Media Guide Contents:
‐ Message from Terry Barnum, Head of Athletics ‐ Harvard-Westlake at-a-glance ‐ Wolverine Athletic Facilities – Home of Champions ‐ Sports Performance ‐ Sports Medicine ‐ Harvard-Westlake Athletic Hall of Fame ‐ Head of Football – Scot Ruggles ‐ Schedules ‐ Rosters ‐ Coaching Staff ‐ Administration and Support Staff
MESSAGE FROM THE HEAD OF ATHLETICS AT HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
August 2017
Welcome to Wolverine Football!
As we move into our fourth season in the Angelus League, our team is primed to take another step forward. Last year’s team, made the playoffs and provided a solid foundation to build on. Six seniors will provide the leadership for what should be another amazing year.
Our season begins on August 25, with a home game vs.Birmingham High School. Other notable games include home games against Jefferson, El Camino and La Salle and of course our Homecoming game on October 7 vs.Cathedral which is our also first Angelus league game.
Senior night and our regular season finale is against La Salle on November 3. As is the case every year, we must play our best football in October and November.
A great season would not be possible without the help of the faculty, staff, family and friends that support Wolverine Football throughout the year. When we have success this year, we hope you take pride in the role you played that helped make it happen.
Thank you for your support and go Wolverines!
Terence Barnum Head of Athletics
HARVARD-WESTLAKE AT A GLANCE
Harvard-Westlake School is an independent coeducational college preparatory day school, grades 7-12. It is the result of a merger between Harvard School, founded in 1900, and Westlake School for Girls, established in 1904. Coeducation began in September of 1991.
Student Profile
. 1600 students enrolled . 727 at Middle School (Grades 7-9) . 873 at Upper School (Grade 10-12) . Student to Faculty Ratio: 8:1 . Average Class Size: 16
Advanced Placement Results
In 2016, 6663 Harvard-Westlake students took 1,911 A.P. tests
SAT Performance (Class of 2017)
Critical Reading: 701 Math: 729 Writing: 712
National Merit Recognition
Harvard-Westlake ranks among the top high schools in the country in number of National Merit Semifinalists. In the class of 2017, there are 26 students who received National Merit Recognition, with 75 students with letters of commendation.
Finances
Operating Budget: $76,019,320 Endowment: $75,085,263 Annual Giving: $ 8,004,323
Financial Aid
For the 2016-17 academic year, a total of over $10.8 million was committed to aid. This represented more than 14% of the school’s entire operating budget. Roughly 300 students, or 19% of the student body, were served. Tuition grants awarded for demonstrated need averaged $27,000 ranging from a few thousand dollars to 99% of tuition. Automatic coverage of many school-related expenses raised the total of an average financial aid package to $32,500.
HARVARD-WESTLAKE ATHLETIC FACILITIES
The Copses Family Pool on Harvard-Westlake's upper school campus is a 50-meter pool, manufactured by Myrtha Pools in Mantua, Italy.
The stainless-steel pool features a surge tank underneath the pool deck to keep the water level, which reduces water resistance for swimmers. The facility also includes a pool house and bleachers.
The Copses Pool is home to Harvard-Westlake’s 2013 and 2014 CIF-SS Boys’ Water Polo Division I Champions, who were also named Totalwaterpolo.com’s #1 ranked team in the United States.
The recently renovated O’Malley Family Field in Encino, is Harvard-Westlake’s state-of-the-art baseball complex, featuring professional grade turf, drainage and irrigation systems, dugouts, bullpens, clubhouse and a covered hitting facility behind the right-field fence.
O’Malley Field is home to HW’s 2013 CIF-SS Division I Baseball Champions, who were also named the 2013 Perfect Game High School National Champions.
The Taper Gymnasium is located on Harvard- Westlake’s Upper School Campus.
Its walls, festooned with league, CIF-Southern Section, State and National Championship banners tells of the storied Wolverine athletic program.
Taper gym is home of the Wolverine Basketball and Volleyball programs.
Ted Slavin Field is located on the Upper School Campus. Built in 2003, it features an NFL-caliber Field Turf surface and a synthetic track.
It is the proud home of Wolverine Football, Soccer, Track & Field, Lacrosse, and Field Hockey.
Many of our student athletes who have graced the Ted Slavin field have gone on to professional, Olympic and collegiate success in their chosen sports.
Sports Performance
It is the mission of the Sports Performance Department to encourage each student athlete to strive for excellence.
Our primary objectives are to teach the proper fundamentals of strength and conditioning, improve athletic performance, and reduce the risk of injury.
