Suffield Academy is a private coeducational preparatory school

University-preparatory school

A university-preparatory school or college-preparatory school is a secondary school, usually private, designed to prepare students for a college or university education...

 located in Suffield, Connecticut

Suffield, Connecticut

Suffield is a town in Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. It had once been within the boundaries of Massachusetts. The town is located in the Connecticut River Valley with the town of Enfield neighboring to the east. In 1900, 3,521 people lived in Suffield; and in 1910, 3,841. As of the...

, USA. It was founded in 1833. The Headmaster is Charles Cahn III.

Overview

Suffield has a 410 students enrollment, with students coming from 16 states and 28 countries . Approximately seventy percent of the students are boarders. There were nearly 1,000 applicants for 110 available spaces during the 2011 academic year. The school has 83 faculty and staff members, ensuring a small student to teacher ratio with an average of 11 students per class, and significant attention for each student .

Athletics

Suffield competes regularly in a number of interscholastic sports, with a total of 19 teams. There are Varsity, JV, Thirds, and Fourths levels throughout various sports. The school's main rival is the Williston Northampton School

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, however they also compete against a number of schools including, but not limited to, Deerfield Academy

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Fall Sports Cross Country Cross country running Cross country running is a sport in which people run a race on open-air courses over natural terrain. The course, typically long, may include surfaces of grass and earth, pass through woodlands and open country, and include hills, flat ground and sometimes gravel road... Football American football American football is a sport played between two teams of eleven with the objective of scoring points by advancing the ball into the opposing team's end zone. Known in the United States simply as football, it may also be referred to informally as gridiron football. The ball can be advanced by... Soccer Field Hockey Field hockey Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks... Volleyball Volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive... Water Polo Water polo Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a...

Winter Sports Basketball Basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules... Alpine Skiing Alpine skiing Alpine skiing is the sport of sliding down snow-covered hills on skis with fixed-heel bindings. Alpine skiing can be contrasted with skiing using free-heel bindings: Ski mountaineering and nordic skiing – such as cross-country; ski jumping; and Telemark. In competitive alpine skiing races four... Squash Squash (sport) Squash is a high-speed racquet sport played by two players in a four-walled court with a small, hollow rubber ball... Swimming Swimming (sport) Swimming is a sport governed by the Fédération Internationale de Natation .-History: Competitive swimming in Europe began around 1800 BCE, mostly in the form of the freestyle. In 1873 Steve Bowyer introduced the trudgen to Western swimming competitions, after copying the front crawl used by Native...  and Diving Diving Diving is the sport of jumping or falling into water from a platform or springboard, sometimes while performing acrobatics. Diving is an internationally-recognized sport that is part of the Olympic Games. In addition, unstructured and non-competitive diving is a recreational pastime.Diving is one... Wrestling Wrestling Wrestling is a form of grappling type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position... Riflery

Spring Sports Water Polo Water polo Water polo is a team water sport. The playing team consists of six field players and one goalkeeper. The winner of the game is the team that scores more goals. Game play involves swimming, treading water , players passing the ball while being defended by opponents, and scoring by throwing into a... Lacrosse Lacrosse Lacrosse is a team sport of Native American origin played using a small rubber ball and a long-handled stick called a crosse or lacrosse stick, mainly played in the United States and Canada. It is a contact sport which requires padding. The head of the lacrosse stick is strung with loose mesh... Baseball Baseball Baseball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of nine players each. The aim is to score runs by hitting a thrown ball with a bat and touching a series of four bases arranged at the corners of a ninety-foot diamond... Softball Softball Softball is a bat-and-ball sport played between two teams of 10 to 14 players. It is a direct descendant of baseball although there are some key differences: softballs are larger than baseballs, and the pitches are thrown underhand rather than overhand... Tennis Tennis Tennis is a sport usually played between two players or between two teams of two players each . Each player uses a racket that is strung to strike a hollow rubber ball covered with felt over a net into the opponent's court. Tennis is an Olympic sport and is played at all levels of society at all... Golf Golf Golf is a precision club and ball sport, in which competing players use many types of clubs to hit balls into a series of holes on a golf course using the fewest number of strokes.... Track and Field Track and field Track and field is a sport comprising various competitive athletic contests based around the activities of running, jumping and throwing. The name of the sport derives from the venue for the competitions: a stadium which features an oval running track surrounding a grassy area...

Suffield does not have an ice hockey team, as some prospective students and families falsely believe due to the impressive size of their athletic building. Their aquatics program, mainly boys' water polo and swim team, has received much acclaim. The water polo team has an appearance at the New England Prep Tournament every year for the past six years, winning in 2009 and having always placed in the top six . Likewise, the swim team has achieved much success. The girls have five times in the past six years at New Englands, with last year's season earning them a fourth place spot . Similarly, the men have also placed five times just over five years, with their 2010-2011 record earning them fourth place, their 2009-2010 season garnering another fourth place, their 2008-2009 earning a third place, and 2007-2008 fourth place, respectively . While their aquatics sector is stellar, other sport shine equally bright. The Wrestling team has produced 4 Prep National Champions, 17 New England Champions, and many other recognized athletes, as well as winning the Western New England Prep Championships in their 2010-2011 season. In addition, the riflery team has been the Connecticut League State Champions back to back for the past three years . In the Fall Season, the Football team has been the Super Bowl Champions for three of the past four years, with students continuing on to play at UPenn

University of Pennsylvania

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, and Boston College

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 . During the Spring season, baseball and boys track and field shine, as the former has earned four championships in the past five years and the latter with two championships and a runner-up spot in the past three years .

