The Northfield Mount Hermon School athletic department has found a new director.

Debby Ghezzi was named the school’s new athletic director, and she’ll take over the program this summer, replacing interim AD Greg Leeds.

Ghezzi has served as AD at Lake Ridge Academy and Beaumont High School, both in Ohio. At the collegiate level, she has served as director of athletic facilities at Case Western Reserve University, director of athletics at Notre Dame College (Ohio), head tennis coach at Lamar University in Texas, assistant women’s basketball coach and recruiting coordinator at Colgate University, and assistant AD at Mount Holyoke College.

Most recently, she was the program coordinator in the Office of Student Life at Smith College in Northampton. She holds a bachelor’s degree in physical education and a master’s in education and athletic administration from Ohio University.

NMH boasts an athletic catalog of 67 teams in 19 interscholastic sports, plus intramural sports.

Hadaway wins Gatorade Player of the Year

NMH goalkeeper Khamari Hadaway was named the 2019-20 Gatorade Massachusetts Boys Soccer Player of the Year.

Hadaway is the first Gatorade Massachusetts Boys Soccer Player of the Year to be chosen from Northfield Mount Hermon School.

The award, which recognizes not only outstanding athletic excellence, but also high standards of academic achievement and exemplary character demonstrated on and off the field, distinguishes Hadaway as Massachusetts’s best high school boys soccer player. He’s now a finalist for the Gatorade National Boys Soccer Player of the Year award to be announced later this month.

The 6-foot-5, 183-pound senior goalkeeper recorded 11 shutouts this past season, leading the Hoggers (15-1-3) to the New England Prep School Athletic Council (NEPSAC) Class A Tournament semifinals. He concluded his prep soccer career with 30 shutouts.

Hadaway has maintained a 3.51 GPA in the classroom. He has made a verbal commitment to play soccer at Princeton University.

Albrecht leaving for Louisville

The NMH boys’ basketball coaching staff will see a change next season, as assistant coach Spike Albrecht has been hired as a graduate assistant for the Louisville men’s basketball program.

Albrecht, who starred at NMH and then played collegiately at Michigan and Purdue, was on staff for the Hoggers under head coach John Carroll this past winter. As a player, he holds the NMH record for assists in a season with 241 and earned MVP of the 2012 NEPSAC championship tournament. At Michigan, Spike was a 2-time captain, team MVP and earned All-Final Four team honors in 2013.

Bagdon heading to Holy Cross

Sunderland’s Connor Bagdon has committed to play soccer at Division I Holy Cross.

The NMH postgraduate star, who previously attended Frontier Regional, was a key contributor defensively for the Hoggers last fall. He is a member of the 10-person incoming freshman class in Worcester.

The 6-foot, 180-pound Bagdon was a co-captain at NMH, and received the team’s Jim Vollinger Technical Award. He totaled 20 goals and 10 assists in two years playing at Frontier.

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