Feb. 6, 2018 Contact: Beth Stefanik, Director of Communications St. Anne's-Belfield School Making History with Eight-Man Football League Charlottesville, Va., Feb. 6, 2018 - St. Anne's-Belfield School announced today that following the success of the 2017 football season's inclusion of the state's first eight- versus eight-man football games, the School will join six others to create a sanctioned, varsity eight-man football league in 2018. St. Anne's-Belfield will join Hampton Roads Academy, Greenbrier Christian Academy, Kenston Forest, Brunswick Academy, Virginia Episcopal School, and Covenant School in a two-year commitment to the Virginia Independent School Football League.
Robinson and Blake evaluated the 2017 season in light of the School's goal that the athletics program provide an educational, beneficial, and competitive experience that effectively teaches the School's spectrum of core values while best preparing student-athletes for success. During their evaluation, a number of key components arose: the importance of a sustainable JV program that adequately prepares athletes for varsity participation, effectively preparing a team with low numbers week-to-week once injuries, scholastic commitments, and other extracurricular activities set in, and remaining competitive and productive in a mission-appropriate way as the season continues.
# St. Anne's-Belfield School is a co-educational preschool through grade 12 day school of more than 940 students and 150 faculty and staff, with a boarding program in grades nine through twelve. Nineteen countries are represented in the student body, with 41 percent of students receiving financial aid. More information may be found at www.stab.org. |