ATHLE TICS HIGHLIGHTS The football team qualified for the school’s first NCHSAA 4A state final appearance and placed second among all NCHSAA schools for
TEAM GRADE POINT AVERAGE during the fall 2019 term.
Some 35 of our 2020 graduates are playing
COLLEGE SPORTS.
We continue to strive to reach our goal of getting
100 PERCENT
of our students involved in athletics at some level. All athletic programs, serving more than
900 STUDENT-ATHLETES,
were involved in service, outreach, and seasonal leadership retreats. Claire Curzan ’22 established two Women’s Swimming
HIGH SCHOOL NATIONAL RECORDS, Jack Grazen ’20 became the school’s first football player to surpass 2,000 rushing yards in a single season, and Carson Williams ’20, the NCHSAA 4A Men’s Indoor Track & Field state champion in the 1600 meters run,– tallied the state’s fastest indoor time in 2019-2020.
ATHLETICS
Baseball alumni were celebrated as “Boys of Summer,” in 2020. Noah Campbell ’17 signed his first professional contract with the Milwaukee Brewers and Max Schrock ’12 took to the field for the Saint Louis Cardinals to become our school’s
FIRST MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL PLAYER. Gibbons last year won its
15TH NCHSAA WELLS FARGO CUP for overall athletic excellence, giving the school its second consecutive NCHSAA 4A Wells Fargo Cup. Gibbons is the first NCHSAA school to earn back-toback state cups in three competitive classifications – 4A, 3A, and 2A.
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Our success is driven by what happens off the field and measured by how well we use the gifts we have received for good in our community. We use the playing field to form men and women who serve and lead, in church and community. All things #GibbonsPossible.” TODD SCHULER DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS
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