Athletics
St. Anselm's competes in the Potomac Valley Athletic Conference at the middle school and varsity levels in several sports each season. During the 10-year period from 1998 to 2008, the Panthers won 35 conference championships in basketball, soccer, baseball, tennis, cross country, and track and field.
St. Anselm's has hosted the longest-running high school basketball tournament in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. The St. Anselm's Invitational has been a tradition at the school since 1948.
A traditional athletic rivalry is for the Bishop Ansgar Nelson Memorial Soccer Cup, an annual competition held between the varsity boys' soccer teams of St. Anselm's Abbey School and its sister school, Portsmouth Abbey School of Portsmouth, Rhode Island. The competition rotates each year between the two schools.
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