Basketball - Girls 1st Team

Schedule
Schedule
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Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Lawrence
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Lawrence Academy | Away | Details about Basketball - Girls 1st Team | |||
Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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St. George's
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St. George's School | Away | Details about Basketball - Girls 1st Team | |||
Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Groton
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Groton School | Away | Details about Basketball - Girls 1st Team | |||
Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
St. George's School Holiday Tournament
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St. George's School | Away | Details about Basketball - Girls 1st Team | |||
Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
St. George's School Holiday Tournament
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St. George's School | Away | Details about Basketball - Girls 1st Team | |||
Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
St. George's School Holiday Tournament
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St. George's School | Away | Details about Basketball - Girls 1st Team | |||
Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Middlesex
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Brooks School | Home | Details about Basketball - Girls 1st Team | |||
Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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BB&N
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Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Tabor
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Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Phillips Exeter
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Phillips Exeter | Away | Details about Basketball - Girls 1st Team | |||
Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Phillips Andover
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Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Nobles
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Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Milton
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Milton Academy | Away | Details about Basketball - Girls 1st Team | |||
Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Governor's
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The Governor's Academy | Away | Details about Basketball - Girls 1st Team | |||
Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Beaver CD
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Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Rivers
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Rivers School | Away | Details about Basketball - Girls 1st Team | |||
Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Thayer
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Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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St. Mark's
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Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
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Proctor Academy
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Proctor Academy | Away | Details about Basketball - Girls 1st Team |
Overview
Basketball - Girls 1st Team
Brooks is a member of the Independent School League (ISL), but also plays the region’s top independent schools outside its league schedule. A historically strong program, the team has won five New England Championships (most recently in 2022) and four ISL titles (most recently in 2022).
Tania Mair '22 was the Gatorade Massachusetts Player of the Year for girls basketball.
The expectation each year is to vie for the top spot in the league, advancing to the New England Tournament. On this latter goal, the program boasts close to fifteen appearances in the class B tournament in the past two decades.
In the 2023 season, Brooks girls 1st basketball was the runner-up in the New England Championships.
Coaches
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Head Coach
Former college basketball coach and current professor of sport psychology at the University of New Hamphire, Ben Chase joined Brooks School as the girls 1st basketball coach in 2022. Chase brought with him more than a decade of experience coaching college basketball with stints at three Division 1 schools, Army, Boston University and Houston Christian. Originally from the North Shore, he graduated from Newburyport High School before attending Emerson College, where he was a four-year letter winner and academic All-American on the basketball team. Chase also earned a master's degree in physical education, health and coaching from Boston University in 2011. In addition to teaching, he runs High Perception Hoops, a basketball training organization dedicated to developing basketball IQ and decision-making skills. Chase and his wife Kim reside in Merrimac with their two daughters, Brady and Tova. -
Assistant Coach
Jill Joyce grew up in Portland, Maine before graduating from Rosemont College, located outside of Philadelphia, with a BS in Sport Management and a BA in Theology and Religious Studies in 2023. At Rosemont, Joyce was a three-sport athlete during her freshman year before turning to coaching post-pandemic. Prior to Brooks, she coached volleyball, basketball and softball at the Academy of Notre Dame de Namur in Villanova, Penn. Currently, Joyce is attending Merrimack College, where she is working toward her Master's degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs. She lives in Haverhill, Mass., with her can, Mildred.
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Assistant Coach
Jacquelyne Anderson joined Brooks in 2022, following a year of assistant coaching at Dana Hall School. She works full-time for adidas 3SSB circuit, managing adidas-sponsored programs and helping run events around the country, and has coached for local Boston club team MCW Starz for more than three years. A Loyal University New Orleans graduate and basketball player, Anderson's team won four consecutive conference championships. Her 2013-2014 team was inducted into Loyola's Hall of Fame. Originally from San Antonio, Anderson (who received her Master's degree in mental health counseling from Boston College in 2019) now lives in Marlborough, Mass., with her fiance and three dogs.