The Woodstock Academy lists honor rolls
WOODSTOCK —  The Woodstock Academy Quarter 4 honor roll includes:
High Honors
Seniors: Alexia Adams, Brian Antunes, Kathleen Ben, Tabitha Bezanson, Cedric Bilica, Ethan Bove, Matthew Brady, Katelin Briere, Abigail Brown, Jacob Brown, Eshete Calvo, Riley Chapuis, Emily Condon, Sara Qiuyu Cotillo Soria, Sydney Couture, Cody Currie, Emma Curtis, Hannah Darigan, Alexander Dehler, Arianna Di Domizio, Jackson Dias, Stella DiPippo, Zhiyan Du, Adam Exley, Jocelyn Foisey, Colby Groves, Ashley Guillot, Caleb Hall, JiaHao He, Yago Herrera Moreno de Acevedo, Joey Ignacio, Hailey Klar, Dominick Kollbeck, Brynn Kusnarowis, Jadyn LaFlamme, Caitlin LeSage, Mackenzie Leveille, Hanna Longwell, Angela Lu, Avery MacNeil, Harriet Majek, Marco Maluf, Samuel Massey, Sophia Mawson, Gavin Miller, Bailey Mitchell, Ashley Nunes, Olivia Ott, Avery Pajak, Lily Patenaude, John Peabody, Connor Quinn, Asier Ruiz Castro, Noah Salsich, Alexa Schimmelpfennig, Suzanne Silbermann, Emily Skellett, Dominic Strother, Sybaljan Tahirova, Sarah Tavares, Alexandra Vaida, Kassidy Walden, Allison Wall, Eli Werstler, Caroline Wilcox, Alexander Williams
Juniors: Linsey Arends, Aurissa Boardman, Zoe Botta, Jacob Boynton, Dylan Chamberlin, Annabella Chaves, Jordan Chiles, Ava Coutu, Nicholas Dahl, Kaitlyn Dalbec, Ella Davis, Henry Driscoll, Emmaline Ebbeling, River Favreau, Olivia Grant, Madelyn Groves, Liam Hagan, Samuel Hagan, Sydney Haskins, Emma Heimgartner, Grace Herindeen, Anna Kellermann, Hannah Kim, Cassandra Klingensmith, Keenan LaMontagne, Jonah Libby, Elizabeth Lovrien, Sarah Lucas, Megan Lucier, Jillian Marcotte, Sofia Murray, Gianna Nichols, Bethany Noe, Marissa O’Sullivan, Ryan Odorski, Savannah Olson, Ian Palmerino, Dhruvi Patel, John Pokorny, David Ramos, Hans Rhynhart, Zachary Roethlein, Sydney Schuler, Kadin Shepherd, Jordan Sienna, Adeline Smith, Conor Stewart, Jacob Thomas, Vincent Tocci, Daniel Torres, Tyler Warren, Haojun Xu, Zhixuan Zhang
Sophomores: Brooke Arpin, Vicente Bastura, Brooke Bergevin, Emma Blanchette, Kayanna Bourassa, Tessa Brown, Carah Bruce, Lauren Brule, Desiree Cabassa, Summer Chaput, Brianna Connors, Gabrielle Couture, Shannon Cunniff, James D’Alleva-Bochain, Alexis Danila, Taylor Danner, Carolina DaSilva, Jade Desmond, Ivy Dowdle, Gavin Driscoll, Connor Dunkley, Braedon Emerson, Lennon Favreau, Max Ferreira, Louella Flanagan, Katie Fortin, Zachary Gessner, Jaydon Gormley, Hadley Grether, Collin Hamilton, Magnolia Hart, Carl Huber, Aleena Jafar-DeCesare, Brian Jameson, Yunseo Jeon, Nathan Joseph, Esmeralda Kasneci, Gyu Ho Kim, Rain Lin, Alexis Lisee, Peishi Liu, Leila MacKinnon, Carter MacNeil, Thy Mai, Olivia Mawson, Kaden McCullough-Murphy, Kamden Meyer, Bryn Miller, Abigail Morin, Abigail Morse, John Murray, Matthew Myslenski, Cormac Nielsen, Ellie Nunes, Maya Orbegozo, Paige Owens, Noah Page, Kylie Quercia, Amelia Racicot, Jenna Robbie, Wyatt Robbie, Natalie Romano, Quintavanh Sangasy, Braiden Saucier, Jonathan Sebastian, Lillian Sharpe, Isabel Sumner, Xin Sun, Alyssa Thompson, Owen Tracy, Violet Young, Colin Zavorskas
