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Coaches
![Suffield Academy Member Paul Caginalp]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1681911777/suffieldacademyorg/fbw16euxi8zbujdfevqw/pcaginalp.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1681911777/suffieldacademyorg/fbw16euxi8zbujdfevqw/pcaginalp.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1681911777/suffieldacademyorg/fbw16euxi8zbujdfevqw/pcaginalp.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1681911777/suffieldacademyorg/fbw16euxi8zbujdfevqw/pcaginalp.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1681911777/suffieldacademyorg/fbw16euxi8zbujdfevqw/pcaginalp.jpg","width":1310}])
![Nate Zwirko]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1681911776/suffieldacademyorg/ujiydtxkdaw1iuesfgpx/nzwirko.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1681911776/suffieldacademyorg/ujiydtxkdaw1iuesfgpx/nzwirko.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1681911776/suffieldacademyorg/ujiydtxkdaw1iuesfgpx/nzwirko.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1681911776/suffieldacademyorg/ujiydtxkdaw1iuesfgpx/nzwirko.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1681911776/suffieldacademyorg/ujiydtxkdaw1iuesfgpx/nzwirko.jpg","width":1310}])
Results
vs.
Xavier High School, Wilbraham & Monson Academy
Away
Other
Wilbraham 946, Xavier 911, Suffield 907
The riflery team traveled to Blue Trail Range to compete in a tri-meet versus Wilbraham and Xavier. Both teams are traditionally strong programs and today was no exception. Wilbraham won the meet and Xavier took second place. Tony Luo placed first for the Tigers overall with a 186. Brendan Mastella and Robin Su were hot on his heels with 183s. MN Mayalarp scored in his first varsity match with a 179 and Harold Xu finished out the top five with a 176. MN's 179 was a slight increase on his PR. Howard Yu also shot a new PR with a 174.
Suffield travels to Wilbraham's range on Saturday to improve on our first showing of the season.
vs.
Wilbraham & Monson Academy
Away
Loss
911-939
The Riflery team went to Wilbraham for an away meet against last year's champions. While Wilbraham won the match 939 to 911, Suffield had some excellent highlights. Brendan Mastella shot a 188, which is an excellent score. Jerry Chen shot a new PR with a 182, which officially placed him on the Varsity team as this was his first time scoring in a match. Finally MN Mayalarp, who officially qualified as Varsity in our first meet of the year, shot his second PR in a row with a 183. The team is developing nicely but has a lot of work to do before the end of the season.
vs.
Wilbraham & Monson Academy
Away
Loss
928-947
Suffield hosted Wilbraham at the Hartford Gun Club on Wednesday. While Suffield lost the match 947 to 928, we have a lot to be proud of. First, this is the best team score we have shot all season by sixteen points. Sixteen points is a huge margin in Riflery and it puts us squarely in the running for second or third in the state. Second, Robin Su was medalist in the match with a 192, topping his previous PR by one point. We have not had a medalist in a match versus Wilbraham for several years. Also scoring in the match were Tony Luo with a new PR of 188, Jerry Chen with a new PR of 185, Brendan Mastella with a 182 and MN Mayalarp with a 181. It was a solid match for Suffield that showed how much our hard work in practice is paying off. Many of our shooters are seeing a new PR each week as we move into the championship season.
vs.
Xavier High School
Away
Loss
924-937
After a well needed long weekend, the Varsity Riflery Team was back in action against Xavier. Many of the tigers shot well, including a standout performance by Brendan Mastella. He shot a 192 for a new PR with an amazing 49 out of 50 in standing position. His hard work in standing has obviously paid off as we head into the championship season.
Also scoring PRs for Suffield were Thomas Koester with a 188, and MN Mayalarp with a 184. Robin Su scored a 185 and Jerry Chen finished up the scoring with a 175. We ended the match with a 924, slightly off pace from our season high of 928.
While Suffield did well, Xavier shot their best score of the season with an incredible 937. Suffield will have a chance for a rematch against Xavier in a postal match at the end of this week as we prepare for the all state gallery match and all state championships in the next few weeks.
4-position section
Away
The Riflery team took six shooters to the 4-position national NRA match this weekend. The shooters will be ranked against other shooters of similar age across the country. So far in Connecticut:
Robin Su ranks seventh with a score of 377
Brendan Mastella ranks 9th with a score of 367
Jerry Chen ranks 12th with a score of 358
Thomas Koester ranks 13th with a score of 352
MN Mayalarp ranks 17th with a score of 350
Tony Luo ranks 20th with a score of 349
A perfect score would be a 400.
More shooters will shoot the match throughout this month, so these rankings are subject to change, but it is likely that all of our shooters will stay in the top 30 for the state. Usually there are around 110 shooters total that participate in the match.
This coming Saturday several of our shooters will take on the 3-position NRA national match which is an even harder event. It is a grueling course of fire that takes over two hours. It is exactly the same course of fire as the Olympic athletes shoot.
Schedule
Roster
| Name | Class | Hometown |
|---|---|---|
| Liangchen Bao | 2026 | Shanghai |
| Seungyeon Byun | 2024 | Gyeonggi-do |
| Zhuo Chen | 2024 | Chengde |
| Noreen Flanagan | 2025 | Wilbraham, MA |
| Theophilus Henle | 2023 | Suffield, CT |
| Dalida Janevathanavitya | 2025 | Bangkok |
| Naoya Kobayashi | 2025 | Tokyo |
| Thomas Koester | 2024 | Bronxville, NY |
| Zeyi Li | 2026 | Guangzhou |
| Zeyang Luo | 2023 | Beijing |
| Brendan Mastella | 2023 | Farmington, CT |
| Thaveelarp Mayalarp | 2024 | Bangkok |
| Vivian Prescott | 2025 | Somers, CT |
| Abigail Quinby | 2025 | Windsor, CT |
| Jiaxuan Su | 2024 | Shanghai |
| Nene Uchiumi | 2023 | Tokyo |
| Jiayi Xiao | 2024 | Shenzhen City |
| Zhihao Xu | 2023 | Shanghai |
| Hao Yu | 2024 | Xi'an |
| Haotian Zhang | 2024 | Shanghai |
| Caelyn Zwirko | 2026 | Suffield, CT |
Team Overview
The Suffield Academy Riflery Team continues to be one of the premier sports programs at Suffield Academy.
In the last two decades the team has earned the Prep School Championship title three times [1999, 2000, and 2001] and the Connecticut High School Championship title seven years in a row [2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015] with six of the seasons being undefeated. The team has also been runner up twice [2003 and 2016]. The team record for the last two decades is an amazing 193 – 36 – 1.
8-Time Western New England Independent School Riflery League Champions: 1964 • 1968 • 1996 • 1997 • 1999 • 2000 • 2001 • 2002
