August 7, 2008 Issue
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Classified Chestnut Hill Local Don't Miss an Issue, Tell us what you see or Winner of Two |
Local SportsGFS’ Betsy Sachs stars in ice hockey and lacrosse
Two-sport stars aren’t all that rare in high school athletics. Many players rule the basketball court and the soccer field; others blaze on the track and cut up the field hockey field. But Betsy Sachs, a 16-year-old rising junior at Germantown Friends School, is not your typical two-sport star. Sachs, who has gone to GFS since kindergarten, has excelled at ice hockey and lacrosse for as long as she has participated in competitive athletics. That’s right, ice hockey. There are those in the area that don’t even know that women’s ice hockey exists because hockey is not that popular of a sport in the Metro-Atlantic area, and that is shown by the fact that Sachs travels all the way to New Jersey to play competitively for the Princeton Tiger Lilies girls’ hockey team.
As the 2008 Summer Olympic Games get underway, the Chestnut Hill Academy community will have a special rooting interest in the USA baseball and rowing teams. Right-handed pitcher Mike Koplove (CHA ’95) will appear on the diamond in Beijing, and Tom Paradiso (CHA ’98) has been selected to row in the lightweight four for the U.S. rowing team. Currently a member of the Los Angeles Dodgers organization, Koplove made his major league debut in 2001 with the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was one of the D-backs’ key relievers from 2002 to 2004.
CHC granted full NCAA Division II membership Chestnut Hill College has been granted full, active NCAA Division II membership. Chestnut Hill spent the 2007-08 season as a provisional Division II school, but was not eligible for conference or NCAA tournaments. It is now be eligible for all conference and NCAA tournaments and all NCAA Division II enhancement resources.
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