Blake School - Reflections / Call O Pan Yearbook (Hopkins, MN)

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WITH ALL SORTS OF SPORTS The growth of Blake's athletic program has paralleled the growth of the school itself. The Blake Schools has the largest number of boys’ and girls' athletic teams in the state. Since we are a small school, each student wishing to go out for a sport has a very good chance of making a team. Now, more than ever. Blake stresses the importance of physical activity, and we have seen Blake’s athletic program grow from an extracurricular activity into a vital aspect of the life of our school. Every year. Blake sees new faces on the athletic field, new coaches on the sidelines. and changes in the structure of the program. The merger brought Blake into a newly-formed athletic conference, the Tri-Metro Conference, which remains one of the most competitive class “A” conferences in the state. Although Blake does not recruit and is limited by the number of its students, it remains competitive in all J.V. and varsity sports. In recent years, conference championships have been won in boys’ and girls' tennis, boys' golf, hockey, and cross-country running. Several of these teams, plus boys' and girls' cross-country and downhill skiing, have done well in state competition. There have many individual performers who have earned conference, district, region, and state honors. Changes have been made in the types of team sports. Boys’ wrestling and girls' badminton have been dropped. and girls’ soccer added to the program. Today, girls' soccer is the most popular girls’ sport at Blake. Homecoming remains the highlight of the athletic year, and it has grown to encompass all fall sports. The physical education program has also changed and grown in the past few years, lengthening its hours per week and adding more individual sports to its curriculum. The growth of Blake’s athletics programs has helped bring about the unification of our school. 10