Choate Girls’ Lacrosse Program welcomed new Head Coach Ms. Katie Keogh to the Wild Boars lacrosse family. Prior to coming to Choate, Coach Keogh was the Head Coach of the Hopkins Girls’ Lacrosse Team. In college, Coach Keogh played soccer, and shortly after graduating, she decided to start coaching atRead More

Photo courtesy of Choate Flickr Take your pick: you can play a sports game on your home field, court, or rink with a wave of fans cheering your name — or, you can play at an unfamiliar venue without any fans. For many Choate athletes, the choice is obvious. ThereRead More

Choate held the annual Course and Signature Program Fair on Zoom on Friday, January 21 and unveiled a new Signature Program, the Global Engagement Program (GEP). The event was hosted by Department Heads and Signature Program Coordinators who shared information about their specific course or program.  According to the webRead More

Apply, wait, wait some more, decide. This is the all-too-familiar college application process for many high-school students. For athletes intending to play at the collegiate level, however, the steps are decidedly different.  The process itself varies greatly from student-to-student as well as from sport-to-sport. Additionally, it is heavily regulated toRead More

MS. MALLIKA BEACH-MEHROTRA: The Choate Science Department welcomed new Biology and Marine Science teacher Ms. Mallika Beach-Mehrotra. Hailing from the West Coast, Ms. Beach-Mehrotra was a teaching and research assistant as well as a Citizen Science Director and Curriculum Writer at Ocean Institute. At Choate, “Ms. M” — as herRead More

Ms. Joanne Bailey taught French and advised students before joining the Admission Office in 1999. She started as an interviewer and was later promoted to Associate Director of Admission. She spent a large portion of her time working with day students as the head of the Day Student Admissions committee.Read More

Although this year has been unlike any other, seniors have been making the most out of their last weeks on campus — including, it seems, their last trips across campus. Recently, it has become more and more common to see seniors zipping around the School on scooters. Scooters aren’t onlyRead More

Photo by Tiffany Xiao/The Choate News On April 10, Choate teams faced off against Hotchkiss and, one week later on April 17, took on Taft.  Girls’ Varsity Lacrosse Girls’ Varsity Lacrosse had an intense game against Hotchkiss. Co-Captain Dylan Allen ’21 shot an impressive 8-meter, free-position goal. “It feels surrealRead More

Photo courtesy of Reuters From March 28 to April 4 this year, Jews celebrated Passover — also known as Pesach — which commemorates the freedom of the Hebrews from enslavement in Egypt. To Rabbi Bruce Alpert of Wallingford’s Beth Israel Synagogue, Passover is the “festival of freedom.”  On the firstRead More