Despite their losses this week against Hotchkiss and Noble and Greenough School, Girls’ Varsity Field Hockey is not ready to give up. The team has had a rocky start, with losses against Tabor, Milton, and Deerfield. However, Head Coach Sam Fahey knows that the team will continue to grow throughout the season.

Speaking confidently out into Phillips Church, the nave illuminated by brilliant sunshine, Aveen Burney delivered a meditation that masterfully weaved the life story of her maternal grandparents, Nanno and Nanna, with a reflection on her evolving identity over her four years at Exeter. Titled “It’s not so much a departure as a return,” her meditation was the natural distillation of over four years’ worth of growth—a forty-page document of ideas she had been curating since prep fall, condensed into a single, powerful moment shared with the Exeter community on April 23.

Speaking confidently out into Phillips Church, the nave illuminated by brilliant sunshine, Aveen Burney delivered a meditation that masterfully weaved the life story of her maternal grandparents, Nanno and Nanna, with a reflection on her evolving identity over her four years at Exeter. Titled “It’s not so much a departure as a return,” her meditation was the natural distillation of over four years’ worth of growth.