According to professional baseball scouts, Baldelli shared many similarities to Hall of Fame outfielder Joe DiMaggio ever since his days as a prep star.

The 6 ' 5 " ( 1. 96 m ) Rider was a prep star at Encinal High School in Alameda, California ( just outside of Oakland ) and was one of the top rated players in the state.

Before playing at Williams, he was a star of his prep school soccer team at Choate Rosemary Hall in Connecticut.

Following his senior season Ainge was named all-state, prep star all-American, and the 2003 Oregon Gatorade Player of the Year.

In 1947, the Miami, Florida Peanut Bowl, featuring top high school teams around the country, rescinded the invitation it had extended to Ken High to play in the annual prep classic game when organizers saw a photograph of its star.

He was always well groomed and well tailored, and he had that rich man's look which was authentic enough and came from two good prep schools and a proper university.

While at prep school as a boarder his mother wrote to tell him she was marrying Cecil Pye, a bank manager, and when he was at home for the holidays his new family consisted of his mother, his stepfather and Christopher, his stepfather's son by an earlier marriage.

Years later, Blair mordantly recalled his prep school in the essay " Such, Such Were the Joys ", claiming among other things that he " was made to study like a dog " to earn a scholarship, which he alleged was solely to enhance the school's prestige with parents.

David Astor described him as looking like a prep school master, while according to the Special Branch dossier, Orwell's tendency to dress " in Bohemian fashion " revealed that the author was " a Communist ".

Robin Williams was mainly known for his anarchic standup comedy and his popular TV role as the wisecracking alien in Mork & Mindy ; in this film he played an inspirational teacher in a dramatic story about conformity and rebellion at an exclusive New England prep school in the 1950s.

On his first appearance as a three-year-old, Nijinsky won his prep race by beating Deep Run in the Gladness Stakes at the Curragh in April and was then sent back to Newmarket for the 2000 Guineas over one mile.

The writers Peter Stansky and William Abrahams, in their 1972 The Unknown Orwell, noted :" Eric Blair looked back unforgivingly on the world before 1914-it was that world that had sent him to his prep school-while George Orwell could believe it was superior to what came after it, and looked back to it nostalgically in Coming Up for Air.

From 1967 until 1994, the abbey ran a prep school for boys aged 7 to 13, but was obliged to close it as the school became financially unviable due to dwindling numbers of boarders.

The institution was formerly three schools: Shattuck School ( college prep for boys, grades 9-12 ), St. Mary's Hall ( college prep for girls, grades 9-12 ) and St. James School ( for younger boys ).

* The Brick Academy-A restoration of what was known as the Basking Ridge Classical School, a prep school for those hoping to attend Princeton University.

After ordering personnel to transport these variously injured patients into the ship's operating room and prep them for surgery, Demara disappeared to his room with a textbook on general surgery and proceeded to speed-read the various surgeries he was now forced to perform, including major chest surgery.

In 2004 this was amended with the construction of a purpose built prep school on the main campus.

Baker was named to the school's varsity team at the age of fourteen and helped St. Paul's defeat some of the best prep schools and universities in the United States.

It was granted to male German Gymnasium ( prep school ) students who voluntarily enlisted for military service before graduation.

Anholt met Sheila when he was teaching Latin in a Surrey prep school and she was teaching infants.

In 1953, Donahue was a member of the first graduating class of St. Edward High School, an all-boys college prep Catholic private high school run by the Congregation of Holy Cross in suburban Lakewood, Ohio.

The ages currently range from 11 to 18, although " Leigh Hunt " was originally a prep school which took children from the ages of 8 / 9, in preparation for the senior school.

" The first study was conducted by three prep schools — the Lawrenceville School, Phillips Academy and Phillips Exeter Academy — and three universities — Harvard University, Princeton University and Yale University.

Elway was the nations most highly recruited prep athlete in 1984.

The prep school continued with just Aberlour but even so there were always problems with the that separated the main Gordonstoun campus and the school.

