Bob Lathrop is in his fifth season coaching the Loomis Chaffee girls. Each year, he has seen the coaching get better in the prep school ranks. The level of play is beginning to rise because of it.

The rejection was brutal. At the age of 16, Priscilla Frederick-Loomis attended a model agency casting session in New York City where she was told that she was “too heavy.” Even now at the age of 31, ...