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SDJA Athletics and Physical Education
The physical education program at SDJA spans the full K-12 experience and emphasizes teamwork, sportsmanship, healthy choices and mental discipline. Physical fitness education begins in the lower school, where students learn to play soccer, tennis, golf and basketball at an early age. This helps students develop motor skills, learn to be leaders and fosters teamwork. By exposing primary grade students to team sports in a non-competitive environment, the purity of physical expression through athletics is embraced and nurtured.
In the upper school, there are a variety of sports to choose from, which start in middle school and evolve into a competitive varsity program in high school. SDJA also has a no-cut athletics policy
that allows all our students to participate in sports. In fact, 75% of our student body participates in athletics and our sports teams have won league championships in volleyball, baseball and soccer. The combination of a year-round strength and conditioning program that focuses on injury prevention and expert coaches, dedicated to the well-being and development of our student athletes, is the cornerstone of our program.
SDJA’s 35,000 square foot gymnasium, complete with state-of-the-art weight room, provides an indoor arena for many of SDJA’s athletic programs, including basketball and volleyball. Our award-winning sports fields are among the best in the nation and our soccer field was recognized by the Sports Turf Managers Association as the best in the United States. By providing amazing facilities, SDJA has continued to emphasize the importance of athletics in developing well-rounded students.
SDJA’s athletics department also has a unique partnership with the school’s science department. They have partnered in studying human movement using specialized equipment to optimize student athletes’ training regiments.
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Butterfly Project
