Baseball

Deerfield’s Baseball tradition is rooted in consistency. Since the establishment of the Central New England Prep School Baseball League (CNEPSBL) 26 years ago, Deerfield reached the postseason 20 times.In 2009, Deerfield, seeded fourth in the tournament after ending with an 8-4 league record, won the CNEPSBL championship defeating two strong and well-coached teams from Worcester Academy and Phillips Andover Academy.  It was Deerfield Academy’s fourth championship and it’s first since 1997.  Deerfield recorded an 11-6 overall slate, the most wins in over a decade.Deerfield has seen its share of players move on to collegiate careers.  Big Green players can currently be found competing for Trinity College (CT), Colby, Bates, Babson, Bucknell, Middlebury and Claremont McKenna.

Among Deerfield's more prominent baseball alums are Pete Varney who played both baseball and football at Harvard before signing on for a career with the Chicago White Sox, and Mike Trombley ('86) who saw time with the Twins, Orioles and Dodgers.

The Big Green opens every season during spring break by travelling to Fort Pierce, Fla., for a week of spring training and games against national competition.

And when Deerfield's baseball teams return, they comehome to one of the premier prep school baseball fields in all of New England.  Headmaster's Field is a professional quality field, which was constructed with the help of Mark Actman, designer of Coors Field, home of the Colorado Rockies.

Deerfield baseball is coached by Phil Blood.

• Season Summary (6/22/2010)
• Season Summary (6/25/2009)
• L 8-11 (4/08/2009)
• W 4-0 (4/04/2009)
• Click for Results (5/10/2008)
• Click for Results (4/26/2008)

Phil Blood Phil is in his sixth year of coaching varsity baseball and will be starting his first as head coach in 2010. Previously, Phil coached at the Hawken School (OH) and Cardigan Mountain School (NH). He is an Associate Director of Admission and lives in DeNunzio Dormitory with his wife Cindy and daughter, Molly.

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Joe Lyons Joe Lyons has a BA from Harvard College, 1993, and a JD from the University of Pennsylvania, 1999. He taught at Phillips Exeter Academy and at the American School in Switzerland as a history teacher before coming to Deerfield. He also practiced law in Boston for five years and served as a law clerk on the United States District Court for the District of Maine. He presently teaches in the Academy's History Department, coaches boys JV hockey and JV baseball, and lives in McAlister with his wife, Julia, and two sons, Thomas and Luca.

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Timothy McVaugh Tim was born and raised in Hamilton, NY. He graduated from Bowdoin College in 2007, where he played ice hockey and squash. Voted MVP by his teammates, he was also elected team captain for his final season. At Bowdoin, Tim was a history major and worked for the college as assistant sports information director. The summer after he earned his diploma, he flew to Germany to play professional ice hockey and to coach in a youth hockey league, which helped him develop his conversational proficiency in German. Tim came to Deerfield in the fall of 2008. He lives in Barton III and enjoys the small-town feel of Western Massachusetts and all the area has to offer.

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Marc Dancer After graduating from Deerfield in 1979, Marc Dancer spent a post-graduate year at Harrow School in England. He then earned his BS from St. Lawrence University in 1984, majoring in mathematics and music. Marc was subsequently awarded a Watson Fellowship to study change-ringing in the UK. After teaching at Portsmouth Abbey School, he went on to earn his ScM in Applied Mathematics from Brown University in 1990. Marc has been a member of the Deerfield faculty since 1990 and is presently a member of the Mathematics Department, coaches Alpine Skiing and baseball, and lives off-campus with his wife, Mary, and their three children.

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John Taylor John graduated from Dartmouth College in 1986 and soon after moved back to his native Argentina to work in the Marketing and Strategic Planning Office of Techint in Buenos Aires until 1989. He started teaching Spanish at Hotchkiss as a sabbatical replacement in 1989, and in 1990, he and his wife Mercedes moved to Deerfield; from 1990-96, John taught Spanish and coached soccer and squash at the Academy. In 1997 he obtained a master's degree in education from Columbia University as part of the Klingenstein Program. John was named Academic Dean at Deerfield in 1998 and then moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, from 2000-05 to become the Head of St. Andrew's Scots School, a private K-12 IB school for 2000 students. He returned to Deerfield in 2006 and has been the Dean of Faculty since September 2007. Mercedes, his wife, now teaches Spanish at Deerfield; his daughter Sophia is a student at Deerfield; and his younger daughter Maia attends Deerfield Elementary School.

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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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