Boys Lacrosse

Coach Bergofsky

Coach Eric Bergofsky is a native of Baltimore, MD, where he attended both high school and then Johns Hopkins University. Coach Bergofsky played both football and lacrosse at Hopkins from 1969-1972 and was a member of the 1970 National Championship Lacrosse team as well as the 1972 NCAA runner-up team that lost in the finals to Virginia 13-12. He had the great opportunity to play for legendary Hall of Fame coach Mr. Robert ("Scotty") Scott for his entire Hopkins career.

After a brief post college career with Brine Lacrosse Club and the Maryland Lacrosse Club, Coach Bergofsky started his teaching and coaching career at The McDonogh School in Baltimore, MD in 1973. In 1977, Coach Bergofsky came to Phillips Exeter Academy as an Instructor in Mathematics and the assistant varsity lacrosse coach. He became the head coach the following year, and at the end of the 2009 season completed his 31st year as the head coach of Exeter lacrosse.

Coach Bergofsky is the longest serving head coach in the long and rich tradition of Exeter lacrosse that started in 1935. There have only been 8 different head coaches in Exeter history. Coach Bergofsky's career record as a head coach at Exeter is 302 wins and 163 losses as of the end of the 2009 season. In the last 31 years, Coach Bergofsky has led Exeter to numerous league championships, coached 28 High School All-Americans,  12 College All Americans, has been named Eastern New England Coach of the Year several times, and has coached in both the New England East-West Senior All Star Game and the national North-South All Star Game. Twenty-two Exeter graduates were playing college lacrosse in 2009. Coach Bergofsky remains an Instructor in Mathematics and is also the Director of Studies.

 Send email to Coach Eric Bergofsky.

Spring Outdoor Track & Field

Coach Coder

“No one said it would be easy. They just said it would be worth it.”

Amazing facilities, motivated athletes and coaches who are dedicated to continual growth are the anchors of Exeter’s Track & Field program. Successful for decades, Exeter expects to be in the top three teams in New England every year. Dual boys and girls Champions in 2005 and Girls first in 2007 are the most recent team accomplishments. More than our fair share of New England Individual MVP’s and Gold medalists fill our hallways with hardware. There is even a National title from 2000 from which to draw pride and respect.

Coach Hilary Coder lists other areas of pride to include the numbers of athletes (12% of the school) who participate in Track at Exeter. She is also proud of the statistic that athletes leave the program motivated to continue their progress at the next level. But, most importantly, is the fact that virtually every athlete continues to improve within the structure of the program. There is always another layer of knowledge to disseminate to find the path toward faster times and longer distances if the athlete is also willing to put in the time and work.

The coaching staff at Exeter is deep and experienced. Our throws coaches are among the best in the business. One staff member is an Olympian! Another was on a team that held a world relay mark. All of us have a deep love for the sport. Coach Coder holds a USA Track and Field Level II certification for all event groups. Only a handful of high school coaches in the country hold that level and breadth of certification. A multi-eventer at Penn State University and a New England Champion High Jumper is a clue that she has been a track enthusiast for decades.

Coach Coder is also the head coach of Winter Indoor Track & Field and Soccer at Exeter.
Send email to Coach Hilary Coder.

Baseball

Coach Dennehy

When Bill Dennehy took over the boys' soccer program 28 years ago, Exeter went undefeated through its first 18 games over one and a half seasons.

"I thought we'd never lose," Dennehy recalled. He revised his thinking, but his teams still win more often than they lose. "I just like to see the kids be successful," he said. "And being successful doesn't mean they have to win every game."

Dennehy has also been successful as Exeter's head baseball coach and assistant boys' ice hockey coach. His baseball team won the 2003 Central New England Prep School Baseball League championship.

The Springfield College graduate is in his 32nd year at Exeter. Send email to Coach Bill Dennehy.

Girls Tennis

Coach Farnum

In 25 years of coaching tennis at Exeter, Coach Farnum has compiled an impressive 137-67 record, leading the Big Red to back-to-back New England Championships in 1995 and 1996. In the 1980’s, when the league offered no New England tournament for girls’ tennis teams, Farnum initiated and hosted the first five New England Girls’ Invitational Prep School Tennis Championships.  In 1992, Coach Farnum was honored for establishing the New England Tournament for girls that stands to this day.

Coach Farnum, PTR Certified, earned her B.S. and M.Ed. from Springfield College. Farnum had a memorable athletic career at Springfield as a four-year varsity letter winner in tennis, swimming and one and three-meter diving while also achieving academic honors throughout her college career.

Coaching the Girls’ Varsity Tennis Team at the University of Rochester before moving to Exeter, Farnum was elected to the Eastern AIAW Division III Tennis Seeding/Selection committee as well as the New York State Tennis Policies/Procedure committee.  She also served on tournament committees for the New York State AIAW Tennis Championships.  Coach Farnum is also the head coach of  Swimming & Diving.  Send email to Coach Jean Chase Farnum.

Boys Tennis

Coach Greene

Tony Greene, who has been at Exeter for 17 years, is in his fifth season as boys varsity 'A' coach. He coached the boys JV team in 1991-92. Before coming to Exeter, he had 18 years of tennis coaching experience.

Greene coached squash during his first 13 years here. For seven of those years, he was head coach of the boys team.

A mathematics teacher, Greene earned his bachelor's degree at Principia College, where he played varsity tennis. He also holds a master's degree from Bowdoin College. Send email to Coach Tony Greene.

