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The Role of Athletics
Participation in athletics initiates students into the order and stewardship of their own bodies. It leads them to the excitement of competition and cooperation, of care for self, and respect for others.
Athletics is an excellent means to teach Christian character, not just for the athlete, but for the whole student body. Athletic competition provides the opportunity for the training of the Christian athlete’s mind, will, and emotions. Christians are commanded to be different from the world and the competitive nature of athletes stirs up the drives of the will and emotions. By the development of Christian character traits like patience, endurance, self-control, brotherly love, dependability, loyalty, and humility, the will and emotions can be controlled with the help of the Holy Spirit.
Athletics offer the opportunity to be an effective witness to
those in our community. When non-Christian players and fans see
the behavior and attitude expressed by Christian athletes it
should be in sharp contrast to the attitude of the world. This
gives proper attention to Christ and witness to His power. The
Christian athlete is responsible to God for maintaining this
positive witness through our athletic contests. We are
developing not only our physical abilities, but we are
developing eternal values.
This is our philosophy at LCA and this is what makes our program unique. We also place a strong emphasis on the coach/athlete relationship, knowing that a strong role model in this area is important for a program to be successful.
Life Christian’s athletic program is characterized by a history of success in all our sports programs, which include Elementary football, volleyball, and soccer in the fall, Elementary girl’s and boy’s Basketball in the winter, Elementary softball and baseball in the spring, MS/HS girl’s volleyball, MS/HS football, MS/HS girl’s and boy’s basketball, MS/HS softball, MS/HS baseball.