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Fall Sports Highlights – 2015
For the second time in the initial three
years of ISL volleyball, the SPS team
won the league championship, com-
pleting its ISL run with a 13-1 record.
SPS was 15-5 overall, including a
trip to the NEPSAC Class A Volley-
ball Tournament, where the Big Red
fell to Choate. Captains Elisabeth
Fawcett ’16 and Becca Thomson ’16
were named All-ISL and
Boston Globe
all-stars, while Audrey Bischoff ’16
and Emiliana Geronimo ’17 earned
honorable mentions.
The boys and girls cross country
Sports Summary
teams each placed second in the ISL and
fourth in New England. Jade Thomas ’16,
Elizabeth Wells ’17, Lauren Henderson ’19,
Marc Roy ’16, and Reid Noch ’16 earned
All-NE honors, while Wells, Henderson,
Thomas, Roy, Noch, and Santi Saravia ’17
got ISL nods.
Fifth Former Meg Fearey’s overtime
goal in the season finale against Brooks
helped the Big Red field hockey team to
finish on a high note. All-ISL Charlotte
Clark ’18 and honorable mentions
Fearey, Finley Frechette ’17, and Josie
Varney ’19 were among the standouts.
Elsewhere, the varsity football team
won two of its final three games to
end the season strong, beating Rivers
(42-14) and St. Mark’s (47-32). The
boys soccer team won seven one-goal
games in a competitive ISL season.
Jefri Schmidt ’16 and Chavez Mbeki ’17
were all-league selections. Schmidt
finished eighth in ISL scoring with
nine goals and six assists. The girls
soccer squad received the ISL Team
Sportsmanship Award.
Becca Thompson ’16 helped the Big
Red to a 15-5 record.
BOYS VARSITY
WON LOST TIED
Cross Country
17
1 0
Football
3 5 0
Soccer
7 12 0
27 18 0
GIRLS VARSITY
Cross Country
8 7 0
Field Hockey
8 6 1
Soccer
2 12 2
Volleyball
15 5 0
33 30 3
TOTAL VARSITY 60 48 3
BOYS JV
Cross Country
9 8 0
Football
3 3 0
Soccer
5 4 6
17 15 6
GIRLS JV
Field Hockey
8 1 4
Soccer
2 10 3
Volleyball
12 3 0
22 14 7
TOTAL JV
39 29 13
GRAND TOTAL 99 77 16
KAREN BOBOTAS
consecutive World Junior Championships
(1994-96), winning three gold medals.
Botterill bounced around a bit in his
professional hockey career, suiting up
for 88 NHL games with Dallas, Atlanta,
Calgary, and Buffalo, while also tallying
257 points in 393 minor league games,
before a series of concussions forced an
early end to his playing days.
“I was fortunate that my parents had
helped me make academics a priority too,”
says Botterill, who retired from hockey
in 2005 and went on to earn his M.B.A.
at Michigan. “I never thought I would get
back into hockey. I thought grad school
would be an intermediate step to get me
into the ‘real world’ of commercial bank-
ing or corporate finance.”
Realizing the value of his connections
as a player, Botterill got a job at NHL
headquarters in the summer of 2006, on
the heels of a 2004-05 lockout season
that resulted in a new collective bargain-
ing agreement, which included a salary
cap for the first time in the history of
the NHL. Botterill quickly became an
expert in salary cap structure and, while
completing his M.B.A., also worked as a
Prep school was not part of future dis-
cussions either, until Botterill’s father
was working as the team psychologist
for the Chicago Blackhawks in the early
1990s. At the time, superstar Jeremy
Roenick, an alumnus of SPS Independent
School League peer Thayer Academy,
suggested boarding school as an alterna-
tive for Jason’s budding hockey career.
The idea intrigued Botterill’s parents, who
always encouraged their son to take his
academics just as seriously as athletics.
Botterill fell in love with St. Paul’s on
his tour of the campus, and enrolled as
a Fourth Former in the fall of 1991. As a
member of the Big Red hockey team, he
earned first-team All-ISL honors in 1993.
Originally a member of the Form of 1994,
Botterill graduated a year early and con-
tinued on to the University of Michigan,
where he played four seasons for the
Wolverines, including the 1996 NCAA
championship team. He also studied eco-
nomics, earning Academic All-American
honors. At the end of his freshman year,
Botterill was selected 20th overall by the
Dallas Stars in the 1994 NHL Entry Draft.
He also represented Canada in three
part-time scout for the Dallas Stars. Just
weeks after his business school gradua-
tion in the spring of 2007, he joined the
Pittsburgh Penguins organization as dir-
ector of hockey administration, a role he
held for two seasons. Botterill spent the
ensuing five years as assistant general
manager (2009-14), before his promotion
to his current role as associate GM in June
2014. In that role, Botterill assists Penguins
GM Jim Rutherford in all hockey-related
matters, including scouting, player devel-
opment, and contract negotiations, and
serves as general manager of the AHL
team in Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.
Time spent on the other side of the ice
has opened Botterill’s eyes to the work it
takes to build a successful professional
sports franchise. He was fortunate to be
part of the Penguins organization in 2009,
when the team won the Stanley Cup.
He counts that season as a tremendous
learning experience. He also understands
the importance of maintaining the line
between personal and professional issues
when it comes to managing players. In
his own career, Botterill was frequently
on the bubble between making the jump