Arts: Visual and Performing

Suffield Academy takes pride in their support of their Visual Art, Performing Arts, and Music programs. Courses in the Visual Arts include Studio Art, Photography, Multimedia, Architecture, and Ceramics, and in Theater and Music: Acting, Dance, Chamber Ensemble, Woman’s Choir, Jazz Ensemble, Wind Ensemble, and a wide variety of selections for private lessons in instruments including vocal training .
The Visual Art Department greatly contributes to the beauty of the Suffield Academy campus with artwork, photography, and sculptures inside and outside academic buildings. The department also collaborates with the English Department to produce an Arts Review Magazine filled with art and literature completed by current students .
Suffield’s Performing Art Center also presents many performances for their community throughout the year, such as a Fall Arts Festival, Winter Musical, Spring Play, Guitar Show, Dance Concert, and Vocal and Instrumental Concerts .

Notable Alumni

Alumni	Description
Willis Seaver Adams Willis Seaver Adams Willis Seaver Adams was a landscape painter who studied under James Abbott McNeill Whistler. He studied at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp, Belgium and was part of the Tonalism movement, which took place in the late 19th century....  1862	Painter, attended Connecticut Literary Institute sporadically between 1857 and 1862
Dr. John R. Adler John R. Adler John R. Adler M.D. is a neurosurgeon, the Dorothy and Thye King Chan Endowed Professor of Neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine and Vice Chair for Innovation and Technology in the Department of Neurosurgery at Stanford University School of Medicine.Clinically, Dr. Adler...  1972	Professor of neurosurgery at Stanford University Medical Center Stanford University School of Medicine Stanford University School of Medicine is a leading medical school located at Stanford University Medical Center in Stanford, California. Originally based in San Francisco, California as Cooper Medical College, it is the oldest continuously running medical school in the western United States...  and inventor of the CyberKnife Cyberknife The CyberKnife is a frameless robotic radiosurgery system used for treating benign tumors, malignant tumors and other medical conditions. The system was invented by John R. Adler, a Stanford University Professor of Neurosurgery and Radiation Oncology, and Peter and Russell Schonberg of Schonberg...
The Hon. George B. Daniels George B. Daniels George B. Daniels is a United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York.Daniels was born in Allendale, South Carolina. He received a B.A. from Yale University in 1975. He received a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall...  1971	United States federal judge for the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York
Vinny Del Negro Vinny Del Negro Vincent Joseph "Vinny" Del Negro is a retired American basketball player. He is the current head coach of the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers, and was the head coach of the Chicago Bulls from 2008 until 2010.-Early life:...  1984	Former NBA player for the San Antonio Spurs, the head coach of the NBA National Basketball Association The National Basketball Association is the pre-eminent men's professional basketball league in North America. It consists of thirty franchised member clubs, of which twenty-nine are located in the United States and one in Canada... 's Los Angeles Clippers Los Angeles Clippers The Los Angeles Clippers are a professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California, United States. They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference of the National Basketball Association... .
Mark J. Hosenball Mark Hosenball Mark Hosenball is an investigative correspondent at Newsweek. He started there in November 1993, after working at Dateline NBC as an investigative producer. He also worked at The Sunday Times, the Evening Standard, Time Out, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and The New Republic...  1969	Award-Winning Investigative Correspondent for Newsweek
Archer H. Mayor Archer Mayor Archer Mayor is the author of the Joe Gunther detective series. Archer is a Yale graduate and lives in Newfane, Vermont, USA.Before turning to popular fiction, Mayor held several jobs, both in the US and in France, working as an editor, researcher for Time–Life books, photography and journalist...  1969	Vermont-based author of a critically acclaimed series of mystery novels featuring policeman Joe Gunther
Gerald L. Parsky Gerry Parsky Gerald Parsky is an American politician, who has served as chairman of the Board of Regents of the University of California, as well as several sub-cabinet positions under Richard Nixon, Gerald R. Ford, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush....  1960	Chairman of Aurora Capital Partners L.P., a Los Angeles–based investment firm, and of the Board of Regents at the University of California University of California The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...
James S. Tisch James S. Tisch James S. Tisch has been the CEO of Loews Corporation since 1999. Tisch graduated from Cornell University and received his MBA at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania....  1971	President and chief executive officer of Loews Corporation Loews Corporation Loews Corporation is a holding company run by the Tisch Family whose subsidiaries are engaged in the following lines of business:*property and casualty insurance...  and CEO and chairman of the board of directors of Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. Diamond Offshore Drilling Diamond Offshore Drilling, Inc. is a deepwater drilling contractor which provides drilling services to the oil and gas industry. The company's headquarters are located in Houston, Texas, but they have offices in Metairie, Louisiana, Africa, Australia, Brazil, Indonesia, Scotland, Singapore, Norway...

External links

• Suffield Academy Homepage
• Apple Education Profiles: Suffield Academy