Why Choose SI?
- Friendly People
- Traditions of Excellence
- Spiritual Formation
- Programs Beyond the Classroom
- After-School Activities
- Performing and Visual Arts
- A Strong Athletics Program
- Field Trips & Summer Programs
- State-of-the-Art Facilities
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A Strong Athletics Program
Are you a swimmer? Do you like field hockey? Is football your game? How about lacrosse? Ever consider rowing? SI offers nearly every sport available to high school students. In fact, around 860 students compete on 65 teams in 26 sports at SI, and many play more than one sport.
At SI, we measure our athletic success not so much in the win-loss columns, but in terms of the values our players have by the end of the season - values such as sportsmanship, teamwork, fair play and hard work. We believe in the classical notion of a "sound mind in a sound body" and offer sports that students will play long after they graduate from SI.
Still, we're proud of successes on the field, court, water and diamond. We have dozens of league, sectional, NorCal, state and national championships. Our football team was ranked first in the nation in the 1960s with 17 straight wins, and we have sent two of our grads to the Olympics (one of whom won a silver medal). Three of our graduates coach in the NFL, and one of our grads, Igor Olshansky '00, plays defense for the San Diego Chargers.
We even captured our first international victory on July 2, 2006, when our varsity 8 boys' rowing team, coming from back-to-back national championships (in 2005 and 2006), took first place at the Royal Henley Regatta in England.
We've been competing in sports since 1893 and have the longest sports rivalry west of the Rocky Mountains. We have a number of athletic traditions that go back to 1946 when SI and Sacred Heart created the Bruce-Mahoney Trophy to honor grads from both schools who died in World War II. Click here for a brief history of some of these great athletic traditions.
We offer a wide-range of PE classes, a weight training & conditioning program with facilities that would rival any gym, and professional trainers who teach students how to care for athletes both on and off the field.
In short, SI's athletic program is second to none. Come to one of our many games to see for yourself.