The Festive School - Part 5： Athletics

We have athletics at the academy because we are not just about nurturing the mind, we want to nurture the body and nurture the student as a whole person. We have found that our athletics program has built deep camaraderie and teamwork, courageous spirits, virtue. The mission of our athletics department is to support the mission of the school and making sure that students have opportunities within the role of athletics to experience and love the true the good and beautiful. I love the culture of the school, it's always really fun and exciting. Whatever we're doing is for the glory of God and so it's not just about us. I think the joy in athletics comes from representing your school and representing your school as a team. We have three schools all over the city but they're all competing as one, so north students are getting to know south students and rhetoric students are getting to play together. Two of our three children participate in athletics at the academy. I mean I think they love to win, but the beauty with academy athletics is there is always going to be a focus on the heart. I always know that my children are going to be receiving the same love that they would in the classroom. We have basketball, volleyball, track and cross country as our core for sports. We're growing our program, we have an athletic director, we have an assistant athletic director, and they're pioneering whole worlds of athletic opportunity for us. Our teams are growing every year. They're becoming more established and we've had great success in basketball. All the girls volleyball is really growing. We had state qualifiers in cross country this year. Things are looking great for the Griffins.