St. Thecla Church & School

The Catholic experience at St. Thecla Catholic Church and school is centered in Jesus Christ. Our sports program must be an extension of the educational and spiritual experience of the church and school respectively. Coaches, Parents and Administrators have a unique and significant influence on our Catholic student athletes. The interaction of coaches, parents and student athletes in the Catholic sports experience should have a positive effect on the way our children feel about themselves and those around them.  Improving self-esteem is an everlasting gift.            

Exceptions to the norm necessitate such things as codes of conduct for student athletes, coaches and parents. However, we prefer to focus on the positive aspects of our programs including the combination of Catholicism and sportsmanship. Our immediate goals are to teach our student athletes to have fun in conjunction with their participation in athletics. We endeavor to teach them to play hard and fair, respect coaches, officials, parents, and opposing players and to win with humility and lose with grace. Our long-term goal is to guide our student athletes to achieve success individually and, more importantly, as a member of a team.            

We embrace the following for our Sports Program:
• The top priority of our sports programs will always be the health, safety and welfare of our student athletes.
• We will demand that all administrators, coaches, parents, and student athletes exhibit respect and common courtesy towards each other, officials and our opponents.
• We will demand that our student athletes exhibit respect towards uniforms, athletic equipment, and athletic venues and use them exclusively for the purposes intended.
• We will strive to create a competitive atmosphere in which winning is valued but does not become the only priority.
• We will encourage our student athletes to be positive, promote the happiness of others around them, encourage others to do their best and be considerate of the weaknesses of others.
• We will endeavor to create an athletic culture that fosters appropriate competitiveness and teaches teamwork, discipline and perseverance.
• We will demand that our administrators, coaches, parents and student athletes control their emotions and tempers.
• We will strive to create an environment in which our student athletes feel a sense of pride in themselves and their team, treat others as they would wish to be treated.
• We will recognize that participation in our sports program is a privilege and not a right and teach our student athletes to be appreciative towards administrators, coaches, and parents whose hard work and dedication make it possible for them to engage in athletic competition.

As sports men and women of Catholic faith we want to operate our
sports program with the highest integrity.