Athletics
In addition to the golf course next door available for use by the faculty and by the golf team, the school's athletic facilities include eight squash courts and a fitness center, a six-lane, all-weather track, six tennis courts, an indoor ice hockey rink, two gymnasiums, and multiple outdoor playing fields.
Portsmouth Abbey is a member of the Eastern Independent League and has occasional contests against ISL (Independent School League) schools and other non-league boarding and day schools in New England. The Abbey's rivals include St. George's School and Pomfret School. It has a sailing team, and track & field teams, and a football team.
"George's Monday," a day of athletic competition with St. George's School is a major event. The school with a higher margin of success in varsity sports takes the Diman Cup, named for Father John Hugh Diman, founder of both schools, and is buried at Portsmouth Abbey.
Another traditional rival is with the varsity boys' soccer teams of the Abbey's sister school, St. Anselm's Abbey School of Washington, DC.
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