School celebrates college commits with signing day reception
Committed student athletes pose with Dr. Dodd at the end of the ceremony. Twenty-three athletes have committed to college from the class of 2019.
November 13, 2018
Whitman students, parents and coaches gathered in the gym yesterday afternoon to celebrate the 23 committed athletes from the class of 2019. The figure is the highest number of commits in one year in school history, principal Robert Dodd said during the ceremony.
Parents coordinated with athletic director Andy Wetzel to set up the signing day reception, an event they started this year and hope to continue in the future.
Wetzel made the opening remarks, introducing the event and then proceeding to introduce the coaches who would speak about their athletes.
For the athletes, the day marked an end to a long recruiting process and the beginning of a new chapter in their lives.
“It’s a really stressful, drawn-out process,” Brown University golf commit Amanda Levy said. “There’s always really good competition from the other golfers of your year, so you just try to promote yourself the best that you can.”
For many athletes, the ceremony was an emotional fulfillment of a lifetime dream.
“It was a very cool experience,” Stanford University soccer commit Gabe Segal said. “When you think about commiting, this is the day you think of: signing day. It was awesome to see how many people came out to support us.”
Artie Mackey • Nov 15, 2018 at 9:42 am
Would it be possible to list out who everyone is and where everyone went?
Rebecca Hirsh • Nov 20, 2018 at 11:27 am
Mr. Mackey,
Hi! We will post a full “Sports Destinations” story in June along with our annual spreadsheet of every senior’s plans for after graduation. For the time being, the following 23 students are committed to play a sport next year in college and are in the photo attached to this story:
Justin Carboni — University of Pennsylvania, baseball
Julia Curran — Haverford College, lacrosse
Sophie deBettencort — Johns Hopkins University, basketball
Tyler Demartino — West Virginia University, baseball
Naomi Douek — Bucknell University, diving
Aliza Fisher — Yale University, crew
Max Fletcher — College of Wooster, lacrosse
Andrew Goldsholle — Denison University, soccer
Claudia Holm — American University, lacrosse
Ryan Jones — Radford University, soccer
Riley Kuehn — Dickinson College, softball
Alexa Lyman — Cornell University, crew
Amanda Levy — Brown University, golf
Evin Mcdonald — University of Texas at Austin, tennis
Olivia Personeni — Loyola Marymount University, volleyball
Sophie Reilly — Rice University, swim
Natan Rosen — Lehigh University, soccer
Jack Ryan — University of Maryland Baltimore County, baseball
Gabe Segal — Stanford University, soccer
Jackie Shipp — University of Vermont, lacrosse
Katie Stender-Moore — Washington University in St. Louis, soccer
Leia Till — University of Virginia, crew
Morgan Wiese — Princeton University, soccer