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Ethical Culture Fieldston School

Athletics

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. Both coaches and athletes involved in the Ethical Culture Fieldston School’s Athletics program teach each other life skills and values. Our program is designed to empower student athletes while instilling self-confidence and creating leaders.
Our Athletics Program Goals
ECFS makes every effort to hire the most qualified coaches to ensure our students’ experience is the best it can be. We aim to ensure all those involved embody our School’s progressive ideals. 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 for students to graduate as better people because they have experienced our Athletics program.
Our goal is to graduate students who have become better people because they have been through our Athletics program.
The ECFS Philosophy on Winning
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. At ECFS, it is more important that we are winning in a way aligned with our overall school and athletic philosophy.

We invite you to explore the academic curriculum, including Physical Education, across each of our four divisions to see how these values are woven into every stage of a student’s experience.

Athletic Facilities

We seek to provide state-of-the-art facilities for our student athletes. Our brand-new fitness room features 19 pieces of cardio equipment; plate-loaded machines and an interactive Escape MARS screen; a dynamic squat rack and free weight area; and a 20-yard turf section for multipurpose usage. Our training room features two taping tables, two evaluation tables, an electrical stimulation/ultrasound combo machine, a cold tub, a rehab corner with resistance, stability, and agility-training equipment, a hydrocollator, an ice machine, and a first aid/AED station.
Outdoors, our campus encompasses an upper field for football, field hockey, and boys and girls lacrosse, and a lower field for boys and girls soccer, baseball, and softball. Students active in indoor sports can utilize our Varsity Gym, which includes three full-size basketball courts and three full-size volleyball courts, or our JV Gym, which includes two full-size volleyball courts and batting cages. Meanwhile, students engaged in swimming or water polo can take advantage of our 25-yard, six-lane pool with spectator seating.
Frequently Asked Questions

Athletics helps students learn life skills, understand teamwork, and develop character through dedication and personal growth. Our program is designed to empower student athletes while instilling self-confidence and creating leaders.

Coaches are not only skilled professionals but also mentors who teach values, life skills, and leadership through sport. They model dedication, discipline, and integrity. The School makes every effort to hire highly qualified coaches who align with the school’s mission and values.

At ECFS, success is measured not just by wins or championships, but by personal growth, team cohesion, and a positive experience for all participants.

Fieldston Athlete Destinations

Our student athletes often move onto challenging and reputable college athletics programs. Below, please find a record of student athletes' matriculation over the last five years.

Baseball

  • Colby College
  • Kenyon College
  • Wesleyan University

Basketball

  • Bard College
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Sarah Lawrence College
  • SUNY at Cortland

Field Hockey

  • Georgetown University
  • Haverford College
  • Lehigh University
  • Wellesley College

Soccer

  • Haverford College
  • Princeton University
  • University of Chicago

Football

  • Colby College
  • Denison University
  • Pomona-Pitzer College
  • Tufts University
  • University of Chicago

Lacrosse

  • Brown University
  • Dickinson College
  • Franklin & Marshall College
  • McGill University
  • Pomona-Pitzer College
  • Williams College

Softball

  • Skidmore College

Squash

  • Cornell University

Swim

  • Brown University
  • Middlebury College
  • Pace University
  • University of Pennsylvania
  • Sarah Lawrence College
  • Yale University

Track and Field

  • Bucknell University
  • Colgate University
  • Cornell University
  • Emory University
  • Middlebury College
  • Wesleyan University
  • Williams College

Volleyball

  • Amherst College
  • Bowdoin College
  • Bucknell University
  • Colby College
  • Columbia University
  • Lehigh University
  • Williams College
Eagle Pride and Student Athletes Soar at Winterfest
Gallery January 31, 2023
Fieldston Upper Winter Sports Dive Into Action
Gallery December 13, 2022
Celebrating Spring Fling 2023
Gallery May 8, 2023
Ethical Culture Fieldston School offers a world-class progressive education in Pre-K–12th Grade at two historic campuses in Manhattan and the Bronx. The core of our educational program is the study and practice of ethics, which prepares us — and compels us — to take care of our world, ourselves, and each other.
Ethical Culture Campus  |  33 Central Park West, New York, NY 10023
Fieldston Campus  |  3901 Fieldston Road, Bronx, NY 10471
Ethical Culture Fieldston School
ECFS is an equal opportunity employer. We seek to be a welcoming community of professionals that broadly reflects the people of the metropolitan New York City area, our students, and families. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion or religious practices, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, citizenship status, national origin, age, ability status, military status, unemployment status or any other category protected by applicable local, state, or federal laws. We are committed to hiring practices that ensure all candidates are given fair consideration in alignment with our institutional mission and goals.

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