Inside King's-Edgehill School

Grade 12 student Duncan McLaughlin was named Nova Scotia’s Major Baseball Player of the Year this week. Duncan was instrumental in Nova Scotia’s victory at the U-17 Canada Cup this summer. Team Nova Scotia emerged victorious with Duncan on the mound pitching during all the big moments, including the Championship Game. He was the Winning Pitcher in the final, when he scattered 4 hits over 5 innings, while striking out 9 opposition batters. He had a 1.40 ERA at the Nationals versus the nation’s best hitters and also played with excellence in the outfield when not pitching, batting .429. Duncan is also one of our top students and a Prefect. Congratulations, Duncan!

Over the past week, our Junior Boys Tier I, Juniors Boys Tier II, and Junior Girls Tier I all won their District Soccer Championships. That’s a first! Solid, disciplined and skilled sides were made up of our typical determined players. There was some Latin American spice with a nice healthy scoop of former Newbridge athletes who arrived this year along with the addition of our new Director of Soccer Operations and coach, Mr. Graham Chandler.

For those of you who came out to watch our girls play Friday or Saturday, thank you for making their first games so fun and energetic! A big thank you to Monica Schafer for organizing noise day -- it was awesome! Another big thank you to the “voice of KES Sports” Glen Faucher for calling the game with DJ Sophie. The girls and families loved it. Thanks to everyone who made these “noise days” so incredible for our hockey team!

Our players were really nervous playing their first game of the year in front of so many people. It was a great experience for them as they have to overcome nerves and learn to focus. These games will definitely help them later in the year when they are playing for championships. We were thrilled to see our girls improve their game over Friday’s 3-2 loss and Saturdays 9-4 win. Obviously, the score really matters; however, for the coaching staff, we are impressed by our Grade 12 leaders (led by Captain Ava Benedict), the girls’ positive attitudes and work ethic!

Just as it seems to be most autumns, King’s-Edgehill is again well represented on the U Sport’s Women’s Rugby circuit. This season five of our alumnae donned their university’s colours and competed at the varsity level. Three former King’s-Edgehill teammates [Morgan Rogers (2013-18), Kenzie Cecchetto (2014-18), and Alex Ondo (2014-16)] are again teammates for the nationally 6th ranked Ottawa Gee Gees. Rogers, Cecchetto, and Ondo were captains of our team here at KES in their respective senior seasons. The former Prep Hockey stars Rogers and Cecchetto are entering their second year while Ondo, our former female athlete of the year, enters her fourth year of study. Closer to home at Saint Mary’s, another former KES captain and Biathlon standout, Katrena Thomas (2009-16), suits up for the Huskies alongside Heather Stanton (2016-18) who made the switch from track and field to rugby when she came to KES in Grade 11.

These five students join the ever-growing list of KES alumnae to make the jump to the varsity level. What’s more impressive is the vast majority of these fantastic athletes only learned the game here at King’s-Edgehill. As has been the case in the past, these recent alumnae provide an excellent model for our current student-athletes to follow as they begin to think about their academic and athletic futures.