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Boys' Soccer - JV
Overview
Overview
The JV boys' soccer team seeks to help young men develop lasting commitments to sportsmanship, personal discipline, and team spirit. A tradition of success informs the work each squad does throughout a season; that is, players understand their efforts are part of a Taft program with a winning mentality and they, too, can contribute to that identity. The coaching philosophy is grounded on the assumption that any player willing to work hard, play fair, and take instruction can become a candidate for varsity. At the same time, JV players begin to see more clearly the individual roles they can assume to make their team better. In all respects, Taft JV players understand themselves as participants in a larger endeavor: stewarding Taft soccer in a sporting, winning fashion during the brief years they have the privilege to play.
Schedule
Schedule
| Opponent | Date | Time | Location | Advantage | Type | Details | Result | Score | Status |
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Brunswick School
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Westminster School
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Avon Old Farms School
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Deerfield Academy
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Suffield Academy
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Berkshire School
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Trinity-Pawling School
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Avon Old Farms School
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Williston Northampton School
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Salisbury School
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Kent School
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Choate Rosemary Hall
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Loomis Chaffee School
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Hotchkiss School
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Roster
Roster
| # | Name | Position | Class | Hometown |
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| 1 | William Droppo | 2027 | Avon, CT | |
| 4 | Abdikani Ahmed | 2026 | Hargeisa | |
| 5 | Anmay Suri | 2024 | Southington, CT | |
| 6 | Kevin Jin | 2025 | Southbury, CT | |
| 7 | Luca Gatti | 2024 | San Francisco, CA | |
| 8 | Cayden Van Dolah | 2025 | Simsbury, CT | |
| 9 | Miller Masterson | 2025 | Palm Beach, FL | |
| 10 | Noah Cinel | 2024 | Torrington, CT | |
| 11 | Thomson Knight | 2024 | Houston, TX | |
| 12 | Kaden Parsons | 2025 | Charlotte, NC | |
| 13 | Michael Werblow | 2026 | St Marys City, MD | |
| 14 | Jack Dodd | 2026 | Madison, CT | |
| 15 | Camilo Pinto Gonzalez | 2025 | Waterbury, CT | |
| 17 | Liam Dhumale-Smyth | 2026 | Forest Hills, NY | |
| 18 | Kojo Asmah | 2024 | Metuchen, NJ | |
| 19 | Julian Prentice | 2024 | New York, NY | |
| 20 | Chris Joszczyk | 2025 | Southington, CT | |
| 22 | Jonathan So | 2027 | ||
| 33 | Jack Eastman | 2024 | New York, NY | |
| Patrick Yan | 2027 | Great Neck, NY |
Coaches
Coaches
About Head Coach Corey Chandler
Corey enters his eighth year at Taft having taught French at Canterbury School for 18 years, where he served as the languages department chair. He has taught French I through III, French AP Language, French IV Honors, and French AP Literature. Corey was an AP reader for ETS for a number of years, as well as a French teacher and assistant language director at the Middlebury Monterey Language Academy. Outside of the classroom, Corey has vast experience as a dormitory parent, and he has coached soccer, squash, and lacrosse. Corey received his bachelor of arts in French from the University of Connecticut and his master of arts in French from Middlebury College Language School. He teaches French at Taft, is a dormitory parent in Vogelstein, and is the assistant coach of girls’ varsity squash and head coach of boys’ junior varsity soccer. He and his wife, Jennifer, live on campus.
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