This year, we hope you'll start your season of giving at Thetford Academy. Giving Tuesday is a global celebration of philanthropy and here at TA, we have a lot of reasons to celebrate. Your gifts to TA this year have helped us make transformative improvements to our campus - like...
Dear TA Families, Three topics to turn your attention to this week: 👉 Come out to support the performing arts at Thetford Academy and celebrate student creativity and talent! 🎶 🎭 The fall play drama class presents 'The Crucible' next weekend. There are four performances, Nov. 22-24, with lead roles played by two different...
On Saturday, November 9th, Brady Sloop and Ava Hayden represented Thetford Academy at the 89th Annual New England Interscholastic Cross Country Championships. Brady and Ava qualified for this event by finishing in the top 25 (across all divisions) at the Vermont State Championships held at Thetford Academy on October 26th. Following...
At Vermont's Cross Country State Championship, the competition each year is reliably fierce. In the Panthers' Division III, Coaches Joe Deffner and Emily Silver had run the numbers and knew it would be tough for TA to beat top teams Stowe and BFA Fairfax. "Looking at the other teams before...
On a bluebird day, at the league championship this past Friday in Bellows Falls, the TA cross country team accorded itself impressively well. Eighth grader Peter Horan beat 41 other runners to emerge victorious in a time of 10:44 in the middle school boys' race. While the Thetford boys did not...
On Saturday, Thetford Academy once again welcomed thousands of runners and spectators from across New England for the Woods Trail Run, the school's iconic cross country event. This year's run attracted more than 50 cross country teams from across New England, with representation from Vermont, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire,...
TA's cross country team ran at the Manchester Invitational this past Saturday. Captains Ava Hayden and Brady Sloop led their teams with top 10 finishes in their respective races. Ava finished 5th (out of 219 racers), covering the 5K course for Varsity Small Schools in 20:34. On the boys side,...
Mountain Day! Yesterday the whole school ventured out to six trailheads in our region, stretching from Mt. Moosilauke in the north to Mt. Ascutney in the south, carrying on TA's Mountain Day tradition, first started in 1979. It was a beautiful day to enjoy autumn beauty and connect as a community....
The varsity boys opened their season with a four-game winning streak - two of them shutouts - and are showing no signs of slowing down. With what the Journal Opinion called the Panthers’ “high-powered offense” (great photos in last week’s edition) and sophomore Matthew McGovern guarding the net, the boys...
The event, founded by TA parent and former board member Dan Grossman, is well known for many things: great music, great food (shout out to the Thetford Academy Alumni Association), great energy, and great people. Of course, the Woods Trail Run is also known for its scenic 5K course, the...