Cycling

Coach Mills

A new face will be behind the water polo bench in 2005 as Don Mills inherits what has been the dominant water polo program in the region for over 20 years. Mills is certainly ingrained in the program, having served as assistant coach the previous three seasons under legendary coach and program founder Roger Nekton.

Mills will also have the luxury of inheriting a team that is the eight-time defending New England Champion having posted a 21-3 mark last year, as well as a program that has garnered an incredible 21 titles overall.

Mills has also spent the last three years coaching the Exeter cycling team which took the 2005 New England Championship, its second title in the last three years. Since he took charge, the program as grown from just five members to an average annual roster of 24.  Mills has been a USA Cycling Expert coach for six years.

As a competitive cyclist, he has ridden in the elite category for 18 years. He is a two-time New England champion and a member of the top-ranked elite team in the nation.

A graduate of Plymouth State College, he also coaches mountain biking and boys' JV hockey at Exeter. Send email to Coach Don Mills.

Girls Crew

Coach Morris

Sally Morris became Head Coach of the Crew program in 2006 after 20 years at Brooks School, where she coached  field hockey and girls’ basketball.

A native of Northborough, Mass., Morris was a four year varsity letter-winner with the crew program at Trinity College (Conn.), graduating in 1985. That fall, Morris joined the crew coaching staff at Brooks, and was promoted to Head Coach in 1995. Under her guidance, Brooks enjoyed exceptional success capturing four NEIRA regatta championships (2000, 2001, 2004, 2005) as well as two Youth National Championships in 2004 and 2005. Along the way, Morris has seen numerous rowers move on to successful college programs as well as to compete at the world class level on both national and Olympic crews. The girls first boat at Exeter won the NEIRA Regatta in 2006, 2007, 2008 and 2009, placing 6th, 4th, 3rd, and 2nd respectively at the Youth Invitationals in Cincinnati, Ohio. The crew travelled to Henley-upon-Thames in 2007, where the 8 won the junior event at the Reading Amateur Regatta, and were semi-finalists at the Women's Henley Regatta.

Morris has served on the committee of management as well as seeding committees for the NEIRA since 1995.

A teacher of Classical Languages, Morris earned a Masters in Classics from Tufts University in 1990. She is serving as chair of the department of Classical Languages and is an active member of numerous classical societies.  

Send email to Coach Sally Morris.

Girls Lacrosse

Coach Carbonell

Entering her fifth season behind the helm of the Big Red Field Hockey program, Carbonell sports a record of 29-17-9 (.609) overall including a .689 winning percentage. Over the last two seasons her squads have posted a combined mark of 17-6-6.

A member of the faculty in the English Department, Carbonell is in her second tenure with Exeter, having served three years in the mid 1990s before departing to pursue graduate studies in Education at Stanford University. Prior to returning to Exeter in 2000, Carbonell also spent time as a teacher and coach at Milton Academy.

Carbonell earned an undergraduate degree from Brown University, where she played squash. Carbonell also serves as assistant coach with the girl's squash and lacrosse programs.

Send email to Coach Mercy Carbonell.

Softball

Coach Thompson

Nancy Thompson came to Exeter in 2006 as Director of Nursing at Lamont Health and Wellness Center.  She joined the Exeter Softball program in the Spring of 2007 as an assistant coach and became Co-head coach in Spring of 2008.

Thompson received her Bachelors degree from Boston College where she played both softball and field hockey, and did her graduate work at Simmons College.

Send email to Coach Thompson

Softball

Coach Pruitt

Bruce Pruitt, now in his 30th year at Exeter, has coached softball since its inception in 1991. He began as an assistant to Julie Hill, taking over as head coach when she departed.

A history teacher at Exeter, Pruitt has a bachelor's degree from Stanford and a master's degree from Harvard. Send email to Coach Bruce Pruitt.

Boys Crew

Coach Smith

Lawrence Smith has coached crew since 1974 at all levels from summer clubs to high school and college varsities, to the Olympic Development Camp, and he has had plenty of success. During Smith's tenure, Exeter's first eight has won six New England titles and a US National Junior Championship in 1996. In addition, his crews have won six New England team titles. With twenty years at the helm of the Exeter crew program, Smith is the longest serving head crew coach in PEA history. Many Exeter rowers and coxswains have gone on to row at the Division 1 level in college as well as national Olympic teams.

Smith, who teaches history, holds a bachelor's degree from Princeton and a master's degree from the University of New Hampshire. Formerly the chair of the History Department he is now serving as the Associate Dean of Faculty. He was captain of the Princeton crew for two years, stroked the Varsity eight for three and coached at South Kent School and UNH before coming to Exeter in 1989. He led the UNH freshmen to wins in the four and eight at the Division 2 championships.

Send email to Coach Lawrence Smith.

Girls Water Polo

Coach Smith

Coach Lundy Smith joined the Exeter water polo program in 2001, the team’s first year as an interscholastic sport. Also a successful swim coach for more than two decades, he coached swimming and water polo at US club level and in the California high school ranks. Coach Smith is a former two-time Delaware swimming coach of the year.

Since its inaugural season, the Exeter girls water polo team has made it to the New England championships final-four five times.  The team has also produced five All Americans in its short history.  

A high school state swimming champion and All American, Coach Smith swam and played four years of varsity water polo at Pomona College. He earned his bachelor's degree in English there and then added a master's degree at Middlebury.  At Exeter, Coach Smith teaches English and is the dorm head in Webster South dormitory.

Send email to Coach Lundy Smith.