At Holderness School, students spent first half of March on Special Programs - a transformative 11-day period of growth, service, and adventure. It's a time when students leave the classroom and learn by doing.
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Each March, nearly 30 faculty members swap out their blazers for backpacks to join the entire 11th grade on Out Back, an 11-day backcountry odyssey through New Hampshire’s White Mountains. This experience would be a challenge in the summer, but doing so in the winter makes it undeniably difficult. Out Back is hard, intentionally hard. But it’s an experience that thousands of Holderness students have successfully navigated. We asked a number of OB experts for their best tips, tools, and recipes to not just survive, but thrive, on Out Back.
This month, Henniyah Rivers ’25 added to that reputation by competing in slalom and giant slalom for Jamaica at the World Junior Olympics in Gangwon, South Korea. In doing so, she became the first-ever female alpine skier to compete for Jamaica in an international competition.
We are pleased to announce that two Holderness students, James Bae ’26 and Samantha Zhang ’25, have received honorable mentions from the annual Scholastic Art Awards of New Hampshire.
Apart from the 4,139-foot vertical drop, 2,500-acres of in-bounds terrain, and dizzyingly high elevation, the Holderness School Freeride team felt right at home when they visited Jackson Hole Mountain Resort in early January.
Here in the school's archives, we spent our summer reading through four log books (c. 1970-1983) kept by members of the Holderness School Outing Club. Each log book is filled with the stories of adventures, photographs, and drawings that chronicle the many trips the Outing Club members took during those years.
With the stands packed full of students, teachers, and parents all sporting t-shirts emblazoned with the words ‘Sarah Strong’ and the players donning orange ribbons on their uniforms, it was an exciting weekend of hockey on the Holderness campus. Boys Varsity Hockey defeated Governor’s Academy 6-2 with Jacob netting a goal in the second period. Girls Varsity Hockey won an exciting back-and-forth game over Hoosac School 6-4. However, more important than the numbers on the scoreboard was the number of students who came together to raise money throughout the week. All together, 73 students helped to raise over $10,000 for the Sarah Duval Memorial Fund.
On January 19, the Holderness School community gathered to dedicate the Davis Cross Country Ski Trails, a network of snowmaking-equipped Nordic racing loops that have establish the school as one of the best places to train and race in New England.
Holderness School proudly announces the well-deserved recognition of Director of Facilities Mr. Tony LeMenager, a pivotal member of the Buildings and Grounds Department, with the National Business Officers Association (NBOA) Professional Achievement Award. He was one of just 15 individuals nationwide to receive the award this year.
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