Boys’ Soccer

MAPL CHAMPS

2017

Blair boys' soccer provides our student-athletes with an elite high school soccer experience where they develop into young men who are prepared to succeed and lead on and off the field in college and beyond, grow their knowledge and love of soccer, and make memories and friendships that last a lifetime.

Our student-athletes are respectful, ambitious, and hardworking young men who have balance in their lives.

We have a constantly evolving game model, which is a document that outlines our identity on the field and is taught to the team during preseason each year.

We play in the Mid-Atlantic Prep League (MAPL) and fill out our schedule with schools in New Jersey and Eastern Pennsylvania. Each year, our players have at least two opportunities to play in front of hundreds of fans in our marquee games: Soccer Fest and Peddie Day. 

About Coach Grady

Eamon Grady was appointed head coach of Blair boys' soccer in March of 2025. Prior to Blair, Coach Grady played soccer at Williams College, where he captained the team and earned All-NESCAC honors in 2023. In 2022, his Williams team finished the year as the #2 team in NCAA Division III after making a run to the national championship game. In addition to his college soccer playing background, Coach Grady worked for the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer in the summer of 2023 and holds the U.S. Soccer Federation National "D" Coaching License. Coach Grady prides himself on being an intentional, positive, process-oriented, and reflective coach who takes a holistic approach to player development. Aside from coaching at Blair, Coach Grady teaches calculus, precalculus, and statistics in the mathematics department, and is a dorm head for senior boys in Hoffman House.

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About Coach Parauda

Assistant coach Tom Parauda is an English teacher who joined Blair's faculty in 1988. In addition to teaching classes, he is a monitor and the School's daily academic coordinator. Tom completed his undergraduate work in English and philosophy at Fordham University in Bronx, New York, in 1986 and went on to earn an MA in British and American literature from Columbia University in New York City in 1987. He is assistant coach of both the varsity boys' soccer and basketball teams. Tom does dorm duty in the new boys’ dormitory and lives in Millbrook Cottage with his wife, Christine.

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Blair soccer is rich in history and tradition. We maintain three levels of competitive, interscholastic soccer (varsity, junior varsity and 3rds), providing opportunities for players at all levels to participate in and enjoy the sport, while also giving future varsity players the chance to mature and develop.

Like the varsity team, the JV team plays against Blair’s Mid-Atlantic Prep League (MAPL) rivals and a number of local high schools. The soccer season culminates on Peddie Day in mid-November, when each of Blair’s fall athletic teams vies with Peddie for the coveted Kelley-Potter Cup.

About Coach Dollhopf

William Dollhopf, a 2025 graduate of Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, teaches math and coaches boys' JV soccer. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and physics and served as a university course assistant in both departments. In summer 2024, William completed a teaching fellowship with Generation Teach in Boston, where he taught two sections of engineering and led sports programming for middle school students. He also served as captain of Wesleyan’s varsity track and field team. William is no stranger to the boarding school world, having graduated from The Hill School in 2021.

About Coach Coronado

Fluent in French and Spanish, Mateo Coronado came to Blair after working as a Climate Corps Live Interpreter at Eastie Farm in Boston. He served as the interpreter for five fellows who do not speak English, furthering the farm’s mission to educate local communities about climate change and sustainability. He also has experience translating scripts and interviews about an indigenous tribe from the municipality of Mocoa in the department of Putumayo, Colombia. Prior to that, he served as an interpreter in translation and closed captioning for Boston Public Schools, Company One Theatre, Carter’s Jazz Clinics, and Apollinaire Theatre, all in Massachusetts. Earlier in his career, Mateo served as a teaching assistant and live interpreter at Tufts University, taught art at the Brookline Arts Center, and taught English as a second language through the italki learning platform. Mateo earned a bachelor of fine arts in studio art in 2018 from Tufts’ School of the Museum of Fine Arts.

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View more photos from the most recent season here.

Blair soccer is rich in history and tradition. We maintain three levels of competitive, interscholastic soccer (varsity, junior varsity and 3rds), providing opportunities for players at all levels to participate in and enjoy the sport, while also giving future varsity players the chance to mature and develop.

Like the varsity team, the thirds team plays against Blair’s Mid-Atlantic Prep League (MAPL) rivals and a number of local high schools. The soccer season culminates on Peddie Day in mid-November, when each of Blair’s fall athletic teams vies with Peddie for the coveted Kelley-Potter Cup.

About Coach Mundo

A Spanish teacher with 16 years of experience at the elementary, secondary and post-secondary levels, Jaime Mundo joined Blair’s language faculty in 2017. He earned his bachelor’s degree in Spanish language and culture at the University of Puerto Rico (2001) and his master’s degree in Spanish language at the City University of New York (2012). Most recently, Jaime received his doctorate from the University at Albany SUNY, in 2021. At Blair, he teaches Spanish, coaches thirds soccer and oversees weight training. Jaime and his wife, Mayra, live in Ciancia House with their dog, Coco.

About Coach Cholnoky

History teacher Peter Cholnoky comes to Blair from the Forman School in Litchfield, Connecticut, where he also served as a dorm parent, coach and advisor. Prior to that, Peter taught world history at Milton Area High School in Pennsylvania, and conducted in-depth research on U.S. covert operations in Latin America through the Emerging Scholars Program at Bucknell University. He earned his B.A. in history with a minor in education from Bucknell in 2022, graduating cum laude. In addition to teaching history, he is the assistant boys' 3rds soccer coach, and assistant ski coach.

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View more photos from the most recent season here.