A successful interscholastic athletics program is vital to the sense of pride that members of our community feel.
Participation in interscholastic athletics promotes the development of physical, mental, and social skills, a positive self-image, an understanding of teamwork and cooperation, and a sharing of personal experiences. Everyone involved in the Ethical Culture Fieldston School’s Athletics program — both coaches and athletes — teaches other participants life skills and values. Our program is designed to empower student athletes while instilling self-confidence and creating leaders.
ECFS makes every effort to hire the most qualified coaches we can find to ensure our students’ experience is the best it can be. Like our academic colleagues, we take our coaching roles seriously. We seek to inculcate in individual athletes the dedication, discipline, and spirit of personal sacrifice a successful team depends upon. Making such a commitment nurtures the overall character of our students and thus supports the mission of the School.
Our goal is to graduate students who have become better people because they have been through our Athletics program. It is incredibly important that all those involved embody the progressive ideals of our School. We want to ensure that the Athletics Department’s philosophy is one that mirrors the positive experience our students have on a daily basis.
Our goal is to graduate students who have become better people because they have been through our Athletics program.
While many of our teams have won state and league championships, we believe that titles and win-loss records are not the sole indicators of a team’s success. To a good coach, guiding a team to attain the maximum potential of its individual members — as well as ensuring that the overall experience of the participants is a positive one — is the ultimate goal. We all want to win, but at ECFS, it is more important that we are winning by doing things the right way and in a way that is aligned with our overall school and athletic philosophy.
