WCCS Athletics

The athletic teams at WCCS are to physical education as laboratory classes are to science. Although the laboratory is a gymnasium, field, or court, student-athletes are challenged to think and apply what they know in similar ways.

Physical education in the grammar stage (grades K-6) focuses on the development and mastery of stability, locomotive, and manipulative skills. When grammar students complete their program, they should be able to perform these skills at a mature level.

During the secondary years (grades 7-12), which are the dialectic and rhetoric stages, physical education class is a culmination of the grammar school physical education program. Secondary students refine the skills they have previously earned and apply them to team and individual sports.

Students at this stage are challenged to analyze the offenses and defenses of sports and to identify strategies to enhance individual play. When students are trained in these areas, the introduction of athletic teams is a natural progression.

Students are held to the same academic and character standards that are found in the formal classroom at WCCS. Students are to glorify God through their abilities and attitudes, as well as through their relationships with other teammates, coaches, officials, and spectators.

Male athletes are to balance the behavior of a gentleman off the field with the art of intense competition on the field. They are trained to consciously prepare themselves, through athletic rigor, for becoming fighting men of God in their future vocations. Older male students are to model godly masculinity to younger boys and to be living examples of the Gospel.

Female athletes are challenged to embrace biblical femininity, balancing a gentle and quiet spirit with the spirit to compete. Likewise, they are to embrace the difference between feminine strength and masculine strength. Older female athletes are to model godly femininity to younger girls and to be living examples of the Gospel. They too are trained to consciously prepare themselves, through athletic rigor, for becoming women of godly stamina in their future callings.