Haiti trip unites Aaron Boone’s sons
Now Brandon and Sergot are brothers and teammates on Greenwich football team
With dad away on a West Coast business trip, mom pulled into the high school parking lot to scoop up her two boys after football workouts. In the leafy suburbs of Connecticut, this is known as common practice.
In many other area towns, it also is true if two sons of the New York Yankees manager were dissecting frogs in biology class, stopping at their hallway lockers or running across the athletic fields, there would be a bit more of a raucous.
This is Greenwich High. From any of the many wellknown families over the years to Tiki Barber’s football-playing sons, the second largest high school in Connecticut has a better handle on absorbing fame and fortune.
So as 5-foot-10 sophomore Brandon Boone pulls off his helmet for an interview the other day, none of his Cardinals teammates pause to badger him with whoops or hollers.
A few moments later, 5-7 junior Sergot Boone pulls off his helmet. Again, no barbs directed from passing teammates.
“The two also are so well-raised and such good kids, you wouldn’t know their dad is a major league baseball manager — they’re so humble,” coach Anthony Morello said. “We preach that. We have kids from every walk of life in Greenwich. The beautiful part is it’s a melting pot in itself. To bring everyone together from all facets and all areas of the town is one of the things I love most about here.”
Brandon is a backup quarterback. Sergot, a wide receiver and cornerback, is the starting placekicker.
Brandon looks and sounds like his dad. Sergot does not. The Boones adopted Sergot and his older brother Jeanel in 2014 from Kenscoff in the Haitian uplands south of Portau-Prince. This book of love and Haiti had its genesis with a 2012 visit by Aaron’s wife, Laura. What began as anything but normal is