Liam Flaherty

Jack DesRuisseaux. (Photo by Dave Arnold/NEHJ) For 17-year-old, hockey-loving Tabor Academy junior Jack DesRuisseaux, the night of Nov. 6, 2021, started as a typical Saturday night. With fall hockey winding down and the return of prep school hockey on the horizon, he was on the ice with his split-season team, the GBL Bruins, playing the Boston Junior Eagles in an 18-U contest at Dorchester’s Devine Memorial Rink. The game got underway and everything seemed par for the course. Until it wasn’t.

Cooper Boulanger (Barre, Vt.) and Jack Hutchins (Manchester, N.H.) celebrate a goal in a recent win. (Photo by Dave Arnold/NEHJ) As negative as the disruptions to last year’s prep school hockey season were, they had a unique effect on Alan Thompson’s club at the Holderness School. With several high-impact upperclassmen opting to leave early in fear of what the season would look like, the Bulls made a couple of late additions and pulled two freshmen up to varsity.

Catherine Gallagher and the Austin Prep soccer program will be leaving the MIAA after this season. (Courtesy photo)