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:
““Justice” was done, and the President of the Immortals, in Æschylean phrase, had ended his sport with Tess. And the d’Urberville knights and dames slept on in their tombs unknowing. The two speechless gazers bent themselves down to the earth, as if in prayer, and remained thus a long time, absolutely motionless: the flag continued to wave silently. As soon as they had strength they arose, joined hands again, and went on.
The End”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
“Americans living in Latin American countries are often more snobbish than the Latins themselves. The typical American has quite a bit of money by Latin American standards, and he rarely sees a countryman who doesn’t. An American businessman who would think nothing of being seen in a sport shirt on the streets of his home town will be shocked and offended at a suggestion that he appear in Rio de Janeiro, for instance, in anything but a coat and tie.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence: in other words it is war minus the shooting.
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—George Orwell (1903–1950)