The athletics program at Springside Chestnut Hill Academy will be under new leadership for the start of the 2026-27 academic year, as popular athletic director David Wilson has decided to move on.

Up until 2017, SCH had different athletic directors for the male and female athletes at the school, the last vestige of the pre-merger identities of the old Springside School (all girls) and Chestnut Hill Academy (all boys). The AD’s post was first consolidated when Wilson was hired that year.

The new head of the department is Becca Main, who brings with her 30 years of experience in scholastic and collegiate athletics, as both an administrator and a coach. She comes directly from New Hampshire’s Kimball Union Academy, where she was director of athletics and the varsity field hockey coach.

Her longest tenure was at Qunnipiac University in Connecticut, where she coached the field hockey team for 28 years and headed the lacrosse team for five seasons. She helped both programs make the transition from NCAA Division II to Division I, and she was also executive director of the National Field Hockey Coaches Association for eight years.

A Bucks County native, Main was a three-sport athlete at Pennsbury High School and went on to become a field hockey standout at Penn State. In 1993, she was named Big Ten Conference Defensive Player of the Year.

Over the past two decades, Mount St. Joseph Academy has built new venues for almost all of its outdoor athletic teams. Now the Flourtown school is about to open a new indoor athletics building.

Although new locker rooms and a fitness facility were constructed alongside the existing Mount gym not too long ago, the gym itself occupies the same footprint it did when the school opened its Flourtown campus in 1961. The walls are close to the boundaries of the court, and there is a single section of bleachers on one side of the gym. When the Magic hosted PIAA playoff games, in some cases spectators were packed all along the walls while some others could not get into the gym at all.

That’s all changing with the construction of the new facility on the site formerly occupied by the Mount’s tennis courts, which are being relocated.

The building has been designed to maximize a sense of light and space. A divider can be drawn across the main court to create two crosswise courts, and the stands will accommodate 600 spectators.

A new fitness and weight-training section will be the double the size of the one near the old gym, and an airy lobby will feature a concession stand.