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Moses Brown School Coach Named Private School Coach of the Year
Team Gets Sportsmanship Award for Unprecedented 7th Consecutive Year
PROVIDENCE- Moses Brown School is proud to announce that MB Boys’ Varsity Head Coach Eric Aaronian, of Seekonk, was again named R.I. Private School Coach of the Year by the National Soccer Coaches Association of America, his second time to be so honored by the NSCAA. A member of the upper school science faculty, Aaronian has coached the boys’ varsity team for the last eight years. “I am incredibly lucky to be able to coach such wonderful student-athletes,” says Aaronian. “They see the fields as an extension of the classroom and attack practice and games with as much effort and enthusiasm as they put into their schoolwork.”
Moses Brown congratulates the MB boys’ soccer team for winning the Division II Sportsmanship Award for an unprecedented seventh year in a row. The Sportsmanship Award is voted on by the R.I. Coaches Association, recognizing the team that best displays integrity, character, and fair play during the entire season.
The MB boys’ varsity soccer team completed an undefeated season (17-0-2) and won the DII State Championship, their first state title since winning the DIII State Championship in 2007.
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MB also congratulates senior Poom Mera ’17, from Swansea, Massachusetts, who is one of three Rhode Island students named as an NSCAA All-New England selection and the only Rhode Island school soccer player named as an NSCAA All-American. This is the first time in MB history that an MB student has been named as an NSCAA All-American player for soccer. Mera was voted to receive this award by Rhode Island coaches in all divisions.
Founded in 1784, Moses Brown School is an independent, college preparatory school in Providence, Rhode Island, enrolling 775 boys and girls, nursery through grade 12. The school's founder – an innovative thinker, philanthropist, and entrepreneur named Moses Brown – envisioned a progressive school that defined excellence. Today, his Quaker school continues to help children reach their full potential, and to do both well and good in the world. For more information, see www.mosesbrown.org.
