The Greenhouse Award

Harry Greenhouse began playing the sport at the University of Maryland, where he would eventually serve as captain and help lead the team to a semifinal appearance in his senior year (2015). A talented chaser and one of the best seekers to ever play the sport, he would go on to win a national title with Q.C. Boston at US Quidditch Cup 9 and three Major League Quadball titles with the Boston Forge, a team he also coached for multiple years.

Greenhouse represented his country on the US National Team at three World Cups, winning gold medals in 2014 and 2018. We would mention his silver medal in 2016, but Greenhouse, an eternal competitor, would not number that amongst his successes. 

Off the field, Greenhouse made an impact every bit as lasting as the one he made on it. Serving as commissioner of the Massachusetts Quadball Conference, he helped stabilize its programs, expand its reach, and deliver consistently high-quality stats and film that have made it the model college quadball conference. He has spent years advising and supporting the schools of the MQC on recruitment and retention, and no one has been able to manage the level of collegiate program health Greenhouse has achieved in the Boston area.

As head coach of Boston University, seeing the need in 2017, he helped revitalize the program and return it to the level of national contender for the first time in a decade and stabilize its numbers for future success. One of quadball’s earliest and most historic programs will forever have Greenhouse to thank as it continues to thrive.

For all Greenhouse has done for the sport both on the field as a player and off of the field as a coach and administrator, he will perhaps forever be most valued for the presence he brings to any quadball event he attends. Greenhouse is always willing to talk quadball, give advice, or support anyone who seeks him out—whether they are a veteran or a college student playing quadball for the first time—and his energy is always infectious to all of those around him. If you’ve played quadball for any period of time, you almost definitely have a Harry Greenhouse story, and, in many ways, he has become inextricably tied to the story of a sport he has dedicated his life to for over a decade.