Recreation Academy
The goal of the Recreation Academy program is to help students explore the importance of lifelong fitness and empower them to actively pursue a life-style of positive, personal wellness. By exposing students to a wide range of recreational activities in their own community and regularly scheduled information seminars at school, students are afforded many opportunities to grow in all dimensions: gaining nutritional awareness, knowledge of functional fitness and the importance of a balanced lifestyle in order to achieve optimal health.
Activities may include:
- Archery
- Broomball
- Canoeing
- CPR & First Aid
- Cross Country Skiing
- Curling
- Cycling
- Frisbee Golf
- Golf
- Hiking
- Mountain Biking
- Pickleball
- Rappelling
- Rock Climbing
- Shelter Building
- Sled Hockey
- Stand-Up Paddle Board
- Swimming
- Scuba Diving
- Tennis
- Water Polo
- Waterski and Wakeboard
- Yoga
History
Edmonton Catholic Schools has been offering sport specific programming for students as a program of choice since 1997. The Sport Academy schools offer superior athletic instruction for those students whose educational experience would be enhanced with sport specific training. Academy students benefit from participation in these sports in terms of learning to be responsible, organized, and committed to an education that is both academic and athletic.
Sport Academy schools charge a program fee that varies by school and by sport in order to offset the costs of things like equipment, field/rink rental, staffing of sport-specific coaches and trainers, as well as administration costs.