Our Athletic Dept. is in need of support from our school community. We have a complete list of equipment and supplies needed in order to continue to run a successful program. We would like to acquire these items via donation of cash, SCRIP, or the equipment itself.

Would you please consider showing your support of our kids? Staff, parents, & most importantly our kids appreciate your generosity! Please contact Mr. Rodriguez, Athletic Director, (spartanathletics@comcast.net) with questions or to coordinate a donation.

Thanks... from your Spartan Boosters

This program has been provided for parents and their children who wish to participate in St Cyprian Spartan Athletics.

ALL students, parents and coaches are responsible for understanding and upholding the policies, procedures and philosophy that is expressed in the Spartan Athletic Handbook.

Sports are offered to all students from fourth through eighth grade.

The Spartan Athletic Program offers the following sports for eligible students:

Season Runs:                          Boys                    Girls

Sept – Oct                            Flag Football          Softball

Nov – Jan                             Basketball              Soccer

Jan – March                          Soccer                   Basketball

March – May                        Baseball                 Volleyball

Annual Swim meet   TBA

Annual Track meet in May

St. Cyprian Athletics is divided into boys sports and girls sports.  Teams are not co-ed. St. Cyprian Athletics is currently in the San Jose Catholic Athletic League (SJCAL).  This organization is made up of all the Athletic Directors (A.D.) from the schools within our league.  The A.D.s meet monthly to conduct the leagues business, organize games, tournaments, and finances to help make all athletic programs productive for the school and athletes.

The SJCAL is made from the following schools:  Resurrection, St. Cyprian, St. Joseph (Cupertino), St. Joseph (Atherton), St. Martin (Sunnyvale), St. Simon, St. Nicholas, Pinewood, Keys, St. Joseph (Mt. View), Castelleja, Menlo School.

The SJCAL follows general high school sports rules for each sport.  Since our league consists of athletes 8th grade and younger, the league has a set of rules that is adapted to each sport and the appropriate age bracket.  A set of the “adapted” rules will be given to the coaches when practices begin so that they may properly prepare their teams before their first game.

Among these rules are the guidelines for the team brackets at which an athlete may participate in sports.  This plays a major role in how our school, as well as the rest of the league, forms their teams.

Jr. Varsity “C” or JVC  =                     4th graders ONLY

Jr. Varsity “B” or JVB   =                     5th graders

Jr. Varsity “A” or JVA  =                     6th graders

Varsity B  or  VB          =                     7th graders

Varsity A  or  VA         =                     8th graders

The brackets are designed to help all schools participating to be competitive by playing the same grade/age children against each other.  The brackets are simply guidelines for the league to form teams.  Individual players can always play up in a bracket but rarely move down in the bracket.   

For example a 6th grader can play on a varsity team but a 7th or 8th grader cannot play on ANY JV team.  A 4th grader can play on a JVA or JVB team, but only 4th graders can play on the JVC team.  Following this bracket system helps keep teams competitive with each other so older athletes are not playing against much younger athletes.  The bracket system will vary along with the placement of individual athletes due to class size and the number of male/female athletes in each class.

Athletics has long been an accepted value of Catholic School education.  Spartan Athletics strives to develop athletes in a manner that will improve each individual athlete’s growth of spirit, intellect, emotional, social and physical attributes.  Academically St. Cyprian prepares your child for jr. high and high school. Our athletic program will be an important part of your child’s educational process as we prepare them for jr. high and high school sports.

The success of any athletic program is dependent on the constant support of the administrators, teachers, coaches, parents, spectators and the student athletes.

The goals of the athletic program are:

• To create an opportunity for all eligible students to participate and be part of an organized team.

• To help athletes and coaches instill a sense of commitment, dedication and team/school spirit.

• For coaches and parents to realize their importance as a role model and teacher not only of sports but of conduct, sportsmanship and Christian behavior on and off the court/field.

• At the JV level we teach the athletes game fundamentals, sportsmanship, teamwork and try to create a passion for sports.  At the Varsity level we teach the technical and strategic part of sports.  Although winning is a part of our goal at this level, it is not “the” goal.

• All athletes will play at least 25% of each game based on commitment level to the team, the size of the team and their practice attendance.