Athletics Highlights
Learn more about the recent remarkable achievements of our student-athletes. Explore these highlights, and stay tuned for more updates as our athletes continue to excel and make history throughout the year. Follow Peddie Athletics on Instagram for game day updates.
Varsity Wrestling
Landon Lill ’29 Earns All-American Status
The weekend of Feb. 20, the Peddie varsity wrestling team closed out the season and competed in the National Prep Wrestling Championships, at Lehigh University. Out of 281 recognized schools, the Falcons placed 21st overall, the team’s best finish in over a decade. Landon Lill ’29 went 6-2, finishing seventh overall and earning All-American status, Peddie’s first freshman to do so since 2007. He was one of nine freshmen in the entire tournament who placed.
Varsity Girls Swimming
Hannah Bateman ’26 Breaks Backstroke School Record At Easterns
The Peddie varsity swimming team competed in the Easterns Interscholastic Swimming and Diving Championships at Franklin & Marshall College from Feb. 12 to Feb. 14, to conclude the season. Hannah Bateman ’26 swam to a time of 54.99 and broke a 31-year old 100-yard backstroke record, previously held by Margo Diamond since 1995.
Varsity Girls Indoor Track and Field
Tessa Hughes ’26 breaks 16th School Record
On March 3, Tessa Hughes ’26 placed fourth in the girls 55-meter hurdles with a time of 8.26, an All-East and Peddie record at the 2025-2026 Eastern States Championships at The Armory Track & Field Center. This was Hughes’ 16th school record, a school best. A few weeks prior, she became a NJISAA Prep A Champion twice after winning the girls 55-meter hurdles (8.51) and girls high jump (5’2″).
Varsity Boys Indoor Track and Field
Dasyer Bullock ’26 wins MAPL Long Jump Championship
On Feb. 7, 2026, Dasyer Bullock ’26 competed in the long jump in his high school career and became a MAPL Champion at the 2025-2026 MAPL Indoor Track and Field Championships. His jump of 21 feet, 10 inches, won the event and qualified for Easterns.
Varsity Boys Indoor Track and Field
Boys 4×400-Meter Relay Team Breaks School Record at MAPL Championships
On Feb. 7, 2026, the boys 4×400-meter relay team consisting of Luca Romanelli, Luke Chon, Dasyer Bullock and Elie Meyer won the event and broke a school record with a 3:28.01 at the 2025-2026 MAPL Indoor Track and Field Championships at The Lawrenceville School, according to head coach Tim Brennan.
Varsity Boys Basketball
Post-Grad Sean Griffin ’26 Scores 1,000th Career Point
Peddie varsity boys basketball post-grad Sean Griffin ’26 scored 20 points, including his 1,000th career point on a layup with 7:57 left in the second quarter, in a 71-65 home win over The Hun School of Princeton on Jan. 14.
“It feels great and I’m really glad we could get a win out of it, too, that’s the biggest thing,” Griffin said on his 1,000th career point.
Varsity Girls Swimming
Girls 200-yard medley relay breaks team, pool record
The girls 200-yard medley relay team of Hannah Bateman, Mary Bao, Zoe Tashjian and Lola Early (1:42.86) broke two records in the dual meet hosting Germantown Academy on Jan. 17, 2026, according to head coach Emmett Walling. The first record was a Peddie team record from 2007 and the second was the pool record from 2016. Individually, Mary Bao set a school record in the girls 100-yard breaststroke (1:03.04) that previously stood since 1995.
Varsity Girls Indoor Track and Field
Girls 4×200-Meter Relay Team Breaks School Record
At the Tsai Relays at The Lawrenceville School on Jan. 10, 2026, the girls 4×200-meter relay A-team consisting of Tessa Hughes, Safiyyah Mailk, Maddie Hughes and Foluke Oladeji placed fourth (1:49.27). This broke a Peddie record, according to head coach Tim Brennan. The previous record was 1:52.9 in 2008 held by Christine Lee, Gabrielle Moise, Danielle Dioguardi and Sandra Peprah.
Peddie-Blair Day
The Falcons Retain The Cup
The Falcons won The Cup with a 6-4 victory (with one tie) at Blair Academy and retained the trophy for a second consecutive year on Nov. 8. Cross country won both the boys point and girls point. Varsity girls soccer won 3-1. Varsity girls tennis won 6-1. Varsity boys soccer won 1-0. And junior varsity girls soccer won 5-1.
Varsity Girls Tennis
Varsity Girls Tennis Finishes 37-2 In Last Two Seasons
The Peddie varsity girls tennis team earned its seventh consecutive victory on Peddie-Blair Day on Nov. 8, 2025 at Blair Academy. The Falcons won 6-1 and compile a 37-2 record the last two seasons.
Girls Field Hockey
Anna Treese ’26 Tallies 100th Career Point
Anna Treese ’26 of Peddie varsity girls field hockey tallied her 100th career point, on a goal off a penalty corner with 12:08 left in the third quarter during a road game against Princeton Day School on Oct. 1, 2025. The goal was assisted by Mikala Kuser.
Football
Falcons Football Earns Accolades
Four Peddie varsity football players earned honors during the 2025-26 season. Julian Sandy ’27, Jeremiah Davis ’26, Augie Cassidy ’28 and PG Cooper Allen ’26 were awarded National Football Foundation Delaware Valley Chapter honors.
Cross Country
Elie Meyer ’26, Jerry Wang ’26 place first in Pennington Invitational
At the Pennington Cross Country Invitational at Rosedale Park on Oct. 23, Elie Meyer ‘26 broke through with both a personal record of 16:32 and his first win in a Peddie uniform. In his first race back from injury, Jerry Wang ’26 looked strong and controlled en route to a victory in the boys futures race, breaking the tape in 18:11.