Athletics
Athletic Opportunities at SHS
Sacred Heart School offers a full-time athletic program for all students. Students in third through eighth grades may participate in Catholic Schools Athletic Association (CSAA) sports: boys in basketball, baseball, and football, and girls in basketball and volleyball (fifth – eighth grade), and co-ed track and field and cross country. Pre-kindergarten through second grade students may participate in co-ed Biddy Ball (flag football, cross country, soccer, basketball, t-ball, cheerleading). Fifth through eighth grade girls may participate in cheerleading. Tryouts are held in the spring for the following school year.
Athletic Physicals
All Sacred Heart athletes are required to complete a physical annually. Sacred Heart hosts a physical clinic each year staffed with volunteer parent health care providers. Click here for the LHSAA Medical History Evaluation form.
Athletic Handbook and Contact Information
Contact:
Michelle Newman MNewman@sacredheartbr.com or athletics@sacredheartbr.com
Positive Sports Parenting
Enjoy this excerpt from Positive Sports Parenting, a book by the founder of Positive Coaching Alliance (PCA), Jim Thompson.
“I miss watching my son play sports. When he started playing soccer, basketball, and baseball 25 years ago, it seemed like it would go on forever. But it didn’t. It ended abruptly. One day he stopped playing and it was over – just like that and without much warning. Here’s the bottom line for sports parents. Your child’s experience with youth sports will come to an end, and it may happen suddenly. If you are at all like me, you will look back and think, ‘I wish I had enjoyed it more. I wish I hadn’t obsessed so much about how well my child was performing, or the team’s record, or whether he was playing as much as I wanted, or why the coach didn’t play him in the right position. I wish I had just enjoyed the experience more.’ If you have a child involved in youth sports, it’s not too late for you. Enjoy it while you can. It will end all too soon. There was a phrase I heard in my youth that has stuck with me: ‘These are the Good Old Days.’ Truly, the days when you get to watch your child play sports are golden. If you are still in them, treasure each one of them. Don’t let them slip by while you focus on things that will seem totally inconsequential in later years. Because the youth sports experience is so intense, we tend to forget how short it is, and what a small amount of time that parents and children get to spend together over the course of our lives. These are the good old days. Enjoy them."