Girls’ Soccer

MAPL CHAMPS

2018, 2022

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 2022 squad won the MAPL championships with a league record of 5-1 and an overall record of 10-5.

View directions to athletic events. To read recaps about past events, go to the "Team News" tab above.

View more photos from the most recent season here.

About Coach Smith

Appointed in 2021 as the head boys' soccer coach, James Smith is now the head coach of the varsity girls' soccer team. He has significant experience coaching club soccer in the surrounding areas of northern New Jersey, including a two-time NJYS State Cup Championship and multiple EDP tournament and league champions for both boys' and girls' soccer clubs. Most recently, he was the assistant coach for the New Jersey Valkyries, an American women's soccer team in the United Soccer W-League.   

Contact Coach Smith at smithj@blair.edu with any questions.

About Coach Chamberlain

Caroline Chamberlain joined Blair's faculty as a member of our science department. Caroline has her bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College and a master's degree from Seton Hall. She has spent the last ten years teaching science at Delbarton. At Delbarton, she coached girls' soccer for two years and track and field for nine years.

About Coach Raley

History faculty member Anna Raley serves as the assistant girls' varsity basketball coach and assistant girls' varsity soccer coach. In 2022, she became the head varsity volleyball coach. Previously, she was the head JV volleyball coach at the Rabun Gap Nacoochee School. Ms. Raley was also a former collegiate soccer and basketball player at Huntingdon College.

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 Trish

Gina Trish comes back to Blair after working as Leadership Stories Project coordinator from 2016-2018 while also serving as art history and design professor at Centenary University in Hackettstown, New Jersey. She will now work in the fine arts department as well as serve as assistant JV girls' soccer coach. Since 2018, she has worked as digital communications and press lead for the New Jersey Lieutenant Governor’s Office and Department of Community Affairs. After earning a BA in fine arts from George Washington University in 1997, Gina has taken on a number of roles related to the arts, communications and marketing, beginning her career as a senior designer at Fidelity Investments in Boston and later becoming art gallery director of GJ Cloninger & Co. in Morris Plains, New Jersey.

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View more photos from the most recent season here.