Our sport-specific training components include ground-based movements, multi-joint movements, three- dimensional movements, explosive training, progressive overload, pillar stability, flexibility and recovery, energy system development, linear speed development and lateral speed and agility development.
- Department Chair, Jeff Crelling
SPORTS MEDICINE
The Harvard-Westlake School Sports Medicine Program provides injury prevention, care and treatment services to the school’s student-athletes. The Sports Medicine Program strives to establish itself as a model of excellence in sports medicine care.
Our services are categorized into the following areas: injury prevention (taping, bracing, padding, orthotic construction), management of athletic injuries (first aid, evaluation, referral, contest coverage) and rehabilitation of athletic injuries. We educate student-athletes about athletic injuries so they are empowered to lead healthier, injury-free lives. We use the best technology available for the prevention and treatment of athletic injuries and upgrade equipment and supplies whenever necessary. There are four main goals of the Sports Medicine Program:
‐ Provide efficient and timely care to our student-athletes. ‐ Encourage an atmosphere that values health and wellness. ‐ Enable injured student-athletes to safely return to competition as soon as possible. ‐ Reduce the risk of athletic injury for our student-athletes.
We work closely with the strength and conditioning program, the coaches, the athletic support staff, school administration, physicians and other healthcare providers to provide the best possible healing environment for our student-athletes.
- Department Chair, Brian Gallagher
HARVARD-WESTLAKE ATHLETIC HALL OF FAME MEMBERS Class of 2003 Sport Class of 2004 Sport David Moran (’92) Boys’ Track & Field Sarah Breech (’97) Girls’ Soccer Jennifer Wong (’92) Girls’ Cross Country Marissa Irvin (’98) Girls’ Tennis Josh Minuto (’93) Wrestling Zach Schwartz (’98) Boys’ Soccer Jesse Stern (’93) Boys’ Track & Field Jim Toring (’93) Boys’ Water Polo Erin Winter (’93) Gymnastics David Brende (’94) Boys’ Swimming Alexis Larsen (’94) Girls’ Swimming Phil Tseng (’94) Boys’ Tennis Jenni Kriste (’96) Girls’ Volleyball Jarron Collins (’97) Boys’ Basketball Jason Collins (’97) Boys’ Basketball Trevor Julian (’97) Boys’ Volleyball
Class of 2005 Sport Class of 2006 Sport John Dewell (’80) Volunteer Joe Axelrad (’00) Boys’ Water Polo Peter Hudnut (’99) Boys’ Water Polo Lee Carlson Coach Rebecca Rauth (’99) Girls’ Track & Field Rich Corso Coach William Strickland (’99) Boys’ Volleyball Imani Dorsey (’00) Girls ‘Soccer Omelogo Udeze (’99) Girls’ Basketball Jeanine Jackson (’00) Girls’ Water Polo Russell Lakey (’00) Boys’ Basketball Anna Russell (’00) Softball Gary Thran Coach
Class of 2007 Sport Class of 2008 Sport Ina Kim (’01) Girls’ Golf Elena Ferrero (’02) Softball Jon Schaeffer (’94) Baseball Karalyn Kuchenbecker (’02) Girls’ Volleyball Karina Siam (’01) Girls’ Basketball Jill Oakes (’02) Girls’ Soccer Barbara Welsh Coach Courtney Schultz (’02) Girls’ Volleyball
Class of 2009 Sport Class of 2010 Sport Brennan Boesch (’03) Baseball Lindsay Flacks (’04) Track & Field Juan Delgadillo (’03) Boys’ Water Polo Shelly Madick (’04) Softball Katie DeWitt (’03) Girls’ Track & Field Bryce Taylor (’04) Basketball Alexandra Dunphy (’03) Girls’ Volleyball Gina Farias-Eisner (’03) Girls’ Soccer Alexandra Fisher (’03) Girls’ Soccer Jason Glushon (’03) Baseball Matthew Lachman (’03) Boys’ Track & Field John Ludden Boys’ Track & Field (’03) Baseball Joshua Satin (’03) Class of 2011 Sport Class of 2012 Sport Jared Bell (’05) Track & Field Bridget Ballard (’06) Cross-Country, Soccer Jay Connolly (’05) Boys’ Water Polo Meredith Butte (’06) Swimming, Track Alexa Merz (’05) Girls’ Swimming Brian Flacks (’06) Girls’ Water Polo Kenji Porter (’05) Wrestling Jesse Quiroz Boys’ Water Polo Ed White (’06) Coach Boys’ Basketball Class of 2013 Sport Class of 2014 Sport Cara Bickers (’07) Track & Field Nadia Dan (’08) Girls’ Water Polo Ryan Calvert (’07) Football Julie Fernandez (’08) Softball Yosepha Greenfield (’07) Basketball Cathryn Quinn (’08) Girls’ Volleyball John Howe (’07) Football Ryan Thacher (’08) Boys’ Tennis Sam Wagner (’05) Boys’ Tennis Class of 2015 Sport Class of 2016 Sport Jim Brink Coach Haley Boyson (’10) Girls’ Soccer Alex Holmes (’00) Football, Basketball Sydney Haydel (’10) Girls’ Basketball Jonathan Martin (’08) Football Nicole Hung (’10) Girls’ Basketball Jim O’Connor Coach Nicole Nesbit (’10) Girls’ Basketball Meg Norton (’10) Girls’ Volleyball Nick Treur (’10) Wrestling
HEAD OF HARVARD-WESTLAKE
FOOTBALL PROGRAM
Scot Ruggles, Harvard-Westlake’s Head Football
Coach, is looking forward to competing in this year’s Angelus league. The focus of Coach Ruggles and his dedicated staff is to continue to teach the players the fundamental skills and instill the work ethic that is required to achieve success at the highest level.
