Athletics

Are you ready for Sports?

IMPORTANT: All school athletes (3rd-12th) must have a completed, signed PHYSICAL EXAM FORM on file with the school dated on or after April 15, 2024 and prior to the first day of practice. Physical examinations are valid for an entire school year. High school and middle school players will be ineligible to practice and play until the Physical Exam Form is completed and submitted to your coach or athletic director. This is an MHSAA and GRACEAC rule.

Sport Properly Directed

Our inspiration for the role of athletics at Sacred Heart Academy comes from Pope Pius XII. In a 1945 statement, Sport at the Service of the Spirit, he said the following:

Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole man, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth and helps man to achieve that end to which all others must be subservient, the service and praise of his Creator

-Pope Pius XII