Basketball - Boys

Boys’ basketball at Deerfield is comprised of three teams.  For younger less-experienced players, the school offers a fresh-soph, or reserve, team.  They play a 15-17 game schedule during the winter season.  The jv squad, consisting primarily of sophomores and juniors, plays a schedule similar to that of the varsity.  Juniors, seniors and two to four post-graduates traditionally make up Deerfield’s varsity.  With a 20 to 22-game schedule against some of the premier prep school programs in New England, they make the most of the winter season and occasionally compete in the New England Prep School League Championships.  Play is characterized by a pressing, aggressive, multiple defenses with an emphasis on man-to-man defense, and a varied offense that is up-tempo, disciplined and geared toward the strengths of its personnel.

Deerfield’s program has served as a solid springboard for several players who went on to compete at the collegiate level.  Utah State, Dartmouth, Princeton, Columbia, the University of Massachusetts - Amherst, Lafayette, Creighton, Bates, Emory, Wesleyan and Amherst College have all seen Deerfield players on their rosters.

Boys’ basketball at Deerfield is coached Conrad Pitcher. For more information, please contact Mr. Pitcher at cpitcher@deerfield.edu.

• Season Summary (3/31/2008)
• W 59-50 (2/22/2008)
• Season Summary (4/01/2006)
• W, 48-38 (2/24/2006)
• Deerfield 63 Andover 57 (2/22/2006)
• Deerfield 52 Tabor 49 (2/18/2006)

Conrad Pitcher Conrad Pitcher joined the Deerfield faculty in 1992 as a member of the History Department. He also coaches the boys varsity basketball team during winter term, and assists with track in the spring. His wife, Heidi Valk, is also a member of the Academy's faculty, and they live in Abercrombie House with their two sons.

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Sam Savage Sam Savage graduated from Groton School and then Columbia University. He spent three years back at Groton teaching, coaching and running a dorm before getting married and moving to California to teach at the Head Royce School in Oakland. While there he helped start the school's first lacrosse program and became involved in several Global Education initiatives. He left Head Royce to pursue a teaching position at the School Year Abroad Italy campus. He and his family spent two years in Italy before arriving at Deerfield in the fall of 2009.

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Thomas Heise Tom Heise began teaching at Deerfield in the fall of 1988. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1984, earned an MA from the University of Wisconsin in 1988, and received an MS from Indiana University in 1997. Tom began his teaching career at St. Andrews School in Delaware. He lives in Saxton House with his wife Karinne, a member of the English Department, and his sons Jack '10 and Kurt '12.

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Ayodeji Perrin Born in Jamaica and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Ayodeji Perrin is a Deerfield alumnus, class of 199, 7coming to Deerfield through the Prep for Prep program and the Buckley School. After attending Tufts University and working and earning an MA in political science at Columbia University, he returned to Deerfield as a college advisor in fall 2006. In addition to college advising, Ayodeji teaches History of Human Rights and Judeo-Christian Tradition, coaches the boys' JV basketball and JV baseball teams, works in the Multicultural Affairs Office, and advises the Model United Nations club.

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