Ruggles has great experience as a coach at both the high school, collegiate and professional level. He started his coaching career at the University of New Hampshire where he worked under offensive coordinator Chip Kelly. Ruggles next moved to Marshall University, helping them win the GMAC Bowl and achieve a top 20 ranking in the NCAA polls. After spending a season with the Colorado Crush of the Arena Football League, he returned to the college ranks, with stints at Central Connecticut State University, University of Missouri-Rolla and Harvard University. At the high school level, Ruggles has worked at St. Genevieve and St. Anthony.
In 2011, Ruggles joined the Wolverine football program as the offensive coordinator directing a unit that averaged over 350 yards and 31 points per game. Now, as the program’s Head Coach Ruggles is inspired by the responsibility of improving the performance of the entire program.
Ruggles oversees every level of football at
Harvard-Westlake, grades 7-12. His familiarity with the school community and high football IQ make him the perfect choice to lead the Wolverines.
SCOT RUGGLES “In 2017 our team and staff will continue to HEAD OF PROGRAM strive to become a first class football program,” said Ruggles. “We look forward to providing HARVARD-WESTLAKE FOOTBALL excitement on Friday nights and hope to see the whole community at Wolverine football games this year.”
2017 VARSITY FOOTBALL SCHEDULE
Date Opponent 08/25 Fri. 7:00 PM Birmingham High School Harvard-Westlake US 09/01 Fri. 7:00 PM Jefferson High School Harvard-Westlake US 09/08 Fri. 7:00 PM @ Garfield High School Garfield High School 09/15 Fri. 7:00 PM El Camino Real High School Harvard-Westlake US 09/22 Fri. 7:30 PM @ Dominguez High School Compton College 10/07 Sat. 7:30 PM Cathedral High School* Harvard-Westlake US 10/13 Fri. 7:00 PM @ Salesian High School* Salesian High School 10/20 Fri. 7:00 PM @ St. Paul High School* St. Paul High School 10/26 Thu. 7:00 PM @ St. Francis High School* St. Francis High School 11/03 Fri. 7:00 PM La Salle High School* Harvard-Westlake US
2017 HARVARD-WESTLAKE VARSITY FOOTBALL ROSTER
# Name Position Height Weight Year 1 Yariv, Jeremy K 5'8 160 Senior 2 Temesvary, Vincent WR/DB 6'0 185 Soph. 3 Terry, Loyal RB/DL 5'10 205 Junior 5 Glover, Thomas RB/DB 5'11 180 Senior Captain 6 Jones, Cameron WR/DB 5'11 190 Senior Captain 7 Johnson, Joshua WR/DB 5'9 170 Junior 8 Wang, Jameson QB 6'0 185 Soph. 10 Long, Terrell WR/DB 6'2 190 Freshman 11 Kang, Brendan WR/DL 6'2 205 Soph. 12 Mendes, Charlie K 6'3 195 Junior 13 Lee, Benjamin WR/DB 5'10 165 Freshman 15 Howe, Marshall QB/LB 5'8 160 Freshman 18 Roderick, Evan QB/DB 6'3 170 Freshman 19 Harleston, Chase WR/DB 6'3 180 Freshman 20 Ladreyt, Nicolas WR/DB 5'8 150 Freshman 21 Kelly, Jacob