Brian Powers

An expert in Lacrosse, Soccer, and English 

Photo by Max Linton

Brian Powers is the new head coach of the Boys' Varsity Lacrosse Team, taking up the role after Doug Worthen's retirement. Before becoming the coach, Powers played here at Middlesex School, continuing the tradition of alumni coaching the program for the past four decades under Ned Herter, Doug Worthen, and now Brian Powers. 

During his athletic career at Middlesex, Powers played on the varsity soccer and hockey teams as a freshman and lacrosse as a sophomore, where he played as a defensive midfielder. Later, he transitioned to long stick defense. The lacrosse team was strong during his time here. During his freshman year when he wasn't on the team, they won the league; however, after that year, they did not win again, but the team was always in the top four in the ISL. Then, after a strong junior year, he committed to play at Tufts, one of six players to commit to college lacrosse that year. 

While at Tufts, he worked hard and started on the team in his junior and senior years. In addition, Powers majored in History and minored in English. He then went to graduate school, earning a Master's in teaching again from Tufts while sticking with the mens’ lacrosse program as a graduate assistant coach. 

After his time at Tufts ended, he became an assistant lacrosse coach at Moses Brown School during COVID, and then quickly went to Catholic Memorial, where he became the head coach. At Catholic Memorial, he "loved the people, but it was very different from Middlesex," so when the opportunity arose with Doug Worthen stepping down, he returned to his alma mater since "Middlesex has always been the dream." Now at Middlesex, he is working to meet the team members and follow up last year's strong season with another great season.

Brian Powers is not just the new lacrosse coach, but he is also an English teacher who teaches ninth and tenth grade students. When Brian Powers came to Middlesex, English class was not one of his strengths, but after going through the Writing Workshop program and the English curriculum, English became his strongest class, in addition to History. Now, he has returned to school to continue to make English a strength for every student.

In addition to teaching English, he is also an assistant coach for girls' varsity soccer since it helps him get to know more students he might not otherwise meet, and as a student, he played soccer here.

Powers graduated in 2015 and was a day student from Winchester. Middlesex taught him many other things besides lacrosse, like how to manage time well, analyze any given book, and respond to prompts persuasively and with structure. It is a dream come true for Mr. Powers to return to the beautiful campus of Middlesex, where he had so many memories of students, like the amazing environment and comradery on the teams he played for, graduation, and all the other fun times he had. 

Timmy Hale