After a record-setting 2023 season that saw them cap off an undefeated, 17-0 record with the first Lakes Region Championship in school history, the Holderness Boys Varsity Lacrosse team is back in action for 2024. Entering the season as the 20th-ranked team in the country, according to Inside Lacrosse, the Bulls are focusing on their team goals and maintaining their culture of success.
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This summer, Holderness School's Director of Music Dave Cosby will study the history of jazz education at the Rutgers University Institute of Jazz Studies at their Newark campus, where he is a recipient of a prestigious Morroe Berger – Benny Carter – Ed Berger Jazz Research Fellowship.
Holderness School proudly announces its recognition by the College Board with the prestigious AP® Computer Science Female Diversity Award, honoring its strides in fostering gender diversity within AP Computer Science A.
In spite of an unseasonably warm winter that presented training challenges for all Snow Sports athletes, Holderness School is sending an unprecedented number of skiers and snowboarders – 26 in total – to national competitions this spring.
In honor of Women's History Month, we celebrate the women who impacted Holderness School and its community.
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.
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.