Freshmen: Kyle Anderson, Claire Beck, Thomas Blevins, Charles Caggiano, Caitlin Chandler, Emily Cournoyer, Julia Coyle, Summer Espeseth, Campbell Fraser, Sean Gasperini, Alexander Gessner, Victoria Gonzalez, Caroline Harris, Angelos Haveles, Halie Hoffman, Ava Hovestadt, Emma Kerr, Christopher Kirkconnell, Lila Kirkland, Madyson Knox, Joel Koleszar, James Koproski, Corinne LaMontagne, Taylor Lamothe, Kayla Leite, Kevin Lin, Maeve Lusignan, Phoenix MacRae, Emma Massey, Alexandra Mattioli, Madison McMahon, Kayleigh Murray, Cang Nguyen, Jared Nielsen, Timothy O’Sullivan, Amber Pepper, Sophia Petrella, Reegan Reynolds, Evan Rhault, Noah Sampson, Olivia Saraidarian, Matthew Saunders, Zachary Shead, Ava Simoes, Megan Smith, Arthur Soucy, Kaelin Soukaloun, Ethan Staples, Addison Tyimok, Madison Whitehouse, Madison Williams
Honors
Seniors: Michael Adams, Pipe Ajayi, Livia Armstrong, Ethan Aspiras, Iris Bazinet, Aden Berthiaume, Liam Blanchflower, Logan Brock, Zachary Brody, Emmalyn Bunker, Yuxin Cao, Amanda Cerrone, Nickolas Chubbuck, Sydney Cournoyer, Julia Dearborn, Andrew Dilko, Estella Douglas, Adrian Essex, Gabriel Geyer, Grace Gronski, Kwesi Henry, Emma Hovestadt, Kaily LaChapelle, Aochen Li, Skyla Lindell, Ciara MacKinnon, Matthew Marshall, Marissa Mayhew, Emily McClure, Alina Michalski, Emme Miglietta, Carly Millette, Giovanni Nuccio, Meaghan O’Brien, Molly O’Connor, Melanie Pazienza, Alexa Pechie, James Phongsa, Isabella Price, Arriel Quant, Maxwell Racicot, Haven Renshaw, Jeremy Romano, Peyton Saracina, Adam Schimmelpfennig, Heather Schofield, Alyssa Sharrow, Madeline Silbermann, Meghan Slate, Mya Symington-St. John, Steisi Topalli, Mallory Tyimok, Rockwell Valentine, Hongli Zhang, Jialei Zhang
Juniors: Jai Abrams, Amber Ahearn, John Armstrong, Annarose Avery, Hamilton Barnes, Alison Bessette, Carleigh Boisvert, Elaina Borski, Kyle Brennan, Stella Brin, Ethan Campbell, Paige Campbell, Leah Castle, Murphy Chace, William Chambers, Hannah Clark, Margaret Ebbeling, Scout Favreau, Alexa Fernandez, Atticus Finch, Tomson Flanagan, Arimae Gagne, Nathan Gaug, Lindsey Gillies, Jackson Goetz, Bryson Gould, Matthew Griffin, Ryan Hanlon, Evan Haskins, Sergio Herrera Moreno de Acevedo, Ian Hoffman, Ashley Kasacek, Summer Ko-Szych, Caleb Koleszar, Ashton Lanning, Thai Le, Haitong Lyu, Lauren Medeiros, Thomas Musumeci, Phu Cong Nguyen, Euijong Noh, Tegan Perry, Hunter Phillips, Julia Powell, Christian Rilling, Blin Rollins, Camila Roman, Mia Ruggeri, Robert Saraidarian, Julia Scandalito, Jonathan Surowaniec, Nomar Tejada, Thao To, Ainslie Tschamler, Ainsley Viano, Grayson Webber, Zachary White, Dylan Wynkoop, Han Zheng, Zhi Zhou
Sophomores: Charlotte Adase, Ella Anderson, Maxwell Auker, William Basiliere, Nicholas Betschmann, Sophia Bulan, Alyson Bunning, Italia Burgio, Tate Chavez, Mitchell Child, Mateusz Chojnicki, Avery Collin, Mykela Cote, Ethan Craig, Kirsten Deorsey, Benjamin Douglas, Alexandra Flint, Jackson Gallagher, Emily Goodell, Chance Graley, Kylie Gregory, Lucas Gustafson, Taylor Hardacker, Olivia Haynes, Cameron Heath, Jeong Hwang, Olivia Jendrewski, Jacob Jurnovoy, Mario Kasneci, Samuel Kim, Ava Lanoue, Caitlin LaVallee, Khang Le, Annika LeBoeuf, Curtis Lefebvre, Sydney Lord, Rori Mackenzie, Dylan Mayo, Makayla Mayo, Elizabeth Morgis, Carter Morissette, Ella Musumeci, Magdalena Myslenski, Angela Newell, Alyson Niemiec, Lindsay Nuttall, Jillian Plouffe, Sophia Quinn, Celeste Robbins, Alexa Rock, Aubrey Rumrill, Natalia Sarette, Adele Schmidt, Kenzie Sellers, Gianna Smith, Isabella Sorrentino, Camilla Tahirova, Patrick Webster, Liam Wilcox, Cooper York, Zimo Zheng
