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While BB&N is known for sending students to Harvard, few BB&N players have ever played baseball for the Crimson. BB&N coach Rick Forestiere’s cannot remember memory two BB&N graduates ever playing on the same Harvard team, let alone two classmates. Klimkiewicz and Farkes will be starting for Harvard as freshmen, the former at third base and the latter at second...
Such is not the case for freshmen Zak Farkes and Josh Klimkiewicz. Both went to school at Buckingham, Browne & Nichols High School, a prestigious private day school within five minutes walking distance from Harvard’s athletic facilities. Both played baseball together for BB&N, winning Independent School League championships in 2001 and 2002. And both will be playing the infield for this year’s Harvard baseball squad. “If you hit a bomb on our field, it can land in BB&N, where Zak and Josh played,” Walsh says...
...Klimkiewicz transferred to BB&N that year from St. Sebastian’s, another local private school that competes in the ISL. A junior, Klimkiewicz decided to stay back a year in order to switch schools...
...went to BB&N for academics, primarily,” Klimkiewicz says. “I wanted to go to Harvard and I knew about BB&N’s baseball program, so it seemed like a good match.” Klimkiewicz immediately became the starting shortstop for Forestiere’s club, though baseball was not Klimkiewicz’s only athletic interest...
...dream growing up was to play hockey for Harvard,” Klimkiewicz admits. “Baseball was only something to do on the side...