{"id":416,"date":"2026-06-23T12:04:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=416"},"modified":"2026-06-23T12:04:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-23T12:04:19","slug":"crls-will-see-14-athlete-alumni-play-college-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cambridgemovinghub.com\/?p=416","title":{"rendered":"CRLS will see 14 athlete alumni play college sports"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Last week, 14 seniors graduated from Cambridge Rindge and Latin School with commitments to play their sports at the collegiate level.<\/p>\n

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Sophia Juanes Seto will be running NCAA Division I track and field at Cornell University in the fall. At CRLS, Juanes Seto runs the one and two-mile outdoor events, and holds the school\u2019s two-mile outdoor record, which she set while finishing second in the state in the Division 1 championship meet on May 29th, noted CRLS director of athletics Tom Arria, who said via email \u201cit broke her previous record set in 2024 by 14 seconds.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Though Juanes Seto has been running track since she was in eighth grade, she didn\u2019t decide she wanted to run in college until her junior year. Juanes Seto said her CRLS coaches were very supportive through the recruitment process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 2026 recruitment cycle was historic for a boys\u2019 soccer team that went to the state quarterfinals. \u201cFor the first time in program history, we\u2019re sending [four] students to play in [the] NCAA,\u201d outgoing CRLS boys soccer coach Niko Emack said via email. [Disclosure: Emack is a member of Cambridge Day\u2019s board.] The four are Andre Baraglia, brothers Michael and Rhys Brown and Angel Nunez. Baraglia will play at Hunter College, which won the Division III championship in 2024, while the other three will play at Emerson.<\/p>\n

Support from the school<\/h2>\n

Arria described the school\u2019s \u201cresponsibility\u201d in the recruitment process as being to \u201cguide\u201d students and to \u201chelp them have a better understanding\u201d of the process.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The school hosts a college recruitment information night each November, and invites students from all grades to attend. Last year\u2019s event had a panel featuring a college coach, a senior who had already been offered an athletic scholarship, and an alum who had received a Division I scholarship. Rounding out the panel was Jordan Roldon, a school guidance counselor and the varsity girls volleyball coach, who \u201cknows the landscape of the college recruitment process and the eligibility center very, very well,\u201d Arria said. Additionally, the department keeps coaches informed on the recruitment process so they can support students as needed.<\/p>\n

Andre Baraglia, who is committed to play soccer at Hunter College, described the recruitment process as \u201ca lot of emailing.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Arria, the emphasis is on helping students choose the right \u201cenvironment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe talk about the idea of making sure you\u2019re picking the right school for you,\u201d he said, to make sure that \u201cif you don\u2019t have athletics, you\u2019re still going to want to be at that school.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Oliver Henke, playing baseball in college was \u201calways a goal\u201d of his.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt wasn\u2019t something that I always knew was going to happen, but I always did everything I could to make it a possibility,\u201d Henke said. Henke will be playing NCAA Division III baseball at Swarthmore College.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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When Michael Brown, who will be playing Division III soccer at Emerson College, was a mentor for freshmen at CRLS, his main piece of advice for them was to join a sports team. Brown feels strongly that high school sports are a valuable way to gain \u201cconnections and community.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Henry Thompson-Silbey has played on one of CRLS\u2019s smaller teams, rugby, since his freshman year. \u201cWe haven\u2019t had the best seasons because of [a] lack of players,\u201d Thompson-Silbey said, explaining that for a 15 on 15 sport, they\u2019ve usually only had 18-22 players. This year, however, the team had 28 students playing, and Thompson-Silbey felt he became closer with many of his teammates.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been really fun to\u2026 grow the team,\u201d Thompson-Silbey said.<\/p>\n

Farewell to a community <\/h2>\n

For many of the athletes, it will be hard to say goodbye to the CRLS athletic community.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis [was] my 12th and last season as Falcon,\u201d Juanes Seto said. \u201cI\u2019m definitely gonna miss the people on the team,\u201d she added, noting that they \u201chave a really good team culture.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been playing with the same group of kids for like my whole life,\u201d Henke said. He described how special it was to \u201cplay at St. Peter\u2019s Field in front of everyone who has coached you throughout your life.\u201d<\/p>\n

Outside of high school sports, \u201cyou\u2019re never going to be in the same classes with all your teammates, take that bus ride every day, be at practice every single day, eat lunch with your teammates every day,\u201d said Brown.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s just such a privilege to be able to represent the city that I\u2019ve lived in my entire life and that I love so much,\u201d Henke said.<\/p>\n

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The full list of student commitments:<\/p>\n