BUILDING A
STRONG Athletics Program JK-12 By Abe Wehmiller, director of Athletics
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DEFINING FEATURE of our athletics program is the ability to develop a good number of our student-athletes from the time they are in junior kindergarten through their Middle and Upper School years. To fully leverage that opportunity, it is important for us to make sure all the individual sports that make up that program are vertically integrated. By that, I mean we 6
PERSPECTIVES
are teaching physical fitness, general athletic ability, sport-specific techniques and tactics, and the various “soft skills� in an intentional sequence. Our belief is that students learn best in sports the same way they learn best in, say, reading: They need the alphabet to build words, words to build sentences, sentences to build paragraphs, and paragraphs to build essays, papers, and books.
