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    Sara Ugalde
    Admissions
    Associate Director of Admissions
    Year Appointed: 2022
    (860) 408-3784
    Hockey
    Middlebury College - B.A.
    Bio
     
    A graduate of the class of 2010, Sara has a deep connection to Westminster and the hockey program. Sara was a member of the varsity team from 2006-2010. She was a member of two Founders League championship teams in 2009 and 2010 as well as a captain of the Division I New England Championship team in 2010.
     
    Sara’s accomplishments at Westminster extended beyond the rink. She was a two-year captain of the ice hockey and softball teams during the 2009 and 2010 seasons. Sara was also recognized with a Head of School Award in 2010 as one of the community’s outstanding members.
     
    After graduating from Westminster, Sara attended Middlebury College where she was a four-year member of the varsity hockey program and graduated in 2014. During her time at Middlebury, Sara amassed 82 points over her 109-game career. Her teams appeared in two NCAA Frozen Four tournaments. She was part of two NESCAC Championship teams in both 2011 and 2012 and was recognized as a First Team All-NESCAC player in 2012.
     
    After graduating from Middlebury Sara pursued a college coaching career. She has worked at Colby College, Williams College and Trinity College. Her primary responsibilities included overseeing all recruitment efforts, player development, special teams and video breakdown. Her commitment to hockey also landed her a position as an assistant coach of the Connecticut Whale, a professional women’s hockey team.
     
    In addition to her coaching responsibilities, Sara works in the admissions office.
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    Peter Ulrich
    Mathematics
    Director of Work Program
    Year Appointed: 1996
    (860) 408-3733
    Soccer
    Squash
    Work Program
    Middlebury College - B.A.
    Wesleyan University - M.A.L.S.
    Bio
     
    As a student at Middlebury College, Peter majored in economics and earned varsity letters in soccer and lacrosse. Following graduation, he began his teaching career at Dublin School in Dublin, N.H. While there, he chaired the Mathematics Department, taught physics, coached boys’ varsity soccer and lacrosse, and in 1986, attended the Klingenstein Summer Institute at Columbia University. In 1987, he joined the faculty at Stevenson School in Pebble Beach, Calif., where he taught mathematics, chaired the judiciary committee and the faculty senate, and coached golf and varsity soccer, for which he was named the league’s coach of the year in 1992.
     
    Peter came to Westminster with his family in 1996 to teach math and take over the Varsity Boys’ Soccer program. He has taught across the math curriculum, including AP® Statistics since it was introduced in 1999, and he served as head of the Mathematics Department from 2006-2010. After coaching lacrosse in the 1990s, he has coached squash at Westminster since 2000, first working with the Junior Varsity Boys’ team and then assuming the role of Varsity Girls’ coach in 2009. Since ending his 15-year run as Varsity Boys’ Soccer coach after the 2011 season, he has coached a variety of lower teams in addition to Varsity Girls’ Squash; currently he coaches Junior Varsity Girls’ Soccer. His daughters both attended Westminster, graduating in '09 (Annie) and '10 (Clare).

    In his free time, he regularly plays golf and squash, and increasingly finds time to bike and swim. In the past, he has participated in both the masters and supermasters divisions of the Vail Lacrosse Shoot Out as part of the Middlebury College alumni team. Peter and his wife, Siobhan, who is an administrative assistant in the Admissions Office, live in Wyckoff House.
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    Siobhan Ulrich
    Admissions
    Year Appointed: 1997
    (860) 408-3061
    Middlebury College - B.A.

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