Sport
Villa Duchesne sports include Field Hockey, Volleyball, Tennis, Softball, Lacrosse, Soccer, Golf, Basketball, Swim and Dive, Racquetball, Cross Country, Track and Field. In 2010, Villa Duchesne won the title of Golf State Champions. Villa Duchesne is also well known for her field hockey program and the St. Joe vs. Villa Duchesne field hockey game is a popular rivalry game.
While Villa's official mascot is a "Saint", it is not uncommon to see the unofficial mascot, the Squirrel, at home games and meets.
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Famous quotes containing the word sport:
“Drag racing is a sport of egos, and it’s all male egos.”
—Shirley “Cha Cha” Muldowney (b. 1940)
“For generations, a wide range of shooting in Northern Ireland has provided all sections of the population with a pastime which ... has occupied a great deal of leisure time. Unlike many other countries, the outstanding characteristic of the sport has been that it was not confined to any one class.”
—Northern Irish Tourist Board. quoted in New Statesman (London, Aug. 29, 1969)
“Rabelais, for instance, is intolerable; one chapter is better than a volume,—it may be sport to him, but it is death to us. A mere humorist, indeed, is a most unhappy man; and his readers are most unhappy also.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)