Freshmen: Carleh Avery, Natalie Bell, Emily Bergman, Ryanne Bourbeau, Madison Brown, Anthony Buckner, David Bunning, Danielle Cabassa, Timothy Caissie, Emerson Dalton, Leah Danis, Benjamin DaSilva, Timothy Engstrume, Aiden Finch, Joaquin Fraga, Aiden Gagnon, Hailey Gagnon, Nicolas Goncalves, Allison Griswold, Hunter Haynes, Jada Hernandez, Sophia Hernandez, Cade Jones, Kaitlyn Lanctot, Hunter Larson, Samuel Lescault, Sarah McArthur, Samantha McDowell, Cameron McNally, Brendon Molina, Mia Pannone, Brynn Perry, Samantha Richmond, Joshua Rilling, Jordan Sands, Apphia Schley, Simon Steendam, Jessica Stolarek, Talia Tremblay, Josiah Vadeboncoeur, Shaun Wall, Alicia Wynkoop, Christopher Yuettner, Mathew Zheng
Recognition
Seniors: Kaylee Arpin, Zachary Banning, Sierra Bedard, Timothy Billings, Glenn Boies, Steven Bratu, Rachel Canedy, Justin Cave, Sarah Delaney, Eliza Dutson, Travis Jewell, Noah Keaten, Wonwook Lee, Nathaniel Majewski, Lexi McCullough-Murphy, Kathleen McDowell, Isah Mohammed, Nikita Nezhin, Dante Poth, Megan Preston, Owen Ritzau, Elijah Saine, Clayton Singleton,  Alexis Zagrodny
Juniors: Claire Anderson, Parker Anderson, Alison Benoit, Morgan Bentley, Angela Bradley, Nico Burgio, Neil Camara, Nicole Davidson, Sage Eno, Ian Frankhouser, Shannon Gagnon, Marrin Gorgone, Morgan Hardacker, Gwenith Hendrickson, Taewoo Kim, Seamus Lippy, Hailey McDonald, Christina Mozzi, Jason Ofcarcik, Donela Perzichino, Sara Rogerson, Eliza Simpson, McKenna Starr, Silas Strandson, Sadie Susi, Sven Vale, Norman Warcholik, Emily Wyrostek, Kamila Wysocki, Chase Young, Talia Zuidema
Sophomores: Riley Balanovich, Ava Basak, Daniel Chenail, Alexandra Cloutier, Amanda Currie, Grant DeParasis, Baden Eaton, Jared Eaton, Ava Edwards, Ella Favreau, Grace Gelhaus, Maximiliano Gonzalez, Matthew Gouin, Keira Hawkins, Kaiden Keddy, Emma Korsu, Jack Marshall, Elias Newall-Vuillemot, Lillian Rossi, Noelle Sallum, Davis Simpson, Grace Smith, Mackenzie Starr, Linzhuoran Sun, Adam Thompson, Jack Tyler, Adrianna Veloce, Xiaodan Wang, Bella Webb, Nicholas Webster, Melissa Zea
Freshmen: Elizabeth Adams, Delaney Anderson, Ryan Bradford, Troy Daviau, Riley Dupont, Hayden Fontaine, Jacob Lizotte, Zachary Majewski, Rebecca Nazer, Savannah Ortiz, Nicholas Saunders, Elijah Smith, Sawyer Stewart, Ramaya Talabert, Lucas Theriaque, Henry Wotton.

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WOODSTOCK — The success of The Woodstock Academy boys’ prep basketball program has prompted the formation of a new prep program this fall. The school will host for the first time a boys’ prep soccer program.
While the goal of the two programs will be the same, the manner in which it will be achieved may be quite different.
The boys’ basketball program generally recruits domestic players with a few international student-athletes.
The opposite will be true of the boys’ soccer prep program.
According to first-year head coach Joe Cherackal, the program currently has 24 student-athletes on its roster, with the possibility of adding one more, and 21 of those currently are international students.
The majority of the international players, 13 of them, will hail from Spain with Bermuda, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, St. Lucia, Brazil and Portugal also represented.
Only three players come from the U.S., one from Pittsburgh, another from Brooklyn, N.Y., and the only Connecticut product hailing from Guilford.
It may seem odd — European and South American student-athletes coming to the U.S. to play soccer.
But this is where both the boys’ basketball and boys’ soccer programs merge as far as a goal is concerned.
The goal is to get these players to the next level. Not so much to learn the game, but to be seen playing it.
