Participation
While interscholastic athletics are an extra-curricular activity, the Athletic Department promotes them as an integrated experience. Keeping with the mission of the school to educate the whole student, interscholastic athletics provide an avenue for the student-athlete to mature as a person- physically, emotionally, socially and spiritually- in a way that cannot be experienced in the classroom. We ask our student-athletes to be committed and persistent in their athletic endeavors. The committed player wants to contribute, wants to play, wants to be as good as he/she possibly can be, and wants to succeed. Toward that end, he/she will work as hard as he/she can and give his/her all 100% of the time. The persistent player has the will to keep going when the way grows hard. The grandest quality of a true achiever is not natural talent or acquired skill, but perseverance. It is in the spirit of these traits that we ask our student-athletes to finish what they have started. If a student-athlete quits a team, for whatever reason, he/she may not try out for, nor participate on, any other school team until the season of the sport from which he/she has quit is completed. Furthermore, the student-athlete will be unable to participate in the first two (2) athletic contests of the next sport in which they participate (only one contest will be missed in sports that play ten or less games). This ruling also applies to those individuals who are removed from a team because of academic or disciplinary reasons.