At the age of seven, when asked what newspaper he reads, if any, Andrew stated that he reads The Financial Times ( although he later revealed he was in fact just repeating what his father had told him when asked the same question ), and all three could say which prep schools, public schools and universities they planned to attend ( Oxford / Cambridge in all cases ); two named the specific Oxbridge college they intended to join.

The measure calls for States to provide highly effective teachers, early childhood education, college prep curricula and equitable instructional resources to all students who attend public schools.

Chatman was a highly decorated prep running back at Franklin High School in Seattle, Washington, His Head Football Coach was Joseph Slye ( who also coached NFL stars Corey Dillon and James Hasty ).

It seems likely, however, that the high sulphide content of the soil would render such areas highly unsuitable for aquaculture ( Howes & Sahat, in prep ).

The 1977 Deerfield boys cross country team is regarded by at least one publication as one of the single greatest prep cross country teams of all-time.

After happily flunking out of several prep schools, he ends up in a brutal military academy where he gets beaten by his fellow students.

He has 3 brothers who also played college football: Ryan was a record-setting prep All-American running back ( rushing for 501 yards in a game ) who then lettered 4 years ( 1984 – 87 ) at tailback for USC and led the Trojans in rushing in 1985 and 1986 ( he is 20th on USC's career rushing list with 1, 875 yards ), Greg played defensive line at Colorado ( 1986 ) and Darryl lettered 3 years ( 1998 – 2000 ) at linebacker at USC.

At Maynard Evans High School in Orlando, Dawkins was “ probably the best high school basketball player ever and one of the best people I ever met ,” his prep coach, Fred Pennington, told Inside Sports.

It would be interesting to know how much `` integration '' there is in the famous, fashionable colleges and prep schools of New England.

The name " Doonesbury " is a combination of the word doone ( prep school slang for " someone who is out to lunch ", that is, someone who is clueless, inattentive, or careless ) and the surname of Charles Pillsbury, Trudeau's roommate at Yale University.

McLean recorded his first studio sessions ( with singer Lisa Kindred ) while still in prep school.

( Note: On most location-based television shows, there will be two Assistant Location Managers that alternate episodes, allowing one to prep an upcoming episode while the other is on-set with the current one.

* the principles of the fictional Welton Academy prep school in the movie Dead Poets Society: Tradition, Honor, Discipline and Excellence.

In April 1932 Blair became a teacher at The Hawthorns High School, a prep school for boys in Hayes, West London.

The likeliest theory so far proposed is that it comes from a Gaulish compound of * ger " near " + * mani " men ", comparable to Welsh ger " near " ( prep.

For the first few years the Dolphins full-time training camp and practice facilities were at Saint Andrew's School, a private boys boarding prep school in Boca Raton.

It is the prep work and order of operations that is tedious and detailed.

After all the prep work has been completed you can now begin painting.

High schools can usually be sub-classed as general high schools, vocational schools ( VoTech schools ), magnet schools, and college preparatory high schools ( prep schools ) and special high schools or alternative high schools.

Traditionally " prep schools " in North America were usually private institutions, though most medium or large public ( state ) school districts now offer university-preparatory schools for advanced students.

Public prep schools draw the top students from their district and have strict entrance requirements.

If the surgery involves the digestive system, the patient may be instructed to perform a bowel prep by drinking a solution of polyethylene glycol the night before the procedure.

If hair is present at the surgical site, it is clipped off prior to prep application.

For most clinical methods using ICP-MS, there is a relatively simple and quick sample prep process.

This adds an extra first step to the above process, and therefore makes the sample prep more lengthy.

The Naval Academy Preparatory School ( NAPS ), in Newport, Rhode Island, is the official prep school for the naval academy.

There are numerous schools around the area of Salisbury, including the Chafyn Grove School, Leehurst Swan School, the Godolphin senior and prep school, Sarum Academy ‎ and Stonehenge Comprehensive School.

* 1991 Olympia prep breakfast.