Quick Facts
Germantown Academy Interscholastic Athletics
Enrollment: Germantown Academy currently has more than 750 students enrolled in the Middle and Upper School
League: Inter-Academic Athletic League (Inter-Ac),
Members: Academy of Notre Dame, Agnes Irwin, Baldwin School, Episcopal Academy, Germantown Academy, Haverford School, Malvern Prep, Penn Charter, Springside Chestnut Hill Academy
Other Affiliations: Pennsylvania Independent School Athletic Association (PAISAA), Independence Hockey League (IHL)
Athletic Programs: GA offers 14 different sports for girls and 15 different sports for boys, both with multiple participation/talent levels.
Athletic Teams: GA annually supports 81 interscholastic teams overall.
Competition Schedule: Varsity and junior varsity teams play, on average, between 10-28 games per season. Middle School and third level teams play between 10-16 games per season
Student Participation: An average of 80% of the Middle School and Upper School student body competes on interscholastic athletic teams.
Coaches: GA employs more than 200 coaches, many of whom are GA faculty, during the course of the school year.
ACCOLADES
Germantown Academy celebrated 31 college-bound student-athletes in 2025, 36 college-bound student-athletes in 2024, and 37 in 2023.
During the 2024-25 school year, 98 GA Patriots were recognized as All-League performers.
GA teams have won 27 Inter-Academic Athletic League championships, and 17 Pennsylvania Independent School Athletic Association (PAISAA) titles since the 2014-15 school year.
In spring 2023, GA Boys Tennis secured back-to-back Inter-Ac League titles for the first time in program history.
GA Girls Basketball went 239-65 overall and 113-16 in Inter-Ac League play from the 2014-15 season to 2024-25, winning 7 league titles in that span. The Patriots shared the title with Penn Charter and Notre Dame in 2023-24.
GA Ice Hockey won the Independence Hockey League titles in 2018, 2019, 2020, 2022, and 2025. The IHL did not have a championship during the 2021 season.
GA Boys Track & Field won the 2018 Inter-Ac League title. One year later, the girls team won the 2019 title in dominating fashion.
In fall 2022, GA Volleyball won its second-consecutive Inter-Ac League title, and the program’s first PAISAA title.
Both the Boys and Girls Swimming & Diving went undefeated in the Inter-Ac League in 2021-22, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25. The Girls clinched Easterns Interscholastic Swimming & Diving Championships all four years, while the teams won the Combined Team Title in 2021-22 and 2023-24.
AJ Towsen ’24, who now plays football at Stonehill College, rewrote the GA and Inter-Ac League records books, finishing his career with 163 catches for 2,573 yards and 29 touchdowns. Towsen also set GA records for receptions in a season (70) and yards in a season (984).
Andrew Thompson ’24 set the GA Boys Water Polo all-time scoring record on Sept. 21, 2024. Thompson, who finished his career with 458 goals, also owns GA records for goals as a freshman (66), sophomore (108), and junior (149).
In her first season playing varsity field hockey, Wynne Campbell ’28 set the GA single season record for saves with 355.
Jordan Longino '21 became the all-time boys basketball scoring leader on February 23, 2021, as he surpassed the record of 1,702 career points set by Alvin Williams ’93. Longino finished his GA career with 1,763 points and now plays for Villanova University. For his efforts, Longino, who averaged 21.9 points and seven rebounds per game as a senior, was named the non-PIAA Player of the Year. Longino was the 2020 Class 4A Player of the Year, when non-PIAA players were included in voting according to their school’s PIAA enrollment figures. Longino also won the national American Family Insurance High School 3-Point contest, was featured on 6abc by Jamie Apody, and was selected to participate in the Allen Iverson Roundball Classic.