44 31 0
VARSITY TOTAL 76 85 0
JV BOYS WON LOST TIED
Baseball 3 10 0
Crew-3rd boat 2 8 0
Crew-4th boat 1 8 0
Lacrosse 3 11 0
Tennis 6 1 2
15 38 2
JV GIRLS
Crew-3rd boat 3 5 0
Crew-4th boat 1 6 0
Lacrosse 2 8 2
Tennis 10 1 1
16 20 3
JV TOTAL 31 58 5
GRAND TOTAL 107 143 5
(.455, 14th) was one of three SPS hit-
ters to place among the ISL’s top 30
in batting, joining HM All-ISL Miller
Torrance ’15 (.457, 13th) and All-ISL
Marciana Longley ’13 (.364, 29th).
The girls lacrosse team compiled a
10-6 record behind several explosive
offensive performances and an overall
speedy, talented team. All-American
Maddie Crutchfield ’14 led a team full
of snipers with 55 goals and 43 assists.
Rosemary Scalise ’15 (38g, 10a), Caroline
Zaffino ’15 (23g, 5a), and Emily Bresna-
han ’13 (21g, 9a) were among the other
top scoring threats.
John Hwang ’12 and JY Kwak ’12 were
among the reasons the boys tennis team
compiled an 11-6 record in 2012. The
duo capped the season by winning the
doubles championship at New Englands.
The boys track team also found suc-
cess in the spring, finishing 10-6 overall
and sixth in the ISL, including an ISL
title for the 4x400m relay team. Richard
Bradley ’13 was the ISL champion in the
javelin (177’ 10”) and placed second in
the 100m (11.29).
The girls first boat won the gold medal
at the NEIRA Regatta in Worcester.
at Princeton, who scored the winning goal
in the World Cup gold medal game for the
U.S. women’s lacrosse team in 1997 and
eventually became a runner and biker.
That led to winning the 2004 U.S. national
duathlon title. It’s hard to picture Rowe
playing beer-league anything.
Rowe is not the only athlete who has
competed at the highest levels and now
seeks other forms of sports-related satis-
faction. Bruce Kenerson ’86, perhaps the
most gifted golfer in SPS history, was the
Massachusetts junior golfer of the year
and beat future pros like David Duval,
Chris DiMarco, and Jim Furyk during
his college golf days at Duke University.
The Boston native, who now lives in
Southern California, failed to make the
PGA Tour after a promising amateur
career, but he regained his amateur status
and played in three U.S. Amateurs in the
1990s. Despite living in 12 months of sun,
Kenerson tees it up only twice a year. His
work as a financial adviser/insurance
agent makes golfing inconvenient – plus,
it’s expensive.
“There is no place I feel more comfort-
able, more at home, or more at peace than
a golf course,” says Kenerson, who stays
involved by teaching at a local driving
range when time permits.
When considering St. Paul’s graduates
who made a seamless transition from
schoolboy prowess to prolonged athletic
success, there is one name that seems
to inform the conversation more than
any other: Pete Bostwick Jr. ’53. Bostwick
encountered countless physical setbacks
along the way, but knee and hip injuries
never deterred his competitive streak
well into his seventies.
With no disrespect to Hobey Baker,
Bostwick is regarded by many as the
greatest all-around athlete to attend SPS.
What makes that distinction all the more
noteworthy is what he accomplished after
high school in a variety of sports, while
balancing career and family. The accolades
begin with an impressive hockey career
that spanned his time at SPS and Middle-
bury and continued while he was a key
member of the renowned St. Nick’s hockey
club in New York for more than 25 years.
But there were signs that his true prow-
ess could be found in some individual
pastimes. Bostwick won the New Englands
in tennis while at SPS and captured the New
England Intercollegiate golf title as captain
at Middlebury. He qualified for tennis’s
U.S. Amateur in 1952, the precursor to the
modern U.S. Open, and nearly made the
cut at the 1959 U.S. Open in golf, missing
it by three strokes at Winged Foot. Bostwick
didn’t begin playing squash in earnest
until his mid-30s, yet he won two national
titles in squash in his forties and also won
titles in two other racquet sports: the hard
racquets national titles in 1969 and 1979
and the court tennis world titles from
1969 to 1972.
Bostwick’s children and grandchildren
attended SPS, continuing a history of
athletic excellence that his own father
began at the School. Though he brought
more intensity to his adult athletic pur-
suits than any person could imagine, his
drive and passion are similar to that of
other SPS athletic warriors.