Athletics
Goshen High School Athletic Department Mission Statement
Ensuring all student athletes acquire knowledge and apply skills – enhancing tomorrow’s opportunities.
Athletic Department Resources
- Today's
activities/season schedules/scores.
- When using this website to find schedules & Departure Times*:
- Use the Varsity/JV level option for all Varsity schedules, except football.
- For swimming/diving and cross country, use the boys/girls gender option.
- These schedules are housed on highschoolsports.net and can be downloaded to Outlook and Palm software.
- For bus departure times, click the green "INFO" button next to the event.
- When using this website to find schedules & Departure Times*:
- Check the latest sports scores
- Directions to Area Schools(Updated on 10/7/08)
- Parent Athletic Handbook(Changes to Certification Dates/Spring Awards Night)
- Stay In Bounds Ambassadors
- GHS's Student Athletic Advisory Council
- Resources for College Bound Athletes
- Off-Season Conditioning
Vision
- To utilize the values of athletics to develop productive citizens.
- To strive to promote a supportive and positive environment in which students excel competitively.
- To encourage student athletes to compete in multiple sports.
- To create an environment that fosters the character development of our athletes, while promoting mental and physical toughness.
Athletics at GHS
Competitive athletics play an integral part in the educational program at Goshen High School. The challenges associated with competition create learning experiences for all athletes. A player's drive, determination, confidence, mental toughness, and emotional control are tested daily. The educational value of athletics lies in how the athlete copes with these challenges. Coaches stress commitment, dedication, and hard work and work closely with the players as they face these obstacles. Athletes are taught a formula that can be applied to real-life situations: They learn to plan, prepare, perform, evaluate and try, try again.
GHS fields forty-nine athletic teams in twenty different sports. The program includes twenty varsity and twenty-nine sub-varsity teams, which provide opportunities for students to participate at a level commensurate with their abilities.
Sportmanship is Vital
Good sportsmanship is a quality we all value. Our coaches do their
very best to teach and develop sportsmanship while encouraging their
players to treat opposing players, coaches, and officials with respect.
Competitive athletics, by design, brings out the best and worst in
people. We are committed to using the "teachable moments" in
sports to help our students learn the most valuable lessons athletics
has to offer.
Athletes are expected to accept seriously the responsibility and privilege
of representing their school and community. All individuals, regardless
of their role in activities, are expected to be aware of their influence
on the behavior of others and display good sportsmanship at all times.
Practices
Most teams practice at GHS after school or into the early evening hours and on Saturdays. There are a few teams, however, who use shared or community facilities and consequently must practice when these facilities are available.
Competitions
GHS games are played after school, in the evening or on Saturdays. Travel to and from games may require some teams to return home late in the evening. We do our best to minimize the amount of academic time that is lost due to athletics.
Athletics and Academics
We have found that athletes can maintain a high level of performance on the field and in the classroom if they make effective use of their unscheduled time. Parental help and guidance with this matter is greatly appreciated.
