state championships. They have won the fall championship in 2003, 2004, 2005, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016 and the winter championship in 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, and 2017. In the New England competition they placed first in 2008 and 2009. The boys' cross country team has won the division title 8 times including 4 in a row from 1986 to 1989 and in 1994 had the Footlocker National Cross Country champion Matt Downin. More recently, "The Long Red Line", as the team is called, ranked as high as 23rd in the nation in 2009, and won the state title four years in a row in 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. The former Woodsmen team was the only school team that has competed on the collegiate level. In their final competition year before being dissolved, the team won the 1992 intercollegiate championship, held at Dartmouth College. Special interests The academy allows students to join clubs according to their interests. These clubs include: Asian club, Visual Basic club, Critic (yearbook), Pinkerton Television, Pinkerton Players, Peace Club, International Club, Dance Club, philosophy club, and more. The school also had a Chinese exchange program, where students would raise money to stay at Tianjin with a host family and attend classes in English there. Students from , in exchange, visited Pinkerton. Notable alumni John T. and Margaret A. Bartlett, publishers and editors of The Author & Journalist Samuel Colcord Bartlett, former president of Dartmouth College Samantha Brown, host of the Travel Channel's Great Hotels, Passport to Europe, and Passport to Latin America Zachariah Chandler, mayor of Detroit (1851–52), U.S. Senator from Michigan (1857–75, 1879) and U.S. Secretary of the Interior (1875–1877) Jim Coburn, Republican candidate in New Hampshire gubernatorial election, 2006 William A. Crombie, mayor of Burlington, Vermont Tricia Dunn-Luoma, American Olympic ice hockey player Charles Miller Floyd, Governor of New Hampshire, 1907–1909 George Cochrane Hazelton, United States Representative from Wisconsin, 1877–1883 Gerry Whiting Hazelton, United States Representative from Wisconsin, 1871–1875 Brendan James, singer, songwriter, and pianist Edward J. Normand, prominent lawyer known for representing Lloyd's of London in the dispute over the extent that its insurance covered the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center Frank Nesmith Parsons, Chief Justice of the New Hampshire Supreme Court, 1902–1924 George Washington Patterson, United States Representative and Lieutenant Governor of New York, 1849–1851 Keri