APPAREL Exeter Swim Team Partners. After you have reset your password, please return to your LMS to continue the account pairing process. Exeter athletes spent the winter proving the adage that records are made to be broken. Venci entered Exeter an accomplished swimmer but was hesitant to join the water polo team, despite Coach Don Mills’ encouragement. Now, a new contender is emerging. That mark — 207 feet, 5 inches — appears to have come on April 29, 1961, in a lopsided win over the University of New Hampshire freshmen. Fifty-nine years later, he recalls nothing about that particular throw but fondly remembers competing with his teammates and his time at Exeter.

If you cannot find the password reset email after checking your spam folder, try adding @bncollege to your contact list. “They used to say I could throw the ball through the backstop — if I could only hit the backstop.” Fowler took Hinkle’s raw power and center fielder’s mechanics and molded them into a smooth javelin approach and release. Teamwork was Venci’s biggest takeaway from Exeter: in the classroom, in The Exonian newsroom and in the water. Please stay healthy. Phillips Exeter Academy, 20 Main Street, Exeter, NH 03833-2460, © 2020. See highlights, including Rawson’s address and Friday’s assembly devoted to global education impacts of COVID-19.

He won both the 100-yard butterfly (47.65) and the 100 breaststroke (55.00) while also setting the 50 freestyle record (20.11). Absolutely spectacular,” he says of his three years at PEA. Please enable javascript in your browser, Phillips Exeter Academy Official Bookstore, ACCESS SCREEN READER FRIENDLY VERSION OF TEXTBOOK PAGE, Get special offers and promotions throughout the year. Audrey Malila ’21, Evie Houston ’21, Marymegan Wright ’21 and Ifeoma Ajufo ’22 set a new bar in the 4x200-meter relay with a time of 1:46.71, and Jackson Giampa ’23 broke a 48-year-old Exeter prep record in the long jump (21 feet, 4 inches). “One of the things we pride ourselves in is being the loudest and most supportive team,” he says. Enter your email address below associated with your account. The Trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy. “He said, ‘Then you should apply to Exeter and Andover. It is the memory of watching Assistant Coach Avery Reavill ’12 — whose relay record Venci’s team was in the process of breaking — cheering them on as they did it. But it isn’t these accomplishments that he remembers most vividly. It is the oldest one on Exeter’s athletic books. See highlights, including Rawson’s address and Friday’s assembly devoted to global education impacts of COVID-19. Neither the javelin nor Exeter was on his radar the day he traveled to watch a track meet of a friend who attended The Kiski School, a private boys school east of Pittsburgh. “People think of it as an individual sport, but he really emphasized the team mentality, and we pushed each other.”, Hinkle’s best throw in red came midway through his final season. He chose to manage the girls water polo team during spring term of his upper year in this same spirit.

“I knew right away, after talking to coach Holmes the first couple of times, that we both had this passion for the jav,” Mancini says. And Venci went beyond writing about other teams’ achievements. He followed up that performance with a pair of New England titles at Interschols, claiming first in the 100 butterfly and setting school, pool and meet records in the 200 freestyle (1:36.88). Editor's note: This article first appeared in the spring 2020 issue of The Exeter Bulletin.

Furthermore, design changes to javelins through the years that made them less aerodynamic — allowing competitions to safely remain inside track infields — has also prolonged the life spans of records such as Hinkle’s. Afterwards, we recommend sending another password reset email request. Venci’s value for community made the virtual conclusion to his senior year a great loss. “I knew it was going to fall,” Venci says. You'll have the option to create an account later on. “Fifty-nine years … I don’t really know how I feel about that.”. Describing the last class of his Exeter career as surreal, Venci says, “Instead of shaking someone’s hand and saying thank you for a great term and waving, you hit the ‘Leave Meeting’ button.” But he replayed in his mind moments during his time at Exeter to make it all feel less amorphous: standing in line at student registration, sitting at a Harkness table, or finishing his paper on Hawaii’s role in Pacific trade during an eight-hour bus ride to Eastern Pennsylvania for a meet. The Trustees of Phillips Exeter Academy. He and his fellow editors “each brought our own strengths to the table.” He leaned on a co-editor's grammar skills, just as his co-editor relied on Venci’s structural talents. The team uses the Roger Nekton Championship pool in Love Gym, one the finest swimming and diving facilities in New England. Last spring and summer, shortly after he was accepted to Exeter, Mancini went on a tear. 7 Personal Bests, 4 Meet Records, 1 All-American Swim in Great Meet Between Championships. With safety measures in place, Exeter begins to reintroduce in-person learning. From there, you'll be asked to create a new password. Swimmer Andrew Benson ’20 was the lead record-smasher, seemingly setting marks each time he touched the water. But as soon as I picked up the jav, I knew it was something I wanted to do, something I could be good at,” he says. Your information will not be stored for future visits. Matthew Wabunoha ’20 put his name at the top of the 60-meter hurdles record board (8.15), while Varun Oberai ’21 established the program record in the 3,000 meters (8:42.99). David Mancini ’21, a first-year upper from Beaconsfield, Quebec, has a throw of more than 220 feet to his credit — a Canadian under-18 national mark — and has very realistic chances of writing his own name in the record book before he’s through. In effort to protect the health of our customers and our employees, the bookstore is closed due to the COVID-19 social distancing protocol. In athletics, he stood out in football and captained the basketball team, but it was the track-and-field program where Hinkle shined brightest after he met Exeter’s legendary coach Ralph Lovshin and throwing coach Dan Fowler.