The Athletic program of Saint Elizabeth High School strives to implement a hierarchical program of athletics for both men and women.
The program includes a diversified physical education curriculum, open gym and field activities, and a system of highly competitive interscholastic sports.
However, in presenting such a broad and varied program, the Athletic Department realizes its role in the total school organization. The school’s philosophy, goals and objectives are of primary importance; therefore, the athletic program is designed to function to help meet those goals and objectives.
The Athletic Department embraces the following values in attempting to achieve school goals and objectives:
- The value of a program in both breadth and depth – activity and/or competition at appropriate levels.
- The value of competition – the preparation to compete and the desire to win as important aspects of human experience. Saint Elizabeth High School has several sports in which any student, willing to make a sincere effort, can participate.
- The value of understanding and playing within a rule structure – the letter as well as the spirit of the rules.
- The value of sportsmanship – the ability to deal with the outcome of the contest. Here the difficult concepts of the “good winner” and the “good loser” are dealt with.
- The personal and social values to be achieved through sports competition – leadership, teamwork, self-sacrifice, efficiency, analysis, decision-making, discipline, and hard work.