FWCD Earns Fall Season SPC Sportsmanship Awards

For the second consecutive year, FWCD’s varsity boys volleyball team (coached by Patrick Powers ’05) earned the Southwest Preparatory Conference Fall 2022 Team Sportsmanship Award. Individual SPC Sportsmanship Awards went to Harini Mukka ’23 (cross country) and Liam Callahan ’23 (boys volleyball).

“It is a great honor to win the boys volleyball North Zone Sportsmanship Award two years in a row,” said Leigh Block, Athletic Director. “It’s a credit to Coach Powers, the entire coaching staff and our terrific student-athletes who represent FWCD so well.”

For the second consecutive year, FWCD’s varsity boys volleyball team (coached by Patrick Powers ’05) earned the Southwest Preparatory Conference Fall 2022 Team Sportsmanship Award.

The SPC bestows two Sportsmanship Awards each season: team and individual. Team awards are selected by SPC coaches. The individual athletic awards are determined by school, and two student-athletes at each SPC school (one male, one female) earn them each season.

“Harini has exemplified all the qualities a coach looks for in a studentathlete: compassion, communication, personality, work ethic and toughness,” said Cross Country Program Director/ Head Coach Jared Connaughton

“Harini improved week-in and week- out through her time with the FWCD Cross Country program, and her spirit has had a profound impact on my experience as her coach.”

Harini Mukka ’23 (cross country) won an Individual SPC Sportsmanship Award.

“SPC has always committed member schools to the highest expectations regarding sportsmanship,” said Head of School Eric Lombardi. “I am proud to be a part of that league, proud that they saw fit to created these awards, and especially proud of the recognition for Harini, Liam and the boys volleyball team.”

Powers is proud of Callahan, who served as captain. “On the volleyball court, Liam always demonstrated himself as a person of high integrity. He encouraged his teammates, played the game fairly and consistently displayed how to be a good leader through example.”

Liam Callahan ’23 (boys volleyball) won an Individual SPC Sportsmanship Award.