Benjamin D. Courchesne

Benjamin Courchesne

Ben Courchesne will be teaching English, coaching lacrosse, and coaching football.He graduated from Philips Exeter Academy in 2001 (he spent the fall of his junior year in Grenoble) and went on to Connecticut College from which he graduated summa cum laude.Ben was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, earned departmental honors in English, and was awarded the John Edwin Wells Prize for distinguished work in English, the James Baird prize for the best critical essay in English literature, and the Sarah Ensign Cady Prize for reading English aloud "in a meaningful way."A Marshal Scholar nominee and Rhodes Scholar state finalist, Ben served as a student representative to the English department and was involved with several faculty searches.The captain of the men's varsity lacrosse team during both his junior and senior years, Ben was named to the NESCAC All-Academic team.He spent the fall of his junior year studying at St. Catherine's College, Oxford and was a member of the poetry society there.At Connecticut College, Ben also wrote for and served as copy editor of the student newspaper.While he spent the past five summers working at the TruServ distribution center in his native Manchester, NH, he also has experience helping to direct the Tabor Academy Summer Program, where he has been responsible for running the lacrosse program.Last year, Ben worked as one of two teaching fellows at Groton School, where he taught or assisted with three courses; coached football, hockey, and lacrosse; and supervised a boys' dormitory.His Headmaster called him a "rising star of pronounced intellectual focus.He has an unusual maturity and is well-respected and liked by both his students and his colleagues."Ben's professor and the chair of the English department at Connecticut College remarked on Ben's "enormous energy, intelligence, enthusiasm, and commitment to literary study.
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Finally Philadelphia has made good on the trade that sent that other scholar-athlete, Ben "he must be lightning" Franklin to the City of Brotherly Love a few years ago and given us, for the first time away from the land of scrapple and cheesesteaks, Michael Turner.

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