Welcome

Dear St. David's Parents & Students:

Exciting times are ahead for the St. David's Warriors with work already underway toward our new gym. Summer has been busy in the athletic department with on-site camps, planning for the fall season, coaching at team camps, and ordering required equipment and team uniforms. We have also been working to move our sports and P.E. equipment to a temporary, on-site storage facility and to make way for our modified gym for the upcoming year.

We are taking all possible measures to ensure that the upcoming year for our P.E. and sports programs proceeds as seamlessly as possible. In the midst of all this, I am thrilled about what we will have in the end and what it will mean for our St. David's family. I hope you are as well.

I am pleased to report that we have entered into a very beneficial relationship with the Raleigh Racquet Club for our tennis training and competition needs. I will be communicating our new arrangement with our tennis families, but I wanted to let you all know of this very good news.

Along with new facilities, we are adding new people. It is with great pleasure that I introduce Brooke Johnson, who has been hired as Assistant Girls' Varsity Basketball Coach and JV Volleyball Coach. Brooke comes to us with several years of collegiate coaching experience and an impressive basketball career at Parrot Academy and Peace College . We also welcome Danielle Roland, our new Athletic Trainer/Health/PE Teacher, who comes to us from Ravenscroft. Please join me in welcoming these two new members of our team. And I know you will be as pleased as I am to have Michael Noto in a new role at St. David's, as JV Boys' Soccer Coach. As well as teaching middle school science, Michael has led our JV Girls' team the last two years, including in an undefeated conference championship season last spring.

Some of our alumni-athletes were recognized by their collegiate teams this past spring, including Kassia Shishkoff (Swimming, Northwestern), Sally White (Swimming, West Point), Will Swearingen (Soccer, West Point), and Brythe Blankenship (Softball Furman). We are honored to have St. David's so well represented by our graduates.

And several of our soccer players and Coach Cornejo are excitedly preparing for their trip to Bolivia in a few weeks. Not only will our students participate in some phenomenal soccer training, they will also round out this trip with important mission work scheduled and coordinated by Coach Cornejo.

I look forward to seeing you soon as the Warriors begin their next, successful season. As always, please call me if you have any questions.

Go Warriors!

Wes Wilder

Athletic Director