St. Paul's School

Joined SPS: 2019

Based in the Office of Communications and Marketing at St. Paul’s School, Kate Dunlop is the associate director advancement communications and editor of Alumni Horae, the School’s print magazine. She joined SPS in 2019 after 12 years at Colby-Sawyer College, where she was the senior director of college communications, editor of the college magazine and an adjunct professor in the humanities department.

Dunlop first got to know St. Paul’s School through its Advanced Studies Program. A varsity tennis team player in high school, she loved spending all those summer afternoons on the SPS tennis courts.

After a stint at a ranch in Colorado, Dunlop began her career with nine years at the Boston-based Young Authors Foundation, where she rose to editor of Teen Ink magazine and was the on-site director of the foundation’s summer writing programs in London and New York City.

Dunlop holds a B.A. from Colby College and an M.F.A. from Lesley University.

SPS Awards and Honors:

• The Form of 1973 Mentor Fellowship, spring 2023. The fellowship is awarded to SPS employees who are judged to have made extraordinary contributions to the quality of life at the School. Nominees for the fellowship propose a project or course of study; Dunlop’s accepted proposal was to spend a week in high performance training at Rafa Nadal Academy in Mallorca, Spain.

Coaching Resume:

• SPS Girls Varsity Tennis, Head Coach, Spring 2023 - present 
• SPS Girls Varsity Tennis, Assistant Coach, Spring 2022

Education and Certifications:

• Tennis players should be lifelong students of this lifelong (and evolving) sport — there is always more to learn — and I attend USPTA and USTA conferences and coaching clinics to improve my own game as well as my knowledge base as a coach.