school's cross-country course. The fields are adjacent to the Head of School's house, and are commonly referred to by students as 'Club Fields.' Administrative facilites Rev. Richardson W. Schell '69 House houses the Admissions and Alumni & Development offices. RAD House is a small building home to the offices of class Deans, named for a Kent student in the early 1920s whose initials were 'RAD.' Athletics Kent offers 22 interscholastic sports with 50 interscholastic teams from the thirds, Junior Varsity, and Varsity levels. More than three-quarters of the student body participates in interscholastic sport. Kent is a member of the Founders League, a competitive athletic league composed of NEPSAC schools. Its mascot is the Lion, although it once was the Fighting Episcopalian. Despite Hotchkiss School's location in the same county, Kent's rival is The Loomis Chaffee School and the two schools have a day dedicated to competing against each other, historically called Loomis Day. Interscholastic sports offered Fall Football Boys Soccer Girls Soccer Boys Cross Country Girls Cross Country Field Hockey Volleyball Winter Boys Basketball Girls Basketball Boys Ice Hockey Girls Ice Hockey Boys Squash Girls Squash Boys Swimming Girls Swimming Co-ed Varsity Diving Spring Baseball Softball Boys Tennis Girls Tennis Co-ed Varsity Golf Boys Crew Girls Crew Boys Lacrosse Girls Lacrosse Crew The Kent School Boat Club was begun at Kent in 1922 with the encouragement of Father Sill. Sill was the coxswain of the Columbia crew which won the first ever Poughkeepsie Regatta. Kent competed for the Thames Challenge Cup in 1933 with the support of President Franklin D. Roosevelt who sent a letter to Sill offering his "good wishes for a successful trip" and commenting on how "the presence of a crew of American school boys will be helpful in strengthening the ties between good sportsmen of the two countries." That year, Kent won the Thames Challenge Cup. The Times in Britain wrote, "Kent School were almost certainly the best crew that ever rowed in the Thames Cup." Kent competed at Henley 32 times and won 5 times, most recently in 1972. The school was featured twice in Life magazine, once in May, 1937 and again in June, 1948. Stuart Auchincloss '48 was featured on the cover of the latter publication. Kent Boys Crew also won the New England Championship Regatta 25 times since 1947. The girls team began in 1973. They won Henley in 2002 and