Girls' Soccer

MAPL CHAMPS

2018

Our philosophy is one of hard work and positive team chemistry. Coaches push players to fulfill their potential as both athletes and, eventually, as leaders of the team.

Blair’s varsity squad carries between 18 and 22 players. The team trains six days a week, and a varsity player is expected to attend every practice and game. The training sessions are typically two hours long, including warm up, and the team usually competes in matches on Wednesday and Saturday.

Since Blair fielded its first girls' varsity soccer team in fall 1990, the team has enjoyed great success including a prep “B” state championship, two appearances in the prep “A” finals and several semi-final berths. The 2012 squad boasted a 12-4 record, along with state tournament wins over both Peddie and Lawrenceville.

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View more photos from the 2021 season on Blair's Photoshelter.

About Coach Mamukelashvili

A 2017 Bard College graduate, David Mamukelashvili teaches English and serves as head coach of the girls’ varsity soccer team at Blair. He joined Blair’s faculty in 2018 following a year as an English teacher and social media coordinator at The Patrick School in Hillside, New Jersey. David double-majored in philosophy and art history at Bard and played varsity soccer and tennis. He also served as a tutor in the Bard Prison Initiative program and helped run Bard’s soccer camp.

Contact Coach Mamukelashvili at mamukd@blair.edu for any questions.

About Coach Middleton

Cency Middleton joins Blair's english department in 2021 and assistant girls' varsity soccer coach. Ms. Middleton played soccer at Washington and Jefferson College, winning three PAC champions and participating in multiple NCAA tournament games. In 2015, she served as the head coach of the girls' varsity soccer team at the Berkshire School. Cency will also be the assistant coach of the skiing team at Blair.

Blair has a JV team for the development of less experienced players. The JV girls’ soccer team plays 14 to 16 matches per season, including participation in Peddie Day—an annual athletic contest during which all fall sports teams vie for the Kelley-Potter Cup—and at which a JV victory is equal to one achieved at the varsity level. On average, each season, one to four former JV players move up to the varsity level. There are also occasions throughout the season when JV players have the opportunity to train with the varsity team and coaching staff.

About Coach Williams

Head coach Ann Williams is director of Timken Library. A Blair faculty member since 2007, she teaches in the history department, serves as a monitor to the freshman class, and coaches girls’ JV soccer and softball teams. Ann completed her undergraduate work in English at the University of Delaware in 1981 and earned her graduate degree in library and information science at Rutgers University in 2006. A resident of Blairstown for more than 25 years, she worked at Blairstown Elementary School prior to coming to Blair along with her two children: Robbie '12 and Kelly '15.

About Coach Paone 

A 2018 graduate of Bates College, Marianna Paone joined Blair’s faculty in 2018 as a history teacher and rowing coach as well as help coach for the JV girls’ basketball team, and JV girls' soccer team. She majored in history with a concentration in European history and minored in educational studies, gaining classroom experience as a teacher’s assistant at several Lewiston, Maine, elementary schools and as a fifth-grade teacher at Oranjekloof Moravian Primary School in Cape Town, South Africa. Marianna was a four-year member of Bates’ NCAA-champion varsity rowing team, and she received the Bates athletic department's Senior Scholar Award in 2018.

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View photos from the 2019-2020 season on Blair's Photoshelter or past years on Blair's Flickr.