Athletics, Extracurricular Activities, and Events
Sports teams include boys' varsity basketball, wrestling, baseball, six-man football, and golf, girls' varsity basketball, volleyball, track, and cross-country. School colors are black and red, and the school team name is the Crusaders. A playing field adjacent to the church parking lot is designed to accommodate both football and baseball.
Other, non-academic activities that are supported include Scouting (both boys and girls), debate club, chess club, engineering club, video club, National Honor Society, Junior Classical League, and Student Council. Yearly events include the Upper School Tea, the King’s Fair (a medieval fair), the Stampede dinner (a Western-themed event), and the student-produced film festival.
Every other year (including 2011), the students of the Academy have an opportunity to go on a parish-wide pilgrimage to Rome, and attend Mass in some of the greatest churches in Christendom. On the off years, the students tour Washington D.C., taking in several historical sites as well as the National Basilica of the Immaculate Conception.
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“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)