Athletics Department
Overview
Studies show that students participating in athletics have higher GPA’s, better attendance, lower dropout rates, fewer disciplinary problems, higher graduation rates, and better success in college than non-participants. This is done by providing healthy, supervised after-school activities for students. Athletic participation teaches teamwork, goal setting, discipline, sportsmanship, leadership, and other valuable life-skills, helping students become contributing members of their school and community as well as providing an important alternative to anti-social behaviors. Our department coordinates with our middle and high school’s to run this valuable portion of a student’s extra-curricular life.
Goals
Our vision is excellence in academics and athletics by connecting kids to academics through an exceptional athletic program. To meet this vision our mission and goals are:
- Transform: Providing an exemplary athletic program with maximum student participation
- Enable: Utilizing the individual and group skills and knowledge of our athletic coaches, teaching staff, and community to encourage excellence both in the classroom and on the playing field.
- Operate: Coordination of operating an all encompassing athletic program in both the middle school and high school levels.
- Productivity: Encourage academic and athletic excellence for all participating students.
Current Initiatives
In order to create an encouraging program for athletic and academic excellence for all student athletes we partner with all the high schools & middle schools within Seattle Public Schools. Outside of Seattle Public Schools we partner with Seattle Parks and Recreation in providing a developmental participation program in the middle school athletic level. For the high school level we partner and coordinate with the Metro (3A) and KingCo (3A/4A) Athletic Leagues and the Washington Interscholastic Athletic Association (WIAA) to provide a well rounded and excellent program. Our most important partners are the coaches, students, parents, teachers, and community to provide encouragement and inspiration to thrive in both athletics and academics.
Resources
See below our links and resources for the Athletic Department for Seattle Public Schools: