Athletic Clubs

List of 4 items.

• Aquatic Club (HHAC):

  Interested in competitive swimming, diving, adult masters, or water polo? Visit the Hamden Hall Aquatic Club website to learn more about our programs and upcoming events!

   

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  Swim Team 2025-2026 Short Course Season
  Registration Opens: September 1, 2025
  Register Here

  
  NEW SWIMMER EVALUATION:
  August 26-28
  5:30 p.m. - 6:30 p.m.
  No registration required.

• Basketball Club (HHBC):

  Fall 2025 Skills & Drills Fall Program
  Boys & Girls Grades 3-11
  Hamden Hall's Beckerman Athletic Center
  225 Skiff Street, Hamden, CT
  *Open to all communities.

  If your son or daughter loves basketball, this is a program where they can learn the game and improve on basic fundamentals each week. We want young people who love hoop and have a desire to improve their shooting, passing, dribbling, and much more.
  
  Gold Package: $400 / Includes: All 15 dates and T-Shirt  

  Silver Package: $300 / Includes: 10 Sessions 
  Individual Session Packages: $35 / Includes One Lesson and Instruction
  
  CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.
  
  September: 17, 21, 24, 28
  October: 1, 5, 8, 12, 15, 19, 22, 26, 29
  November: 2, 5
  
  Wednesday Session Times:
  Grades 3-6:  6-7:15 p.m. 
  Grades 7-11:  7:15-8:30 p.m. 
  Sunday Session Times:
  Grades 3-6:  2-3:15 p.m. Grades 7-11:  3:15-4:30 p.m.
  
  Head Coach: Sean Doherty / sdoherty@hamdenhall.org 
  Coach Doherty is the Head Coach of the Hamden Hall Varsity
  Boys’ Basketball Team and brings over 20 years of collegiate coaching experience. Under his leadership, the Hornets won
  back-to-back Fairchester League Regular Season and Playoff Championships (2017-18 & 2018-19) and captured the NEPSAC Class B Championship in 2018-19 with an impressive 25-2 record. Before Hamden Hall, Doherty spent nine years as an assistant coach at Division I Quinnipiac University, coached at Salem State College with a dominant 91-20 record, and helped lead Holy Cross to three NCAA Tournament appearances. 
  
  
  

   

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• Volleyball Club (HHVC):

            HAMDEN HALL VOLLEYBALL CLUB PROGRAMS

                      ***OPEN TO THE PUBLIC***

   

  Hamden Hall Volleyball Club Tryouts for the 2025-2026 Travel Season

  • We have 14U, 15U, 16U and 17U teams.

   

              CLICK HERE TO REGISTER FOR TRYOUTS

  
  ELIGIBILITY FOR EACH TEAM: Click Here

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  Gary Aurora

  Director of Hamden Hall Volleyball Club

  gaurora@hamdenhall.org

   

  Coach Aurora brings 16 years of experience as a high school head volleyball coach and 4 years as a club coach. 

  His accomplishments include:

  • Advancing to the semi-finals of Class-C in the New England playoffs (2024-2025)
  • Qualifying for the Fairchester Athletic Association playoffs (2023-2025)
  • Qualifying for the CIAC Class-S State Volleyball Tournament six times (2001-2006)
  • Reaching the quarter-finals four times (2001-2003, 2006)
  • Coaching four First Team All-Shoreline players and two First Team All-State players
  • Supporting the recruiting process for his players who have played or are playing in college

• Wrestling Club (HHWC):

  
  Follow our social media and check the Athletics page for updates on future sessions and opportunities.

  
  Please contact Kiernan Griffin for additional information.
  kgriffin@hamdenhall.org

  
  
  

  About Coach Kiernan Griffin

  Hamden Hall alum Kiernan Griffin (‘00) returned in 2021 to lead the Wrestling and Boys’ Varsity Lacrosse teams and now oversees the newly established Hamden Hall Wrestling Club. A former multi-sport athlete, he earned 13 varsity letters in football, wrestling, and lacrosse and was a two-time National Prep qualifier.

  Kiernan continued his athletic career at Trinity College, later studying Fine Art Photography in California. He built a successful contracting business before returning to Connecticut, where he coached at Hamden Hall and led youth lacrosse programs.