“A lot of these kids are coming in order to be able to go to a university. That is the allure of America. We have opportunities to get an education and not a structured one,” Cherackal said.
He points out Spain as an example. The first four years of a secondary education in the country is general studies and the last two are based on a student’s academic performance where a lower score on an achievement test might net only a trade education path rather than a professional path according to Cherackal.
“You go to school here, there is a lot of autonomy to do what you want. Coming to a school, like Woodstock Academy, is a good way to get your feet wet before going to a university,” Cherackal said.
There is also the opportunity to be seen by American coaches at American universities and the possibility of scholarship money although Cherackal is quick to tell prospective students and their parents that there are no guarantees.
“These kids are all coming with the same mindset. I tell them that this is a platform. If you look at the infrastructure here, it’s very easy to be successful on the field and they will have a lot of support. The kids that we have are hungry. They are coming here seeking opportunities, for that next step,” Cherackal said.
Cherackal is a graduate of E.O. Smith High School in Storrs and played not only for the Panthers but also the Oakwood Soccer Club in Portland. He walked on at Holy Cross College in Worcester, and played Division I soccer for the Crusaders for two years.
Unfortunately, the experience in the program was not an enjoyable one.
He still, however, retained his passion for the game and became a club coach at Oakwood and was a volunteer assistant coach at Wesleyan University in Middletown.
He finished his master’s degree at Wesleyan and worked as a graduate assistant in the program before moving on to Springfield College.
The pandemic, however, cut his tenure at Springfield short.
That’s when a friend, Matt Kokoszka, informed him of the Woodstock Academy opportunity.
Kokoszka runs the Global Education & Sports Partners which helps pair foreign student-athletes with American schools and he was working with Woodstock Academy on the formation of the new program.
“Coming from the college game, you coach in the fall and you don’t have any contact with your athletes in the winter and spring. Here (at Woodstock Academy), I’m going to be able to coach from late August until early June. It’s the ideal for anyone who coaches soccer. In college, the actual on-field stuff is probably 10-15 percent of the job. That will be the reverse here. I’m really excited to be here,” Cherackal said.
There will be no titles or championships to play for, just showcase events to do just that, showcase the individual players skills.
“We’re here for the holistic experience,” Cherackal said. ”I am here to get them to maximize their ceiling, theoretically, from their freshman year to a post-graduate year. Wins and losses at this time don’t matter because (the players) are not fully developed yet.”
For the most part, the new Centaurs soccer team will be playing prep school programs such as Pomfret School, Northfield-Mt. Hermon and others on the road this fall.
There will also be some showcase events such as one at South Kent School.
Cherackal is also hopeful that the Centaurs will be able to hold a showcase of their own in early November so the school community can see the team play.
In the spring, he is hoping to pick up games with Major League Soccer-affiliated academies as well as play in some large tournaments and travel to places like New York City and Maryland.
“It will function like a prep team in the fall and will then shift into a more club schedule in the winter and spring,” Cherackal said.
“There is a lot of pressure on me but it’s not something I have to build from the ground up. I’m going to emulate what they do at other places. I’m not going to presume that I have it all figured out. I don’t. I’m probably going to look more toward Europe than any domestic model just because (the U.S.) is not very good at the game in a macro sense,” Cherackal said.
Boys’ prep soccer fall schedule
Aug. 20- Preseason begins; Weds., Sept. 8:  at Avon-Old Farms, 3:30 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 11: at Pomfret, TBA; Sun., Sept. 12: vs. Hoosac School at Northfield-Mt. Hermon, 3 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 18: vs. Hoosac School at Gettysburg, PA.., TBA; Sun., Sept. 13: vs. Pennington School at Philadelphia, 11 a.m.; Weds., Sept. 22: at Northfield-Mt. Hermon, 3:30 p.m. ;Sat. Sept. 24: at Showcase event; Sun., Sept. 25: at Showcase event; Sun., Oct. 3: at St. Thomas More, 1 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 8: vs. Bridgton Academy at South Kent tournament, 5 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 9: South Kent tournament championship or consolation, 11 a.m. or 1 p.m.; Weds., Oct. 13: at Wesleyan University JV, 4:30 p.m.; Fri., Oct. 15: at Williams College JV, 4 p.m.; Sat., Oct. 23: at St. Lawrence Academy Jamboree, TBA;
Sun., Oct. 24: at St. Lawrence Jamboree, TBA; Fri., Oct. 29: at Putnam Science Academy, TBA; Sat., Nov. 6: vs. St. Thomas More at Woodstock Academy Showcase event, TBA; Sun., Nov. 7: Woodstock Academy showcase event championship or consolation, TBA.
Marc Allard
Director of Sports Information
The Woodstock Academy

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