WR/DB 5'10 170 Soph. 22 Christopher, Solomon WR/DB 5'8 155 Freshman 23 Daniels, Sultan WR/LB 5'11 185 Junior 24 Ahuja, Alec OL/DL 5'10 180 Soph. 26 French, Jack WR/DL 6'3 215 Soph. 28 Young, Kanoa RB/LB 5'10 175 Freshman 34 Fuller, Charlie WR/DB 5'10 175 Soph. 50 Peterson, Jack OL/DL 6'4 225 Senior 51 Wang, Charles OL/LB 6'1 200 Freshman 52 March, Garnett OL/DL 6'3 225 Junior 53 Lee, Aden OL/DL 5'10 175 Freshman 54 Chen, Kevin OL/LB 5'11 200 Junior 55 Goldberg, Will OL/LB 6'0 200 Junior Captain 56 Ehrlich, Max OL/DL 6'0 230 Junior 57 LaTourrette-Ghez, Evan OL/DL 6'2 215 Junior 58 Kay, Julian OL/DL 6'2 225 Freshman 60 Lee Lucas OL/DL 5'10 175 Freshman 62 Seymour, William OL/LB 6'2 205 Soph. 63 Guerrero, Daniel OL/DL 5'10 185 Soph. 65 Rich, David OL/DL 6'4 210 Senior 67 Felix, Spencer OL/DL 5'10 189 Freshman 71 Douglass, Viswa OL/DL 6'0 195 Freshman 70 Temesvary, Nicholas OL/DL 6'1 230 Freshman 72 Weisskopf, Jack OL/DL 6'4 225 Freshman 75 Ameen, Vito OL/DL 6'4 255 Soph. 78 Hearlihy, Kyle OL/DL 6'5 280 Junior 68/87 Douglass, Liam RB/DL 6'5 285 Senior Captain
HARVARD-WESTLAKE FOOTBALL:
SENIORS – CLASS OF 2018
JEREMY YARIV #1 THOMAS GLOVER #5 CAMERON JONES #6 JACK PETERSON #50 CAPTAIN CAPTIAN
DAVID RICH #65 LIAM DOUGLASS #68/87 CAPTAIN
CLASS OF 2019
LOYAL TERRY #3 JOSHUA JOHNSON #7 CHARLIE MENDES #12 SULTAN DANILES #23 GARNETT MARCH #52
KEVIN CHEN #54 WILL GOLDBERG #55 MAX EHRLICH #56 EVAN LATOURRETTE-GHEZ KYLE HEARLIHY #78 CAPTAIN #57
CLASS OF 2020
ALEC AHUJA #24 VINCENT TEMESVARY #2 JAMESON WANG #8 BRENDAN KANG #11 JAKE KELLY #21
JACK FRENCH #26 CHARLIE FULLER #34 WILL SEYMOUR #62 DANIEL GUERRERO #63 VITO AMEEN #75
CLASS OF 2021
TERRELL, LONG #10 BENJAMIN LEE #13 MARSHALL HOWE #15 EVAN RODERICK #18 CHASE HARLESTON #19
NICOLAS LADREYT #20 CHRIS SOLOMON #22 KANOA YOUNG #28 CHARLES WANG #51 ADEN LEE #53
LEE LUCAS #60 SPENCER FELIX #67 VISWA DOUGLASS #71 NICK TEMESVARY #70 JULIAN KAY #58
JACK WEISSKOPF #72
2017 HARVARD-WESTLAKE FOOTBALL COACHING STAFF
SCOT RUGGLES PROGRAM HEAD
PATRICK CARTMILL CHAUNCEY FAGAN DERON BRASWELL ALDO ROCHA DEFENSIVE COORDINATOR SPECIAL TEAMS PASS GAME OFFENSIVE LINE COACH COORDINATOR COORDINATOR
J ANTHONY YOUNG ESUS PEREZ DEFENSIVE LINE COACH WIDE RECEIVERS COACH
HARVARD-WESTLAKE SCHOOL
ATHLETIC ADMINISTRATION & SUPPORT STAFF
TERRY BARNUM HEAD OF ATHLETICS
SCOTT BELLO DARLENE BIBLE JASON KELLY MATT LACOUR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR ATHLETIC DIRECTOR
BRIAN GALLAGHER DR. RICHARD FERKEL KELLI BLUMBERG DIRECTOR TEAM PHYSICIAN SPORTS MEDICINE SPORTS MEDICINE
KYLE CASEY JEFF CRELLING SARAH MOCK SPORTS DIRECTOR SPORTS PERFORMANCE SPORTS PERFROMANCE PERFORMANCE
MIGUEL ACEVEDO ROBERTO HERNANDEZ EQUIPMENT ATHLETICS FACILITIES MANAGER MANAGER
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