Athletics

The Frances Xavier Warde School athletic program is an integral part of the educational program of the school. The Athletic Department views athletic activities on the playing fields and courts as another area where self-discipline, focus, and drive are learned behaviors modeled by coaches and developed in practice and game environments. Therefore, the school’s mission of athletics will stress the following areas: to focus on participation, fundamentals, and basic skill development; to provide a positive athletic, social, and emotional experience for students; to gradually educate and develop the concepts of healthy competition. We will adhere to a developmental approach based on ideas of progressive acquisition of individual skills within team concepts so that student-athletes desiring to continue to play a sport possess the skills, knowledge, and love of the game to do so.

Coaches who focus on developing sport specific fundamentals. The scoreboard is less important than whether a participant is learning new skills and enhancing previously learned skills. Parents should support and encourage all participants when attending competitions. Parents should openly support and encourage all coaches. Coaches are involved in the process of teaching participants game knowledge and skills because they LOVE to coach. Coaches have the best interests of the participants in mind. As teachers, coaches also have expectations of participants and push them to achieve individual and team goals. Parents should model proper interactions by communicating with positivity with all sports stakeholders: teammates, coaches, scorers, opposing team members, opposing teams’ coaches, spectators, game officials, and referees.

FXW’s athletics program has fall, winter and spring seasons in which we offer the following sports:

• Fall: cross country, flag football, and girls volleyball

• Winter: boys and girls basketball

• Spring: soccer and track & field

Grade 4 through Grade 6

• Grades 4-6 athletics are developmental: the goals are to improve skills and knowledge of the game, to encourage comradery amongst teammates, and to develop sportsmanship in competition.

• 75-minute athletic practices are held 1-2 times per week.

Grade 7 and 8

• Interscholastic competition for all teams including league and post-season play.

• 75-minute athletic practices are held 1-2 times per week.

• Varsity Athletics

  • Playing time isn’t guaranteed and the approach is team first for the win

  • Attendance at practice is expected unless excused for injury, illness, or family emergency. There will be only ONE varsity team at each level

  • Behavior in practice and at school affects playing time

• Junior Varsity Athletics

  • Playing time is equal and the approach is developmental