Fall Sports Awards Dinner

A view from the recently repainted boathouse

It was a packed and energetic Field House at the Fall Sports Awards Dinner on Thursday night, and the evening was a powerful testament to the skill, effort, and sacrifice of our student-athletes this season.  Before each team hosted its own awards celebration in various locations around our campus, each coach came to the podium to summarize the highlights of their team's season.  While there were mentions of all-conference, all-star, and ESIAC sportsmanship awards, I was most impressed with the way that our coaches, almost without exception, focused the majority of their remarks on the positive and enduring values of athletics: teamwork, self-sacrifice, focus, and effort.  This ability to "live" to the school's values is what makes our coaching staff so exceptional. 

The exciting fall season concludes this weekend, with our sailing team heading to Toms River, New Jersey for the Mid-Atlantic Scholastic Sailing Association's Atlantic Coast Championships, where they qualified to race against the top twenty sailing teams in our region.  At the same time, our crew team heads to Virginia for the Head of the Occoquan regatta.