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Team Info
Basketball - Boys' Varsity
Overview
Overview
2009-10 Western New England Semi-Finalist
2009 Sportsmanship Award
2007 Tri-State League Champions
Taft competes in both the Founders and Tri-State leagues during the regular season. NEPSAC's Class A is one of the premier leagues in the nation and is perennially known for having Division I talent. In the past 10 years Taft basketball players have gone on to compete in college athletic programs at the following institutions: American, Amherst, Babson, Bates, Bowdoin, College of Charleston, Connecticut College, Cornell, Davidson, Dickinson, Holy Cross, Howard, Kenyon, Middlebury, Princeton, Sacred Heart, St. Anselm's, Stonehill, Trinity, Tufts, Union, Virginia, Yale.
Schedule
Schedule
Opponent | Date | Time | Location | Advantage | Type | Details | Result | Score | Status |
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Canterbury School
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Home | Details | Win | 68-50 | |||
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Brunswick School
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Brunswick School | Away | Details | Loss | 42-51 | ||
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Choate Rosemary Hall
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Home | Details | Loss | 53-59 | |||
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St. Sebastian's School
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St. Sebastian's School | Away | Details | Loss | 47-64 | ||
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St. Paul's School
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St. Sebastian's School | Away | Details | Win | 42-39 | ||
vs.
Noble and Greenough School
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St. Sebastian's School | Away | Details | Win | 47-33 | ||
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Choate Rosemary Hall
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Choate Rosemary Hall | Away | Details | Loss | 43-60 | ||
vs.
Suffield Academy
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Suffield Academy | Away | Details | Win | 57-44 | ||
vs.
Kingswood Oxford School
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Home | Details | Loss | 55-66 | |||
vs.
Kent School
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Home | Details | Win | 62-18 | |||
vs.
Hotchkiss School
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Hotchkiss School | Away | Details | Loss | 46-57 | ||
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Berkshire School
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Berkshire School | Away | Details | Loss | 45-46 | ||
vs.
Trinity-Pawling School
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Home | Details | Loss | 54-59 | |||
vs.
Williston Northampton School
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Home | Details | N/A | POSTPONED: Postponed | |||
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Canterbury School
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Canterbury School | Away | Details | Win | 62-61 | ||
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Trinity-Pawling School
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Trinity-Pawling School | Away | Details | Loss | 47-53 | ||
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Hotchkiss School
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Home | Details | Loss | 41-59 | |||
vs.
Deerfield Academy
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Home | Details | Loss | 46-60 | |||
vs.
Salisbury School
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Salisbury School | Away | Details | Win | 56-50 | ||
vs.
Avon Old Farms School
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Avon Old Farms School | Away | Details | Loss | 37-51 | ||
vs.
Kent School
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Kent School | Away | Details | Win | 56-33 | ||
vs.
Loomis Chaffee School
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Home | Details | Win | 56-46 | |||
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Avon Old Farms School
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Home | Details | Win | 49-47 | |||
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Berkshire School
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Home | Details | Win | 53-35 | |||
vs.
Westminster School
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Home | Details | Win | 66-50 |
Roster
Roster
# | Name | Class | Hometown |
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0 | RJ Bennett | 2024 | Hartford, CT |
2 | Jordan Elliott | 2024 | Wallingford, CT |
3 | Gardner Heitzmann | 2023 | Bedford Corners, NY |
4 | Max Fradkin | 2024 | Southbury, CT |
5 | Brody Bowser | 2024 | Southbury, CT |
10 | Jeremiah Ibeziako | 2025 | Surulere |
11 | Ozzy Diallo | 2025 | Yonkers, NY |
12 | Justin Kang | 2024 | Tenafly, NJ |
13 | Vule Šukovic | 2023 | Belgrade |
14 | Jacob Lucas | 2024 | Watertown, CT |
32 | Dara Adeyemi | 2023 | Luton, BDF |
33 | Addison Hoffman | 2023 | Coral Springs, FL |
Ashanti Legare | 2023 | Southington, CT | |
Maya Lewis | 2024 | Burlington, NJ | |
Angie Montambault | 2023 | Waterbury, CT |
Coaches
Coaches
About Head Coach Shavar Bernier
Shavar graduated from Dover High School in New Hampshire, where he was captain of the basketball team for two years and first-team All-State and Seacoast Player of the Year in 2004. He attended Bridgton Academy for a post-graduate year. There he earned the Frances L. Spooner Award, which is awarded by the faculty to the student deemed the most outstanding in general excellence of studies, loyalty, and uprightness of character. Shavar then attended Connecticut College, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts in human development and played four years of varsity basketball. A three-year captain at Conn, he earned many accolades, including the Sportsmanship Award his sophomore season. When he graduated, Shavar was the first all-time in career three-pointers and the tenth all-time in career points. He was named to the All-NESCAC second team and was selected to the NEBCA Division III all-star game. Additionally, in college he worked in the alumni relations office, served as a teacher's aide in the college's children's program, coached at Conn College basketball camps, and assisted as a basketball coach at Waterford Middle School. After college, Shavar served as an assistant men's basketball coach and intramural assistant director at St. Michael's College in Vermont, where he was also responsible for directing the school's summer basketball camp. He began his independent-school career at The Gunnery, where he worked for two years as an assistant director of admissions, LEADS teacher, head varsity basketball coach, assistant football coach, and dormitory resident. At Taft, Shavar is an admission officer, serves as a dorm parent, and is the head boys' basketball coach and assistant football coach. He is currently working on his master's degree at Dartmouth College in liberal studies with a concentration on cultural studies. Shavar lives off campus with his wife, Caroline.
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